Kemba

[Dexterity]

1-3 Q: 4-7 Fg, 9 Pts, 10 Reb, 7 Ast

4th Q: 3-12 Fg, 6 Pts, 2 Reb, 0 Ast

This isn't UConn, dipshít.

[toldozer]

Kemba clutch. I have a new Nick name. fugface

[Dexterity]

Bump

[cbarrier90]

1-3 Q: 4-7 Fg, 9 Pts, 10 Reb, 7 Ast

4th Q: 3-12 Fg, 6 Pts, 2 Reb, 0 Ast

This isn't UConn, dipshít.

Im not justifying his performance as that is getting more and more difficult by the game. But I will say the lineups from the first through third quarters had him as a second or third scoring option at best.

In the fourth when Cliff tried to have him run the garbage time lineup, he became the leading scoring option, hence the chucking and lack of facilitating.

[Keith Moons Liver]

I think he's a bottom third starting PG in the league. I like his attitude and effort, but he would be better suited to a 6th man role. 

[pantherfan49]

I think he's a bottom third starting PG in the league. I like his attitude and effort, but he would be better suited to a 6th man role.

Paid on top ten.

[Dexterity]

Kemba is around 10-12 on talent alone. He's a terrible decision maker, though. This hero ball in the 4th has got to go. He's not MJ and this isn't UConn. Just feed the big guy, it's not that hard.

[Carl Spackler]

Kemba is around 10-12 on talent alone. He's a terrible decision maker, though. This hero ball in the 4th has got to go. He's not MJ and this isn't UConn. Just feed the big guy, it's not that hard.

That falls on the coach to tell him to do that. This fuging team sucks, it's easy to blame the PG, coach, owner, God forbid we blame Lance, but they fuging suck right now.

[SZ James (banned)]

We have the talent to be a whole lot better than this, we've seen our full potential at times. We don't have the coaching to make it all come together at once consistently. Fire Cliff

[Dexterity]

We have the talent to be a whole lot better than this, we've seen our full potential at times. We don't have the coaching to make it all come together at once consistently. Fire Cliff

Not sure if serious or Chuck's twin.

[Proudiddy]

I have always loved Kemba since his uconn days. He is a really good player, and sometimes occasionally a great one. BUT idk what is going on with him this season. Idk if it's the pressure of the new contract and feeling the weight of the franchise on him, but he has never shown any signs of folding under pressure prior to this season (see all the clutch shots he has hit over the years). It's just odd...

Last night was the first game I started to really question him. It was embarrassing. Most people familiar with Payton knew he was going to be good, but he showed Kemba up in the 4th and it almost felt like Kemba got caught up in the one on one battle, rather than making the same plays to win the game. I remember AL posted hard in the high post on one of those last possessions with his defender fronting him... Kemba had him and AL was calling for it with his far hand in position. Instead of making that pass, Kemba looked him off, dribbled around for valuable seconds trying to create his own shot, until finally late in the clock, AL abandoned his position and came up to set a screen for him because it was clear he wasn't passing.

I've never seen Kemba just outright ignore the easiest option like that before. It really bothered me. It just seems like he's pressing way too hard. Like I said, idk if it's the pressure of the contract or with the new additions to the team Kemba is trying to assert himself with them as top dog. Idk, but I have always been a fan and supportive of him, but he is playing his worst basketball of his career right now, and so much of it is self-inflicted.

[cbarrier90]

I have always loved Kemba since his uconn days. He is a really good player, and sometimes occasionally a great one. BUT idk what is going on with him this season. Idk if it's the pressure of the new contract and feeling the weight of the franchise on him, but he has never shown any signs of folding under pressure prior to this season (see all the clutch shots he has hit over the years). It's just odd...

Last night was the first game I started to really question him. It was embarrassing. Most people familiar with Payton knew he was going to be good, but he showed Kemba up in the 4th and it almost felt like Kemba got caught up in the one on one battle, rather than making the same plays to win the game. I remember AL posted hard in the high post on one of those last possessions with his defender fronting him... Kemba had him and AL was calling for it with his far hand in position. Instead of making that pass, Kemba looked him off, dribbled around for valuable seconds trying to create his own shot, until finally late in the clock, AL abandoned his position and came up to set a screen for him because it was clear he wasn't passing.

I've never seen Kemba just outright ignore the easiest option like that before. It really bothered me. It just seems like he's pressing way too hard. Like I said, idk if it's the pressure of the contract or with the new additions to the team Kemba is trying to assert himself with them as top dog. Idk, but I have always been a fan and supportive of him, but he is playing his worst basketball of his career right now, and so much of it is self-inflicted.

I said it in another thread but he and Al haven't changed. The personnel around them has changed and whatever weaknesses that personnel masked are gone.

Last year was also the Eastern conference's first year seeing Al Jefferson regularly, and now the book is out on how to stop the offense.

The problem here is twofold. Ultimately, it's a flawed roster and we should consider it a major success if they ever do figure each other out well enough to sneak into the playoffs. However, we are coming up on a month into the season and Clifford still cannot figure out the right rotations, even if they are there in plain sight.

It's so bizarre. He has more talent at his disposal than last season by far and all of a sudden he is making the wrong moves.

Apparently we hired an analytics team in the offseason, yet everything we do goes completely against the analytics movement.

[pantherfan49]

Kemba is around 10-12 on talent alone. He's a terrible decision maker, though. This hero ball in the 4th has got to go. He's not MJ and this isn't UConn. Just feed the big guy, it's not that hard.

Terrible decision maker he is and that's a disaster at the PG position. Your PG needs the highest basketball IQ on the team.

[Proudiddy]

I said it in another thread but he and Al haven't changed. The personnel around them has changed and whatever weaknesses that personnel masked are gone.

Last year was also the Eastern conference's first year seeing Al Jefferson regularly, and now the book is out on how to stop the offense.

The problem here is twofold. Ultimately, it's a flawed roster and we should consider it a major success if they ever do figure each other out well enough to sneak into the playoffs. However, we are coming up on a month into the season and Clifford still cannot figure out the right rotations, even if they are there in plain sight.

It's so bizarre. He has more talent at his disposal than last season by far and all of a sudden he is making the wrong moves.

Apparently we hired an analytics team in the offseason, yet everything we do goes completely against the analytics movement.

Yeah, last night was also the first night I had legitimate concerns about Clifford too because it's not an aberration anymore, it's becoming the norm. He seems to sub guys out when he shouldn't and then sub guys in just the same. If there is a wrong sub to make, he's doing it at horrible times.

I am convinced that we need less Marvin and more Cody in general. More Neal and PJ, when healthy, and little to none of Hendo.

It seems like he's figured it out as far as Biz and Max, but thats the only thing he has seemed to figure out as far as rotations go thus far. Very frustrating...