11-09-2022, 11:58 AM
(11-09-2022, 03:53 AM)Dundalis Wrote: Show me a current team with a number 4/5 option that has shown he can put up 20ppg on 60% TS. I'll wait. Also he was absolutely asked to do more for Houston than he is in Dallas and put up 19.1 PPG on 59.3% TS with 2.1 assists to 1.9 turnovers. Doing less in Dallas, he's at 15.6 PPG at a ridiculous 65.3% TS. The higher turnover rate he has is not remotely uncommon for players moving to a new team learning a new system. So saying he's being forced to do too much when he's already doing what he's doing at an uber elite efficiency, while having done much more previously at a still elite efficiency is just factually wrong. Also he's a big. Even the leagues elite offensive bigs aren't very good at dribble penetration into traffic in a half court setting. That's what dedicated ball handlers are for. By that metric only ball handling guards/wings can be number 1 or 2 options. Wood actually has way above average handles for his position.
He's good enough to be a number 2 option if given the opportunity with a phenom like Luka and good enough role players around. He's easily the most offensively gifted scorer this team has had in Luka's time.
If you are gonna hate on a players bad tendencies who can score with the efficiency he does, you're not gonna be happy unless the team gets an unobtainable superstar to fill that number 2 role.
Well of course we are talking about ridiculously small sample sizes here, but over the last five games, he averages
11 PPG / 8 RPG / 0.2 APG / 2.8 TOPG
He had a real hot start, so let´s see who the real Christian Wood is.