New Orleans Pelicans Reviews

[jonathanlambert33]

Austin Rivers
 
Jeff Withey
 
Alexis Ajinca

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Someone likes Austin Rivers a bit too much, lol. 

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I can't really find fault with anything he said. As someone who watched him all season, he's made some great strides from the beginning of his rookie year to the end of his second year. I like these last few paragraphs:

From his rookie season to the end of his sophomore season, Austin's improvement has been significant. His FT%, 3FG%, TS% and TOV% went up by more than 10%. His rebounding percentage increased by more than 20%. His free throw rate by more than 30%. And his overall defense is now considered to be above average. Don't look now but someone is knocking on the door of being a viable and highly coveted 2-way player.

Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, Austin Rivers still has miles to go. His free throw percentage remains worse than a lot of bigs in the NBA. His pull-up game is notoriously poor. The mid-range game, well, outside of making several jumpers from that area in the final few weeks of the season, should still be considered absent. Yet, if we've learned one thing about Austin, he'll spend every waking moment this off-season on working on his deficiencies.

The point of this review was to not only make it abundantly clear that Austin is noticeably trending in the right direction, but there exists plenty of hope it can continue. For instance, did you know Austin and his broken jumpshot had the highest catch and shoot 3FG% on the team and the fifth best mark in the league? Or how about the fact Rivers had the 6th highest points per 48 minutes on drives in the league (Tyreke was 2nd)? That's a couple of elite attributes right there. Although time will tell whether more follow, I'm certainly willing to bet on him rather than against him. At age 20, Austin nearly drowned in the NBA. At age 21, he learned to tread water. It's not far-fetched to think he'll be swimming in the near future.

 

[Hurricane Season]

Man, Chad Ford really disliked Rivers.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

And it's funny because he couldn't have missed the mark on the type of player Austin is anymore.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Afternoon bump.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Darius Miller

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Another Austin Rivers:
 
LINK

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Al-Farouq Aminu

 

[jonathanlambert33]

ALEXIS AJINCA
 
ANTHONY MORROW

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Jason Smith

 

[jonathanlambert33]

ERIC GORDON

 

[CameronCrazy06]

You should write them all poems like BWare

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I have no interest in even reading the Eric Gordon one.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

ANTHONY MORROW
 
JEFF WITHEY
 
BRIAN ROBERTS