MCW is the real deal. People just aren't paying attention to what he did last year at Syracuse. He is an elite defender. He has excellent passing ability, an elite ability to run an offense and elite ability to drive the lane. His shooting is suspect but working as of now. He is very "Rondo-like" only bigger and longer. In this draft class, he is probably ROY.
He shot 39% and 30% from three in College. He shot 32% in and 27% from three in the Pre-season.
He's shooting 47% and 47% from three in the first 3 games of this season. I give it 11 games. Start the clock! Lol
I paid attention to what he did at Syracuse last year, and he had games where he looked really, really good offensively, but he had a lot of stinkers too. The entire regular season he didn't string together 3 consecutive games of 45% or better, and it wasn't until the tournament that he managed to do so.
His summer league had me down on him pretty hard, and his preseason while improved wasnt exactly a hint that he'd have a string of games like this.
Not that he doesn't have the potential to be a very good player..just he's not gonna be the guy he is right now statistically in 10 games. Hell in 3 games.
You really weren't paying attention then because his entire offensive game isn't shooting.
Jimmer Freddette was a great college PG that could shoot lights out but the rest of his game wasn't very good. His game has not translated well to the NBA. MCW was a great college PG but was a streaky shooter and his shot wasn't great. But the rest of his game is excellent. His game translates well to the NBA.
Given your professed love of Oladipo, an extremely similar player to MCW only without the ball handling ability and with lesser passing skills, I am surprised to see you so down on MCW.
I'm not even sure where you're disagreeing with me. I said statistically he can't keep this up, and that it doesn't preclude him from being a very good player.
And how is Oladipo relevant? Did he shoot over 45% the last 3 games and completely demolish expectations for him walking into the year?
Sorry man. Kinda missed the last sentence of that post where you state he has the potential to be very good just not the guy he is now.
I do think Oladipo is relevant because I find them to be extremely similar players and yet many, yourself included have been extremely high on Oladipo while very cool on MCW. I happen to think, because their athleticism, defensive prowess, size, drive and BBIQ that both players will be excellent pros and maybe even special. I just do not understand how people could think one of those two could have great potential and the other not so much. I guess preference comes into it but for a purely scouting perspective, I gotta think both have games and the skills that translate well to the NBA.
Well I'd agree that they both potentially translate well, but with both guys the places they're slated to make the biggest impact isn't from a scoring standpoint. Oladipo and MCW both made their reputations with devastating defense on the perimeter, Oladipo as a fearless lockdown defender, MCW as a multi-tool passing lane vulture and versatile defensive presence.
But nobody expected MCW to be scoring like he has, which is what Larry and I were basically getting at..IE that his scoring numbers here are an outlier.
FWF stated it pretty well too, more on the nose than I did; he's a streaky shooter. Was in college, likely will be here.
EDIT: I'm saying the impact they (oladipo and McW) were slated to have right away was predominantly on the defensive side, with MCW's passing vision also in play. Nobody thought that MCW would be scoring like he has.
