hehehe i just remember when rondo kicked chris lofton in the face... i still have a picture on my cellphone of it, i can't find it on google anywhere... its pretty funny though.
wait: found it.
But what's great about that is Chris still made the shot.
I was a big fan of Lofton in college, had he not gotten sick, he would have been a 2nd round pick. He's in the mold of Eddie House, JJ Reddick, etc etc. He's a shooter, and a lights out one at that. I'd give him a run in the summer, see how he does against NBA guys, see if he can play an Eddie House styled game.
He is about the same height as Eddie House and I believe even now he would be a much more consistent shooter off the bench for us.
YOu can be more consistent than 44%? I mean , I'm all for binkies ( WESLEY MATTHEWS!)but c'mon.
Well you can be, I'd take Chris' 48.2% on threes and 62.7% on twos. And I mean if you can make 17 out of 22 threes in one game...
In the Turkish league.
Basketball is basketball, just ask Hedo Turkoglu.
Basketball is not basketball. Hedo is also a bad case study for this argument as it took him 7 years before he progressed beyond a mid-level player in the NBA. The reason being that, while talented, Hedo was not ready for the speed, athleticism and basketball ability of the NBA.
If Basketball was Basketball, then the NBA wouldn't be the best league in the world, Lithuania wouldn't have made the medal round in the Olympics more times since 1992 than any team not named the United States, And the Spanish League wouldn't have produced more players in the NBA than the Turkish.
I don't think its a given that Lofton's shooting percentage would instantly translate in the NBA, and I think its a tad ridiculous to think that he could be more consistent than 44% for an entire season,his first, at this level. Especially when only one person in the NBA this year shot more threes and made a higher percentage than Eddie this year.