Avery Bradley is terrible. Him and Turner kill our starting 5 with their slow pace and unintelligent play.
I agree. When they`re both on court, it`s killing us, but if you remove Evan Turnover from the lineup, we have good defender and nice shooter in AB next to IT. Just let Bradley shoot, keep him out of any ball play, he`ll do his role.
Curry is an MVP. Bradley was on him. He is more than a shooter he disrupts and creates Turnovers.
I think one can give him a pass when he plays againest an MVP who hit some great shots. I take AB over 25 SG in the League. He is getting beter and better.
I'm not talking about last night, I'm talking about in general and every night.
And are you talking about starting SGs? Cause if so I would love to see that list. I'd even love to see that list if you're talking about first 8 guys on any teams rotation... Because I could take about a hundred and 25 SGs I would rather play then Avery Bradley.
That's a bit ridiculous. I agree with you on Turner. He has a low basketball IQ, makes bad decisions and turnovers. Chucks up bad shots. And sure, AB probably Isn't a top 5 shooting guard. But Avery Bradley is one of the main reasons we've played so well lately. This team is better with him on it than not. He's only 23, is clearly still improving and is one of the best shooters we have. He's a plus defender and his offensive game is going from average to above average as we speak. Someone's gotta take shots. IT can't take them all, so if not AB then who? You make it sound like he's the worst player on the team when he's clearly one of the better players we have.
If your rebuilding an NBA franchise, you look to get good, young players under contract with you for an extended period. A 23 year old who shoots 40% from 3 and has an All-NBA defensive selection on his resume is the kind of player you want around. Considering the room he still has to grow, and his present contributions his 8 million a year is completely reasonable and will even look like a bargain in a few years.
I'll never understand the unjustified hate towards Bradley around here.
But he doesnt shoot 40% from three he shoots 36% and he only shoots 43% from the field. I don't see the argument of "how much he has yet to grow." Bradley is not a good offensive player. Period. End of story. He is good coming off picks for a top of the key jumper and is decent from the corner three... Other than that he is a train wreck on offense. Missing wide open layups, forcing terrible contested shots, shooting 20 shots a game, he can't dribble, he is a terrible passer, he doesn't know what to do with the ball and if he isn't cutting or moving with out the ball on offense he is a complete liability.
He has room to grow on the defensive end of the court but he doesn't stick to his role and play to his strengths anymore. He tries to do way too much on the offensive end and it hurts the team, it hurts his offense, and it even hurts his defense which makes his one really great skill irrelevant.
Low IQ basketball only hurts teams. AB (and ET) are just not smart basketball players and it is very painful to watch.
bradley is a shooting guard, not a point guard. no-one is good at everything (by the way, defense is 50% of the game, why don't you give him some praise there?). and every single player in this league has bad plays and bad games, but i don't see them picked apart with a daily thread like this, it's ridiculous.
and bradley HAS improved during this year dribbling and passing - he's looked better since the all-star break, i've noticed he's using 2 hands more often on bounce passes, and is getting his body square more often on his target. i wonder if playing with rondo gave him some bad habits, as he was trying to replicate maneuvers that were beyond him.
as for his offense, it's fine. he's a good jump shooter on a bad team that's being asked to take a lot of shots. period.