[Smith] Quickley has been struggling with his shooting for a couple of weeks now; the game’s entirely different when you’re starting and playing big minutes as opposed to coming off the bench and facing backups, and he’s learning that. And the rest of the games should help or tell a tale.
by EarthWarping
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Fough Smitch
He went from playing 20-25 minutes a game against bench guys to playing 35mpg against starters – and often those starters are hunting him on defence.
There’s bound to be an adjustment period, even on the physical side.
I am very very curious how this team looks next season – given Darko being billed as a development guy it seems like the offseason is really where he’s going to be judged on his impact. It’s clearly not his x’s and o’s.
I also think Toronto is a much better situation for IQ and RJ to expand their skills than New York due to both the culture and infrastructure.
The rest of the games are a learning experience, not necessarily a prediction of what’s to come. Smith is an idiot
That’s what I’ve been saying for days, lol. But people think because he’s not lighting it up that all hope has been lost.
I don’t understand how anyone can follow sports and refuse to acknowledge that development isn’t linear, and patience is important. If he doesn’t figure it out this year then he has all of next season and the summer to work on his game as well. The Raptors didn’t trade for Quickley and RJ expecting a finished product.
He’s adjusting to a new a system, he’s only ever known thibs who isn’t exactly the biggest ball movement guy, he’s definately suffering from being prevalent on the scouting report but tbh allot of the shots he’s taking are the ones he was making in ny he just has to find his rythem in this new system.
Doug Smith doing Doug Smith things. Dude has nothing exciting to write about, as the team is just a young squad doing young squad things.
He’s adjusting better than Jordan Poole, that’s for sure.
He’s being asked to do more than ever, and it hasn’t been nearly long enough to truly worry. If we can’t have any patience with the players we have and choose to start writing them off so fast, this rebuild is going to be brutal
Oh shut up Doug
We can all agree he is miles better than Flynn, and hopefully he can reach van vleet level.
Crazy to think he’s older than rj and Barnes
There’s still so juice left to be squeezed in Scottie-IQ two-man game, they haven’t really figured it out or explored it much at all yet. It’s not a dynamic that either player has ever really had with another player in their careers so far, though, so it might take a while.
He needs to slow down.
He tries to do everything at full speed. Lots of young players struggle with that. He needs to learn when to turn on his speed burst
If Darko can create a specialized regimen to allow Gradey Dick to succeed both in this shot and his defensive effort, then he can definitely cook something up for IQ.
Thibbs would def demand more effort as a given – you don’t show that, you’re out. That’s not Darko’s approach. But I think he can make it work.