Why Toumani Camara is Giving Me Hope

Why Toumani Camara is Giving Me Hope

This season for the Blazers has gone as expected the offense has taken a major step back without Damen Lillard the defense is still not good enough there’s still question marks about chony Billups the offensive system and the overall direction of this rebuild but there also have been things that have been very

Unexpected most notably the injuries that this young Corp has dealt with this entire season although we’re Blazer fans so maybe we should have expected that one too what’s left is a team that sits at 17 and 42 gunning for the best Lottery odds possible once again but

That was supposed to be more palatable this season with scoot Henderson and Shaden sharp leading a young charge with hope for the future but with those guys out things have become a bit miserable in Rip City but there’s been one thing that has happened recently that has

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Kamara’s shooting Kamar has been a revelation defensively for the Blazers often time guarding point guards picking them up full core at times guarding bigger forwards and doing a solid job there he’s been good off the ball defensively makes the right rotations and recognizes things very quickly for a

Rookie as most rookies struggle to adjust to the fast pace of an NBA game especially on the defensive end where plays happen at break neck speed and you have to recognize things instantly in order to have the time to rotate to your helps side responsibility and cut off a

Drive or rotate out back to the three-point line close out on a shooter not let him get a three off but also not give up a driving lane there’s a lot of nuances to the defensive side of the basketball and I’ve been impressed with how tamman Kamar has done as a rookie in

A bunch of these different areas at 6’8 and as a guy who can move and guard multiple positions the placers have been looking for that type of Defender since they lost Alfred cinu and Murray’s harkless they’ve tried to find that guy in Trevor arza Robert Covington and

Jeremy Grant but Ariza was simply older Robert Covington gambled a little bit too much and couldn’t guard on the perimeter and Jeremy Grant can’t get through a screen for the life of them I finally think the Blazers have found that type of forward that is versatile enough to guard on the perimeter big

Enough to guard on the interior and it’s just all around solid into Moni Kamara but in the NBA you need to be able to bring something on the offensive end and the offensive end has been a major problem for the Portland Trailblazers this season we’ve heard the term 3 and D

Guy thrown around a ton and it’s a very valuable archetype in the NBA Taman Kamar has shown a lot of Promise in one of those two things but the threo shot has been a struggle for him all year and that was to be expected during his four-year college career tamman kamara’s

Three-point percentage improved every season but there was a lot of room for improvement to begin with in his first season at Georgia he shot 177% 5 for 29 in his second season he raised that to 26% but that’s still not good then he transferred to the University of Dayton

In his Junior season shot 34% and then in the senior season got that three-point percentage up to 36% however he still wasn’t a great free throw shooter he shot 63% from the free throw line during his college career which is not indicative of a guy that is capable

Of shooting the ball however when you watch tamani Kamar shoot his form looks good it’s smooth he has good flow and good Rhythm to his jumper and his shot looks like it should go in of course we’ve seen pretty jumpers that don’t result in makes Victor CL was famous for

That for those of you who remember him but the three-point ball has always been and will continue to be the key for tamman Kamara being able to be a rotation player on a good team right now the Blazers obviously aren’t good so that’s not really relevant for his

Playing time currently but going forward assuming this rebuild is successful tamman Kamar has a chance to be a big part of it as long as he can hit the three ball well enough to space face the floor and in the last 10 games tamani Kamara is on a hot streak he’s shooting

12 for 20 from behind the three-point line that’s 60% and while that is obviously impossible to maintain it is a really good sign going into next season if Kamar can shoot the ball close to what he’s been shooting it like recently he’s now shooting 32% from three on the

Season which is a better Mark than a couple other forwards that he’s often compared to on the Blazer’s roster Chris Murray was supposed to come in and be a shooter but he’s only shooting 27% from three Jabari Walker who was a bit of a shooter in college is also shooting 27%

From three his shot has not panned out tone Kamar is shooting 5 percentage points better than both those guys this season is a bit of a surprise part of it is Walker and Murray underwhelming his Shooters but part of it is Taman Kamara living up to my expectations for him as

A shooter I expected Kamar to shoot roughly 32 33% from three while that isn’t quite good enough to get him respected as a three-point spot up shooter it’s close enough that I have hope that with another offseason of work on his jumper maybe fixing a couple of little inconsistencies that lead to

Misses Kamar can get that three-point percentage up to 35 36% and that is a good enough percentage that if Defenders leave him he’ll make them pay with an efficient enough shot and that’s a good enough percentage that teams probably won’t leave him on the three-point line and that’ll give scoot Henderson Shane

Sharp and Anthony Simons if he’s still here more space to attack the rim and try and finish or make plays for others and it makes things a lot easier on those guys if they have a versatile Defender next to them to help out on the defensive

Side of the floor and then somebody that can space the floor on offense right now it’s really tough to find positives with the Portland Trailblazers given that scoot Henderson and shanon sharp aren’t playing Anthony Simons has been a little bit of a slump but tman Kamar shooting

Is the biggest positive over the last 10 games because if it’s a sign of things to come tamman Kamara could be one of the better 3 andd options in the league next season anyway let me know what you think of Taman kamara’s play as of late

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