Also not the Cincinnati team it was last year.
Your are looking through a very...very... small window. Don't be dishonest with the whole equation.
You're not looking at the whole equation. He shoots less than 2 attempts a game from either 3 or 2. He is a liability on the offensive side or he would take additional shots. Even, NE avg more per game and he was offensively challenged.
Would you prefer him taking shots over Edey, Williams, Ivey, Sasha, Gillis, or Hunter last year? In his 14mpg last year he was there to defend, facilitate, and knock down the open shots he got. He did exactly that
According to one poster he shot better from 3 than all of the players you just named.
Also, NE played on a very talented and shot making team. Played more minutes as well.
Yea his line was something like “you’re not drawing up plays for your 7th man”
This was exactly my point...I agree and so was NE. Both are very good to great defenders.
The big difference is that he has to be accounted for by the defense, whereas they would just back off of NE and dare him to shoot. Morton is only limited on offense by quantity, not quality and by that he makes the other players around him better, especially since he has really good passing skills.
Too loyal sometimes? The last thing Painter is loyal to would be playing time. Just ask Newman.
I see your point, but If he can't get shots off from 3 like his stats show..then he's definitely offensively challenged.
I could not disagree more. Morton took shots only when they presented themselves. He didn’t hunt bad shots. And his ABILITY to shoot prevented his man from collapsing into JI, Tre, Zach, etc.
On what data would you base the evaluation that he's not a shooter? I can point to Ethan shooting 44% (not 46%, sorry) on relatively low volume volume (7th most attempts on the team). Nojel was a 19% career three point shooter and didn't make a three as a sophomore and junior.
How do you make the jump from the fact (it's a fact, not an assumption), that Ethan was not called upon to score last year on a team that was loaded with ball heavy scoring options in Jaden, Zach, Tre and Sasha, to the assumption that he's offensively inept?
I'm not being lazy for comparing the 2. They're are utilized the same way in CMP's system and NE took better advantage of it or CMP would've played Morton more...right? Considering how bad our guards not named Ivey had been playing. NE played on a loaded guard team.
Difference of opinion is fine but in every post you're stating information that is simply wrong. As a sophomore, the only guards that Nojel played with were Carsen, Cline and freshmen Sasha and EHJ. There was no one who was a threat to take his minutes and Carsen and Cline were so ball dominant and such great shooters that they could generally get away with Nojel being extremely limited offensively.
I should have read your post first, you said it better than me. Amen to all of that.
Come on, virtually anybody is a "shooter" relative to Nojel...no need to even debate that.
Yet you felt the need to jump in and comment when I stated that a comparison to Nojel offensively was wildly inaccurate.
He was scoreless on Saturday...my guess is that it was not because they denied him the ball from behind the arc. Maybe he made great passes to Zach though while he was on the floor?
This conversation with you is exhausting for me. Are you really saying that they needed him to score in that scrimmage and he didn’t?
He can't score, whether they need him to or not is irrelevant...nor was it at any point in this thread what was discussed. On that point, however, I am hard pressed to think of many teams that don't need guys to score at all...that they are just SO good, that, they can play 4-on-5 at the offensive end of the floor.
Again, exhausting. You never, ever show any real data, just opinions. Do you not care that none of your opinions are supported by facts? I don't mean this to be insulting, but has no one ever explained correlation versus causation to you?
Yes, his 2 ppg last year, and, 0.6 the year before(thus, career 1.7) say otherwise as well I guess...I mean, to be fair, he did actually score (except for the handful of games where he actually did not).
No, it says that he scored on occasion last year when wide open (largely because of defending the other 4 guys on the floor instead)...he has shown no ability to get his own shot, or, get to the basket.
He was the 8th-9th man in the rotation playing 14 minutes per game. If they wanted someone in that spot to come in and put up shots they would’ve stuck with Newman
I can't see him doubling his minutes...he played 14 a game, and, not going to get to 28 a game.
Don’t be shocked if he’s hitting high 20s with his minutes. It probably won’t be scoring but he’s going to play a huge role on this years squad
