martin wrote:^ Twitter friendly format and length, I like it.

I agree. But to be fair I'd put his 3pt shooting in. Can't just put the good stuff up.
I believe his attempts are down which is good.
Seems he is not gettng blocked at the rim as much. Using his body to protect the ball or get to the line.

Every year Barrett turns it up a notch after All-star weekend.

Nalod wrote:

Panos wrote:Sorry, I don't know what you guys are watching.
I'm just rewatching the second half of the Rockets game.
RJ makes terrible play after terrible play.
I just don't know how Thibs keeps playing him.

LOL< I did too! Was working out and thought I’d watch it. I fell asleep last night. I usually watch them later and fast foward.
. Your not looking between the bad plays. You saw him getting the line a bit?
Also, team was up how many point with him? He and Jules were passing alot.
He got sloppy as team was hot rodding before he subbed him out. Its ok, its not for us to debate and decide his fate.
It was a decisive win. Wow, all that young talent just out of their minds.
Silas signed on and Harden signed out.

HOW many times can he run into a defender and cough up the ball?!
Box score shows 3 TO. He had like double that. At least.

Knickoftime wrote:

Panos wrote:Sorry, I don't know what you guys are watching.
I'm just rewatching the second half of the Rockets game.
RJ makes terrible play after terrible play.
I just don't know how Thibs keeps playing him.
Knicks won *in spite* of him.

Knicks outscored the Rockets 71 to 54 the second half.

This has long become ludicrous.

Yes, as I said, in spite of RJ.

Panos wrote:

Nalod wrote:

Panos wrote:Sorry, I don't know what you guys are watching.
I'm just rewatching the second half of the Rockets game.
RJ makes terrible play after terrible play.
I just don't know how Thibs keeps playing him.

LOL< I did too! Was working out and thought I’d watch it. I fell asleep last night. I usually watch them later and fast foward.
. Your not looking between the bad plays. You saw him getting the line a bit?
Also, team was up how many point with him? He and Jules were passing alot.
He got sloppy as team was hot rodding before he subbed him out. Its ok, its not for us to debate and decide his fate.
It was a decisive win. Wow, all that young talent just out of their minds.
Silas signed on and Harden signed out.

HOW many times can he run into a defender and cough up the ball?!
Box score shows 3 TO. He had like double that. At least.

The stat line is not accurate?
Oh, since you rewatched his TO’s, they were double!!!!

franco12 wrote:it's nice to see there is something that supports him, because my eye test is middling at best. I thought he had a more positive impact his first few years with us, definitely down the stretch last year.

This year it just seems like so many drives into traffic, bad lay up attempts, horrible shooting from 3.

I think this raises interesting questions about the war between the "eye" test and actual production. Through Monday Barrett is actually shooting a career low in terms of percentage of shots that are lay up attempts (.300 of his shot attempts are 0-3 feet, vs. .309 last season). But ON the attempts he's shooting a career hight FG%, by a significant margin (.654 vs .595 last year and his previous career high .605 the season before).

For comparison sake, Jalen Brunson is shooting .607 0-3 feet.

He's also shooting significantly better 3-10 feet (.384 vs .307 last year and his previous career hight .318 the season before).

Now that doesn't make either of those figures good, but "this year" it's actually a few less drives to the basket, and good or bad his lay-up attempts are falling as a significantly better rate any any time in his short career.

Yes, the horrible shooting from 3 is real, particularly lately, but the drives/lay-ups thing really raise questions about perception vs reality.