I definitely think by next year his shot will be back with a regular schedule.

Bonn1997 wrote:

SlimChin wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:For most of the year, Melo was at 29%. You can't give up on the shot. The real question is why are teams guarding him?! Right now with Melo at PF and Fields at SF, the floor is spread out great. But that's only because teams stay fairly close to Fields (closer than they do to Amare if he goes out on the perimeter). The real question is why don't they just give him 10 feet and pack the inside? Melo hits a much higher percentage of his inside shots than Fields does of his outside shots.

actually if you notice, opponents let him shoot because they know he's a sucky outside shooter.

They let him shoot in the sense that they give him a few feet. As far as I've noticed, they don't send the SF over to double team Melo or pack the paint even before Melo gets the ball, though.

Thats because he is a great/smart cutter and thats the only reason he is out there.

Bonn1997 wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

SlimChin wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:For most of the year, Melo was at 29%. You can't give up on the shot. The real question is why are teams guarding him?! Right now with Melo at PF and Fields at SF, the floor is spread out great. But that's only because teams stay fairly close to Fields (closer than they do to Amare if he goes out on the perimeter). The real question is why don't they just give him 10 feet and pack the inside? Melo hits a much higher percentage of his inside shots than Fields does of his outside shots.

actually if you notice, opponents let him shoot because they know he's a sucky outside shooter.

They let him shoot in the sense that they give him a few feet. As far as I've noticed, they don't send the SF over to double team Melo or pack the paint even before Melo gets the ball, though.

Thats because he is a great/smart cutter and thats the only reason he is out there.

That's true but they should be able to recover if he starts to cut. I'd rather have to recover and get to Fields than have Melo operate from 3 or 5 feet from the rim.

Melo made a great pass to him off a double team when he cut last night. It ended up in an easy dunk. Teams will have to double off our weakest shooter/player. We have to burn them. We can burn them at times with Fields but thats where JJ hurts us. He can't shoot or finish and when he is in, his man constantly doubles.

misterearl wrote:April Fool

Stanford does not give degrees to fools

Landry Fields will figure it out.

Glad he is ours.

Donnie Walsh was right.

You have been in his camp for a while with all this Landry is a good shooter stuff. He is a smart player, a good pick where we got him, maybe even a little glue. But, he can't throw the ball in the ocean if he were sitting on a boat. Shooting does not get worked/figured out with brains.

misterearl wrote:Sophomore Hop

mrKnickShot wrote:You have been in his camp for a while with all this Landry is a good shooter stuff. He is a smart player, a good pick where we got him, maybe even a little glue. But, he can't throw the ball in the ocean if he were sitting on a boat. Shooting does not get worked/figured out with brains.

mrKnickShot - if you think Landry Fields is finished developing as a professional basketball player you are sadly mistaken. His brains will allow him the ability to critique his flaws, which is the first step in correcting them.

I did not say "he is finished developing"! He can develop many parts to his game such as becoming more adept at driving to the hoop/finishing. He has the ugliest shot from all the SG's in the league. Brains will not help him see this flaw - we can all see this flaw. Brains will not help him fix this flaw. Hard work might help but there is no way to know. If it was so easy then all bad shooters would become good shooters.

That being said, there are players who have developed as a shooter - Ariza, Bowen, Barnes, Rick Fox ... but you are just assuming that he gets there and no disrespect to you but its not an educated assumption. Its more like a prayer. His shot needs to be thrown in the garbage and rebuilt from scratch. That is a tall task.

gunsnewing wrote:You know I was against bringing in jamal crawford but we now have JR albeit for peanuts. Who do u think is a better player. I think JR is a better defender. Now back to the topic yea Fields sucks.

Crawford is miles better than JR offensively. JR is the better defender and rebounder.

mrKnickShot wrote:You have been in his camp for a while...

Absolutely, and I plan on staying there.

mrKnickShot wrote:(Fields) has the ugliest shot from all the SG's in the league.

Ugly is in the eyes of the beholder. Jamaal Willkes had an unorthodox shot but it was a thing of beauty when it dropped. Shawn Marion will never be used an an illustration in a Claire Bee basketball manual.

mrKnickShot wrote:Brains will not help him see this flaw.

Don't kid yourself. Brains help everything. No Brain. No Gain. It's good to be smart. All things being equal, give me the raw athlete with the 39" vertical and the Stanford-quality academic exposure every single day of the week.

mrKnickShot wrote:you are just assuming that he gets there and no disrespect to you but its not an educated assumption.

There is no built in assumption of anything beyond the moment. Landry Fields worked extra hard to get to this point. Just like his partner Jeremy Lin. Why should either of them stop working hard now?

mrKnickShot wrote:His shot needs to be thrown in the garbage and rebuilt from scratch.

From scratch? Perhaps Landry can switch to shooting lefthanded.