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Bouknight Scrimmage Highlights

I was on the hornets forum and apparantly these highlights are from May. Reason it was discovered is Scottie Lewis is playing and he went down with a big knee injury recently, so it can’t be from now. So this is prior to the wrist injury.
 
some of the prettiest hoop hands that i have ever seen.
born to bucket.
 
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Genuinely mystified by the amount of hate this dude gets from UConn “fans”. You’d think he just got outted as a wife beater or something.

He’s a kid and he’s still learning and growing. Immature mistakes will happen. Get off the kid’s back and enjoy watching him flourish for gods sake.
 
whosurdaddy2720 said:
Genuinely mystified by the amount of hate this dude gets from UConn “fans”. You’d think he just got outted as a wife beater or something.

He’s a kid and he’s still learning and growing. Immature mistakes will happen. Get off the kid’s back and enjoy watching him flourish for gods sake.
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We'd all like to watch him flourish. But part of flourishing as an NBA guard is developing skill at passing the ball. A quality shot won't be there every time the ball touches your hand, and the other players on an NBA team are pretty good.

We don't know what plays were edited out to make this video - maybe his passes were deleted. But if he never passed the ball during the scrimmage, we're watching a talented player on his way to failing out of the NBA.
 
He’s not a kid he’s a grown man (22 in a month or so) making $4.5M ir so this year- his scoring ability has never been in doubt its his ability to be a complete basketball player and his maturity that has been in doubt in and out of the organization.
Everyone wants products of the program to do well, but that doesn’t mean not acknowledging flaws in their respective games

Its not hate its looking at a player objectively - I always think the posters that can’t do that must be the parents i hear about from HS athletic directors and coaches.
 
Wow, what’s up with some of you? He’s a scorer, playing in a hornets off season scrimmage, with short shot clocks to get the players to play fast and aggressive. They likely want him to continue to develop his ability to score, including getting his shot/creating with the shot clock winding down.
 
D$ said:
Wow, what’s up with some of you? He’s a scorer, playing in a hornets off season scrimmage, with short shot clocks to get the players to play fast and aggressive. They likely want him to continue to develop his ability to score, including getting his shot/creating with the shot clock winding down.
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Exactly.
 
Northbound said:
He’s not a kid he’s a grown man (22 in a month or so) making $4.5M ir so this year- his scoring ability has never been in doubt its his ability to be a complete basketball player and his maturity that has been in doubt in and out of the organization.
Everyone wants products of the program to do well, but that doesn’t mean not acknowledging flaws in their respective games

Its not hate its looking at a player objectively - I always think the posters that can’t do that must be the parents i hear about from HS athletic directors and coaches.
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Yeah because volume scorers with below average assist numbers never make it in the league.

No one is saying he’s the next Lebron. But absolutely nothing wrong with being a Joe Johnson/Michael Redd level player.
 
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Bouk just doesn’t fit in a lineup with Lamelo and Rozier. They need more size and defense at the 3. His best chance with them is as a microwave off the bench, but will he embrace that role?
 
whosurdaddy2720 said:
Yeah because volume scorers with below average assist numbers never make it in the league.

No one is saying he’s the next Lebron. But absolutely nothing wrong with being a Joe Johnson/Michael Redd level player.
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Declaring him that level of player already is wild. Nobody would be arguing if he had proven he’s an all star caliber scorer.
 
Huskyforlife said:
Declaring him that level of player already is wild. Nobody would be arguing if he had proven he’s an all star caliber scorer.
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Of course he’s not yet. But you also can’t rule it out for him. Has he proven that he can’t be that level player? Hell, even Joe Johnson himself didn’t become that level player until his fifth or sixth year in the league.
 
D$ said:
Wow, what’s up with some of you? He’s a scorer, playing in a hornets off season scrimmage, with short shot clocks to get the players to play fast and aggressive. They likely want him to continue to develop his ability to score, including getting his shot/creating with the shot clock winding down.
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You're saying I shouldn't take an early off-season scrimmage as an indictment of his character? Ridiculous
 
D$ said:
Wow, what’s up with some of you? He’s a scorer, playing in a hornets off season scrimmage, with short shot clocks to get the players to play fast and aggressive. They likely want him to continue to develop his ability to score, including getting his shot/creating with the shot clock winding down.
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Yeah, and that's why I wasn't an early commenter. We don't know the purpose of the scrimmage, what the coaches were asking him to do, and we don't know the criteria used to select the plays in the video.

But short shot clocks is not the reason for the lack of passes. In the first play the ball is in James's hand from 0:00 to 0:16 and never leaves it -- even with a teammate wide open at the 3 point line with a clean passing lane and hands up waiting for the pass from 0:10 to 0:16; then 0:20 to 0:26 and a shot; then 0:30 to 0:37 and a shot - now admittedly he made a pass at 0:29 and everyone else is standing around in this one like James is being asked to go one-on-one; in the last one he gets the ball at 0:49 and shoots at 0:57. That's 6, 7, 8, and 16 seconds with the ball in his hand and no passes. That's not how team basketball is generally played, even with no shot clock.

It does seem like they are trying to develop his scoring and asked him to focus on that. But then are they going to play him if that is all he is?
 
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Northbound said:
He’s not a kid he’s a grown man (22 in a month or so) making $4.5M ir so this year- his scoring ability has never been in doubt its his ability to be a complete basketball player and his maturity that has been in doubt in and out of the organization.
Everyone wants products of the program to do well, but that doesn’t mean not acknowledging flaws in their respective games

Its not hate its looking at a player objectively - I always think the posters that can’t do that must be the parents i hear about from HS athletic directors and coaches.
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You didn’t do any of this, you just said something snarky to belittle him. Which, again, this fan base tends to do pretty often.
 
Maybe in this scrimmage scenario he was instructed to be aggressive and shoot more
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
You didn’t do any of this, you just said something snarky to belittle him. Which, again, this fan base tends to do pretty often.
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Nah.

He’s a grown man and a professional athlete and some of you guys treat him line he’s a precious doll. The young man has demonstrated repeatedly he is not a complete player and has had maturity issues. That’s the rap on him- from Charlotte and the league - if you want to believe that great if not that’s ok too - this is pass along info from folks much more connected to the NBA than i am at this pont.

Don’t take it as a personal affront. He’s a phenomenal natural talent who is NOT close to being a complete NBA player and the clock ticks quickly on professional athletes.

Kids in the program get a lot of leeway because you know they are kids in college - pro athletes sorry no such leeway

This is the issue with some of the fanbase - the inability to be objective and then you guys piss and moan about it like people kicked ypur dog.

Everyone wants him to succeed and get the big second contract and have professional accolades and success.
 
This has to be some kind of drill for him or something just doesn’t look like live ball, no one’s moving he’s not passing. This also has to be old footage because Scotty Lewis is guarding him. He broke his leg earlier in the summer.
 
Yeah I hope this was a one on one scoring drill. I’d say he should look to score quicker. There was a lot of dribbling going on on some of those plays. I really wish the Hornets would move Terry Rozier. It also seems like Lamelo and JB gets along pretty well which is good.
 
Northbound said:
Nah.

He’s a grown man and a professional athlete and some of you guys treat him line he’s a precious doll. The young man has demonstrated repeatedly he is not a complete player and has had maturity issues. That’s the rap on him- from Charlotte and the league - if you want to believe that great if not that’s ok too - this is pass along info from folks much more connected to the NBA than i am at this pont.

Don’t take it as a personal affront. He’s a phenomenal natural talent who is NOT close to being a complete NBA player and the clock ticks quickly on professional athletes.

Kids in the program get a lot of leeway because you know they are kids in college - pro athletes sorry no such leeway

This is the issue with some of the fanbase - the inability to be objective and then you guys piss and moan about it like people kicked ypur dog.

Everyone wants him to succeed and get the big second contract and have professional accolades and success.
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By "connected to the NBA," you mean twitter.
 
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He certainly has maturity issues, but a team led by Lamelo Ball and Miles Bridges isn't a team where immaturity is a dealbreaker..

Hopefully he's working hard this summer and will find a role on the team next year. He's too good a talent to not play. Having a new coach helps if he wisens up and makes the right first impression.
 
REB1094 said:
He certainly has maturity issues, but a team led by Lamelo Ball and Miles Bridges isn't a team where immaturity is a dealbreaker..

Hopefully he's working hard this summer and will find a role on the team next year. He's too good a talent to not play. Having a new coach helps if he wisens up and makes the right first impression.
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Only his second year in the league but this is a make or break year for him to either be an important part of a team or a deep bench journeyman. Hopefully he understands that the partying should be finished for a while. He has more than enough talent.
 
Kenny11 said:
Only his second year in the league but this is a make or break year for him to either be an important part of a team or a deep bench journeyman. Hopefully he understands that the partying should be finished for a while. He has more than enough talent.
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Agree, James has the talent. He has an opportunity to make a new, fresh impression on a new coach. Let’s hope he gives it the focus, dedication and consistent wisdom that is needed to make things work. There is a wave of new talent coming into The League every year, it is important for a young player trying to make it to have the reputation as being coachable and not a distraction to the goals the team is attempting to accomplish.
 
pj said:
We'd all like to watch him flourish. But part of flourishing as an NBA guard is developing skill at passing the ball. A quality shot won't be there every time the ball touches your hand, and the other players on an NBA team are pretty good.

We don't know what plays were edited out to make this video - maybe his passes were deleted. But if he never passed the ball during the scrimmage, we're watching a talented player on his way to failing out of the NBA.
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He didn't miss any shots in the video. If he never misses any shots he will become the greatest player in NBA history.
 
Dean Wormer said:
Constructive criticism is fine, but I’ve been in plenty of practices where coach yells “clear out - James & Scottie” for example, and the 2 players go at it.
I’ll nev r understand the negativity some people throw at Bouk, like he effed your GF or something.
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You won't find a bigger Bouk fan than me. The first time I saw him on a high school court I was amazed by his natural scoring ability. However, the reality of the matter is that Bouk hasn't gotten the most out of his immense talent. Part of that was a whackjob for a coach last season, but part of it's on Bouk as well. His decision making has not benefited him in several instances.

I see a kid with all star talent struggling to make his mark. There's obviously a disconnect somewhere and I hope that it was only a maturity issue that he has now been able to overcome. Time will tell.
 
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