Brian Geisinger
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first heard Jan 2025
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Yeah. And the one guy that could really run like pick and pop with Lamello too, you know, none of the centers are stretches, stretch options. And again, some of the fours can, can give you some of that, but bridges is well under 30% on threes this year. Salons, you know, a pretty bad shooter right now. So even if you want to kind of get those pop actions, uh, You need it to be guard-guard.
I mean, obviously every team in the league is doing all those little ghost screens and stuff now, but it's just not the same in part, too, because Grant set really good screens, then would pop hard or make plays on the short roll. Yeah, there's just no one that they have that can really replicate that. It was a serious loss on both sides of the court.
And yeah, looking at this, there's 312 minutes this season without Lamello, Brandon Miller and Grant on the court, the Hornets have a 100 offensive rating in that, which is terrible. With those three guys on the court, the Hornets just short of 122 points per 100 possessions with Grant, Lamello, and Miller on the court.
I mean, it's a rather small sample, but it does speak to when they had their two best playmakers and shot creators with their sort of like best front court hub, it was producing an offense that was actually scoring at a pretty high clip.
I think or hope it's a function of the roster. I mean, he's obviously going to always be like... Because you were just talking about the usage rate. I think he's hovering around 40% assist rate right now, too. I mean, the usage and playmaking load he's shouldering is pretty ridiculous. He's very good. He's very fun. And he can do a lot of special stuff on the court, but...
I think you've got – I mean, the two guys you just named, you know, whether it's Harden or Westbrook or Kobe, those guys are, you know, tanks. And guys that are really, you know, conditioned – Luca, you think of the guys that, like, really do play pure Helio ball. Like, that's not LaMelo. And I'm probably –
One of 12 people that either cover the Hornets or are fans of the Hornets that still really reflect fondly on what sort of the playmaking apparatus looked like for Charlotte his rookie season. And that's when they still had Malik Monk. Gordon Hayward was healthy and good for most of that season. Miles Bridges was coming online as a playmaker. They still had Terry Rozier, Devontae Graham. And...
Basically, they had like six guys, six, seven guys that could like run, you know, credibly run pick and roll or could bend the defense with a live dribble. And I don't think you're ever going to get back quite to that sort of mix. you know, with a teenage Lomelo. But I do want... I would love for him to be a guy that wasn't having to isolate so much, wasn't having to run so much pick and roll.
You know, all of those sort of, like, possession numbers are kind of, like, way off the charts for him this season. He's not, you know, a very efficient isolation scorer. It really is just him either trying to throw himself into guys and draw a foul or taking tough threes from above the break and off the dribble. So... Again, I think it's because Miller missed time.
Really, when Trey Mann went down, too, that was such a big loss. He's only played, I think, 12 or 13 games now for Charlotte. He was having an awesome season. I feel really bad for Trey, who was finally getting some shine. Without those guys, it really is on LaMelo to create so much.
With him out, you should see, if you've been watching the Hornets, some of the offensive lineups they're having to throw out there with Nick Smith Jr., KJ Simpson. They're really strapped for on-ball creation. As good as Brandon Miller is... he's not the kind of guy that can just totally break down a defense. He's sort of still better off down screens and handoffs.
So my hope would be that there's another lottery pick coming to them in five, six months, and that's someone who could give them some on-ball juice. Again, LaMelo's always, you're going to want the ball in his hands a ton, but it needs to be dialed back. And honestly, I think you would get a more efficient version of him because he's an excellent spot-up shooter defensively.
several seasons in his career above 40% on catch-and-shoot threes, and he's an excellent sort of catch-and-go passer, and he doesn't really get to do all that much anymore because so often the possession is just Lomelo pick-and-roll and playing out of that.
It would be nice to see him be able to kind of play off advantage some as opposed to having to be the guy that's always responsible for drumming it up.
Yeah, I guess. I think there's two I would highlight. The shot diet. I mean, he's taking less mid-range shots, which he's making a much lower percentage of them, too. He's a very good pull-up mid-range shooter last season, and I think... Charles Lee showed up and said, we're knocking those down. We're redirecting that shot diet. He's averaging, I think, over 11 threes per game this season.
I think 56% of his field goal attempts from beyond the arc. It's a lot. In a way, I think that's good, but I think some of that is a reliance of his inability to get into the paint and really be a guy that can play and finish through contact, which was something that if you scouted him pre-draft, that was going to be part of the hang-up with him, too.
I think the passing has shown up a little bit more. And he's always been a pretty good connector in transition. But you're seeing him, if he's able to get two guys on the ball, whether he's curling off of a down screen or running an empty side pick and roll, he's got the height to pass over the top and find the roller.
Or if it's another empty side look, he's showing a little bit more confidence with some of those pocket passes, hitting guys in space. And it's important to remember, too, that the context around him this year really isn't
that good i mean this is a bad offensive team there's not a lot of like secondary creation and shot making so when he's out there and if lamello's not playing then you know he goes to the top of the scouting report and that that's tough for a guy who's like really reliant you know on jumpers to kind of like get it going but i think the passing has made a leap and then you talked about their record they're what one in one in 16 in their last 17 games i think um
that one win came against the Indiana Pacers. T.J. McConnell almost beat them single-handedly in that game, but Miller made some big plays the final two to three minutes of that game on a few possessions in the first half, too, where Charlotte put the ball in his hands or used him as a screener and basically played match-up ball with him to go at Tyrese Halliburton.
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