Player The blessed howl's moving Castle of Stephon Javonte

Overall very good game by Castle.
Turnovers are a chronic problem.
Hope coaching staff is addressing. Because i do not see improvement in the turnover area.
Mental, not physical.
 
Fabbs said:
Overall very good game by Castle.
Turnovers are a chronic problem.
Hope coaching staff is addressing. Because i do not see improvement in the turnover area.
Mental, not physical.
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He has better than a 2:1 assist to turnover ratio my dude.
 
By the way, one of the best things about Jimmy Butler is that he just does not turn the ball over. For a guy who was the best player on two teams to reach the Finals, his TO% is just absurdly low. Also, he is a really efficient player when it comes to scoring. So yeah, maybe we should hold our horses a bit with Castle as Butler 2.0.
 
Quentin_Compson said:
By the way, one of the best things about Jimmy Butler is that he just does not turn the ball over. For a guy who was the best player on two teams to reach the Finals, his TO% is just absurdly low. Also, he is a really efficient player when it comes to scoring. So yeah, maybe we should hold our horses a bit with Castle as Butler 2.0.
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The comparison makes me smh because they’re stylistically so different anyway. Castle is closer to Wade than Butler.
 
Quentin_Compson said:
By the way, one of the best things about Jimmy Butler is that he just does not turn the ball over. For a guy who was the best player on two teams to reach the Finals, his TO% is just absurdly low. Also, he is a really efficient player when it comes to scoring. So yeah, maybe we should hold our horses a bit with Castle as Butler 2.0.
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Castle has around a 7:2 assist to turnover ratio my dude. And Butler wasn't a point guard, he was strictly a play finisher.
 
bozhemoi said:
He has better than a 2:1 assist to turnover ratio my dude.
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Even if we're generous and give him 2.5 - 1 that is not good when you Wemby on the team.
My grandmother could rack up assists to Wemby.

Eyeball test? He still often has serveral 100 self inflicted turns in a game.
Might end up costing not only a game but a series.
Good news? It's entirely correctable if he's willing to be teachable.

Otherwise Castle makes a funk ton of good plays. I'm extremely happy with his progress.
 
Another entirely 100 correctable area of improvement for Castle:

Sizing up when you have a dunk op or when it's better to just lay it thru the hoop.
Castle has hops, but he also getting stuffed too many times where he goes for the statement dunk.
Oppenents have guys with better hops then Castle and he's found that out too many times this season.
Now KJ tried doing that today too and clanked a dunk. It was an ass play and needs to stop.

Bear in mind we want a Championship above all.
Every possession counts in a tough game.
 
Quentin_Compson said:
By the way, one of the best things about Jimmy Butler is that he just does not turn the ball over. For a guy who was the best player on two teams to reach the Finals, his TO% is just absurdly low. Also, he is a really efficient player when it comes to scoring. So yeah, maybe we should hold our horses a bit with Castle as Butler 2.0.
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Jimmy wasn’t that right out of the box. He was kind of a minor piece. He didn’t average the turnovers, or nearly the assists that castle is until he got to Miami, and it was kind of a two year blip of assists > 6.
 
I didn't look at Castle as a true point guard coming out of college but he's growing into that role really well for just his second year in the league. So, to me, the turnovers will work themselves out over time with the more he becomes familiar with the position. I think he's exactly who Pop wanted to try to create with the Sochan experiment. Plus with all of the energy he plays with on both sides of the ball, I think fatigue sets in on some plays, which causes a few mental mistakes. He's more similar to Cade than Butler to me. Especially if his shot gets there.
 
spurs3223 said:
People are complaining about Castle turnovers and I get it, especially after this game. But he's shown very meaningful improvement since the beginning of the season, both from the eye test and statistically. Check the logs: https://www.espn.com/nba/player/gamelog/_/id/4845367/stephon-castle
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Castle's overall TOV stats are not bad at all... I think what people are really saying when we mention is turnovers is that many of them are just lazy and completely avoidable, which makes them all the more frustrating - they are just preventable free possession's we're giving up...

With that said, it seems like they've been greatly reduced from the first half of the season
 
scott said:
Castle's overall TOV stats are not bad at all... I think what people are really saying when we mention is turnovers is that many of them are just lazy and completely avoidable, which makes them all the more frustrating - they are just preventable free possession's we're giving up...

With that said, it seems like they've been greatly reduced from the first half of the season
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He’s also barely 21. He has a lot of advanced attributes, but apparently high level ball security isn’t on that list.
 
ambchang said:
Full disclosure, I think I wanted Sheppard, Starr then castle. So wrong.
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I liked Reed a solid bit as well (the theory of a lights out 3 point shooter around Wemby being devastating) but he really has such a narrow pathway to be a star. The offense has to hit to an insane degree to fully make up for the target he is on defense.

My hindsight is I am just glad Reed was off the board so we didn’t have to choose.
 
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