OFFICIAL LOU WILLIAMS THREAD

All_Star_Laker · Star Player Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 2672 Location: NYC

Would it be totally unreasonable to tell him that if he is willing to reign it in and become primarily a distributor and score when needed (or high percentage shot) that he could start?

Can we turn him from scorer to distributor the way D'Antoni did to Nash??
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Omar Little · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:14 pm Post subject:

Omar Little · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:16 pm Post subject:

And Lou wasn't signed to be a distributor.

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Runway8 · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 12:19 am Post subject:

I'm actually not excited about Lou. Career low 40% shooter and 34% from three. First two exhibition games, 4-13 and 4-12. I'd like to seem him up it to 45% this year if possible. Otherwise, him and Nick out there chucking away.. it's going to get old. He's a novelty right now, so we're excited about the makes and never-mind the bricks.

But I have hope that he can tweak his game a bit, maybe create a little more and shoot a little more efficiently.

Omar Little · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 12:35 am Post subject:

cmonkee · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 12:36 am Post subject:

I'm interested in seeing how Lou plays when he's not asked to play PG... maybe alongside Huertas?

Omar Little · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 12:39 am Post subject:

yuurin98 · Star Player Joined: 28 Aug 2015 Posts: 1164

I was like... wow he hit 12-12 FTs...

Capt.Skyhook · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 4:02 am Post subject:

Kobe sure won't have to tell Lou to be aggressive the way he had to with Lin last season.

It's good to have a respectable backup combo guard. I'll take what he brings at PG over Lin, Farmar, Sessions, Marshall, Duhon, Morris, etc...100 out of 100 times.

Runway8 · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 11:08 pm Post subject:

Omar Little · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:14 am Post subject:

It is easy to look at 6 for 15 and say, "inefficient chucker", until you factor in threes, free tbrows, and turnovers, and find that he put up around 1 ppp. Even better when you note that Scott is playing the starters together and then playing lou with a wildly varying set of deep bench guys, and mostly with no pg and few if any shot creators. He's doing that almost exclusively on iso plays with no support.

Which is why his ts% is excellent and his ppp is elite in many areas (pick and roll, iso, spot up, transition ).

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venturalakersfan · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:39 am Post subject:

Rawr · Star Player Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 1186

He might as well not be on the court on the defensive end, and on offense he is an absolute black hole.

Hopefully having a PG next to him on the bench will help him take less shots, but his shooting percentages are no different than they have ever been, which is to say they are bad.

Limit his minutes and he will be fine off the bench along side Nicholas as a heat check duo I guess.
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greenfrog · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 12:32 pm Post subject:

Andre2K · Franchise Player Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 12199

I've been impress with Lou Williams so far I think his biggest problem is he doesn't know how to close out games, hopefully he won't be put in a position to be our closer this season, I like him better as a catch and shoot guy in those situations because he can be clutch
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Vin · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 12:50 pm Post subject:

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Runway8 · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 2:23 am Post subject:

Is anyone else besides me disappointed with this guy? Good thing he's having a career year getting to the foul line, otherwise, this signing would look worse. He's every bit the inefficient chucker I thought he would be. He was never a very accurate shooter to begin with and so far he's dipping below his career average, actually career lows at 37.8% and 21.7% from threes.

Like I've mentioned, guys like Lou, JR Smith, Swaggy, Jamaal Crawford, etc. are useful on contending teams. Their streaky shooting can bust a game wide open, and when they're off, which they often are, it doesn't hurt as much because the team is actually a good team that has other options, real all-star options. On a bad team like ours, if they have a good night, it doesn't even gaurantee a win, and when they're having an off night, it almost guarantees a lost. They are not dependable and we have two of them.

The problem is when the Lakers make these moves, they make them with the confidence that we would be a contending team. But we're not, and all they do is slow down the development of the younger players. If we're going to lose, Russell should play the 4th, not Lou. Anthony Brown should trump Swaggy in the rotation if we're serious about rebuilding.

I was keeping my fingers crossed that Lou might be fine wine. That he can build upon that 6th man award, that he keeps improving like Nash at this age. But it doesn't look like it.

twisted · Star Player Joined: 09 Jun 2012 Posts: 1265

I'm pretty much happy with him. You get what you pay for, and you'd be hard pressed to get a better scoring guard for $7M.
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