Ben's Injury?

[#UnleashMalik]

Your hate for Gold is interesting, especially when there are actual bad players on this team.

If he could make a damn shot he'd be having a really good year. Hes scoring inside more than ever. Playing defense better than ever. Rebounding better than ever. Just can't buy one from the outside.

Ben Gold has been in this "system" for 4 years. Him and Ross are supposed to be senior leaders like Kam, Stevie, Tyler, and Oso. Neither of them are.

Ben's a bad player on a 6-11 team. Next man up.

[BM1090]

Ben Gold has been in this "system" for 4 years. Him and Ross are supposed to be senior leaders like Kam, Stevie, Tyler, and Oso. Neither of them are.

Ben's a bad player on a 6-11 team. Next man up.

Agree with your first statement.

But he's not a bad player. He's a guy playing well in pretty much every facet of the game except making outside shots. He's a solid player struggling with his shot, amplified by the lack of talent and experience on the rest of the roster.

[willie warrior]

He's shooting .238 from 3, which is horrendous. He was doing okayish through the first nine games (.333), but he is at .094 (3/32) the last eight games. That is obviously atrocious.

And yet ...

Gold is still by far the team's best interior defender. And on offense, he had been doing a better job of driving and cutting to the basket before he got hurt.

Call it an indictment of the strength of our roster if you'd like - that would be valid - but we need to have Ben on the court to win games.

Yes he should be on the floor drilling those 3s at a 23% clip. That is the key.

[willie warrior]

He shot 37% from distance last season.

Now that is growth and victory from his last year, isn't it?

[MuggsyB]

If Ben finds his range we may win more games than people think.  I get he's been a disaster shooting, but you just never know. 

[Tha Hound]

Agree with your first statement.

But he's not a bad player. He's a guy playing well in pretty much every facet of the game except making outside shots. He's a solid player struggling with his shot, amplified by the lack of talent and experience on the rest of the roster.

Sure, he is absolutely necessary for this abomination of a team, but he is not "playing well in pretty much every facet of the game." Take a look at any stat line, advanced or not, he's just not good enough.

[#UnleashMalik]

If Ben finds his range we may win more games than people think.  I get he's been a disaster shooting, but you just never know. 

Well crap, if caedin learns to do a post move, we might win 6 more games.

Hell while we're at it, let's go get a monstar to sap the talent of uconns player and transport it in a basketball to the AL.

What are we doing here?

[#UnleashMalik]

Agree with your first statement.

But he's not a bad player. He's a guy playing well in pretty much every facet of the game except making outside shots. He's a solid player struggling with his shot, amplified by the lack of talent and experience on the rest of the roster.

Ben has regressed in every single stat except usage, shot attempts, and rebounds (1.5 more per game!) From last season.

Its time.

[#UnleashMalik]

Oh and .9 more pages 

[#UnleashMalik]

Sure, he is absolutely necessary for this abomination of a team, but he is not "playing well in pretty much every facet of the game." Take a look at any stat line, advanced or not, he's just not good enough.

craps crazy that a guy averaging 8 points 6.5 rebounds per game on 37% shooting percentage is considered playing well. Weve jumped the shark on this season.

[MuggsyB]

Well crap, if caedin learns to do a post move, we might win 6 more games.

Hell while we're at it, let's go get a monstar to sap the talent of uconns player and transport it in a basketball to the AL.

What are we doing here?

That's a tough analogy. Ben has made shots in the past, Caedin hasn't.  I see no reason why we should just give up despite his severe issues.  All I'm saying is it's not impossible that he starts draining them. 

[JTJ3]

Ben is a damn good role player.  He just never made the leap to star this team unfortunately needed.

Its too bad his shot has disappeared, because it is overshadowing the fact he's been good and improved in pretty much every other area of his game.

[Jay Bee]

Ben has regressed in every single stat except usage, shot attempts, and rebounds (1.5 more per game!) From last season.

Its time.

#FakeNews #Lies

*It's

As compared to last season, with increased usage we've also seen a dramatic decrease in turnovers. His turnover rate of 8.7% puts him  at 7 of 70 BEast players (min 40% of team's minutes - we'll call those players 'regulars' the rest of the way). That's down from 13.3% a year ago.

His 3-point shooting has been brutally awful, but I think a lot of that is due to injury. Even a hobbled Ben, though, is a good option for THIS squad. He's shooting 2FGAs more often and doing so well (61.7%, up from last year's 60.0% mark) and a long with that is a hefty rise in FTrate (29.9 vs. last year's 16.7, which was a career high).

Impressively, and importantly, he's defending without fouling. Just 2.2 FC/40 minutes down from 3.4 last season (also was a career mark for him.. in the mid-4's in his first two seasons). That ranks him 10th in the BEast of regulars.

The defensive rebounding has been very good - over 20%. Ranks 8th out of the BEast regulars.

Thankful we have Ben this season.

Now, go clean some bedpans, Nurse Danielle.

[BM1090]

Ben has regressed in every single stat except usage, shot attempts, and rebounds (1.5 more per game!) From last season.

Its time.

But his perimiter defense, inside scoring, and post defense are noticeably better. Why are we ignoring that? If he was hitting 3s at his career average he'd have his career best FG% while improving vastly on the defensive end.

It's literally just outside shooting. Everything else is fine. It's frustrating as hell, sure, but I'm not sure why we're focusing only on the one negative.

[wadesworld]

#FakeNews #Lies

*It's

As compared to last season, with increased usage we've also seen a dramatic decrease in turnovers. His turnover rate of 8.7% puts him  at 7 of 70 BEast players (min 40% of team's minutes - we'll call those players 'regulars' the rest of the way). That's down from 13.3% a year ago.

His 3-point shooting has been brutally awful, but I think a lot of that is due to injury. Even a hobbled Ben, though, is a good option for THIS squad. He's shooting 2FGAs more often and doing so well (61.7%, up from last year's 60.0% mark) and a long with that is a hefty rise in FTrate (29.9 vs. last year's 16.7, which was a career high).

Impressively, and importantly, he's defending without fouling. Just 2.2 FC/40 minutes down from 3.4 last season (also was a career mark for him.. in the mid-4's in his first two seasons). That ranks him 10th in the BEast of regulars.

The defensive rebounding has been very good - over 20%. Ranks 8th out of the BEast regulars.

Thankful we have Ben this season.

Now, go clean some bedpans, Nurse Danielle.

Agree on Ben.  He's not the problem with the team.

Making fun of males being nurses is dumb.

[#UnleashMalik]

#FakeNews #Lies

*It's

As compared to last season, with increased usage we've also seen a dramatic decrease in turnovers. His turnover rate of 8.7% puts him  at 7 of 70 BEast players (min 40% of team's minutes - we'll call those players 'regulars' the rest of the way). That's down from 13.3% a year ago.

His 3-point shooting has been brutally awful, but I think a lot of that is due to injury. Even a hobbled Ben, though, is a good option for THIS squad. He's shooting 2FGAs more often and doing so well (61.7%, up from last year's 60.0% mark) and a long with that is a hefty rise in FTrate (29.9 vs. last year's 16.7, which was a career high).

Impressively, and importantly, he's defending without fouling. Just 2.2 FC/40 minutes down from 3.4 last season (also was a career mark for him.. in the mid-4's in his first two seasons). That ranks him 10th in the BEast of regulars.

The defensive rebounding has been very good - over 20%. Ranks 8th out of the BEast regulars.

Thankful we have Ben this season.

Now, go clean some bedpans, Nurse Danielle.

Oh what's up nazi boy.

[Viper]

Correct, but those who don't know ball probably think that is a bad stat.

me bad. Gold goin' to the Association, right 'Dreams?

[MU82]

None of us is Goose; none of us is claiming that Gold is NBA-bound.

Ben's a decent role player who plays sound interior defense, grabs some boards and, when he's hitting his shot, adds a dimension to the offense. I hope he gets healthy soon because this team needs those contributions (and lots of other things).

It sucks that his shot isn't going in at last season's 37% rate. I'm sure he's more frustrated about that than Scoopers are. But to say he's "bad" or that he hasn't improved most facets of his game, it's just sh!tting on a guy for the sake of it.