You sir are a complete moron..... I think you must have been watching something else. At least do yourself a favor and look at the box score before making some ridiculous comments like that. Without him tonight we lose this game easily!!!!
Thanks. Couple things. I get that nothing I say or you say will change how somebody does or doesn't play. So its all pretty useless.
I'll refine what bothers me - and again, the fact that it bothers me, I understand, will never change it. At this point Meeks is going to continue to play like he has in the past. He has good touch on his jump shots, and can be creative in scoring on baby hooks, reverse layups, etc.
I guess I just wish he had the ability / effort to score - say - on 50% of the in-close 2 foot shots (that say Hansbrough, Sean May would score 80-95% of the time - and I get that its grossly unfair to compare him to either of those guys - I'd like him to be 60-70% the player of those guys, though ).
IF he is getting fouled but they aren't called, why does that apply to him more than any other player from our or other teams? If he went up stronger instead of trying to tip the ball, or waiting for the defender to get in blocking position, he'd get more calls. And make more short shots.
I did look at the box score - and shot chart: Meeks was 5-14 (36%) on shots all 4 feet or closer to the rim. His nine misses don't include the shots where he got fouled. I think its reasonable to expect him to make more than36% of point blank range shots.
And I assume that at least half of his 10 offensive rebounds are rebounding his own misses he leaves short. They still count in the stat line as rebounds, but think of how much better off the Heels would be if he even converted just 3 or 4 of those 9 misses.
