Recent content by arusinov

I would like to beleive you're right, but it seems Casspi is out for another week (at least until Feb 6 according to cbssports)

And when last time Casspi did it? I think after being reinserted to the rotation (and since than even after being jerked out of it once again he's probably the least turnover prone Kings' player (s0mething like 1.1 tov per 36 minutes)

Fan favorites are almost always role-players - because people like underdog stories... And when someone becomes a big star and supposed to succeed - he's losing this status (look at Steph Curry:)). But Casspi is not somebody like Jon Brockman (in 2009 /10 Kings) or Luke Haragody (in Cleveland...

As israeli I can't claim I'm really objective... but still I feel I have to answer and explain frustration with Casspi's situation. First, let's just look at statistics... I don't know in what world somebody with stats line (per 36 min) 12.7 pts on 40.1% shooting, 2.9 reb, 1.4 ast with 1.7...

On one hand. The team is just not built correctly. There're 2 SG/SF players (McLemore and Afflalo), 4 SF/PF (Gay, Casspi, Barnes, Tolliver) and add to the mix SG Temple and centers Koufos and Cauley-Stein (with them Cousins is playing PF)... All of them have their own reasons and claims for...

There's no translation here in Israel... So, was Omri doing something wrong to get only 14 minutes (with Gay not playing) or is here just the coach bromance with Matt?

There's interesting thing about it. What's basically this thing "create his own shot" which supposedly distinguish “star player” from “role-player”? Good role player on offensive end should be able to do some (if he's great role-player - all) of following: exploit mismatches by driving through...

Last year numbers when Casspi was starting were per game (in 21 games): 14 points, 7 rebounds, 1.7 assists (1.8 turnovers) on 50.5 FG%, 48.0 3P% Hardly can be called "brutally exposed" IMHO

All this is just echo of talks that were some three week ago - when Casspi was out-of-rotation and price tag was 2nd round picks or not-inportant small-minutes bench player. Since then Casspi moved up to rotational player to 6th man. And 6th man price is entirely different. Knicks are looking...

Yes... "We all" (Israeli fans:)) remember him taking Nowitzki-style one-legged fade-aways and things like this... His percentage on those shots was not particulary bad. It just was not really good enough to take them over other continuations of the attack. Actually it also holds for majority of...

Yes. And not only Omri, but Cauley-Stein too (as Joerger played frequently small-ball with Barnes and Guy as 3/4). Ok, Cauley-Stein wasn't playing well this season but he's young and has upside (and it's hard for young player to adopt when playing time is so scarce). And now when Casspi is back...

McHale likely saved Casspi's NBA career... After Byron Scott almost completely destroyed him in Cleveland and almost all specialists thought he will be in Europe next season McHale which looked for somebody to emulate Ryan Anderson on fraction of his salary personally called Casspi and proposed...

Pau Gasol is certainly great player, one of the best european players ever. But to give up assets for less than 1/2 season rental of Gasol in his current state (while he's still very good, he's past prime) and also hindering WCS development as Gasol will probably play much more minutes than...

Not sure...How could something which doesn't even exist be broken ?

It's not about the record this season (while still they were almost all time without Irving and Shumpert, with Mozgov playing really bad because of injuries so it was not as easy as it seems to be). Last year Cavs swept Hawks and won 2 games against historically great Warriors with basically...