Something still bugs me about Lucca

[marothisu]

Less than 20 I'd guess.

According to Statsheet.com, he shot 23 of them in his two seasons. He made 18 of them (78%).

[marothisu]

thats why he averages .8 PPG in Europe... I say good riddance

How many minutes per game does he play in Europe?

[pulse]

Fred was a much, much better athlete. He was quick and could take someone off the dribble and dunk it.

[Wx4Cy]

I was always critical for this very reason. He had one skill, maybe another half of one. Anybody can shoot three pointers. Listen, even when I played basketball..I'd just shoot 3 pointers and would make them. You know what though? I sucked at basketball. It's the only thing I could do because it was a hell of a lot easier than driving inside and getting rejected everytime.

He was a role player basically, which fit perfectly into McDermott's "shoot 35 three pointers per game and hope we make at least 40% to win" scheme.

Awesome HORSE player though I'll bet...

[marothisu]

Awesome HORSE player though I'll bet...

hahaha, oh yeah....HORSE is the only true basketball game.

[singsing]

Lucca had about 20 lbs of quitter wrapped around each ankle that hurt his verticle.

[Cyclone42]

He's European...most Euro big men are better from the outside. Dirk. Even Julius was more comfortable on the outside and he was what, 6-11?

Michalik would take the ball to the hoop with authority on occasion. I had near-courtside seats for a Kansas game during Floyd's first year, right behind the ISU hoop for the second half. Julius brought us back when Kansas took something like a 6-point lead, with a couple of inside scores in a row. No comparison between he and Lucca.

[Tornado man]

Michalik would take the ball to the hoop with authority on occasion. I had near-courtside seats for a Kansas game during Floyd's first year, right behind the ISU hoop for the second half. Julius brought us back when Kansas took something like a 6-point lead, with a couple of inside scores in a row. No comparison between he and Lucca.

That's because Floyd demanded that Michalik take the ball to the basket, and thereby get to the FT line.
If you remember, Michalik, under Orr, was strictly an outside shooter, because, like Lucca, he didn't like contact. Floyd changed his game in a hurry.
As I've said previously, I would have loved to have seen Lucca at a Tim Floyd practice. It would have been priceless.

[MookInLincoln]

lucca = SLOW and SOFT = no inside game

[EddieISU]

Fred was a much, much better athlete. He was quick and could take someone off the dribble and dunk it.

This. I remember watching the T-Wolves play at L.A. and Hoiberg took it to the rack when Shaq was inside. Freddy got fouled hard but wasn't afraid to drive. That's what I loved about Hoiberg, he could do both......and I loved his one handed, Dr. J dunks too!

[Rural]

Lucca- big recruiting mistake. If that guy is a pro player ANYWHERE, I'm thinking of making a comeback and I'm 61. Are PED's getting good enough that they can restore agility, quickness, stamina, etc.? If so, I got a good shot.

[jdoggivjc]

Awesome HORSE player though I'll bet...

Not if you dunk on his arse. Hell, you could probably get away with layups.

[Wesley]

My intention of this posting isn't to dis Lucca Staiger, as much as he most certainly still deserves it. I am just really curious about this. Now that we're in the middle of the slowness of summer, I thought I'd ask about it.

With his height (6-foot 5), why did Lucca have a total inability to score inside? He has the same height as Fred Hoiberg, and although Freddy was also known as pretty good 3-point shooter, Freddy could take the ball to the hoop as well as anyone else on the team when he was playing for ISU.

This just bugs me because I see other teams with players shorter than 6-foot 5, who can consistently score inside, yet Lucca being gifted with enough height to be an inside scorer chose to avoid going anywhere near the rim like it was the source of a contagious disease or something.

He could have been a much more valuable player if he had been willing to take the ball and score inside, at least occasionally. Opponents would leave lanes open for him to drive to the hoop, knowing full well that he would NEVER do it. Or, to turn it around, just imagine how much less of a player Fred Hoiberg would have been had he been totally unwilling to score inside like Lucca.

The 100 play set had no Lucca posting up...

[bostrem00]

Swiss Cheese Defense? Inability to make a shot on his own? Ability to become unknown when B12 Conference play rolls around and last time I checked the Drake game still only counts for 1 win/loss on the schedule....Anything else?

[cyclones500]

According to Statsheet.com, he shot 23 of them in his two seasons. He made 18 of them (78%).

That's the worst thing about it — Take a player who can shoot in the 78 percent neighborhood at the line. He played less than two full seasons. Imagine 75 percent with 70 attempts (which is still less than 2 attempts per game). That's 52 points vs. 18.

Drive to the basket three more times per game and get fouled on a shot (plus, the added impact of having an extra dimension, which might free up your main asset, long-range shooting.