Cole Swider: Pistons

[rrlbees]

End of regulation and Cole is the leading scorer with 19pts 3 rebs. Shooting 6-10, 5-8 from 3 and 2-2 FTs.

 

[llandz]

OMG. Cole trying his best to win this game, and then some Laker with a totally stupid foul to give Charlotte 3 foul shots to tie it up again.

 

[llandz]

Hate this sudden death ot thing.

 

[rrlbees]

Cole hasn’t had a shot since hitting back to back 3’s. Had a tough rebound with 8 secs left got fouled and made both to go up 3 until some clown fouled the 3 pt shooter.

 

[llandz]

Cole hasn’t had a shot since hitting back to back 3’s. Had a tough rebound with 8 secs left got fouled and made both to go up 3 until some clown fouled the 3 pt shooter.

That foul sucked. And Lakers lose, but bottom line is Cole is showing some real promise, and that is what is most important.

 

[rrlbees]

Finished with 21 pts 4 rebs on 6-10 shooting, 5-8 from 3, 4-4 from the line, 1 ast, 1 stl, 1 blk. Played the second most mins. 10 secs less than Pippen.

 

[Orangezoo]

Cole hasn’t had a shot since hitting back to back 3’s. Had a tough rebound with 8 secs left got fouled and made both to go up 3 until some clown fouled the 3 pt shooter.

Selfish plays not looking for Cole enough at the end. Jones is a selfish player. Smith and Miles you would have thought didn't watch Cole play the whole game.

Great effort on last possession by Cole with the help and attempted closeout.

 

[Orangezoo]

Jones who dominated the ball late was a -15 for the game. Cole a +1

 

[4evaOrange]

Was Lebron or anyone else at the game?

 

[rrlbees]

Was Lebron or anyone else at the game?

Didn’t see them but Pippen was there.

 

[rrlbees]

Jones who dominated the ball late was a -15 for the game. Cole a +1

Coles last shot from the floor was with 4:10 left in the game. Plus the 2 minutes OT and about a minute of sudden death. So 7+ minutes without a shot. They weren’t even looking for him. Too much hero ball.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

He knows they're going in as he releases. Don't see that kind of body confidence in anyone other than Steph. Man, i can't wait to see if he will have a real role on that team when the real games start.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[jdubs30]

I mean to be fair he kinda was for the second half of the season

Yep. And he struggled big time early on but JB kept talking him up too.

 

[Orangezoo]

Might be one of the lease enthusiastic announcer calls on a 4 pt play I can recall.

 

[MikeSU02]

Cole making the team is all about his defense now. Doesn't matter if they pass to him or not. It's all if they feel he can play passable D.

 

[Cusefan0307]

if last season, the options on offense were:
1 - cole
2 - jesse
3 - joe
4 - buddy
5 - jimmy

that team makes the tournament

But at least JB got his son a 2 way out of it all.

Cole was not the same player early last season as he is now. Might want to check the early season game logs.

 

[MikeSU02]

if last season, the options on offense were:
1 - cole
2 - jesse
3 - joe
4 - buddy
5 - jimmy

that team makes the tournament

But at least JB got his son a 2 way out of it all.

Cole has a lot issues if he has to do two dribbles or more. Jesse needs a real PG to consistently get him looks where he can get buckets (Joe could hit him on the roll pretty well, to be fair). Joe improved for sure last year, but being the guy that has to create at the end of a shot clock off the dribble consistently is a lot different than his role last year.

I'm not going to rehash my Buddy inefficiency offense, but while he def should not have been shooting as much as he did and had the ball the % of time he did for usage, putting him #4 is crazy. It seems you are evaluating Buddy and Cole against their SL performances which isn't applicable to their time at Cuse.

Last year's team needed way, way, way better D as priorities 1-100 and while our offense was technically "efficient" as a whole, we needed a real PG to make the lives of Buddy/Cole/Joe much easier.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Cole making the team is all about his defense now. Doesn't matter if they pass to him or not. It's all if they feel he can play passable D.

Agree 100% but it depends on the organization as some value defense a lot more than others. Hopefully some team will see him like a Bogan Bogdanovic from Utah. Similar size and Bogie is a great catch and shoot and has developed into a somewhat limited but more rounded offensive player. Not the best on defense though.

 

[Newhouser]

I wish the Buddy back down had an occasional kick out to a shooter. Cole seems to be able to find gaps - at least in NBA summer league. He also was clearly pressing early in his SU career. Be interesting to see how it shakes out.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Joe over Buddy? Why?

Exactly my question.

 

[rrlbees]

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Cole making the team is all about his defense now. Doesn't matter if they pass to him or not. It's all if they feel he can play passable D.

Given the 2 way, he's already "made the team" to some extent.

 

[MikeSU02]

Given the 2 way, he's already "made the team" to some extent.

All due respect to Buddy - getting a two way is better than 99.9999% of the world will ever do, he has not made the team.