Comments on: Eyes on Clinkscales

By: deon jones

deon jones — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:46:41 +0000

Clinkscales was suffering from a deep thigh bruise. That prohibited his ventures into the lane and running at full speed. But Jackson played a brillant game, knowing he had to be more agressive, due the punishment of Donnell Taylor.

By: Steve Weinman

Steve Weinman — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:47:39 +0000

Glad to hear that, Steve. Looking forward to seeing you more around site.

-sw

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:21:39 +0000

You’re right. I was speaking in general terms. Enjoy the blog by the way.

By: Steve Weinman

Steve Weinman — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:40:31 +0000

Thanks for the reminder, Steve. While his taking care of the ball in general may be no aberration, I think you’d agree that the 39:4 (nearly 10-to-1) takes that to a bit of an extreme over a small sample size.

-sw

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:07:34 +0000

When Cliff left Erie for Rio Grande last season, he was leading the D-league in assist to turnover ratio. So, this season isn’t an aberation.

By: Matt Hubert

Matt Hubert — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:56:49 +0000

…unfortunately it wasn’t a great enough game for the FutureCast announcer to learn it prior to the game the other night, however. As I tweeted previously, he went with everything from Clink-SALES (just forgetting the C in Scales) to the more egregiously mispronunciation of Clinks-DALE (where’d they get the D?)

By: Ridiculous Scott

Ridiculous Scott — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:19:14 +0000

Just in case Cliff reads this, I wanted to apologize to him in advance. His not-very-good-at-anything-other-than-assisting-and-not-turning-the-ball-overness could possibly be outshadowed by having a great D-League name.

By: Matt Hubert

Matt Hubert — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:47:40 +0000

I agree with most of the points here. The sample size is small, but Clinkscales’ output has been a bright light amid a dark season so far for the BayHawks.

Even if his assist-to-turnover ratio dips a bit (and you would think it has to at some point), that’s not going to be the issue for him. It’s the jumpshot that will prevent him from being anything more than a quality D-Leaguer right now.

I’d expect teams to start sagging off him and daring him to shoot more from the outside. His mechanics and release are flawed and the results aren’t pretty either. I don’t know if it’s too late in his basketball development to tweak his shooting stroke, but it might be a worthwhile investment for he or the BayHawks or an NBA club in need of a point guard to find him a shooting coach.

Because I don’t care who you’re playing against, 35 assists to 4 turnovers is impressive. You have to credit him for making the most of his talents. But as you said, those stats have yet to translate into wins. Here’s hoping the individual production continues while the win total picks up.