Brandon Knight vs. Jamal Murray

[mbc82584]

Considering Murray is yet to hit his shooting stride on the season, I figured it'd be worthwhile to compare the UK stats for these players through their first nine games.

Murray:
18/54 from 3 for 33.3%
46/114 from FG for 40.35%

Knight (again, through 9 games)
20/59 from 3 for 33.8%
53/122 for 43.44%

I see a lot of similarities between the players, with the exception being their role on the team.

Knight is remembered as a great volume shooter. Give Murray time. He'll be right there.

 

[UKWildcats#8]

Considering Murray is yet to hit his shooting stride on the season, I figured it'd be worthwhile to compare the UK stats for these players through their first nine games.

Murray:
18/54 from 3 for 33.3%
46/114 from FG for 40.35%

Knight (again, through 9 games)
20/59 from 3 for 33.8%
53/122 for 43.44%

I see a lot of similarities between the players, with the exception being their role on the team.

Knight is remembered as a great volume shooter. Give Murray time. He'll be right there.

Yeah, there are some similarities. Knight was great, but I still cringe when I remember how awful his shooting was in the UCONN game. To be fair, we could also not hit FTs and sucked in a lot of other areas but he shot really bad in that game like 6/23. Murray may have bad shooting games this year, but I doubt he ever tops that level of terrible shooting and shoot-a-thon. Murray has had a couple of real bad shooting days already from 3 (NJIT and EKU), but otherwise is shooting like 42% from 3. All the games count though and as a volume shooter the two games I mentioned brought him down a ton.

 

[5iveStarRecruit]

Murray is a microwave. We gotta live w/ the fact he's gonna run cold & hot.

1 thing is for certain : He will get his shots off, regardless of how his night is going. Usually this mindset gets on my nerves, but he has the skill level to get away with it.

 

[brianpoe]

Knight definitely seemed more comfortable than Murray with better leadership skills from day one. But that could be because we was running the point...

 

[TruBluCatFan]

Knight was 0/12 last night for the Suns!

 

[Cawood86]

Good comparison and I hope this team gets to the FF. Knight was clutch in the tourney

 

[gossie21]

Knight was 0/12 last night for the Suns!

He also added 10 assists.

 

[yoshukai]

Considering Murray is yet to hit his shooting stride on the season, I figured it'd be worthwhile to compare the UK stats for these players through their first nine games.

Murray:
18/54 from 3 for 33.3%
46/114 from FG for 40.35%

Knight (again, through 9 games)
20/59 from 3 for 33.8%
53/122 for 43.44%

I see a lot of similarities between the players, with the exception being their role on the team.

Knight is remembered as a great volume shooter. Give Murray time. He'll be right there.

Let's hope they don't end their careers with a similar game . I think Knight was something like 6 for 21 in his last game against Uconn . I'm thinking Lamb is still standing wide open somewhere .

 

[kats23]

I think Murray hasn't found his niche in the offense yet. It's almost expected with 3 PG's on the floor at the same time and a struggling front court

 

[*Bleedingblue*]

If the front court was playing better our back court would be as well.

 

[bluelifer]

Yeah, there are some similarities. Knight was great, but I still cringe when I remember how awful his shooting was in the UCONN game. To be fair, we could also not hit FTs and sucked in a lot of other areas but he shot really bad in that game like 6/23. Murray may have bad shooting games this year, but I doubt he ever tops that level of terrible shooting and shoot-a-thon. Murray has had a couple of real bad shooting days already from 3 (NJIT and EKU), but otherwise is shooting like 42% from 3. All the games count though and as a volume shooter the two games I mentioned brought him down a ton.

Love Murray, but he is fully capable of going 6/23. It likely won't happen because we have enough at the guard position to sit him if he's having a rough game, but yeah, he's capable.

 

[AnarchoNeoLuddite]

Numbers may be similar but Knight has a different gear than Murray, little more fast twtich going on.

 

[GoCatsForever2k15]

Great post. Knight ended up right around 38% from 3. I'll take the hell out of that for a volume shooter.

 

[MudererofCrows]

Knight was a great combo guard who had the ball in his hands as the primary ball handler but he had a penchant for hero ball sometimes and basically shot us out of a national championship in my opinion.

With Tyler on the team (and no matter what Cal says...Tyler is and should be the "man" so to speak) Murray is being asked to basically play a wing scoring role and I don't know how comfortable he is at that just yet. And I think his number bear that out. I don't think he's a "volume" shooter or scorer but he's trying to figure out how to be one if you can follow my thinking a bit.

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

So far..........Brandon Knight by a mile. My opinion. I reserve the right to edit later in the season......

 

[BigKari]

Knight was killed on this board throughout the regular season, almost as bad as Teague was. Think about if we would've lost to Princeton in the first round of the tournament. The opinion of him on this board would be way different.

 

[.S&C.]

Knight was a alpha dog who played his ass off.

Murray can be those things, but he's no knight yet. There are some similarities but......

 

[GoCatsForever2k15]

Knight was a alpha dog who played his ass off.

Murray can be those things, but he's no knight yet. There are some similarities but......

If Knight had played any other year in Calipari's time at UK besides directly after John **** Wall, he'd have an even better reputation here than he already does.

 

[4UK]

Considering Murray is yet to hit his shooting stride on the season, I figured it'd be worthwhile to compare the UK stats for these players through their first nine games.

Murray:
18/54 from 3 for 33.3%
46/114 from FG for 40.35%

Knight (again, through 9 games)
20/59 from 3 for 33.8%
53/122 for 43.44%

I see a lot of similarities between the players, with the exception being their role on the team.

Knight is remembered as a great volume shooter. Give Murray time. He'll be right there.

Very good comparison, and I think you'll see it become even more clear as the season goes on. Knight was the focal point of the offense, probably more than any player at UK since Cal's been here. I think you'll see that with Murray, too, as the season progresses.