Cashin out wrote:Yeah so Kobe must get 40+ shot attempts if we are going on touches.
See what I did there?
You're not really getting it. Kobe, for the most part, has taken good shots. He's forced the issue here and there, and he's the guy that has to take our bail out shots, but the bottom line is that he puts himself in a position to take a quality shot. He moves off the ball, posts up, uses screens effectively, etc. Howard doesn't do any of those things well. It doesn't help that we have poor spacing either, and that's something that's been a problem for us for several seasons now. We don't have knock down shooters outside of Nash who hasn't shot the ball particularly well this year.
As was mentioned he just doesn't have a back to the basket game, so when he's unable to back his man down to get a good shot he has to pass it back out for you know who to take a bail out shot. He has absolutely no mid-range game either so there is just a very limited amount that we can do with him. The Lakers, for whatever reason, aren't really running PNR with Nash and Howard either, and that was supposed to be our bread and butter play. That's more of a reflection on the system that it is on Kobe. We don't have a single player that can really attack the basket and break down the defense either. Kobe's not really athletic enough to do it anymore, and Nash has never been that type of player.
Howard also needs to cut back on the turnovers. There's no excuse for him to be averaging over 3 a game when all he has to do is catch the ball, back his man down, and make a move to put the ball in the basket. I've never seen anyone get stripped as much as he does. He's Kwame Brown bad.
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