Jukeness wrote:Takingbaconback wrote:Jukeness wrote:If you're an NBA player, you've got to be able to adapt to whatever role you are put in.
He did adapt by putting in more aggression but he was around nothing offensively. That is like saying Ricky Rubio should play just as well when you put Jennings, MKG, Craig Smith, and Dalembert around him. Except those 4 are somehow better than Shved, Hummel, Cunningham, and Turiaf on offense.
It's not like saying that, it means you need to be able to adapt to your situation and be as efficient in that role as possible. If JJ can only be a decent bench player when he's on a championship team, then I guess the Wolves wasted their time on him.
Looking at the context, there isnt any nba backup point guard who was going to make anybody better on that shved, hummel, cunningham, turiaf lineup. Shved just gets the ball then half heartedly looks at the basket then passes it, hummel just plants at the 3point line, cunningham sets a screen then pops to the elbow jumpshot, and turiaf just banged inside waiting for the rebound. Unless you start kobeing it up, theres no end to the contested jump shots and bricks or the oh so endearing cunningham 18 footers.
Also for an adelman coached team you would expect some movement but all they ran was a high pick. Then everybody just stood in their spots looking at barea to do something. If anything the timberwolves wasted barea's time and effort. That second unit was comically predictable, and barea tried his best to mix stuff up as everyone else was a robot doing same cardboard cutout routine night in and night out