Negrodamus wrote:76ciology wrote:Negrodamus wrote:
The second one has better shooting.
The first one gets better looks from three. They also score when the opposing team tightens up its perimeter defense in the second round of the playoffs.
Because of the spacing problem of the first one, it’s easier to send help and rotate. Opponent’s could also play the numbers game and do just a soft close out on Oubre and Derozan to force them to shoot 3s.
The counter for the first unit then would be to have someone like George Niang or Duncan Robinson at the PF position, but you’d end up with too much baggage on defense with Maxey, Hield, stretch 4, and Demar.
Yea, however there isn't one way to create a team. I'm not saying a Paul George team wouldn't be good. It obviously would be. But Paul George has a career avg of 35% from 3 which has been dragged down by his most recent playoff series (33% on volume since 2019). He's not really a distributor (>20 AST% in playoffs for his career). So are we getting a guy who spends the whole year jacking up threes to be our ISO scorer when we're cold from deep? He's currently near career highs in assisted buckets. I don't think he's that guy anymore.
I think DeRozan can be the defacto PG for this team and be completely content with scoring 16ppg while being that 6+ apg guy and be the end of game scorer when we need a bucket. I'm also not committed to a Hield/Oubre starting lineup to fill out the rest of the team. Those guys are scorers off the bench.
If we had a legitimate PG who creates for himself and others, then sure, George makes more sense (even though he'll be way too expensive). Since Maxey is a SG/CG at 6'3, we have to figure out how to create a functioning offense in the playoffs, not just the regular season.
DeRozan is shooting 29% on 3s for his career, which is way below league average. Once again, it's challenging to win with a shooting guard who struggles with 3-point shooting unless you shift the shooting responsibilities to the power forward position.
Before the arrival of "the system," Paul George was averaging a 24-28% assist rate, while DeRozan, as the focal point on offense, is averaging a 21-22% assist rate.If you're considering assist rate as an indicator of being a de facto point guard, George has the advantage, besides being the better player overall in almost all metrics.
DeRozan is a better isolation player with 1.11 points per possession (ppp), but the gap isn't significant compared to George's 1.05 ppp.
The major advantage DeMar has over Paul George is his ability to score in crunch time, but we have Embiid for that role.
We’ve seen how better it is to have lengthy wings at the 2&3 positions, why dont we keep that?
This is just my opinion, and I'm trying to understand why Morey and the team are so interested in George. I'm not saying this is the unequivocally right move; it could also backfire on us when everything is said and done.
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