Scrapdoomfraud wrote:Phenomenologist wrote:Yah. At first I would cringe every time he shot a long J, but it seems like he may have made some progress on that end (though of course the sample is still pretty small). My guess vis-a-vis the total matador act on the boards would be an injury. I say this because it's not only that he's playing on the perimeter more (and not mixing it up as much down low), but when he does go up in traffic he's losing the ball as he's bringing it down - I saw him do this at least 3 times last game alone. I'm almost certain he has some injury related to his hands or wrist area (just look at his insanely high TO ratio).
A big part of the rebounding dropoff is that Moon's been told to leak out on defensive rebounds. We're trying to get some easy buckets, I guess.
Wow, that knowledge makes me seethe with anger, but, for Sam Mitchell, it sadly sounds about par for the course. The audacity of telling Moon to stop doing what made him so effective for a team lacking heavily in athleticism is stunning. And all so that he can leak out on the break? Let's face facts - for all the incredible things that Calderon does, running the break is without question NOT one of them. He's extremely conservative and doesn't seem to have a great feel for when and where to make the outlet pass. And that's fine - part of the reason he's got such an insane pure point rating is because he plays a safe game. And I have no problem with us primarily being a half-court team, since that clearly plays to our strengths (especially with Ford gone). But, if that's the case, largely losing our second best rebounder (and best by position) is clearly not worth some half-assed attempt at a transition game. And this is especially true given JO's struggles on the boards thus far. It would be an egregious mistake to continue down this road, but not unexpected given Sam Mitchell's absolutely atrocious skills of deduction. I'm wondering if his assistant coaches are just "yes men" or if they are similarly incompetent. One other thing - to whatever extent this may or may not explain Moon's disappearing act on the boards, it certainly cannot fully explain it. He's plummeted from 8.9/40 to 2.4/40, so even in this small a sample size, I'd be hard pressed to believe that there isn't some other underlying cause, say, an injury.
