toooskies wrote:jbk1234 wrote:toooskies wrote:Yeah, really kept us from winning by 40...
I mean our bench, or more specifically, K. Love won that game for us. But Cedi and Love shooting from range like that isn't scalable. I know LeVert going 3 for 4 from 3 isn't something you want to bank on (his FG% from the rest of the floor was awful). The Bulls basically played a box and one against that starting unit and it took a Herculean performance from Mitchell just to get points out of the entire starting unit.
Allen and Mobley are legitimate two-way players but they need room to operate. You let the other team off the hook when you allow them stack 4 defenders in the paint.
It's not even an issue since Garland is coming back to the starting lineup when he gets healthy, but you can survive with bad spacing. It's really not the end of the world, and taking shooting away from the bench might make it much less effective-- the bench needs great spacing because the defense is bound to struggle.
The most positive thing was 32 assists despite DG being out. But all the starters save for Okoro had a positive +/- out there. And that's more on Okoro overall. He's been struggling offensively in every lineup so far.
In a game we won by 32 (it was closer to 20 before the Bulls raised the white flag) I would hope all our starters were positive. But Allen and Mobley had very meh +/- numbers for a game with that margin (Love was +27 and Cedi was +41, which again isn't scalable IMO).
Love and some combination of Neto/Cedi can provide spacing off the bench. You won't survive against good defensive teams with non-existent spacing in your starting unit.
Also, Wade didn't even play until garbage time so it's not like we saved his spacing for the second unit.
