flow wrote:Snakebites wrote:whitehops wrote:cade's whole offensive mind set is to run the offense and be a play maker first (which i love) but given the sheer lack of offensive talent i'd love to see him be more aggressive scoring like he was yesterday.
and yeah, the team is a lot more fun to watch without hayes and stewart. their defense doesn't make up for their lack of offensive skill.
We very literally have nobody on this roster who is good on both ends, which makes it impossible to field a team on the floor that isn’t terrible on at least one end.
This is true. But while we like to preach/complain about defense, the fact is that a lot of teams play poor defense at many positions. We're not even in the bottom 5 of defensive team ratings. No, What separates this team from all others is that the talent on OFFENSE is so bad.
1 player can shoot
1 player can get to the rim
0 players can really create
We've scored 120 points only 3 times, and against only 2 teams. (atlanta twice). And in 2 of those 3 games, Bagley started and went off. For all of the deficits Bagley has, at least he is an nba caliber scorer. That's something only 2 other players on our roster are.
We need offensive talent to replace the offensive anchors we have playing 25+ minutes.
.
Yep, this is the truth. If you want textbook bad defense all the time, look at the Pacers. Even we didn't have that much trouble putting up 100+ against them. This league is not a defensive league, it hasn't been ever since the Pistons last won their championship and the rule changes it brought afterwards to unwind the years of slow to a crawl grind games that the masses didn't want to watch
We really need scoring and outside shooting in all the worst ways. This team is the textbook case of when you provide no shooting to complement any players playing on the court
We started a lineup consisting of Hayes/Duren/Stew, that's malpractice. Even in their best defense, we're not scoring enough to win
And yes, obviously you want defense, but the hope is, you scale up the defense as you focus on the offensive end and opening it up on that end. We're doing neither