The Moose wrote:zeebneeb wrote:I'm just sitting here laughing at everything right now. Honestly. It's a clownshow out there. The play calling is brutal, turnover galore, and the basket is the size of a pinhead.
Has any offense ever been worse in NBA history? This has to be the worst shooting team i have ever seen in my life.
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And there is no way that all these players would just happen to be going through a slump like this normally. I don't believe it for a second. This is Casey's horrible offense causing this. He wants to live by the 3 and his entire offense has that as his main objective.
He did tell us when he was hired that he was going to do this.
Even when we go inside most of the time it is only a fake penetration in order to get it back out for a 3.
You cannot have your players just constantly looking to take 3 pointers. There has to be an actual balance, an INTENDED balance, where your inside scoring in most cases is the first intention. In other words, the inside has to be a REAL option more than 20 percent of the time, not just a fake showing where the intent all the time is to get it back out for a 3.
I watched a Bulls/Philli game and specifically looked at the other players beside the ball carrier. What seemed like 85 percent of the time their offense intended to run plays for interior scoring. They shot plenty of 3 pointers, but again, most of the time they were natural extensions of an overall interior intent. They constantly ran screens, not just screens that stay out at the 3 line like Casey, their screens were hard, interior intended.
They ran double screens while a 3rd guy would cut along the baseline. They posted up, and their movement inside the 3 line was intense and purposeful, not some phony, half-hearted attempt to probe just so you can get it back out to a 3 shooter.
I saw us actually run some normal offense against the Nets a couple games ago, it was amazing, and that's when we were in the game. I was shocked to see it. But then right back to what we saw tonight.
Nope, no way I can read those stats above and be told this is the shooters all shooting bad and it has nothing to do with Casey's offense.
He is ordering these players to just chuck 3 after 3 and to make that their central focus. 3 pointers should come out of a balanced, all-around offense and be in a rhythm from in to out mainly. You have plays to make 3 pointers when you need them, like at the end or when you are down big, but you don't run only those plays as a complete offense.
So Casey has to go, he just has to. Weaver has got to see this and get us an innovative, young coach who runs a balanced offense.