IceColdCubano wrote:3ammy3uck3ts wrote:IceColdCubano wrote:Well its to be expected the statistics were clear that Bam leads us to wins when he is the driving force of our offense. Teams are scouting us better now that this is our bread and butter expect to see it often to derail Bam from getting comfortable. Now is what separates the elite players from the middling ones is can Bam adjust to the doubles and create opportunities or will he fumble & crumble.
Yep it’ll be a learning experience, just part of getting better although it probably wouldn’t have mattered had anyone on the bench showed somewhat of a pulse lol
My problem with this organization is we waited until now to get Bam to be the driving force even when everyone and their mother has being seeing the same thing, including Jimmy making comments the past couple years saying: "we will go as far as Bam takes us".
which means Bam is behind the learning curve again. Now we need for Bam to go through another year or two in polishing that aspect of his game to catchup with teams sending doubles at him. That's my problem with the organization, we are the everyone eats free opportunity offense, and never decided to go and get our highest paid players to learn running the offense through them early on, now here we sit starting from scratch trying to learn how to counter and getting those players comfortable in this new situation.
Same thing I see wit Herro and Bam pick and roll, we saw how potent it was from the get go, but now were finally implementing it in spurts and go away from it during critical moments in the game, its insanity. In those moments the other team counters our pick and role which Boston did on some occasions we don't know how to react because for the last 3 years we decided that both of them should only be a cog in the machine and not be the levers pulling, so they can get repetition under their belt. Albeit its mostly due to Jimmy being here that were hyper focused on the Jimmy timeline but it comes at a detriment as we can see the longer we keep holding on to this dream of Jimmy making it happen were only looking at what's directly in front of us.
Its why we keep finding ourselves overpaying on undrafted talent instead of going out and getting known commodities that have track records. Every team needs internal developmental players to keep the end of the bench fed and be able to afford top talent at the top, but not at the level we have here. We find ourselves here because we paid some outlandish salaries we thought could get traded and used for assets as it turns out their actually not assets but depreciating unwanted assets. Who the hell wants dedmon salary filler, or Duncan whos out of the rotation player/injuries have been masking him to protect his value somewhat but its BS he can play they rather show him on the injury report to prevent him from depreciating more. Lowry is not producing to the value he signed for, and nobody needs a aging pg with 2 years left on his contract at 30M, like Nobody, our assets are also not valuable because we don't tank, we are always fighting, so you could say its a 1 to 1.5 ratio on our FRP's, and a second rounder doesnt make up for that missing .5 FYI so you find yourself putting 2 FRP's to make a team feel justified to take on our bad decisions.
I know it man it’s a damn shame but Spo wanted to copy that Warriors offense and have guys like Duncan and Strus jacking 3s all game so DHOs were a necessity. We really made our franchise cornerstone take a back seat to some undrafted players who could shoot 3s. It’s why Bam gets unwarranted Draymond comparisons when he’s a much better player
