Pachinko_ wrote:MidnightBuck wrote:The difference is Durant could shoot, Giannis can't. We need an instant-offense point guard. Kyrie shooting 30 times a game will be him taking away all of Giannis' low percentage perimeter looks and leaving him with what he does best - scoring in transition and making unbelievable plays on mismatches.
i mean sure this is a valid and tested way to play bsketball, but it's not the only way.
Our offense is simple but it's actually quite efficient, almost fail-proof: start by giving the ball to Giannis, see if he can find a lane to attack the basket, if he can't he drives anyway to force the double team and then kicks to the open player, who gets an open 3 or attacks the closeout. Or maybe does a dribble hand off to Snell, or some other simple play. These things work 50-60% of the time because we have just the right players for it. If this fails, the remaining 40% of the time you just give the ball to Khris who mostly comes up with something good, and if that fails too you bring some instant offense off the bench, usually Monroe or sometimes Beasley.
The reason this fell through against Toronto was because Khris was gassed after missing most of his training camp and half the season, Thon was still too raw, Beasley kind of disappeared after his injury and our D still needed finetuning. All these things are getting slowly better. Give it one year, just one.
I appreciate the optimism, but you basically just described ISO basketball.
Each and every year this style of basketball is becoming less and less viable. Giannis especially has difficulty with ISO because he can't shoot which really showed in the Toronto series. We dominated through the first three games because Toronto hadn't figured this out. Casey made an adjustment, gave Giannis room on the perimeter, and the rest is history.
