Re: *** Grizzlies vs Wolves - Friday Night -8pm CT FSN ***
Posted: Sat Apr 3, 2021 5:13 am
Ant and our top three pick (hopefully Jalen Green, fingers crossed!) To be the most exciting backcourt in the entire league.
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Calinks wrote:We need a new defensive scheme next season yet again. We give teams far too many three-pointers, Grizzlies average 10, tonight they almost have 20. The worst shooting teams in the league go off on us beyond the mark and of course, we don't have the shooting to keep up. Something has to be done about that next season its really bad.
TheZachAttack wrote:
Thanks! The biggest advantage I see in the types of action they are running is that they can choose to get Towns whatever number of primary action touches in sets that they want to. McLaughlin simply initiates a play that gets Towns the primary touch in the post, on the elbow, or at the top of the key in whatever type of way they want to do that.
Jedzz wrote:TheZachAttack wrote:
Thanks! The biggest advantage I see in the types of action they are running is that they can choose to get Towns whatever number of primary action touches in sets that they want to. McLaughlin simply initiates a play that gets Towns the primary touch in the post, on the elbow, or at the top of the key in whatever type of way they want to do that.
McLaughlin wasn't initiating anything while both Edwards and Towns are playing. You want to show us the two clips of the two possessions it happened on and call that what was happening all game?
There is a two man game going on with Ant/Towns part of the time. Otherwise Ant is doing what many claim to hate about Dlo's game. Ant just doesn't have the team IQ yet to get everyone involved doing so. Thankfully he's got his own ability to finish at the rim when he decides to. This isn't great half court offense or even remotely using all 5 guys. This is star ball, which is fine when the two with upper tier abilities are actually hitting their shots.
Neeva wrote:Ant and our top three pick (hopefully Jalen Green, fingers crossed!) To be the most exciting backcourt in the entire league.
TheZachAttack wrote:Jedzz wrote:TheZachAttack wrote:
Thanks! The biggest advantage I see in the types of action they are running is that they can choose to get Towns whatever number of primary action touches in sets that they want to. McLaughlin simply initiates a play that gets Towns the primary touch in the post, on the elbow, or at the top of the key in whatever type of way they want to do that.
McLaughlin wasn't initiating anything while both Edwards and Towns are playing. You want to show us the two clips of the two possessions it happened on and call that what was happening all game?
There is a two man game going on with Ant/Towns part of the time. Otherwise Ant is doing what many claim to hate about Dlo's game. Ant just doesn't have the team IQ yet to get everyone involved doing so. Thankfully he's got his own ability to finish at the rim when he decides to. This isn't great half court offense or even remotely using all 5 guys. This is star ball, which is fine when the two with upper tier abilities are actually hitting their shots.
I mean Finch even separates positions into initiators, wings, etc. All initiating means in a basketball term is literally taking the ball up the court and then say throwing a post entry pass or timing a hand off or swinging the ball to Ant once Towns is ready to set the screen and then clearing out and spacing to the corner or just spacing for Edwards.
TheZachAttack wrote:McLaughlin is the one who is making the post entry passes to Towns or getting Towns his elbow touches. The are not burdening Edwards with that level of responsibility yet. Again, you can disagree and maybe you just use different terminology... but this is how a basketball person or a basketball coach would describe it to you and to be clear they are different things from what Ant is doing.
Jedzz wrote:TheZachAttack wrote:Jedzz wrote:
McLaughlin wasn't initiating anything while both Edwards and Towns are playing. You want to show us the two clips of the two possessions it happened on and call that what was happening all game?
There is a two man game going on with Ant/Towns part of the time. Otherwise Ant is doing what many claim to hate about Dlo's game. Ant just doesn't have the team IQ yet to get everyone involved doing so. Thankfully he's got his own ability to finish at the rim when he decides to. This isn't great half court offense or even remotely using all 5 guys. This is star ball, which is fine when the two with upper tier abilities are actually hitting their shots.
I mean Finch even separates positions into initiators, wings, etc. All initiating means in a basketball term is literally taking the ball up the court and then say throwing a post entry pass or timing a hand off or swinging the ball to Ant once Towns is ready to set the screen and then clearing out and spacing to the corner or just spacing for Edwards.
Show us the clips of Mclaughlin doing so with Edwards. I counted one, maybe two, maybe not two, possessions with Edwards where he even touched a ball. See if you can find them. Your descriptions have been fairytales and unrelated to any point I've made. He's not "walking it up" with him. This little line about clearing out and spacing to the corner or "just spacing for Edwards", that's all he does and just go stand in the corner. He's not spacing for Edwards because Edwards is never going to make McLaughlin that outside threat by...passing to him. This is my point. He shouldn't be playing with Edwards. No points should be playing with Edwards. Can't wait until Dlo plays to see what they plan on doing then. At least Towns got Edwards to see that Rubio exists. I wish someone carried the stats of how many times someone like Edwards has ever passed to the offball JMac or Dlo. It's what made Rubio a bystander to start the season.
I've been complaining about two point guard lineups for years under three different coaches now and it's no differnt now with Ant. JMac is probably the only point the team has had who can both play the way they are allowing Edwards to and also get more of the team involved still with timing they can hit shots with. Dlo might be second. Edwards is just too into himself yet to play with a team this way. But if that's going to be the case...there are different players to be around him.
TheZachAttack wrote:McLaughlin is not on the floor with the starters to be the person with the ball in his hands and trying to play like Chris Paul and dribble around and find others and score. He’s on the floor because of his reliability as a ball-handler and as a passer and his ability to initiate the those types of actions that Ant cannot at this point in his career.