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LKIRNets wrote:Many people have bitched and moaned about this system not being productive or not being great for the type of players we have, or my favorite argument, how Kenny Atkinson is not ready to be the coach that Brooklyn needs. I've wanted to go over a few things in this offense, using the last 2 games against playoff contenders to measure it's effectiveness. It's faults, and how sometimes the players just need to do a better job.

Let's go into the most glaring issues and that is how D'Angelo Russell is sometimes his own worst enemy.


DLo has a tendency to want to finish and at times probably doesn't feel like an alpha using his 2nd option. Here he clearly turns down giving another teammate an opportunity, instead chooses to take on triple coverage. In the NFL that lunacy, in hockey that's lunacy, in the NBA it's no different.


Again DLo feeling like an alpha, decides to shoot the ball early in the shot clock. Resulting in stagnating the offense. These are things 21 year olds who have a shooter's mentality goes through.


Here DLo receives the screen. Gets open and Dante Cunningham has the mismatch but DLo settles for the face up contested 3.


Then there are times he gets hedged on screens, especially when players start reading our sets. Here his only bail out was a trail pass, but he saw Dante late and forced a wrap around pass that was then stolen. These are the majority reasons as to why his turnovers happens.


Here he's bailed out as he forgets to move for the flare screen pass and gets caught into no man's land. Again 21.


Here he overthinks. He's now in the combo guard mindset. Which is his 2nd best mindset of the 3. What's concerning here is how he turns down a wide open 3 and takes a more difficult shot. That part I just don't understand. A great drive and kick by Joey, he's starting to do that a lot more. But concerning turn down, which can only be explained w/ saying... Again 21.


Again settling for a shot, the alpha SG mentality


Here turning down a screen causes us a possession as Allen Crabbe becomes the one effected by it in the end.

But rest assure it's not just D'Angelo. A glaring small issue is Dinwiddie's passiveness.


What should be a fastbreak pull up 3 becomes a contested corner 3.


Spencer's passiveness here as he stops his dribble fearing a turnover, instead of maintaining that dribble and Allen dunking it on that SG, this results in the offense stagnating in the corner.


This set, haunts both DLo and Din, b/c the spacing is too tight, the window is too tight to make a bail out play. In watching video this play would be the one I take out of the playbook. B/c it results in stoppages mid clock, end clock, turnovers, double, triple and sometimes quadruple coverage. That window to make a play is too tight especially wit the wingspan of who guards these positions, which is normally a big PG or SF or C.

Then there are the mental zone outs. Here's one wit Quincy Acy as he forgets to set a screen and coach had to scream at him to get in position.


Dinwiddie is so good to be working in those conditions. He's an allstar next year, the guy has one fault, being too passive.

Look for Part 2 of these sets later. We actually make good to excellent plays at times, I'll post them when I get back home.

Prokorov wrote:
he also needs to shoot it alot better from deep

Roy Tarpley wrote:

Prokorov wrote:
he also needs to shoot it alot better from deep

Yeah, this is a bit strange since he's a consistent 35% 3PT for his career.

LKIRNets wrote:

Roy Tarpley wrote:

Prokorov wrote:
he also needs to shoot it alot better from deep

Yeah, this is a bit strange since he's a consistent 35% 3PT for his career.

not strange when the majority of them are contested.



When they are not

LKIRNets wrote:

Roy Tarpley wrote:

Prokorov wrote:
he also needs to shoot it alot better from deep

Yeah, this is a bit strange since he's a consistent 35% 3PT for his career.

not strange when the majority of them are contested.



When they are not

Roy Tarpley wrote:

LKIRNets wrote:

Roy Tarpley wrote:
Yeah, this is a bit strange since he's a consistent 35% 3PT for his career.

not strange when the majority of them are contested.



When they are not

There must be some stats to corroborate your claim that most of Dlo's 3s this year are contested, relative to his two years on the Lakers.

MrDollarBills wrote:yeah that's bad. he needs to chill with the pull up threes with a hand in his face.

LKIR fam you put a lot of work into these breakdowns, you ever think about doing something more with this stuff?

LKIRNets wrote:

MrDollarBills wrote:yeah that's bad. he needs to chill with the pull up threes with a hand in his face.

LKIR fam you put a lot of work into these breakdowns, you ever think about doing something more with this stuff?

It's time consuming.

MrDollarBills wrote:

LKIRNets wrote:

MrDollarBills wrote:yeah that's bad. he needs to chill with the pull up threes with a hand in his face.

LKIR fam you put a lot of work into these breakdowns, you ever think about doing something more with this stuff?

It's time consuming.

i can imagine. but i meant like running your own blog or becoming a contributor to a blog? you're a legit basketball junkie, you may want to see how you can monetize your craft.