SOUL wrote:Bensational wrote:I don’t think we need a floor stretching C for our offense to work, but our C’s probably need to be solid lob threats and offensive rebounders and our drivers need to be better at getting them the ball if they draw a crowd of defenders. And if the paint is packed we just kick it out to an open shooter.
I vehemently disagree with the first part though. We've seen a lot of data how Paolo/Franz look when the offense is clogged because the other team isn't respecting anybody else. It works fine right now because WCJ/Gary/Suggs can all stretch the floor. If people want to replace Gary/WCJ with Black/Goga or Black/Claxton, you're going to see a world of issues arise. Black is still way better than I thought from threes, but not respected there yet and not a volume guy.
My ideal is basically Isaac just plays 30 minutes in the future tbh.
If the paint is packed then the shooters aren’t there to space the floor, they’re there to punish the defense by hitting open shots. We just need to get better at getting the ball to them in time, and not having so many of those opportunities turn into guys putting the ball back on the floor and driving back into the paint. But if they’re successfully spacing the floor, then the paint won’t be packed.
The data is also a lot more supportive of Goga, and Goga/Black, than you seem to be aware of. Goga/Black with Paolo/Franz/Suggs has a better ortg, drtg and netrtg than WCJ/Fultz. And while WCJ/Harris have had fantastic advanced stats and lineup ratings of ortg 117.3, drtg 97.7, netrtg 19.6, lineups with Goga/Harris were ortg 127.5, drtg 108.5, netrtg 19.1 (albeit on a small sample size). So counter intuitively, we score more with Goga on the court than we do with WCJ, but we’re better defensively with WCJ.
The margins between WCJ and Goga really aren’t that big, and within a season they could be completely negated. I think Goga will be more of a factor to the team than people are expecting.