Post#268 » by 76ciology » Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:52 am
If there is a way for us to get a source of offense outside of Maxey and Embiid, it's likely to come from Oubre and Tobi, and perhaps some off-the-bench scoring from Payne, Hield or even Council.
Regarding Oubre and Tobi, instead of letting Oubre defend Brunson the entire game, maybe we can exchange Tobi and Oubre’s roles. Tobi could slide to defend Brunson and shoot corner 3s, while Oubre becomes the rebounder and the player we can look to bully smaller defenders like Brunson, Divicenzo, or Hart. If we ever decide to play Council, he can take on either Tobi or Oubre’s role.
Payne was successful running pick-and-rolls and shooting transition 3s; he should continue to do that.
We run offensive sets to get Oubre and Tobi their shots. Maybe we should also run off-ball screen actions for Hield, similar to how the Knicks run it for Bogdanovic or how the Hawks used to do it for Korver off the bench. Alternatively, Hield could keep setting ghost screens to ease up the defense and create driving lanes to the basket.
All these can improve our offense, which is a bigger problem for Knicks to stop than for us to generate. But I think the concern is more on challenging Knicks shooters, not giving up a lot of transition points, boxing out and rebounding.
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