bwgood77 wrote:AtheJ415 wrote:RunDogGun wrote:We have a consistency issue. I'm not sure if it confidence or what, but we have a lot of guys that will keep chucking when they can't hit anything, and we don't get the ball to guys who are on fire.
We have an offense that is incredibly easy to adjust to. Sink in on the roll man when it's Chandler. Help off Tucker. If the roll man is a shooter (Leuer or Tele), play the pop and once the PG drives, everyone play the passing lanes and get a steal based off of any of the remaining motionless players. Our guards have to get better making decisions and our bigs need to expect the ball more often, but make no mistake, this offense accumulates turnovers, can't get assists, and goes through constant deadspells, in large part of its own doing. This motionless offense, particularly when you have a non-shooter or 2 on the court, is a disaster waiting to happen.
We've been at the bottom of the NBA in assists during Horancek's entire tenure despite playing more possessions each game, and it's not a coincidence.
That's because we put a bunch of scoring point guards on the team who dominate the ball. Our best passers are probably Booker, Warren and Leuer, and they barely touch the ball because Knight resorts to tendencies as does Bledsoe. I seriously doubt Hornacek is telling them to dribble for 20 seconds and then try and jack up a long too, especially if contested.
They would have to move to get the ball in good positions to receive passes in scoring positions. In this offense, that doesn't happen. You can blame the guards all you want, but look at our physical movement and it is the worst I've ever seen from a pro ball team. Our initial passes are also purposeless. He had IT, Dragic, and Bledsoe all on the court at the same time last year and couldn't get assists, and I realize those are all scorers first, but that's better passing than most teams' 1-3 spots, and even then we were dead last in assists despite being 1st or 2nd in pace. This spans beyond our acquisition of Knight, and with basically 1.5 roster turnovers in those 3 years.
When Booker and Warren score, they're either going one on one or they are getting a kick out off of a drive. That is our entire offense, and that's the problem. Jeff Teague is no more a passer and every bit the scorer as Bledsoe, for instance, and Atlanta still doesn't use that as an excuse not to run plays for Korver, Milsap, and Horford off the ball. We should at least be attempting to do that. If I saw a lot of movement and our guards just not passing it to these open guys, I'd be more inclined to agree with you, but aside from maybe 3 times a game where they drive and instead take a contested 2 over kicking it to an open 3, I'm not seeing those missed guys. Instead, I'm seeing an offense that can't get anyone open unless somebody with the ball beats their guy 1 on 1.
