Post#414 » by BurningHeart » Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:52 am
Blaming the team being an offensive disaster on Frye being gone is only a copout to anyone who doesn't understand how basketball works.
The Dragic/Frye pairing was unbelievable last year and Frye hit just enough threes for the defense to respect it. For a guard like Dragic, all that spacing is unconscionably important. All those HPBasketball, Grantland-types have done numerous breakdowns of the Dragic/Frye pairing and what made it so special.
Now, not only is Bledsoe running the offense more because he's a slasher and an ISO guy and doesn't do the pick-and-roll/pop thing that much, leaving less touches for Dragic since he doesn't have pick-and-roll/pop partners (why we don't use Len in more PNR/P is beyond me, not like Frye but more like Amare), but when Dragic DOES get the ball, he's more limited in what he can do BECAUSE that spacing is so important and there's nobody there to give it to him as consistently or effectively as Frye did. This year, the defense just camps and waits for Bledsoe or Dragic or whoever to just try and drive in and create something and since there's nobody reliable to pass it out to, they're forced to throw up a stupid flip shot or something or they turn the ball over because they got caught dribbling with nowhere to go. And we try to counteract this conundrum by running down and taking ill-advised mid-range shots by unreliable shooters and since they don't wait to have someone down to rebound the misses, our possession is one-and-done and we get nothing out of it except further frustration.
You people look at Frye and you see his inconsistency shooting or his often subpar defense and think that that's what made him so valuable to the Suns. When people say those things it reveals a COMPLETE lack of fundamental understanding of how basketball works.
Why we did nothing to address the loss of Frye is **** beyond me. You obviously can't pay him 8 million dollars a year but you sure as dick need to get someone who can do the exact same thing so that your third team all-NBA player doesn't get castrated.
