tdotrep2 wrote:billy_hoyle wrote:Tha Cynic wrote:
You increase a player's usage and that alone will increase their numbers. You do that with a smart player and they will figure out other things in their game like efficiency and overall impact on the court.
A lot of the comments were also coming from media people who used to defend a certain PG needing more reps lol. It really hurts the brain listening to some of them, and even worse when they then come on RealGM and try to defend their hypocritical stance.
Why is this hypocritical?
We've certainly seen times in the league before where a young player can assume more responsibility in an offense without jettisoning the established player.
I think it even more defensible to hold that opinion for the Raps, because it's based on evidence that it could work.
1. Kawhi didn't need to jettison TP, Duncan and Manu to become the alpha of that later Spurs championship team.
2. Similarly, hiring a new coach, establishing a new offensive scheme, and putting FVV in a role where he was an off ball gunner, that saved his energy for pesky defense, like how he was used during OUR championship run is an entirely logically self consistent position to hold.
The question of 'is that role worth max money?' was answered in the negative by Masai.
The difference between the Kawhi situation and ours was.., they wanted Kawhi to become the man, here... we told fred to play off the ball. That **** lasted 4 games and it was back to the same old. New coach or not, a lot of Scottie getting shine is Dennis not trying to be the man, he lets Scottie do his thing. If Fred was here Fred would have the ball like Dennis does now, but the end result would be him taking 10 threes a game.
That's the coach and the system that need to get FVV wrangled in. We fired the coach that didn't push Barnes as the man. Nothing to do with FVV the talent. Another team thought he was worth max money, we didn't.
Nuff said.
Your point doesn't refute anything.
