Knrstz wrote:Old Man Game wrote:slick_watts wrote:
that's definitely part of it imo. it's not like our offense with billy has ever flowed well. but forcing the ball to both those guys with everyone else watching has made it look disjointed.
a carmelo iso is worth about the same as a kanter post-up, by the way. carmelo may be a more willing passer, but he has not shown that to this point.
we kept doing the pnp with the slip screen that westbrook tried it late in the game one handed, no-look (for no-reason) and rubio easily sniffed it out. this kind of hot dogging with his new 'star teammates' is unnecessary and i think that's also part of the issue.
I try to avoid getting trying to read a player's mind, but Russ to me just looks like he's trying (to a fault) to prove the dopey post KD narrative wrong that he can't play with other stars. He's taken himself out of his own game a lot with over passing and trying to force passes that aren't there.
He did tonight for sure. He looked amazing in game one. He just didn’t get in to a rhythm tonight. Last year in a game like this he would have shot his way back in to it. Tonight was just weird.
Even in Game 1 there was that play where he had an open lane to the rim and turned around a flung a pass to George. Almost led to a turnover but George managed to gather it and score a layup himself.
