Post#28 » by dlts20 » Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:23 pm
Has Our Crap Offense Been A Blessing In Disguise?
Blatche has been such a beast that even when he misses or makes a bad play I still go like "wow, I havent seen too many guys in this league be able to do that". I thought in his prime that Gil was one of the most exciting players in the league and we didnt really have another one until NY came along and played ok for a little while, then McGee came along, did some things, and still does some things, but Blatche right now is one of the most exciting in the league for me and more exciting then all those guys were at there most excitingness if thats a word, lol.
Seriously, his game is crazy exciting right now from the post moves, spin moves, crossovers, fadeaways, reverses, and so on. The thing that is funny about his play as a starter is that in like the first few games he was basically strictly in the post. He would step out and shoot a J sometimes but for the most part he was back to the basket. Then the doubles came and he for a long while went almost strictly outside to the faceup game and started playing more like a guard. Alot of fans from other teams still think thats what kind of player he is because theyve never see his down low game. This is when I got a little upset a Dray because I thought he was settling too much and drifting too much to the perimiter.
Then the last few games again he went back to the block and basically we run like 1 or 2 plays for him every time now and they all are to try to catch it on the block. Now its like forcing him to do low post moves on the regular and you can tell that even though he already had some moves, his game has grown on the post so much even since the very 1st game he started. Thats why I hate fools like Tapscott benching these guys even though we were way out of it. They need to play and you can see it in Dray these last few games that he's killing it on the blocks right now. Strength wise he's even looking good as Ive seen him back down strong dudes like Boozer and so on.
Then what about that spin move in the post? Thats money. If you lean hard on him to the inside then he's spining off every single time and its so quick that no big can stay with him. The only thing that upset me about it is when he does those moves and gets to the rim he then either tries to reverse lay in or do a bunch of fakes. Sometimes thats just his nature without the explosion and other times he's anticipating someone trying to block it on the front side that never comes. I get upset because Im like Dray, its already open for you right there. Then today against Nene he finally spun and dunked it on the front side. He needs to do that more because even if he doesnt get it, he will be fouled.
I just like the fact that for the 1st time ever it seems like we are starting to have a legit "low post" big man. IDK if you can 100% be comfortable saying that yet but Im starting to feel like we can throw it into him and he can get it done even strictly on the block. I see him growing in his mind to where he's even backing down big guys now when at 1st he would only try it against smaller guys. I also see his whole facial expression & mindset has changed now to where he truly has no fear of even the best bigs in the game. Did you see in the 3rd against Denver where he came and got it at near the top of the key, took the dribble right, got Nene moving that way, and then hit a mean crossover to the left, and pulled up for the J while Nene was nowhere in site? How many bigs can do that? Then a couple of plays later is when he did that play where he got the ball against Nene in the post, spun real quick, and dunked it on him. He's sick right now.
Even that play where Malik Allen blocked him, the moves were sick. Thats not even including the guard like passes he can make in the post or in transition. Basically I think our O is so bad right now that its almost forcing Dray to work more in the post and he's quickly developing at a crazy fast rate. I just love it and he's going to be a beast next year. My only fear for Blatche now is that ankle injury, espically when we are about to play big tough teams. Will he be able to move the same and will he have the same aggressive mindset after it? I worry that just when he was coming into his own as a great low post scorer, now this will hinder that growth and maybe even change the way he plays some
