Chi town wrote:Great theatre guys. Thanks Strat and Duck.
Coby needs to play off ball because he’s the only shooter on the team with Zach and Pat out. Ayo is starting to rise as a shooter though. Vuc keeps chucking 3s at a 25% clip.
Most efficient shot in hoops is FT, Layup/Dunk, C+S 3… not a dribble 3. C+S.
Billy wants Coby off ball because he won’t be passing to DDR Vuc Dalen and company to brick.
If Billy thinks Coby needs to play off-ball to keep the ball away from DDR and Vuc... well then he is a coward and an idiot. But I don't think that is the case at all.
Billy's solution to EVERYTHING is give the ball to Demar, and Demar will be the one bringing the ball up a good portion of the time if you take the ball out of Coby's hands.
His only other mantra is "Vuc as the Connector", "we have to play through Vuc".
If anything, I believe Ayo morphing into a guy who looks like a 5th starter quality player might make Billy think he can have Ayo facilitate the offense more and put Coby off-ball. I think that would be a mistake and would pull Ayo back down to earth. But Billy is pretty good at figuring out how to mitigate success by asking a player to do something more, or completely different, than what they have had success with:
-Demar needs to become a 3 point shooter
-Vuc needs to be the Joakim Noah of the offense
-Zach needs to shoot less. No wait. PBev says he needs to shoot more. No wait, he needs to shoot less.
-Caruso needs to be a PF
-Drummond needs to sit on the bench (he finally got past that one months after fans were calling him out for it)
-Coby is a 6th man. No wait. Coby is a PG. No wait. Coby needs to play off ball more
-Coby is our starting Guard next to Zach. No wait. Ayo is the starter. No wait. Coby is the starter. Bahhh...just start them both.
-We lack 3 point shooting and rebounding size? OK let's not play Bitim until game 58.