zaymon wrote:jezzerinho wrote:The playoffs is where oppositions get themselves familiar with what you're bad at and make you do that.
If we're self-scouting, what would you say are the glaring gaps offensively in each of our starters?
"Shooting" is kind of a given....
No great pick and roll ball handler. You can switch Franz/Banchero/Carter/Isaac without problem. Only pull up option is Paolo and he is inefficient. Obviously shooting from most positions.
You can put smaller guys on Franz and Paolo and they wont hurt you much most of the time.
Suggs or Franz need to develop some form of a midrange pull up. They are both fast but you can defend them with big separation after they cross the 3 point line. Paolo has better midrange but he is too slow reacting to double teams, his handle is too loose to dribble in a crowd.
I would say 3 point shooting is not even our biggest problem.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. If we get real penetration, Orl can collapse the D, pass from inside out and swing the ball to find the open shooter/cutter. But if you wall us off, only Paolo has the midrange game and even hes not efficient overall, so the oppo probably lives with that.
I think where we can mitigate.some of the absence of midrange and lack of pure pnr handler is developing a 2-man game. The MoJoe connection works for the bench but the starters need to get it clicking. Whether its Paolo with WCJ or Franz/Suggs with Paolo, we need to be smarter about how we work decent openings at the rim by playing through the D. Expecting Paolo to dribble through 3 guys and score efficiently on every trip is a pipe dream.