Residual-Heat wrote:I see a lot people saying Paolo, Franz and Suggs need to do this or that for the team to improve offensively, but what about Mosley? There are other ways to improve our offense than just player improvment, and this comes down to Mosley.
We're so young and athletic, we should be scoring more in transition. KCP should help a little with that.
We dont really expose mismatches for players other than Franz and Paolo. You got a 270 pound center in WCJ, perhaps you could use him when he's being guarded by a 210 lb center instead of telling him to sit and wait at the 3pt line?
Maybe you emphasize more ball and player movement? Instead of standing around.
I expect Suggs to improve again offensively. I expect Paolo to improve a little bit. I expect Franz to shoot better. I expect KCP to improve our transition offense and just all around upgrade over Harris. I expect Da Silva to get minutes sooner than later. I expect Black and Jett to improve. But Mosley needs to improve as well. All of that combined, plus maybe a Cole Anthony upgrade can make us a much better offensive team.
Everybody has to improve year-to-year, including FO, coaching, (assistant coaching as well). Basically a full team effort. Mazzulla had a 100 page thread on him on the Celtics forum with people killing him all year, and now they've completely changed their tune on him. Dallas fans suddenly don't want to fire Kidd anymore. It's really all about the players at the end of the day because they're who make their coaches look good or not. As long as you don't have a trash can, totally-out-of-their-depth coach, there's small things teams can do, but let's be honest, most teams are running variations of the same stuff with wildly different personnel. The hardest part is making your team have an identity, which we have, so now comes a lot of the smaller things we want to see out of Mose and the team.
Not sure about the WCJ stuff though, seems like the smallest thing to really bring up considering there are not many scenarios where WCJ is just some dominant inside force against some way smaller guy. I mean, sure? But for the most part, it's better for WCJ to be at the three point line while Franz has a lane considering he's a way better finisher. If any of our guys have some guy sealed off and an easy paint touch, our players should instinctively throw it inside, but not everyone has the vision either.
I agree about KCP though, his stats show he's a great transition player. I think he'll also bring a lot more movement considering Harris isn't really that sort of guy. I think posters underestimate how much plays are done/not done because of personnel, not because the coaches don't want to do it.
We used to run that back-cut pass on the baseline to Ross where he would dunk it (after the defender turns his head at the three point line), and also run him off of a bunch of curls so get a shot, where a lot would even be decently contested, but he got up so damn high it didn't matter. Didn't run any of that for Gary because he's not that player.
A lot of players are getting packages that they're comfortable with, and hopefully season by season they add to it.
