TakeYourHeart wrote:Scottie's biggest issue is he has nothing in his game to gain an advantage over a defender from the perimeter. No quick first step, no elite handles, no pullup 3 threat, bad at getting downhill off a screen, nothing. There's a whole lot of 0 advantages being created for himself and others when he has the ball there. Hitting open cutters is nice and all but when a locked in defense takes that stuff away the struggles become apparent. There's no such thing as playmaking if you can't create an advantage for yourself, he needs to add something to his game that bends the defense and then his passing can shine. Even Gradey, who is drawing hard closeouts and attacking them, is starting to do things that throws the whole defense into rotation.
Now there is something fairly obvious he could do, given his current skillset...mismatch hunting, backing down smaller players and playing out of the post instead of the perimeter. This is by far the best way for Scottie to shift the defense and create advantages, forcing the help/double teams to come. And I have a feeling the team knows this, but they're trying to see if he can develop another part of his game before resorting to this.
Accurate. Starting year 4 now and he hasn't shown any major improvements in his ability to generate advantage. It's probably not coming. Bully ball and post-ups is not the shot diet of primary creators because it so heavily match-up dependent. 2 games against the Cavs and Wolves kind of highlighted it. He's not a Giannis that can impose himself on any defense.
I get that management has to roll with Barnes because there's not much else to work with (their own fault) but trying to make him something he's not just seems like an exercise in futility.
*INGRAM*ALLSTARSEASON*
