Suns miss too many easy baskets

visions · Post #1 » by **visions** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 1:01 pm

I'm talking about putbacks and layups, particularly the open and semi-open ones.

Biggest culprit has to be Warrick. The guy seems completely unable to do anything but fly in with his arm totally outstretched in the hope he will be able to dunk it. When he realises he can't, he just kind of lets the ball go somewhere in the vicinity of the basket. It's embarrasing to watch.

Then there is Lopez who gets great feeds from Nash or grabs an offensive rebound and 9 times out of 10 he gets the ball stripped. Yeah he's not too athletic but even so, with his size he should be going up strong and dunking the ball almost every time.

Childress also has missed many easy ones, though to be fair to him he is coming off a hand injury. Nontheless it's still very frustrating.

The misses always seem to come at crucial points in games too. It's especially demoralising when Nash works really hard to set these guys up perfectly and then they blow it. Thankfully Gortat showed against the Clips that he can actually finish around the basket. He needs way more playing time.

With the Suns defense so poor this season and with many slow starts offensively, we can't afford to keep missing these easy shots. Yeah this team has no shortage of problems this season but this one is frustrating me big time atm.

Post #2 » by **lilfishi22** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 1:22 pm

I knew this would happen once Amare left. He was an inside presence that everyone else seem to just dismiss because they think we could just replace his scoring. Yes, we replaced his scoring, but we're not getting those easy, high % buckets he used to get us regularly. We're (mainly Nash) working harder than ever before to create and every shot, while probably more open than most in the league would get because of the way our system gets players open, are still not high % shots.

We have no inside presence right now. Warrick is a guy who can be on one night and then ice cold for the following 5 games. Lopez has played pretty well offensively since he's been back but he's just not reliable. All the guys getting us shots inside just aren't doing a very good job but that's because they just aren't suited for that kind of game.

Calvin Klein · Post #3 » by **Calvin Klein** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 2:09 pm

I'll say it once again. Lopez needs to watch Gasol and learn. He has to keep the ball up all the time. Instead, he ducks, for some reason, and loses the ball. Always. It's just basic fundamentals.

hunterxaz · Post #4 » by **hunterxaz** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:22 pm

Calvin Klein wrote:I'll say it once again. Lopez needs to watch Gasol and learn. He has to keep the ball up all the time. Instead, he ducks, for some reason, and loses the ball. Always. It's just basic fundamentals.

Yeah I notice that a lot too. He'll grab the ball then duck down low to try and avoid being fouled. Why not just monster up?

swe_suns · Post #5 » by **swe_suns** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:32 pm

hunterxaz wrote:
Calvin Klein wrote:I'll say it once again. Lopez needs to watch Gasol and learn. He has to keep the ball up all the time. Instead, he ducks, for some reason, and loses the ball. Always. It's just basic fundamentals.

Yeah I notice that a lot too. He'll grab the ball then duck down low to try and avoid being fouled. Why not just monster up?

better yet why isn't anyone in the coaching staff telling him this?!?

BurningHeart · Post #6 » by **BurningHeart** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:49 pm

This thread is full of accuracy.

JohnVancouver · Post #7 » by **JohnVancouver** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 3:56 am

Watching Warrick throw the ball off the upper half of the backboard, worse than the Special Olympics - embarrassing is the word. Can you imagine watching the film of that with the team?

Between Hakim and Barron ........

Lou used to do that, too, but it was easy to forgive him

Stix · Post #8 » by **Stix** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 3:58 am

INSERT ZACH RANDOLPH HERE.

problem solved.

pidi · Post #9 » by **pidi** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:45 am

swe_suns wrote:
hunterxaz wrote:
Calvin Klein wrote:I'll say it once again. Lopez needs to watch Gasol and learn. He has to keep the ball up all the time. Instead, he ducks, for some reason, and loses the ball. Always. It's just basic fundamentals.

Yeah I notice that a lot too. He'll grab the ball then duck down low to try and avoid being fouled. Why not just monster up?

better yet why isn't anyone in the coaching staff telling him this?!?

maybe he thinks he is superman and while he ducks he gets his freaking superman suite on.. :dontknow:

RaisingArizona · Post #10 » by **RaisingArizona** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 9:31 am

We could also start a thread entitled Suns give up too many easy buckets.

RocPHX · Post #11 » by **RocPHX** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:37 pm

Lopez kills me with the getting stripped under the rim. The guy looks so lost by the rim sometimes, such a goof.

visions · Post #12 » by **visions** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 9:41 pm

JohnVancouver wrote:Between Hakim and Barron ........

Hehehe...I'd already forogtten about Barron. He too is a master of the "chuck it up and hope luck and gravity do the rest" move under the basket