Morten Jensen wrote:One day, I wish you'd offer something of substance.
- Throughout the course of the year, Chicago has had one ballhandler. Him. I've followed this game for many years and I have never, ever, seen a team use their primary ballhandler as much as Chicago has used Rose. He dribbles the ball up every single time. He's the one creating the offense every single time. Add a secondary ballhandler to the Bulls, and Rose's efforts would be maximized. But when you have players who cannot dribble, it limits your options and drains your stamina.
For someone who followed the game for many years, I'm wondering what went through your head with this ridiculous statement. Dribbling the ball up every single time is the very definition of running the point, to point this out as some kind of remarkable feat for Rose is absolutely laughable. If what your saying was true, he'd either be posting much higher assist totals, or Chicago would be one of the worst offenses in the league. Furthermore, it's not not like Indiana is doing a full court press every time and Rose is having to exert a lot of energy.
- Offensive execution. This section might as well be called the need for a secondary ballhandler version 2.0. As stated before, not having players who can create their own offense, severly limits your offensive game plan. Thibodeau, who's been excellent all year long, has simply not made adjustments to the offense so they can try to get around that problem. Sure, it's difficult to create such a system in which you rely on non-dribblers to effectively create. But then at least lose the play in which you try to dump it down to Boozer. It eats clock, and he's been very unsuccesful with it.
Rose has been by far the worse decision maker on the Bulls team. With his bad shot selection and sloppy turnovers. Chicago wins on the defensive side of the ball, all they need is for Rose to be serviceable. Watch Rose play and you can clearly see why Chicago's offense is so bad. Rose has a low basketball IQ, almost all his passes are simple passes hitting guys coming off screens or on pick and pops. These are extremely easy passes that grade schoolers can execute. Hansbrough has done remarkably well fronting Boozer, something that would easily be broken down by a skilled point guard, while Derrick Rose looks clueless and unsure what do do.
Rose shooting 35% is a product of himself and the make-up of the team. Putting it solely on his shoulders, while completely ignoring the context of it all, is laughable. Does Rose deserve criticism? Hell yes. He does. I'm sure he's banging his head against a wall right now, and I'm not even kidding. He knows he's played poorly. But let's not sit back and pretend like he was on easy street here. Coming into the game last night, Boozer had a PER of 7.9 with a TS% of .421 while playing the third most amount of minutes on the team. When you receive that kind of ''help'' from your supposed second-best player, I don't know what you frankly expect.
Can't add much more to this. Well I guess I should have pointed out Deng is the second best player. And maybe if Boozer was able to take 20 shots a game he'd get on track.
Substantive enough?
