dobrojim wrote:the flip side of Wall not getting FTs is that he has one of the longest active games played streak.
Porter needs minutes somehow. Gortat is slumping. Seraphin is still Seraphin. Humphries brings
effort but not necessarily production every night.
Thank you Manimal. Those 2 misses were a bigger factor than Ty's late miss. He hits one and DEN wins.
Jacqui tells me Consor said during the game that BB takes too many long 2s. Bravo Glenn.
edit to add - the win when we should have lost makes up a little for the 2 losses when
we arguably should have won. This is what drives people who gamble to bankruptcy.
PPS - BB (or Witt) is starting to be more of a concern. How is it that he gets so few clean
looks, especially on 3s but even more generally? I wonder if they wouldn't do a lot better
on that front if that ran fewer of those handoff type plays and just ran more traditional
come around a screen with the ball coming from a 3rd player such as Wall.
Absolutely.
That is what I have been beating to death recently. The offense doesn't have enough motion. It needs more weave motion with playing coming around and getting the ball moving toward the basket. We pass the ball to play either moving sideways or backward. And the post needs to kick it out to three more and get that swing swing swing (optional) three going again.
And the can do a three man top of the key pick and weave to get open threes as well.
Watch ATL and other teams. This is how their offense moves.
Our offense doesn't have enough moving pieces so its easy to jump the lanes which quicker teams do and it give us fits. Meanwhile they are doing what I described above and its really hard on our defense. The combination of the two is really tough on the Wizards. Specially when they are getting up 20-25 3s and we are scoring 2 at a time shooting 15 or less 3s.
I posted how almost ever team that is good is shooting more 3s this year then last all except us and MEM.
And that is extra frustrating when we shot 20 3s a game last year. If we only got back to that, it would help a ton let alone upping that to 22 3s which would be more in line with most the good teams.
DCZards. I didn't see that last play for DEN. Just heard it on the internet radio. Sounded bad. Maybe it looked different. 2 seconds to go. Catch and shoot. How could he not be in the act. Defender would have had to foul him as or before his caught the ball in order to call that before the shot. But like I said, I didn't see it so there is that.
