theboomking wrote:stevemcqueen1 wrote: Wall paired with Beal and Gortat >>> Wall paired with Drummond.
This year, I agree with you. And I clearly agreed with the sentence I quoted, even last year. The thought was that Durant would essentially replace/upgrade Beal as a shooter and that we could possibly get a young defender/rebounder in the front court. Last year, Beals production, but not potential, looked fairly easily replaceable. This year, he just looks so valuable. He is driving to the hoop twice as often, per the Washington Post, and obviously is scoring in much greater volume with much better efficiency.TS% is at .580 this year compared to .521 last year. If he can keep that up, a 25ppg scorer with that TS% is just incredibly valuable.
Yeah. He creates a big chunk of his offense now. Someone who scores in high volume with efficiency by creating his own offense is the most valuable type of player in the NBA. Those are usually the guys that successful teams get built around, They make building a good offense easy. And if that guy is also a two way player and can pass and rebound well for his position, then he's not taking anything off the table. That's what Beal is becoming.
Beal's scoring ability gives us such a margin for error now. All three of our wins would have been losses if not for his ability to create offense in winning time and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
