Duke4life831 wrote:I personally dont know why so many on here are so quick to give up on Okafor. Towns gets to play with Rubio, he gets the ball at great spots all game long. Okafor had to deal with D league PGs for the majority of the game. Look how much better he has looked since you guys have gotten Ish. The dude has been extremely efficient playing with Ish. His defensive rotations still are not great but he has improved a lot on the defensive side. Ish is a solid PG but its not like hes a stud PG. Also just wait till you guys get someone on the perimeter to take some pressure off of Jah. I just think Okafor just needs to become an average defender and rebounder to become the best big in the game. Right now KAT only averages a half a block more a game and he has seemed to have hit a wall recently. I just think you cant teach KAT and KP the offensive skill set Okafor has, while Okafor can learn to be an above average to a good defender. Okafor has pretty good defensive potential with his length and mobility. The dude is 20, give him some time to become a good defender, can you imagine how good offensively he will be when hes 25
Sixers doesn't have the positive environment for Jah. I don't think both Hinkie and BB were praying they land a guy like Jah when they envision building this team.
Offensively, we are one of the top in pace. Our offense is built for perimeter scorers with basically taking a high volume of pps shots via 3s and drives from the perimeter. While Noel allows multiple defender to guard Jah or to make entry pass for him much harder. It was anti-jah offense. Pace and space was always been the theme. Long and athletic players. High rebs+stls+blks players. 3pt shooters and drives. Move the ball, shoot 3 with confidence.
Defensively, many were saying how Noel compliments Jah. But we have one of the worst perimeter defensive team in the league (3rd worst in defending 15+ feet and 3s) and we allow a high volume of drives into the paint. Our PGs are short, Nik do guard perimeter scorers and gets abused, JaKarr plays cute defense (allows defender to score 2% higher than their average)& RoCo's is an overrated perimeter defender (Allows opponent to score 13% higher than their average in shots inside 6 and 10 feet; allows defender to score 4% higher than their usual average). We allow the most ridiculous backdoor cuts. We make Jimmy Butler look like a superstar. We make Scola shoot like Dirk. We allow terrence ross to break out of his slump. Opponents PG do post up our guards. LBJ gets bored playing against us.
Simply said, this team is built to expose Jah's flaws. He'll look slow with our frantic pace, he'll always be compared to Noel on defense, the team will allow high volume of attempts for him to challenge, we will turn the ball over because we don't have a structure on offense while most of our perimeter players have average ball handling skills, our perimeter defense is so bad that it's between their higher than usual average in 3s versus the nature of low pps attempt of Jah at the post or ISO. But despite all that, I think he's doing fine individually as a rookie. And what's impressive IMO is the rate of improvement he shows as the season progresses.
Just imagine how much better he'll be after an offseason of improvement and when the team adjust around him (they are slowly adjusting with Ish)&with a much better talent next year.
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