Rerisen wrote:Stratmaster wrote:Rerisen wrote:
Huh? Yeah *Wade* is old now that doesn't mean Butler is.
In 2006 wade had Shaq. How many teams today do you see salivating over iso midrange scorers and 320 pound scoring centers?
So its the league has changed argument. I don't buy it, Harden, Wade, MJ, all these guys still drew fouls in the post-season, and that remains valuable no matter if teams are shooting 50 threes a game.
SA goes ISO late with Kawhi more than they ever used to with the Big Three, and when push came to shove, Curry pulled shots out of his rear end to win GS the title in 2015.
We aren't going to build a team of musketeers where every shot is some brilliant executed system offense. You need a closer and guy who can just break his man down to get a bucket, you don't want to overdo that, but I don't think Jimmy does very often (Wade a little) but most of that would go away with a proper cast.
I am a big fan of the closer. You may have noticed a post I made after the last game where someone was complaining Doug didn't shoot in the 2nd half and i said at least in Q4 there is no reason he should have. When your best scorer is in the zone and unstoppable during crunch time you go back to him...over...and over... until he is no longer in that zone. Jimmy stayed in that zone until he hit the locker room. I had absolutely no problem with that.
I think Jimmy will overdo it at times, especially in Q2/Q3. Especially if he feels he hasn't taken enough shots by Q2. He sometimes forces a good number of shots. Some of that is trying to get fouls called and he is pretty good at selling those. Sometimes he throws up highly contested shots. Sometimes he gets caught in the middle and tries to pass out with the result being a last second shot for another player or a turnover. I agree, the "sometimes" I am talking about are minor flaws compared to Jimmy's talent and overall game. Those minor flaws get added to the flaws and issues others are having offensively. The team result is some really ugly offense at times.
Wade forces the issue even more than Jimmy sometimes. The thing that saves Wade a little there is that he does seem to have a better knack for finding other players when his hero ball breaks down. He often gets players easy baskets. Problem is at his age he converts on his attempts a lot less frequently than Jimmy.
We need more movement from McD and Niko. At times the reason there is no movement is because the offense has stopped. You can't really make cuts without getting in the way with a guy facing up and going one-on-one down the lane. Other times the offense stops because there seems to be no movement. If all they are going to do is plant McD in the corner to "spread the floor" for Wade or Jimmy they need to trade McD. That HAS to be purposeful because on the rare occasions that neither Wade nor Jimmy are in the lineup there is player movement. Who is asking for this? Hoiberg? Is he just tailoring his scheme to his players strengths or should they just fire him? Wade and Butler? Well, that would be a dicier situation for Fred. You can say "he needs to be strong enough to stand up to them", but we all know that isn't the way it works. If Wade and Butler aren't comfortable and you lose them you may as well just shut down the season, and we know that in the past both of their offensive games are pretty much the same and don't involve a lot of quick ball movement.
To me, Lopez and Taj were big positives offensively early on. Not so much as the season has gone on. They were getting easy buckets early. Not any more.
