Qwigglez wrote:So I see a lot of the pro-Doncic guys using the current teams in the Conference Finals as a reason why Ayton can't be successful because it doesn't follow the trend of versatile positionless players. I'm not sure I completely agree. Those teams (minus Boston) have future HOFers on their squad. Surround dominant bigs with versatile players could also be a recipe for success, that these teams may not be able to match. I would say the Pelicans sweeping the Blazers was a complete surprise, and the Sixers possibly could do better if they had surrounded Embiid with 3&D players. I don't feel KAT was properly utilized in the playoffs and that's likely the reason he is having issues with the Wolves franchise.
From what I saw (im very analytic on each one of those games and based on my two cents. Tatum’s way of scoring was more efficient than Embiid, which made my case stronger against overpaying for bigs.
My saving grace on Biid was he was able to play modern D in the entire series except for G1. He covered multiple celts players on offense, running from the top of the key from Horford to closing out on Rozier. It really exhausted him. While offensively, Sixers realized that Biid’s face-up perimeter game was more effective (even Brett talked about this). Because if you pound it inside, the refs wont blow the whistle because you are initiating the contact and wont favor you for they wont like the game to trend into physical and low scoring games.
The only way a post heavy offense works is if you have elite D. That means very good switchable and rim protecting wings and C. You find your way to lessen the ppp(points per possession) on those drives that its lesser than the points generated on the post. And I don’t know how you can play elite D with booker and ayton.
Drives > Post. I dont want to flood your board but I talked about this in my previous post.
