DCasey91 wrote:stormi wrote:Milton, Harris and Seth Curry (the guys we want to shoot) had wide open looks all night
But therein lacks the huge problem. With Green too they are non threatening once covered and non elite shooters overall, Curry maybe the exception but he needs setup time can’t buy that. Lillard/Doncic leaves acres of gravity/space around them to fire away.
They peed themselves because Raptors have length, speed and are disclipined. That 4 group is a non scoring/ballhandling/passing threat too, add in Howard/Thybulle who are massive net negative offensive players. You need a Booker type at the very least to offset all of them. Ball movement gets bogged down so much when Ben sits.
Vanvleet, Lowry, Powell, Davis can all function by themselves, 2 aren’t elite but they don’t have to be because they are not totaly dependent on perfect/ideal spots. All 4 can score/shoot/pass/handle/playmake all at varying degrees. Basically what a well rounded guard looks like.
While I get your underlying point that you want guards that can do more (everyone is on that same page btw, you don't need to harp on it every post as though someone is disagreeing with the notion)... That's not a good take on what happened in this particular game IMO.
21 of the Sixers 3 point attempts classified as statistically wide open (no defender within 6 feet of them). They shot 19% on those attempts.
12 were open (4-6 feet) and they shot 33% on those ones.
The Raptors are very good at scrambling to shooters out of double teams, but constantly playing that way still leads to giving up a ton of high quality shots.
The Sixers just didn't make them pay for it in this one. They didn't "pee themselves" because they didn't know how to combat the defense. They got a lot of good shots that just didn't fall.
