It's easier to execute offense against teams who aren't good defensively and/or haven't put it together yet. Also, both Sexton and Garland were shooting at unsustainably high percentages to start the season. Prince is a streaky shooter who was shooting lights out when he first got here. Drummond has a pretty high variance depending on the match up.LivingLegend wrote:jbk1234 wrote:It was a 20 game sample size over the softer part of our schedule. We were relatively healthy and well rested. Many of the teams we played were not. Again, teams began to scout Sexton and game plan against him.LivingLegend wrote:
I'm not saying it doesn't, but we are not talking about a 1&2 week sample size. We were #1 in defense, assists and steals like 1.5 months into the season.
The biggest issue is how it went from that, all the way the dead last in the league in everything. Regression was expected, but regression to where they finished the year was much to far of a fall
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It wasn't the fact of who we were playing that I'm talking about, it was how we were playing.
Our offense actually looked like something a NBA coach drew up with passing passing passing passing and our defense was played with aggression.
Our schedule getting harder should not change the entire philosophy of our offense and make us go from playing aggressively on defense to playing passively and weak.
Effort isn't something that should fluctuate depending on strength of schedule.
But really, a big part of the NBA is scouting other teams' tendencies, the Cavs run a really basic offense, and everyone knows Sexton wants to drive to the rim. Even Garland got too reliant on the same two or three plays off the high PNR with Allen towards the end of the season. It obviously didn't help that Nance and Love missed large portions of the season, our bench players couldn't hit an open 3, or we effectively played the entire season without a backup PG.
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