Revenged25 wrote:LivingLegend wrote:Revenged25 wrote:
Considering Garland and Okoro both play plenty of minutes without Sexton on the floor, if you can't see anything from them because "Sexton is pounding the air out of the ball" which is a little overblown based on this:
https://www.nba.com/stats/players/touches/?Season=2020-21&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&sort=TOUCHES&dir=1&TeamID=1610612739
then you aren't going to see anything from them period. So sure he probably dribbles excessively on some possessions, same with Garland, but he's not nearly as bad as y'all making it out to be. Just the team normally sends it to him later in the clock so he has to make a quick decision else it's going to be a clock shot violation.
'Pounding the air out of the ball' might be the wrong choice of words, I will just say 'getting touches'. Sexton is the Cavs #1 scoring option and gets a ton of touches when hes on the floor. I would like to know what would happen if his 18 shots per game were given to Garland/Okoro/Lauri/Mobley/Allen.
If those other guys got more touches and shot attempts allowing them to be a bigger part of the offense--would they finally take that next step forward? The Cavs invested a TON into their PF/C spots this year--it doesnt make a lot of sense to have those guys all be complementary players in favor of 2 ball dominant undersized guards.
We cant complain about the talent not developing when it seems like the entire offense runs through Sexton when hes getting his 35mins on the floor.
Unless you are arguing that those guys need more shots to "get hot" because they're slow starters then sure, but outside of that why should they get those shots that Sexton took when none of them have proven to be better options than Sexton? Look at all the advanced stats for scoring and Sexton is better than pretty much everyone else in nearly every category. Sure there might be one or two where he falls behind one other person, but he's 99% of the time the best option to take a shot with Garland second.
I mean should the Suns stop letting Booker take 18+ attempts a game so they can see what Bridges can do with more shots? No, because Booker is their best scorer. If Sexton was inefficient with his shooting, or even just league average for a SG, which he is a bit above as the league average TS% for SGs is 55.9% and Sextons TS was 57.3% which was higher than Donovan Mitchell even. I think Sexton will end up taking the same number of shots this year, but I think the Cavs as a whole will be able to take more shots this year due to actually getting rebounds.
Because we paid 100M to Allen, Drafted Mobley #3 overall, Drafted Okoro #5 overall and traded Nance + Paid Markkenan 67M. We have dumped a lot of money and assets into those guys. It would be nice to see what they can actually do with eachother and getting more touches to make a impact on the game instead of it being the Collin Sexton+Darius Garland show 24/7 while everyone else stand around setting screens and getting rebounds.
We do know Sexton can do. We've seen it. We know what a Collin Sexton as your #1 option 18 shot attempts per game looks like---and the Cavs lose a ton and a bunch of other guys stand around doing nothing all game. Its hard to expect all of these other 21-24 year old guys to 'take the next step' when they are asked to do nothing but set screen+rolls for Sexton and Garland and get maybe 8 shot attempts per game.
I would like to use Mobley on the elbow much like how Denver uses Jokic, but that requires getting the ball out of Sextons hands. I would like to throw it into Allen on the block and let him go to work with his back to the basket more instead of exclusively being a lob threat, but that would require getting the ball out of Sextons hands. I would like to have Okoro initiate the offense more and attack the rim off screens 8-10x per game, but that would require getting the ball out of Sextons hands. I would like Lauri to be a focal point because he is such a mismatch on offense with his skillset, but that would require getting the ball out of Sextons hands.
In order for any of these guys to earn the massive money we paid them, or live up to the high high draft pick we spent on them---we have to give them the opportunities and Sexton demanding the ball the majority of the time on the court takes away from opportunities these other guys can have to grow their own games.