MrDollarBills wrote:Saying that the lack of rebounding had nothing to do with why we got killed is incorrect when the Grizz scored 40 second chance points.
But what is killing us offensively is the spacing. Having 3 to 4 non shooters on the floor is detrimental to the team. Harden and KD are facing walls of white jerseys because the opponents are daring people to shoot. If Patty and Durant are off, forget about it. I said earlier in the season that Marks needed to add another veteran shooter to this roster and I stand by that.
You absolutely have to play Kessler Edwards. He has shown that he can hit shots. We can't keep playing Brown, Bembry and Johnson on the floor at the same time.
I honestly disagree on both counts. The second chance points didnt help but we scored just 104 extremely inefficient points. Even with their second chance points we had a billion opportunities to close their lead and take one of our own. We are always going to give up a ton of rebounds because of how are team is built, this was way more then ideal, but its something we often overcome....
Also, i think the biggest reason they outrebounded us is because our offense couldnt play their bigs off the floor. I GUARANTEE you if we dropped 35 in the 1st we wouldnt have seen adams again until the second half and maybe not at all. and they were -6 without adams on the floor.
We really did nothing to attack adams. We didnt put him in pick and rolls, we didnt hunt him on switches we didnt go KD at the 5 to make him gaurd on the perimeter. we tried nothing.
I also dont buy the spacing argument. its one thing to lack elite spacing... i dont think we have that with joe/kyrie out and carter not a factor this season. but we dont have some god awful spacing either. I mean we had Harden out there for 40 minutes with an elite sniper in patty on one side and a GOAT level shooter in KD on the other. Claxton may not shooting but he is a rim runner and a threat in the dunker spot. That trio played almost the entirety of non-garbage time.
if you want to tell me our spacing goes to hell if patty or KD sit thats fine, but that was like 6 minutes of non-garbage time and we got destroyed when they were in the lineup too its not like we stunk once patty sat we stunk with him out there.
For camparison the Grizz start 2 non-shooters in Adamas/Tille and their first 2 guys off the bench are also no shooters in Culver and Clarke (Bembry/Johnson/Brown are better this year and career from three then Tille/Culver/Clarke). The grizz shot worse then us from three.
They didnt seem to have any spacing issues. Because they have a coach who isnt a moron and uses banes gravity and ja's penetration to create good looks and make defenses work.
Were super predictable and do nothing to make defenses move. even if KD drops like 45 the defense isnt like working or distraught. its just KD hitting jumper after jumper and they just run back full steam the other way as our guys fall asleep from standing still.
Here is an excersize. of all the teams who played last night, here is the amount of players per team who shoot under 32% from three/non threats from three:
Nets - 2
Rockets -2
Sixers - 1
Hornets - 2
Wiz - 3
Grizz - 2
Magic - 3
Bulls - 2
Pistons -3
Bucks - 1
Jazz - 2
Pelicans - 3
Nuggets - 2
Heat - 2
Warriors - 2
Somehow the rest of the league finds ways to score without 4-5 shooters on the floor. again you can point out when we go to our bench we lack shooting, but we dont go to our bench and our starters have sucked offensively as a unit.
A team with KD/Harden and 13 fat 40 year olds from my YMCA should have a top 10 offense. the fact that we dont is criminal.