Post#133 » by Americafkya » Mon Apr 11, 2016 3:20 pm
Grant is definitely better at playing off the ball now than he was in the beginning of the season, but he still has some major shortcomings, as is to be expected with a rookie pg. His major handicap in the beginning of the season when he did play was that he couldn't shoot and he turned the ball over.
He definitely still does take bad shots, but he's a young player. Now that his shooting and confidence have improved, he'll start getting more burn. Now if only the dinosaurs in charge would realize this team is better running the pnr, having a free flowing offense, and letting a quick guard create for our 3 best scorers, than maybe things would be better.
The triangle is fine in some spots, and both Melo and Lopez should be posted up when they have a mismatch. Both are reliable post scorers. But we can't base our offense around that. It just doesn't work. It hasn't worked for us this season, nor has it for any other team.
KP and Melo will be much better suited to play in a flowing offense where they can catch and shoot more, or catch, fake, and drive, not one where they are posted up and asked to dance around their defender each time. That is predictable, slow and inefficient basketball.
I hope next season we get a reliable SG like Bazemore, Fournier, or Derozan(preferably Fournier since he shoots 40% from deep, won't make a max, and still has room to grow), and an at least capable point guard that can break down the defense. Imagine how much better this team would be if we upgraded:
Vujacic--> Fournier
Calderon-->Rondo
and our bench was Grant/Gallo/Dwill/Pachulia
That's a really solid 9 man rotation:
Melo, KP, Lopez, Fournier, Rondo, Grant, Gallo, D will, Pachulia
3rd best team in the East if both KP and Grant make jumps.
IDK if that's even possible salary-cap wise, but whatever. Let me dream.
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