K_ick_God wrote:There are problems with the team, roster wise, obviously, but the combination of the roster and Tom is really toxic
It's dumb to start off with JB shooting every time after what KAT did but then again, KAT mostly sucked, our defense was awful, Tom doesn't know which lineups work or not, he's a mess. IF you start off with the presumption that KAT can win it again, maybe it happens ... he played badly, but only really badly after the team had already fallen apart
Hali and Pacers coaching was impressive ... Siakam has been great. Maybe they win anyway because:
KAT sucked
0g needs to go, he can't make a layup and his shooting kind of sucks
Mikal has zero awarness, no intensity, mopes around and looks blank half the time, tons of careless plays. And yet all he does is play every minute. The dude is a MAJOR disaster and it won't get better ... he's the king of meaningless 3's
Deuce got very little time or chances but did make a bad pass
Awful but probably still win the series if Tom didn't completely give away a done W in G1. Or at least, that propels them and they can eke out the series. Pacers came ready to make sure we didn't win ... and Tom, well he's Tom
Nothing seems to last or propel the team with Tom ... he's completely incompetent now and it would be a joke to keep him
Remember Game 1 should be like Remember the Alamo
I tune in breifly saw an immediate impact from Delon, even though he had a turnover. Made me think we would have definitely won game one if Tom had played him over Cam Payne. Team still has some good bones and i think we did pretty well this season. Also think we can improve provide we are forced to face the truth. It's a good thing that Indiana is exposing our flaws.
Thibs inflexibility and lack of offensive acumen nerfs us .
Brunson's balance of distribution to scoring needs to be improve
Kat lacks mental discipline, dumb fouls keep coming I can live with the Defense because of the offense
OG - needs more consistency even though he's shown stretches of incredibly consistency, his handle still needs improvement - honestly none of the starters have what I call a great handle
Bridges- can be automatic in the midrange but as you mentioned his awareness is bad, and he still lacks physicality, the 3pt is bad off the dribble and he's so very afraid of contact.
Hart- lacks touch from 3 and is prone to bad jump pass turnovers. I think he's better of the bench but I get why we start him - we need addtional ball handling.
Outside of Hart the starting lineup lacks above average athleticism. Og can jump, but we don't have any gazelles, we are very poor on the fast break outside of Hart.
And our bench... y'all keep telling me we are close to Indiana's, but when it comes to scoring, we are not. And we still don't have any playable players in the 6'6" to 6'9" range on the bench. No Precious wasn't playable this season.
We are kinda young but we play so damn old.
Now the good news is we can pretty much improve most of these flaws. Some things will just improve due to familiarity. Really that's the case with Indiana,who look way better with mostly the same cast of clowns. Same dudes but they shot even better and play defense much better.
Lets see what Leon does , lets see if he has the balls to make the necessary changes
We could almost run it back but I personally would try to move Bridges for an athletic playmaker SG. But if not Im cool with that too as long he improves personally and we improve all the other areas.
