I’ve been seeing people calling out our offense. Defending DeMar DeRozan. Harping on him. But this Thinking Basketball video shows our main issue. We want a free flowing offense, players making decisions in a split of a second and committing. Players cutting in sync with a sense of rhythm. Anything longer than 0,5 seconds is already stagnant. And we are stuck in the basketball dark ages watching DeMar iso.
by th4d89
@Chicago Bulls
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Our whole roster is the negative example. Derozan’s statistically a top 5 ISO guy every year he’s our only edge offensively. Like Ben says in the video so much of it is playing the edge between guarding the 3 and guarding the paint. Dribble handsoffs, shooting, cuts into an open paint. We don’t have that because we can’t shoot for shit.
The Kings have all the shooting in the world, off ball guys, movement shooters, guys who can pull up. They have Huerter, Davis, Murray, Monk, Barnes, and then spot up guys like Lyles, Mitchell. Fox and Sabonis then create. That’s their main 9 guys.
I’d say we have 2 guys in Zach/Coby. Except Zach’s a primary ballhandler, and Coby’s pretty low level. Everyone else is a hesitant shooter, spot up guy exclusively, or not respected in general. Ayo’s at least great at the stampede part but you can’t build a modern roster being last in 3 point rate.
We have to ISO because we can’t run this. We don’t ISO nearly as often as people think. We’re blaming what we have that works rather than the problem that denies us an alternative. That problem is not that we use what we have, it’s what we don’t have.