Right now it feels like the only reliable offense this team has is Ant, KAT, and to a lesser degree Mike Conley just going out and making shots on their own. Things are cluttered on the interior right now and we have just zero ability to generate easy off-ball looks for open shooters and for guys cutting to the basket. There are just never any easy baskets for anybody, it’s always just extremely difficult shotmaking by our guys who can make difficult shots. It’s so frustrating to watch.
irishace88
I agree with the dribble handoff action with KAT. That should be a staple action with KAT and Ant. That is the go to action with Jokic & Murray and also Fox & Sabonis. It’s and action that doesn’t allow the defense to just sit there and easily load up on an iso drive.
The way we use KAT just doesn’t seem to fit. We still try to use him as a driver and it’s just not working. At some point we need to position him somewhere else on the court or try running different actions with him. He usually is guarded by a smaller player and therefore has a mismatch but we never play into that. Driving on the smaller player with the big there to help isn’t the solution. We need to be way more creative.
There is just no reason our offense is this bad when we have Ant and KAT.
Kokobeans220
hate to say it, but Finch is a problem
KnowledgePrevious
This was a good video. I liked that Jake showed mixups to the sets they currently run that could be implemented easily. Porzingis is not a better passer than KAT, and yet they are able to get him to playmake in a lot of different ways.
Next season, I would like Finch to add another offensive specialist to the coaching staff to . I’m not sure the extent to which Pablo Prigioni vs Finch is responsible for the playbook, but clearly we need a bigger bag.
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But a huge huge problem, in my opinion, is Ant not dealing with doubles effectively. He is skilled enough to score, and it’s not that he’s an unwilling passer, but he is simply way too ineffective at recognizing when the double is coming and making the right reads early enough. If Ant was making the right reads consistently, the offense wouldn’t bog down to so much iso ball, a ton of guys would get open shots, and the offense would open up a lot. Especially when him and KAT share the floor, that two-man game should be literally unstoppable: Ant and KAT PnR, Ant drives and two go to the ball, immediate kick out to KAT for 3 or a drive. But Ant is always a step slow on the kick out, if he does it at all: If he does pass it out, he waits until it’s clear that he has no way to get his own bucket. But at that point, it’s also clear to the defender, who has time to get back to Towns. The slow decisions from Ant also lead to a lot of the turnovers we have seen.
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Ant is not the only problem, but he is the best solution.
Pharm-I-See
I was at the Pelicans game last night, defensively we had looked quite good but the offense was abysmal. We were barely over 30% shooting from the floor.
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Right now it feels like the only reliable offense this team has is Ant, KAT, and to a lesser degree Mike Conley just going out and making shots on their own. Things are cluttered on the interior right now and we have just zero ability to generate easy off-ball looks for open shooters and for guys cutting to the basket. There are just never any easy baskets for anybody, it’s always just extremely difficult shotmaking by our guys who can make difficult shots. It’s so frustrating to watch.
I agree with the dribble handoff action with KAT. That should be a staple action with KAT and Ant. That is the go to action with Jokic & Murray and also Fox & Sabonis. It’s and action that doesn’t allow the defense to just sit there and easily load up on an iso drive.
The way we use KAT just doesn’t seem to fit. We still try to use him as a driver and it’s just not working. At some point we need to position him somewhere else on the court or try running different actions with him. He usually is guarded by a smaller player and therefore has a mismatch but we never play into that. Driving on the smaller player with the big there to help isn’t the solution. We need to be way more creative.
There is just no reason our offense is this bad when we have Ant and KAT.
hate to say it, but Finch is a problem
This was a good video. I liked that Jake showed mixups to the sets they currently run that could be implemented easily. Porzingis is not a better passer than KAT, and yet they are able to get him to playmake in a lot of different ways.
Next season, I would like Finch to add another offensive specialist to the coaching staff to . I’m not sure the extent to which Pablo Prigioni vs Finch is responsible for the playbook, but clearly we need a bigger bag.
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But a huge huge problem, in my opinion, is Ant not dealing with doubles effectively. He is skilled enough to score, and it’s not that he’s an unwilling passer, but he is simply way too ineffective at recognizing when the double is coming and making the right reads early enough. If Ant was making the right reads consistently, the offense wouldn’t bog down to so much iso ball, a ton of guys would get open shots, and the offense would open up a lot. Especially when him and KAT share the floor, that two-man game should be literally unstoppable: Ant and KAT PnR, Ant drives and two go to the ball, immediate kick out to KAT for 3 or a drive. But Ant is always a step slow on the kick out, if he does it at all: If he does pass it out, he waits until it’s clear that he has no way to get his own bucket. But at that point, it’s also clear to the defender, who has time to get back to Towns. The slow decisions from Ant also lead to a lot of the turnovers we have seen.
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Ant is not the only problem, but he is the best solution.
I was at the Pelicans game last night, defensively we had looked quite good but the offense was abysmal. We were barely over 30% shooting from the floor.