http://www.blazersedge.com/2009/12/4/1182582/synergy-sports-the-blazers Its a long read but very interesting and somewhat surprising. Highlights:
That is interesting stuff. The bit about Oden confirms what I've seen; he's not especially effective yet covering 4 and 5 who like to shoot face up jump shots or who like to play on the perimeter and I've always been a little leery of the way Aldridge handles double teams -- he never looks like he's reading the double all that effectively and usually passes to somebody as more of means of avoiding a block or a steal than to actually set somebody up.
I think part of that has to be that Oden has backed off those outside guys in order to not pick up stupid fouls. Let them take their jumper. We can live with that.
Isn't that what a lot of fans have been saying Roy should be doing? Move without the ball, run off screens -- kind of like a 'shooting guard' -- and have MILLER, Aldridge and Oden pass him the ball? Why is it again Roy 'cannot' play with Miller?
Yeah, Im trying my hardest to support Roy through this mess but when you see stats like that and Oden's offensive effeciency numbers it makes no sense why we cant run the offense to both players strengths.
Nope. Catching and shooting off of a screen. The only thing I wonder about is sample size. Has Brandon really done that enough to make it statistically significant? I can barely recall him using a screen to catch and shoot.
Sample size is important for sure but if something is working very well even in small amounts it seems logical that you would do more if it to see if it is just a sample size issue. Thats my beef. We get so predictable and set in our ways that we are afraid to even do things that are already working.
Whoops, says so right there, and I missed it, and then when reading the longer article, saw them mention his going to his left, and just made the assumption. My bad.
