Has to be GrandJury... I mean, since he only posts when Dame is bad... notice how Dame is never on the floor when GrandJury is posting. That must mean Dame uses the Ipad from the bench to psych himself up on the forum! :MARIS61: IT ALL MAKES SENSE.
Dame has the right to say whatever he wants... but that doesn't necessarily make him correct. It it's also not just about close games. When you are last in assists and feast break points, that is a philosophy. When everything is designed for basically two players, that is also philosophy. I can admire the loyalty and also think it is somewhat blind in the process.
Come on. Dame has been intent on setting up his teammates at the starts of games, perhaps to a fault. Stotts has used several lineups this year that have Dame and CJ on the bench. One notably was a mess in the previous Kings game. Stotts has two guys who can consistently put the ball in the basket. That’s not on him.
You lack imagination in designing systems, whether basketball or governments. Look around the league. Plenty of coaches get more points than we do from big men no more talented than ours.
Neither was I talking about just one game. Dame consistently plays distributor more than scorer at the starts of games. And, no matter what the coach does, outside of Dame and CJ, everyone else on the roster is streaky at best as far as scoring goes. The Blazers run plays for Nurkic, but iso-Nurk is a chancy proposition.
IN doesn't mean you can't question and try and improve. Last in assists and fast break points when you have a roster of young legs and struggle to create good shots only seems reasonable.
I really don't...Dame and CJ naturally want to overdribble and take difficult shots early in the shot clock....neither is a great passer or extremely fast...I think Dame is purely holding himself accountable and Stotts just addressed the fast break and assist issue...he's working with what we have here...sure the Greek Freak can finish a fast break in 3 giant strides....we don't have that guy or a Durant type....that's what we need to address...a tall ball handling scorer..we have 3 players trying to be that that can't score
You don't need a ton of highly skilled players to be able to fast break. I seem to recall that both DEN and PHX have ranked high in fast break points in recent years...and they haven't exactly been loaded with talent. It also goes to show that fast break points don't necessarily lead to wins! Although being dead last - or even bottom third - probably isn't a good thing either, unless maybe you're the Spurs.
Our offense by Terry's standards has been trash, but our defense is out of this world so far. Here are rankings of our ORTG and DRTG over Terry's tenure: 2012: 16, 25 2013: 3, 16 2014: 9, 9 2015: 6, 19 2016: 11, 24 2017: 16, 2 And we are protecting the rim better than anyone else in the league by a large margin. This isn't getting as much pub as our slow, clunky O.
