Should look better defensively. Ball movement should be better as well. The problem will be if Stotts still plays as if CJ is there
I think Harden had scoring options he just chose not to go to them. Dude went into major Hero ball mode the likes Ive which I hope to never see again.
He has some good posts, and is much more reasonable and smart when I talk basketball with him in person. That's why I give him so much crap for the random insane things he posts, because hes better than that!
Definitely but he was choosing to not get them involved IMO. He acted like oh I have to shoot 20 3's a game and 40 shots a game in order for us to win, but he did have spot up shooters and they could've ran an offense that wasn't just him jacking up shots.
It does if were talking about his ball domination. He has a lot of guys that need shots created for them.
Better. But seriously, I didn’t notice much of a difference offensively (I don’t think we need to talk about defense. CJ is objectively Portland’s worst defender) Guys were getting good looks, the only difference is they started making them in the second half. And the Pacers are a solid defensive team. I wonder how much better we’d look if Turner got launched into the sun. If he’s still around next year, he better not be in the rotation.
It sucks that we don’t have anyone better to run the second unit. Curry is a shooting guard in a point guards body. That should be a priority this offseason. Find a playmaker. Guys like Teodosic and Rondo for example.
We started off poorly in the first quarter. Jake is not the answer at SG. So yes we looked worse offensively and defensively early on. Our offense did not suffer because Dame took over when we were down by double digits. And Aminu got hot in the 3rd quarter. Can we rely on that to happen again? Start Hood and hope Seth, Jake and Enes play well of the bench. Losing CJ will effect the bench more than the starting unit.
did you know that Evan Turner will make more money from his Portland contract than Clyde Drexler and Terry Porter made in their entire careers? or that Turner + Festus Ezeli will make more from their Portland contracts than Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter, and Jerome Kersey made in their entire careers? or that Turner + Ezeli + the one year in Portland for Allen Crabbe made more money than Drexler, Porter, Kersey, and Buck Williams made in their careers. or that if you made $75,000/year it would only take you 2,600 years to earn as much as Crabbe, Turner, Meyers, and Ezeli will make from the contracts Olshey gave them in 2016. If you started when you were 25 and worked till you were 2,625, and you got 2 weeks of vacation a year but only took one, when you were 2625 years old you'd have 50 years of vacation saved nope...I'm not feeling sorry for any NBA player any time soon
Not sure if it is true or not, but the LA media (and fans) claim Rondo has lost a step this year and is not the same player. But haven't we heard that before? Personally I just don't think he fits well with LBJ. I would take a chance on him next year, but would he fits well in a Stott's system?
There was a stretch in the 4th quarter that was horrible offensively. We definitely missed CJ during that time.
