So Roy Wants The Ball In His Hands?

1. Bayless was a known scorer and Pinnock just let 'em fly... the teams didn't have a clue who he was.
2. Koponen had Bayless to pass to, Bayless had... himself?
3. Lets see Pinnock put up 30ppg for, what, 5 games? And set the summer league record and get the MVP? Hmm... thought so.

The thing about Sergio, is he seems to always want to make the pass that leads to an assist, rather than make the easy play and let the offense flow. I think if we gave Rudy Roy's job on the 2nd unit, he would shine, but then Sergio would be a hinderance to the team, as he is only an effective NBA player with the ball in his hands, and I like Rudy and Roy in that case better. Pair that up with his D, Shooting and TOs, and well...

Anyway, I'd really like to see Nate give Sergio a chance at starting and see how he meshes with the team. See if he can set up his strong scoring options in the starting unit. I just don't really think that would play to Roy's strength, and Roy is really our only all-star caliber player, bya good amount.

I would also like to see how Jerryd does in meaningful minutes coming off the bench for a couple games. I want to see if him D'ing up opposing PGs would make a difference. Jerryd is EXTREMELY good at getting in the lane and kicking out to shooters, like he was doing in preseason and in the little time he had to play this year... Aldridge, Rudy and Outlaw benefited from that. I think that is something we need, along with his D and him being able to attack the basket and being able to play off Roy.

Some people on here definitely vote for a certain player more than a team. But for me, I just want to get the players out there that give us the best chance to win. I don't care if its Sergio or Ike Diogu, i'm voting for them because of the word on the front of their jersey. I would like to see how different players perform in different roles. Like i wanted to see how Greg did w/ the starters, Joel still did great off the bench and I really like him comin' off the bench. Sergio is a good change of pace PG of the bench, and I wonder if we would benefit from him starting and gettin' more minutes? also, i wonder if Bayless would be a good option off the bench because he can score and D up along with drive and dish as good as almost anyone on the team... I'd like to see Webster off the bench and starting when he comes back and see where he is effective, and try Outlaw gettin' his minutes at the backup PF spots, etc.

 

TOV% is an estimate of the number of turn-overs per 100 plays. With Sergio at 30% - it tells you that Sergio throws away the ball 3 times out of every 10 plays. In comparison - Blake is only at 11% - so he would give you 2 less turn-overs on the same 10 plays. Jarret Jack - who people called a turn-over machine last year was at 20%.

TS% is the number of points you are estimated to get per field goal attempt - including a proper value for 3 pt shots and FT% because you drive hard to the rim and get fouled - and how you convert these free throws.

What this tells you is that Sergio is a lot less efficient shooting the ball than Nash - which is not a big surprise - but the big place where you can really see the value of this statistic is when you compare Nash's scoring efficiency compared to, for example - Jarret Jack. Jarret is nowhere near as efficient a shooter as Nash - but since he drives so hard to the rim and gets fouled so much - his TS% of 0.58 is a lot better that Sergio's.

FWIW - Nash is 2nd in the league, among point guards at TS%, Blake is 10th, Jarret Jack (not as good a year this year as he was last year in TS%, somewhat understandable playing fgor a new coach in a new system) is 27, Sergio is 47...

 

I think that when Sergio is in there with Roy (or Blake) - he does not dominate the ball as much - and Roy (and Blake) do a better job of decision making than Sergio. I would have no problem with Sergio and Rudy if Rudy was handling the ball and creating more - but if you look at what is happening there when it is just the two of them - it is either Rudy trying to get free by himself for a lob or Sergio dribbling into traffic and trying to hit someone else.

Rudy's under-utilization is derived from the fact that when Sergio is the only ball-handler with him - Rudy is not part of the creation process. He is either getting free for a lob or a 3 or nothing.

We need Sergio to stop dominating the ball as much as he does and allow Rudy to create more with the ball when they are the only ball-handlers in there.

 

and that is the tough part. I want to see Rudy utilized better as well, but Sergio hasn't been playing poorly in his role... but maybe Rudy would give us more out of it if we used him similar to how we use Roy? IDK, i'd like to try it at least.

 

Bayless will take over the job eventually. I think we just need to be patient.