nixluva wrote:The thing that drives me the craziest is how TD is allergic to playing close to the basket. The dude stops his dribble 5 feet behind the 3pt line and tries to setup the offense from there. It's infuriating to see over and over. He seems to be uncomfortable dribbling in traffic and so he stays out on the perimeter and that forces poor long passes and even worse it forces the bigs to come way out to set picks. The one thing you don't want is STAT and Tyson to be setting picks too far away from the basket. They need to be within 2 steps at the most! TD never gives those guys the ball in prime position to finish. TD/Melo also kills off the corner 3 for guys like Novak. They never see the ball. One thing I noticed is that besides the horrendous PG play from TD, they also haven't gotten anyone else besides Melo to get hot. Sometimes you need a few breaks just to get the monkey off your back. Tyson is missing point blank shots. STAT isn't hitting his usual midrange jumpers and neither TD nor Fields are hitting their 3's. Just one strong shooting game can make a difference. I think this is what MDA and the coaches were banking on. None of them really believe TD is a PG!!! What they hoped for was just enough shooting and ball movement to get by. So far early on, none of the guys is shooting well.
Just not enough good touches. Last year STAT got WAY more touches than he's getting and it is effecting the offense negatively. I'm hoping to see Lin get into some game action after having some practice time today.
Nixluva: thanks for getting us back on topic. He's doing these things becasue he's not a PG. We want him to be, but he's not.
We aren't hitting shots because we are out of sync. Very poor passing, guys playing out of position, no PG, new team that did not have a training camp. It's not going to be like this all year. It's been 3 games.
Then Marbury was surrounded with Chicago cast-offs Jamal & Curry