Posted by holfresh:


Lee gets a few of those a game from Marbury..I'm not sure why Curry doesn't get those..maybe it's his positioning and not moving toward the hoop when Marbs is driving...Maybe it the fact that he usually has two guys around him..Can't say for sure really but I think Marbs can't be blamed for that...Lee gets plenty of dishes for easy dunks...

Yes, Lee is the one guy Steph has chemistry with, and I can understand a little why. Pre-LB Marbury orchestrated the entire game from the center of the court. He might venture as far as the elbows on the arc but ever so rarely did he set up on the side or go baseline. LB and isiah have him largely begin at the elbows and swing either direction from there. Since lee starts his cuts from much farther out Marbury has a long line to track him on his position on the side. He sees him coming sooner and has more time to deliver the pass. Eddy's working range is shorter and he's usually got a defender tagging him, so Marbury has to thread a tighter needle.

Essentially Marbury can be stationary and feed a cutting Lee while with Eddy it's more likely that Eddy will be stationary requiring Steph to move to shift the defense.

Steph used to be comfortable doing this down the center of the lane. Defenders would converge on him and he'd short dish to the side or kick out to the perimeter. But now he's asked to move himself along the perimeter and kick it in, and it's just not his comfort zone.

My problem is that in the past nobody moved except Steph, and he only did on center penetrations. Right or wrong, I judged that to be because Marbury doesn't anticipate all that well and is more sensitive to floor spacing, thus he likes a limited playbook so he knows where guys will be so he doesn't have to eye hunt them. At least his penetrations could collapse the D and create openings. I always wanted more players in motion, so I expected that if Steph stopped moving others would move more, but now Steph doesn't penetrate as much, and the others STILL don't move.

There's a lot to be said for good ball movement but it needs to have a dynamic to it. Just shuttling the thing around the perimeter is ball movement, but it's not good ball movement.

I don't know, we were promised an up-tempo (the lack of we were told was evidence of sabotage by Brown) motion offense and I'm still trying to figure out what happened to all the motion, and triangle, and high post shuffle boogaloo that was supposed to be perfect for this team? We've got some guys who can score but it seems to be a poorly constructed offense that's highly dependent on Lee to put-back our low percentage misses.