Posted by TrueBlue:
Pretty interesting that our free throws go down while he's on the court commanding double to triple teams. You'd think, him being the stud he is he'd get hacked to death by those defensive schemes or make them pay by adequately passing out of those schemes causing the opponents defense to be vulnerable to leaving guys wide open or possibly having his teammates get in the heart of the defense causing them to commit more fouls. But like Isles has stated over 100X's already defenses want nothing more than the ball to go into the post to our Black Hole, Selfish, Turnover Prone, Franchise Player.
My problem with all this is that we're looking at this one season when we practically JUST FOUND this offense with Curry at the head of it. It was admittedly still VERY rough around the edges. This isn't the way this offense is always going to look. I think we saw glimpses of how good it can be and we certainly saw how bad it can look when it's not run right. We also have a significant amount of time when we didn't have either of our best perimeter threats on the floor. In general this was a good first run, but I think we'll see an improved version of this as this team moves along.
Curry is supposed to be somewhat selfish, but at the same time he has to get better at recognizing when he should pass. If you watched the games towards the end of the season he was MUCH more patient and was clearly watching the defense and reacting much better, but you have to also remember that we didn't have Q or Jamal. I think i've seen the growth starting already and we have to use a little more than just the Stats to ascertain what this team is going to eventually be able to do. All you guys are saying is that they aren't very good with it right now and we already KNOW THAT! If they were executing everything right, we wouldn't avg 17 TO's and we'd be up aroiund 100+ pts a game and 20 asts. We KNOW there's a lot of work to be done, but this is going to be the way this team will play and they'll have to perfect the inside to outside game.
As for defenses actually wanting the ball to go to Curry, that's not entirely true. For one thing they devote an inordinate amount of effort in denying him the ball for a reason. He wreaks havoc on teams in the paint and they can't survive with him getting close to the basket everytime, scoring and drawing fouls. They had it much easier when we didn't have our shooters. That won't always be the case. Even if he passes the ball out a ton, that doesn't mean that he's suddently going to avg 6 asts a game or something. We're realistically only looking for about 2 asts a game. The threat of him inside will lead to better perimeter passing and scoring in time and they won't always have to actually throw it inside. This was the 1st yr under Isiah and I look forward to this team having much more time together under him so they can perfect this system and it becomes 2nd nature for them.
