fitzfarm wrote:meloanyk wrote:fitzfarm wrote:I think it's time to get a coach that will be more offensive minded. Woodson has to be the worst offensive coach in the league ... Smith is a great talent that needs a structured offense to be successful. he needs to drive more and work off the ball more to get open shots. If he could just focus on that on offense we would be looking at a back to back six man of the year. You'll never get back in talent the talent you would be sending out in a smith deal. Jr has star ability in the right offense. Woodson needs to go.. Get someone who can run a offense that focuses on getting the most out of our talents on this team. I think it really showed how important j Kidd was to this team last year. The best teams in the league have great pgs we need one ... And jr prob won't get you one
Huh? Im not the biggest Woodson fan but Smith had his best season under him and secured his biggest payday under him.Woodson repeatedly has instructed him to drive rather than just hoist up threes. No one wanted Smith out of China and no one seemed to be too interested in his free agency given his issues and undisciplined ways. He was a part time player in NO and Denver and wore out his welcome at both places. No one could get through to him there, hold the player accountable
Woodson also had Kidd calling the shots... Woodson also wore out his welcome in atl with bad offense and players giving up on defense... Imagine if we had a coach that would structure a offense to players strengths jr needs to be a driver and a work off the ball get open jump shooter . When he creates his own fade away jumper with the defender draped all over him. It's playing against his talents. We need a coach who will not allow him to play outside his talent, like okc they alway play off of Durant. As we should always play through melo to get our jump shooters open and drivers a open lane... When we play through melo which is really rare we create great scoring chances for our other players durant touches the ball every position and look at okc on offense . If we run the ball through melo to get everyone involved good things will happen... But Woodson doesn't run the offense through melo it's ether a pick and pop or roll or just give the ball to melo while everyone else stands on the perimeter motionless.. That is a coaching fault on Woodson. Players should always be working to get open around melo daring teams to double team him... We did that last year and won 54 games with a starting five of Felton,Pablo, shumpert,melo, and chandler. So we have the talent it's just not being used correctly.
There was a lot of standing around last year too. I mean half of our roster was made up of spot up shooters. Woodson definitely does leave a lot of room for improvement with our offense though as well. I really don't understand how Melo isn't moved around more. People wonder why he always shoots in the low 40's percent, well he doesn't get any easy looks. Our offense is so predictable it's embarassing. There's no down screens, back screens, backdoor cuts, or handoffs. Every single play is a high ball screen that ends up in a kickout and usually a poor 3. Either that or we space out and feed Melo/Amare in the post and make them work hard for all their points. Nobody has to gameplan against us or adjust. All you have to do is guard the 3 point line and push the ball in transition and we're toast. The part that really gets me is that the players know that this isn't working yet there really aren't any changes made. I don't know if theyre stubborn or just content with losing. /Rant
12/26/2013 2:05 PM