CrushAlot wrote:nixluva wrote:Maybe if we had a coach that had a system in place to include more ball and player movement Melo wouldn't be able to jack so many shots even if he wanted to. This was a case of a star player who wants to score and a coach not good enough nor talented enough to find a way to say no to that star but convince him that his plan for the rest of the team would work. Since the team was playing so bad it just fed into Melo feeling he needed to do more.Also remember that part of Melo's injury is likely due to his rebounding and put backs on which he receives most of the hard hits. If he was only jacking jumpers there is almost no damage done doing that. It's the more rugged part of his game that is likely to be the cause of his injuries. I would love to see Melo in a Triangle offense where he could get a lot more assists and help his teammates to score more easy baskets.
I think it is also a case of teammates not being good enough and one guy having to do too much. Not sure why management never addressed the horrible guard play but there rarely was another scoring threat on the floor with melo. I do agree that the triangle should help and with a system and different teammates melo shouldn't have to take the beating he did this year.
There were so many games that we lost not because we didn't have enough talent, but we just played HORRID technical BB. Poor decisions. Slow reaction time, lack of preparation or game plan from Woodson.
HORRID Guard play was the biggest problem this year. For most of the year JR, Shump and Felton were all shooting at or below 40%. You simply can't have that. Still there was something else that could've been done. You can't just keep doing the same thing over and over despite all evidence that it doesn't work.
Simply replacing Felton with a better player would've made a huge difference. It's not like it would've taken much to play better than him. Felton was putrid and so were JR and Shump, but Felton was a huge blow cuz his play effects other as well as the PG.
MIN FGM-FGA FG% 3PM-3PA 3P% FTM-FTA FT% REB AST BLK STL PF TO PTS
November 35.1 4.1-11.2 .366 1.0-4.2 .237 0.7-0.8 .857 2.8 5.8 0.9 1.2 3.1 2.4 9.9
December 26.2 3.7-9.0 .407 1.5-3.8 .391 0.8-1.3 .625 1.8 4.3 0.2 0.2 2.3 1.3 9.7
January 33.1 4.5-10.5 .434 0.8-2.8 .297 1.5-2.1 .704 2.7 6.5 0.5 1.1 2.6 2.4 11.4
February 32.6 3.3-8.8 .374 0.8-2.8 .297 1.0-1.6 .619 4.0 6.3 0.3 1.3 2.4 2.2 8.5
March 28.3 2.8-7.3 .385 0.8-2.2 .371 1.8-2.4 .737 3.3 5.3 0.3 1.4 2.1 1.7 8.2
April 29.2 3.8-10.2 .373 1.2-3.4 .353 2.2-2.8 .786 2.6 5.2 0.0 1.2 2.4 1.0 11.0