I am a big Frank fan. Love the kid. He has his warts and he has a few of them.
He needs to improve on the following or he will be forever a backup but if he improves these items then he can be a Charlie Ward type starter in the association. If he can accomplish this then he is the perfect backcourt mate for RJ since RJ is a ball dominant SG.
1. Improve his 3 point %age. He connects at over 37% and he is golden.
2. He needs to start looking for his shots more. He is great at setting up his teammates but he needs to be looked upon as threat at all times or things won't work.
3. When leading the break and he doesn't pass ahead he stops at the 3 point line to pass to a teammate in the wing to reset. I hate it when he does that all the time. He needs to probe and continue if nothing there then bring it back out.
Stating the facts where some of them are obvious, Fizdale is really not helping him at all. There are a lot that Frank can do himself to get better but his coach has to put him in the best possible situation to succeed. Here are some things Fizdale can do to help Frank.
1. In offense, run the PnR with Frank and Randle. Frank ran this with Porzingis and they ran it well. Randle needs to learn how to read the defense and know when to pop or roll and he will get a lot of open looks. Randle also needs to learn how to set a ****ing pick. Frank delivers very accurate passes to bigs when they roll. I don't understand why Fizdale never uses this.
2. Tell Frank that he needs to learn how to back cut. Dude is standing in the corner and his defender is not paying attention to him all the time. CUT FRANK!
3. Stop yanking Frank out for offense/defense situations at the end of games. You want to show him confidence then this is the best time to do it.
4. Get rid of that stupid 3 man weave going east and west at the top of the key. That **** never works. The only thing it does is piss me off and take 5 seconds off the 24 second clock.
5. Pass and cut. Too much standing around. If you pass and cut to the basket then you are putting pressure on the defense to guard the paint and your 3 point shooters will be open.
OK. Rant over.
EDIT: Oh, and stop the ****ing ISO. You have 2 capable ISO players in RJ and Trier. Stop ISO centric offense with Randle and Morris. Have Morris be a 3 and D player and he will flourish.