JB is is averaging 26.7ppg on 60% TS also.
The potential assist numbers I put up should give you a pretty good idea.
Brown is 88th, not 138th. Doesn't change much though.
I'm not a big Smart fan, at all, but his ability to come up with clutch defensive plays is pretty amazing - I'd say. Somehow he is able to find a way to come up with huge steals in the last few minutes or a key charge, etc. It seems like he's had quite a few of these this year.
Yes.
I mean, if this were true I feel a whole lot worse about this team going forward.
I agree with your overall take on this, and others'. I wish that JB and JT were better at sharing the ball. It would make everyone a little better, including themselves.
It's what leaders do.
I was wondering the same and will look for the post Cellar Door referenced (I genuinely do read the thread but I genuinely could have walked right past it). I kept thinking that if just the Cs icy 1/33 stretch from 3 was instead a warm 14/33 alone it would be much better.
This wasn't a macho showdown with the media that he hid from. Smart fanned the flames with some inflammatory finger pointing (and, in my opinion stupid as it's rarely productive to criticize teammates publicly). Not sending him out there until the team has a confab and settles things in the lockerroom or, at least, comes up with a company line seems like smart management. I assume if it had just been about a bad game #7 of the season he'd have trotted out there, as seems to have been the plan. Given that Smart ambushed everyone with those comments, smart to take a moment to let it cool down and figure out how to respond. If in the heat of the moment J had responded in kind pointing out Smart's failures, lack of assists, bad shooting...that'd be a spiral downhill.
I understand your sentiment but no PR professional is going to let JB go out there. First of all, while I'm not familiar with what happens post-game, I dount they are broadcasting the presser into the Cs locker room. Maybe I'm wrong but I doubt that that JB even heard what Marcus said. Sending him out there cold would be professional malpractice.
I don’t think either are comfortable in an NBA leadership role. They are still kids. I’m guessing it’s pretty well established that Smart and Horford occupy the leadership roles in that locker room. I’d be surprised to learn otherwise. That doesn’t mean they are selfish and only care about jacking up shots……it only means that these kids aren’t established as the locker room leaders.
Thank you for posting. Radio silence out of the Cs all day was good and then we get this. Brad was the right person to deliver the public messaging. Hopefully the team can put together some solid team performances, if not wins, during their Florida Man trip.
Bulls went 13-16 from the field. Only 3 missed shots and the Bulls got them. A tour de force of ineptitude.
The last bit might be overly influenced by Brown's injuries and garbage time, but this is not the simple story about 2 stars who can't play together.
Worse than the C's fourth-quarter rebounding was their defense. The Bulls missed only three shots in the whole quarter. THREE! Chicago came up with two offensive rebounds and a team rebound.
Start a smaller lineup and play TL off the bench. He gets shorter minutes (20-24) that are more energetic instead of pacing himself as a full-time starter. We get to put another shooter on the floor with Tatum while also improving our struggling second unit. This has never been rocket science since the preseason Ime.
Salaries don't quite match, particularly after Huerter signed his extension...and Collins can't be traded until his six-month period is up anyway. But we might be in the ballpark here. As an alternative, what about Collins/Reddish?
Sure, but there’s no space between Tatum and Al, so if he threw the ball in there it almost certainly would have been a turnover.
I assume a good part of that on-off has to do with the blow-out in TOR and the 4Q of CHI.
There's enough. Al is deep in the post. Lost art of just throwing it inside when it isn't an actual post ISO.
Tatum passed that, Grant just missed the three. Moreso, my point was Ime should have more shooting out there with Tatum.
The skip pass is going to create an open 3 so if it’s there that is the correct pass. Once Grant accepts, Caruso will slide over leaving Schroder wide open for a 3.
Maybe he's bad at offense (particularly shooting although he's reputed to be the best cutter on the Cs IIRC) or maybe he can't guard anyone on the perimeter but playing Grant at all backup big minutes also seems less than ideal to me as well.
I wish this was a video clip. I’m interested in Caruso’s response to the pass. Did he challenge the shot or hedge against the pass to Schroder for the open 3? I don’t recall the play.
There is no reason to take that shot. There are 9 seconds on the shot clock there is time for multiple passes.
Grant didn't shoot. He rotated the ball to DS, who missed.
Caruso went to GW, who moved the ball. DS was wiiiiiiiiiide open and bricked it. Here's the play https://www.nba.com/stats/events/?GameEventID=504&GameID=0022100098&Season=2021-22&flag=1&title=MISS Schroder 29' 3PT Jump Shot&sct=plot
Damnit my memory failed me, and I took the picture myself when rewatching the quarter last night (it was painful).
Well there ya go. That’s ideal offensive execution for an open shot. Tatum and Grant made the correct passes and Schroder simply missed the open look.
Which leads back to what I am asking for, and you posted a bit ago. Need more shooting out there with Tatum.
I’m giving Brad a complete roster construction pass as a first-year GM in a new job. I felt he did well under these circumstances regardless of where the results land. Having said that…..there were close to 100 qualified 3-pt shooters who connected at 38% or higher. Man, we need to get us some Bagdanovich, Grayson Allen, Bertans, Monk, Brunson, Melton-types of guys by next fall.
DS is shooting at 37.5%, GW at 47.6% (and dropping!); and JRich at 36.8%.
