He adapts smoothly into a distributor role when others are hitting their 3s, staying in that role for most of the game and reducing his rim pressure by at least 50%. When the shots aren't falling he shifts back to being more aggressive and starts attacking the basket again. He has higher bbiq and court awareness than the rest of the team combined.
Always funny to see the roaches come in whenever a certain player has a bad-mediocre game and then completely silent when said player does well instead of acknowledging every now and then that said player actually did well. The poster you responded to I have on ignore but every once in awhile I just hit the unignore button to see which idiot people are responding to. That poster always sounds like he's on severe PMS, always complaining and moody as hell.
I used to hit the unignore button every once in a while until I realized life is too short to waste on trolls. Reading anything by people I have on ignore always reminds me of the clip below. I have them on ignore for a reason.
Amen as an on ball threat seems pretty much like a fantasy right now. Aside from transition, he just doesn't have the tool kit for it. He has shown to be a very good off ball player, as a cutter and lob threat as well as rebounding. Essentially, he's a hyper athletic version of Draymond Green. I think the sooner we accept that, the better. On Sengun, I've never been sold on him being a #1 .... but maybe I'm wrong. I'd like to see him in a post centric offense instead of this crap catching the ball 25 feet from the basket. They also need to let Reed run the offense - not defer to KD isolation or point KD. He should be the finisher, not the play starter. The idea should be to get him open looks, not ask him to pass out of double teams. We always talk about putting shooters around Amen & Alpi - we have three guys shooting better than league average around them now. I don't really think the problem is so much who's on the court - Reed, KD, Amen, Jabari, Alpi - as much as it is the approach by the coaching staff forcing KD to initiate. A pick and roll set with Reed on ball, Alpi the roll man, KD & Jabari on the wings & Amen roaming the baseline should theoretically be highly efficient. We just don't see that much and I can't understand why.
That lineup has been very good offensively, but the net rating has been poor because the defense has really suffered. Amen and Jabari just aren't enough to cover for Reed, KD, and Sengun all being on the floor at the same time. KD takes too many plays off and Reed/Sengun are too easy to attack in too many different ways.
Yeah, first few years Jokic’s efficiency would drop by something like half from first half to second lol. Took him a while to build up his stamina and he wasn’t exerting nowhere near the effort on defense Udoka demands from the guys.
Since his return from injury, Alpi has fixed literally every single criticism that I had of him this season (besides the spotty FT shooting at times). He's been playing hard, smart, hustling his ass off on defense, distributing and scoring at a super high level. He's been really impressive, and our team has been galvanized by him.
He's also not a great rebounder - I think he averages like 6 a game on heavy minutes. I desperately want a stretch 5 as well but I kind of feel like you are better off with a less established guy like Onyeka Okongwu than Turner. We don't need the best stretch 5s - we need a sufficient one because we will still likely need to carry a situational traditional big and there are also times we can have Sengun play 5 and Jabari is our 4. ...honestly I feel like Sengun being more capable as a center would be the best long term strategy for this team and pair him with a Steven Adams type to manage load against the bruisers. The problem is less stretch 5 and more Amen and Alpi sharing the same lineup since neither can shoot from distance.
Haha, definitely have a stick up his ass. But homie does glaze Alpi once in a blue moon when he wants to up his trade value.
Yeah, I'm sure it's not a great defensive lineup but none of the other lineups are good offensively and the object of the game is to outscore the opponent. That group with 2 guys who shoot 70% at the rim and 3 dudes shooting a combined 39% from outside, just playing mediocre defense, they should be able to outscore most opponents. Screw it, at least it would be exciting to watch, rather than the 5 forward KD initiator disaster.
That back looks like a ticking time bomb right now. Ime really needs to let sengun rest at least until the wolves game.
