Also want to point out that all of OG's points came from spot up/catch and shoot 3 and bully ball dunks. I don't think he scored on an iso. Again, there's nothing wrong being a 3D guy. He's pretty good at it.
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GAME THREE, 2021-22 SEASON: Dallas Mavericks @ Toronto Raptors - Saturday, Oct 23rd - 7:30pmET TSN
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The Great One wrote: View PostThe Raptors didn't get any production from their bench. To me that's the reason they lost the game. Second night of a back to back you gotta get something from your bench. With Siakam and Yuta out they need Dragic and Svi and someone else to pick it up. Maybe try someone like Flynn out there or Dekker, they can score.
Positives:
1. Barnes continues his strong play.
2. FVV
3. Boucher not playing in the 2nd half. Seriously this guy is probably the dumbest player i've ever seen. I'm not exaggerating either.
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The Great One wrote: View PostAlso want to point out that all of OG's points came from spot up/catch and shoot 3 and bully ball dunks. I don't think he scored on an iso. Again, there's nothing wrong being a 3D guy. He's pretty good at it.
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golden wrote: View PostTheir one-dimensional gunner (THJ) out-gunned our one-dimensional gunner (GTJ)... is one way to look at the difference in the game.
vs Washinton - 7/33 (21%)
vs Boston - 7/25 (28%)
vs Dallas - 11/34 (32%)
I hate to oversimplify it but you're not going to make the nba playoffs this day and age shooting like that. Doesn't matter how good your defence or transition game are, you're going to be run over most of the time. It's 2021.
Their game is very chaotic right now, which is fun to watch and can sometimes overwhelm other teams, but can also lead to:
--excessive turnovers
--excessive fouls
--taking the foot off the gas late in games (especially on back to backs) due to physical depletion.
--lack of opportunities for high % shots vs set defences
We have good individual shooters but the offence collectively doesn't create good looks for anyone, and every shot (unless it's in transition) looks highly contested. There's no pick and roll, it's all dribble hand-offs. They need some more structure on that end, which I think will come with time as the season goes on hopefully.
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The action I hate the most, and Fred does it a lot, is when he drives into the paint hangs in the paint for a bit and circles back out the other side and passes it to covered guy on the 3pt line. Nothing was achieved except time off the clock, it doesn’t create an opportunity. Someone should be cutting or moving… it doesn’t break down the D at all.
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inthepaint wrote: View Post
It's very early but they haven't shot over 32% from 3 yet as a team .
vs Washinton - 7/33 (21%)
vs Boston - 7/25 (28%)
vs Dallas - 11/34 (32%)
I hate to oversimplify it but you're not going to make the nba playoffs this day and age shooting like that. Doesn't matter how good your defence or transition game are, you're going to be run over most of the time. It's 2021.
Their game is very chaotic right now, which is fun to watch and can sometimes overwhelm other teams, but can also lead to:
--excessive turnovers
--excessive fouls
--taking the foot off the gas late in games (especially on back to backs) due to physical depletion.
--lack of opportunities for high % shots vs set defences
We have good individual shooters but the offence collectively doesn't create good looks for anyone, and every shot (unless it's in transition) looks highly contested. There's no pick and roll, it's all dribble hand-offs. They need some more structure on that end, which I think will come with time as the season goes on hopefully.
On the other hand you saw Luka call for a screen to get FVV on him above the break and then surgically pick apart our defense with the hockey pass over Fred to Dwight Powell in the lane who immediately passed to the wiiiide open shooter for the corner 3…. over and over. That was a great adjustment by the Mavs in the 2nd half to counter our aggressive D and we never figured out how to stop it.
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So the reverse of what happened against the Mavs happened last night. Refs got too whistle happy. Our defense is going to be foul prone. It was a lot like that last year, but when guys like OG and Scottie get in foul trouble early it becomes back breaking.
We started off really hot. 16-2 run to start the game, but then the Mavs chipped away and then just looked like the better team. Didn't help that THJR just caught fire. We played pretty good defense on Luka until late (and again the fouls racking up didn't help). Hated when Fred switched on to him. Best way to defend Luka is with a taller defender. It's why Atlanta had so much success against them last game.
Wish we got something from the bench, especially on a second game of the B2B. Boucher and Dragic were both really bad. It was nice seeing Dragic lead the team in a timeout, but whatever he said didn't resonate I guess.
Mavs did a great job of boxing out as well. They grabbed boards that we got in the Boston game, simply because they made sure they would.
Would have been nice to have Pascal for this one. Could have used the extra fouls.
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golden wrote: View Post
All contested or highly contested.
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