Scraptor wrote:
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Scola is/was actually a good passer out of the post and a high IQ player. His career AST% was almost 12% before he joined the Raps, but dropped to 6% under Casey, and now is right back up to 11.2%. So, this is an example of the Raps "role players" having to play different roles (stretch 4 for Scola), in order to complement Lowry and Derozan's strengths and weaknesses. Scola talked about this a few times in the media. Biz mentioned it, and Sully just talked about how he was getting advice from Carroll on how to "best fit in" with Kyle and DeMar. Apparently the plan is for Sully to also become a stretch 4, so that takes away one of his biggest strengths, which is offensive rebounding, but also gives him an opportunity to showcase a new skill. So, even if we bring in Arvydas Sabonis in his prime, we're not going to run cutters for him. Spurs have their system. We have ours and it doesn't involve big men passing.
The entire Raps offense is geared around optimizing Lowry & DD, with minimal passing, and the other players just have to accept that. IMO, this is the true skill of Dwane Casey. Getting all those "other guys" to sacrifice their careers to make Lowry & DD look good. As long as the Raps are winning and the role players feel like they are getting compensated fairly, then everybody's happy.
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