TAKE DAT WIT YOU 10/22

[KillerLeft]

The offense that everyone is lamenting over was a soft offense. It was never going to translate well as the team moved deeper into the playoffs. 

Strong disagree. 

Two years ago, that offense was at its best (historically) during the regular season and then the young team wasn't capable of producing in the clutch against the good teams when it mattered (over generalization, but fair, imo). 

Last year, once things got going after the covid debacle, I felt like they made progress in that area. 

I came away from last season thinking they needed another creator (or two) and some more shooting (Bullock and Brown were good choices, imo), not that they needed to rethink the entire offensive approach. Further, we have seen 5 1/2 awful quarters of offensive basketball and 2 1/2 decent ones, so far, and it sure seemed to me that they came out of the halftime locker room in Toronto playing something much more similar to the system you're saying is a dead end. To relieving success, I might add. 

Improved spacing is not "soft." It's smart. The point of the offense wasn't for Luka to do everything, it was for the guy through whom the offense was running to have space to operate. Luka was just the only one who do could get things done to a winning effect (although that same "soft" system sure had Brunson looking like a world beater at times, too). If you want to give KP post and extended free throw line touches, fine. I wouldn't go that way, but fine. Just for the love of God, get everyone out of his way so he has a chance, yeah?