05-14-2025, 01:14 PM
Regarding CP3...
I just keep coming back to one, simple thing: As long as this team is constructed the way it is, they NEED a pick and roll initiator. Like, it's mandatory. That is how the roster was designed to be played, and while AD/Flagg and others might point to the possibility of shifting slightly away from that, the pick and roll system they ran with Luka is really the only way a roster with Gafford, Lively or BOTH makes any sense. Further, if Gafford doesn't make sense on offense, what in the world are we even talking about with him? He FOR SURE doesn't make sense on defense!!!
All of that, and they literally have NO PICK AND ROLL INITIATOR. Seriously, Jaden Hardy might be the closest thing to that on the roster right now, unless you believe Exum is about to show up to camp with a plethora of two-dribble pull up counters coming off of screens to use as a means of solving various coverages. I do not hold out much hope for that. Kyrie, even when healthy, has never been a pick and roll guy, and never will. He's a 1-on-1 guy with the ball, and has become a pretty lethal off-ball movement guy, and those are the ways he has been used since coming here to Dallas. He hasn't even been a PG here, really.
I don't think CP3 would be my dream, ideal scenario, but it's a PLAUSIBLE scenario that I believe WOULD significantly help the team run offense competently coming out of camp and make them much more likely to be competitive, even if it's just for 15 minutes off the bench.
I just keep coming back to one, simple thing: As long as this team is constructed the way it is, they NEED a pick and roll initiator. Like, it's mandatory. That is how the roster was designed to be played, and while AD/Flagg and others might point to the possibility of shifting slightly away from that, the pick and roll system they ran with Luka is really the only way a roster with Gafford, Lively or BOTH makes any sense. Further, if Gafford doesn't make sense on offense, what in the world are we even talking about with him? He FOR SURE doesn't make sense on defense!!!
All of that, and they literally have NO PICK AND ROLL INITIATOR. Seriously, Jaden Hardy might be the closest thing to that on the roster right now, unless you believe Exum is about to show up to camp with a plethora of two-dribble pull up counters coming off of screens to use as a means of solving various coverages. I do not hold out much hope for that. Kyrie, even when healthy, has never been a pick and roll guy, and never will. He's a 1-on-1 guy with the ball, and has become a pretty lethal off-ball movement guy, and those are the ways he has been used since coming here to Dallas. He hasn't even been a PG here, really.
I don't think CP3 would be my dream, ideal scenario, but it's a PLAUSIBLE scenario that I believe WOULD significantly help the team run offense competently coming out of camp and make them much more likely to be competitive, even if it's just for 15 minutes off the bench.
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