2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[ItsGoTime]

I'm not entirely sure I follow you here, so sorry if I misunderstand. It seems like you think the "your turn/my turn" is the product of too many players not able to floor the ball? 

No, I'm very much in synch with what you described later as to a large part of the reason for "you go, I go". Sorry if I gave the impression that this was "the" reason for it. I never fully feel it's any 1 thing.

To me, it's about Luka and Brunson both being a little green and not quiiiiiiite understanding that the ball needs to move faster, sometimes before they, personally, create an advantage. Sometimes, the timely, correct, simple pass is the right one, and I think those guys are both prone to getting stuck in the mindset of beating someone, drawing a second defender and making the "assist" pass, which is often a difficult skip pass. I think it's awesome that Luka CAN succeed in that way so often, but my suspicion is that as he ages, he'll learn to take it easier on himself by getting teammates involved earlier in possessions, and in simpler ways. 

I think this is the lion's share of the issue. It's the competitor as much as the maturity as well. Guys talking trash to them, so they say "take this". I agree with you that will be weeded out of them at least a bit with more maturity or in JB's case, more looks at NBA defense (I think Jalen has maturity for the most part).

On another side of it all. I think there's something to be said about the confidence in teammates to get/take a better shot. I think the addition of Wood, and seeing his ability to do roughly everything they do to their defender on the court, will help to alleviate some of that, if it is indeed a part of the whole. He looks like he'll take a very fast catch and shoot shot. He can attack the close out. He can also straight up take a guy off the dribble, I'm sure depending on the defender. This was what I was trying to say in the previous post, apparently poorly.

Play them between someone like Ntilikina (if only he could shoot) and DFS and boom - you can kind of see the Clippers if you squint hard enough.

I'm not so sure I see the Clippers, but I think this is exactly the kind of roster building that made our 2011 team so successful. Sandwiching good defenders between average ones. Kidd (good), JJB (average to bad), Marion (good), Dirk (average to bad), Chandler (good and great anchor).