06-07-2021, 12:59 PM
(06-07-2021, 12:47 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Ok, so yeah, I'm with your entire post. However, about the specific statement above:
1) Is an actual point guard going to want to play here without the ball in his hands at LEAST 40-60% of the time?
2) Is Luka ready/willing to give the ball up for anything close to those percentages? Does he even HAVE an off-ball game? I mean, I assume he is capable of playing off-ball or at least learning how, but we really, truly haven't seen much of that since he came here.
Ya, we basically have a Harden/Rockets dilemma on our hands...
You got to think that someone out there who just wants to win would be down to make that sacrifice like CP3 wanted to make when he requested moving to Houston. That seemed to not work out because Harden was a bit of a diva as opposed to the roles not being sufficient for them. Maybe Brogdon could be that guy but Pacers fans I've seen around the internet seem to think he's a bit of a ball hog and not willing to become a number 2 guard that he'd be better used as. If Lonzo is willing to go to Chicago then he seems willing to take the ball out of his hands but I could definitely see him replacing Rose in NYK instead just to make sure he has the ball more.
It really does suck because it's becoming apparent that we really need someone who can just go run the offense and create his own shot from time to time from the backcourt and our frontcourt should be built with protecting the rim in mind instead of offense (which I guess you can say is kind of what we did with KP but it just didn't work out) but your observation is very valid and it's hard to convince an NBA player to take a smaller role to help a team win because some 22 year old is way better than you. I think about this a lot when I think about all the Lavine dreams too, why would he give up that much offensive control...