Gentry takes out the key players that led the comeback only to put in players to help the clippers extend their lead smh
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Gentry takes out the key players that led the comeback only to put in players to help the clippers extend their lead smh
I completely agree and would like to see him attack more. He has improved from 3 and I expect him to continue improving there along with other areas. IMO we don’t currently have the best players around him to get everything out of his skill set. Zion will be a huge help to what Lonzo is best at
…..and Gentry thinks Ball is ideally suited to run his offense? Even dreamt about it before the trade?
Gentry waited until 5 min in the 4th to put in Reddick huh
God, we need Favors to get healthy and say healthy.
[QUOTE=RobertM320;1512862]He's 1-7 tonight. He's had several nights like this. I don't mind 35-36%, but how about on 3-4 attempts per game, not 7-10. He's not good enough to be taking that many threes.[/QUOTE
Someone is telling him that it’s ok. That’s the problem.
We are trying to develop our players for the future not win an NBA championship this season. So yes I want Lonzo to continue shooting 3s. I think he can take a better selection of shots while mixing up his offense a little more. Only way for him to improve is on the floor
Ball has had a shakey game but it's against elite competition. Last night, he was solid. We were being absolutely murdered until he entered the game and righted the ship. Ball is the best leader we have for the offense. Kinda odd to ignore the steadying hand last night and only harp on his play against the best in the game.
One of Favors or Zion would have completely changed this game. We're just missing our interior sentinel.
BI, Zion, and CJ had a net rating of +3 when on the court together. BI and Zion had a +13.4, BI and CJ had a +13.2, Zion and CJ was just +5.4.
BI and Zion worked. BI and CJ worked. It was CJ and Zion and all three together that didn't work.
I think it’s the overall situation. He’s just not making smart decisions. He’s settling for shots that he just isn’t good enough to do consistently. He’s had more bad games than good ones. He was -27 tonight, which can’t be overlooked. That means he isn’t making up for the bad shooting by playing defense.
wake me up when zion returns..
Elfrid Payton or Lonzo Ball?
It was also a better game to start Okafor unless he was on a minutes restriction.
Harrel is too wild and strong for Hayes. Who only pulled down 3 rebounds in 29 minutes.
Hayes was considerably better on defense in general than Okafor though. It's easy enough to say that Harrell is too strong for Hayes, which is absolutely true, but it's equally true that he's better on basically everyone else, whereas Okafor doesn't have anything like the lateral quickness required to defend anyone smaller than about 6'8. And frankly, Okafor was getting shredded by Harrell too.
Just for some evidence to this point, Hayes was an overall net negative tonight but only a small one (-0.3 net rating) whereas Okafor was a stunning -59.9. Of course part of that is due to the lineups they were playing with, but not all of it. Okafor really isn't a good defender by any stretch of the imagination.
Basketball.
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