lol, hell no Ryno is useless, let’s please stop acting like he can magically make an impact in this series after being garbage for so many weeks I will ride with Tucker all day over him
Ryno's useless if he doesn't shoot the ball. How many times has he passed up an open 3 in the playoffs??? He was taking these shots without a conscience last year and early this year. Make or miss, he needs to keep shooting.
Harden is unstoppable, you think putting Steph Curry on him the entire game is a good idea or not? I mean is Kerr just dumb or what, why does he have Iggy and KD checking Harden when Harden is unstoppable? Just put your lousiest defender on harden so you conserve your defense on others. Secondly MDA did give Anderson a chance, he was garbage in 5 mins if we extrapolate it this would be a blowout loss. Anderson is a career playoff choker do you know he shot 28% from 3 in the playoffs last year and is only a career 7 pt scorer in the playoffs? All your assumption hinges on Anderson scoring a lot of pts which is just not happening. He had only 2 good offensive games in the entire playoffs last year and one of those games he was -23. What evidence do you have if we start Anderson and give him major PT he is gonna score?
ZERO evidence. All Evidence point to Ryno being a waste of space, especially at home...but I'm going on a prayer because that's what we need when Harden, Clint, EG, CP3 all played well and we still lose by 13. Nevermind Curry wasn 't that good, only 18 points and Raymond was 1 for 5. We need a prayer, RYNO!!!
There is no evidence, but people keep holding out hope for this dude even tho he’s been garbage for how long now? “if Ryno gets hot”...man, the chances of that happening these days are slim...no way in hell u take Tucker out of the starting lineup for Ryno at this point, expect Ryno to be useless, and if he’s not, then that’s gravy...Ryno making a genuine impact on the game should be looked at like randomly finding a $20 bill on the street...it’s something that’s unexpected, but nice if it happens
Basically what you are saying is bet the entire season on whether Anderson is hot or not. If he is hot you might win the game, but if he is cold (majority of the time) you will always lose the game because he is bad defensively all the time. So on the nights (ie majority of the time) Anderson is a scrub you will lose the game no matter what Harden and Cp3 and Capela do because you have a double negative bricking all the shots and allowing KD and Iggy to score all over him. Let's take the chance to win out of our stars' hands and put it all on Ryno. Does that sound a good idea to you?
i'm not acting like anything. Anderson spreads the floor much more than Tucker does. That is huge against a defensive team because it opens things up.........even if he doesn't get the ball, defenders still have to cover him and that drags them away from their normal defensive position
Where is the evidence for this? If he opens people up he would have a positive plus minus because his team would score more, Anderson was -5 in 5 minutes Tucker was -8 in 34. If we gave Anderson Tucker's 34 mins he would be -25 at least. Opposing teams aren't dumb you think they don't scout Ryan Anderson? You don't think they see him being a scrub all season long? You think they don't know Anderson is a mental midget? If we put Anderson there he won't create space, Kerr will dare him to beat them by leaving him open and focusing on Harden. Thats what happened last year against the Spurs, they took away the paint and locked down Harden and our shooters (ie Anderson) couldn't hit their shots. At least now Tucker is decent defensively so we still have a puncher's chance to win if Harden or Cp3 goes off. Where is the evidence Anderson provides more space than Tucker other than your imagination?
I agree here, there's a reason why Kerr won't play McGee or ZaZa this series. It's because he's exploiting matchups with us. Mike needs to at least try 15 minutes of Ryno backing up Capela at center. If you watched the game, Draymond is clearly cheating away from his man to help at the rim every time we drive. Maybe we could even try some more inside out with JJ, so when the defense collapses, JJ can either win his one on one if it's a bad switch or kick it out to whoever is open. This ISO stuff is great and all, but the Warriors play relentless perimeter defense and are long, narrowing our passing lanes. I haven't seen the Rockets force up more bad shots or have so many shot clock violations all season.
Tucker also spaces the floor like Anderson and provides better D and rebounding. I'm suggesting that Ryno spell Capela, and not play PF at all. My second unit would be Paul, Gordon, Green, Luc, and Ryno.
Again the assumption here is Anderson can hit a shot which he isn't doing. By the time you realize Anderson is ice cold it would be a blowout by then already. When a dude is -5 in 5 mins and misses the only shot he took what makes you think ita a good idea to give him major mins?
Anderson isn't hitting shots because he's not on the floor in the first place. He never came back after his ankle injury. Remember our last regular season game at Minny, that second half!? Career he is over 40% from the corner 3, why can't he go 3-7 one game this series from 3, that would really shock you?! Not me, especially on the road. Also, what did Luc, Tucker do this past game on offense that really impressed you? I know your response will be, at least they played defense. But notice, I'm not messing with their rotation at all. Just Nene, he needs to sit this series out like McGee and ZaZa are doing. Those types of players are becoming obsolete, maybe save for Steven Adams...
Oh you mean his last regular season game? 2017 regular season 3 pt: 41% 2017 playoff 3 pt: 28% Career regular season 3 pt: 38% Career playoff 3 pt: 32% (misleading because he only has 3 attempts per game) Just because he had one good game in a regular season doesn't mean he will hit in the playoffs, why do you think he has career 3.6 attempts per game in the playoffs? Is it because his coaches hate white people or is it because Anderson sucks? Anderson is a 29 yr old vet if he was any good it would show in his stats. A spot up shooter who is a liability defensively and will only shoot 3.6 times the entire game you think that guy deserves to be on the court?
I wonder if Anderson is tanking it on purpose. Maybe he's upset he got yanked and disrespected in trade rumors for seasons on end. I doubt his confidence in his shooting ability is that gone. Dude would launch from 30 on the regular and now he's scared? Doesn't make sense.
Ryno is useless, you can't even play him as a 5 because he has no defensive awareness. On offense, he's afraid to shoot ever since he lost his confidence. I'm more concerned about how we're going to rid of his contract this off-season. I think it's almost guaranteed we'll have to trade him with EG. Hopefully to east because I'm sure they'll come back to torch us in the regular season.
not really, he can help the team by getting good looks, but if your team mates are not making the shots, the +/- won't be high. Anderson shoots them from 30 foot out, that opens space right up. He had a big impact on our win at golden State this season and last season. Anderson had 4 big games against the Spurs last playoffs by the way
Look at his home and away splits also, why bother playing him at home then ever? Mike wasn't about start him only on the road because of stats. He realized he brought he brought more to games than just his shooting, which is really the ultimate point here anyways. Now why after 50 games did he decide to never play him again, no clue, even Clutch who is very well connected, can't really answer that question as he wrote earlier. Now maybe Ryno hits my 3-7 from 3, and we lose by 8 points in game 2. Who knows. Maybe nothing will be good enough to pull this out now. But I must ask, at what point do you concede that it's time to, perhaps, try something different? After we're down 0-2? 0-3? What adjustments then would you make for Wednesday?
