Like I said, he is on the floor 100% of the time Harden is on the bench. Meaning he should have the ball in his hands all the time, which hasn't been the case. Why does it matter if he starts or not? He will always have some overlap with Harden, whether it's at the start of the game or in the middle of the quarters.
They're both smart acquisitions that didn't cost us much of anything. We just aren't using one of them properly. Is it McHale or Harden who is insisting on doing an AI/Kobe impersonation?
We need to bench this clown he isn't cutting it... I'm usually the last one to freak out over things that happen in regular season games but he hasn't been good at all.
Nobody is saying it. It's a straw man created by larv8. Lawson needs to be more involved as a play maker to make Harden's life easier, not more difficult for Harden. You cannot stagger two good guards too much because both of them should play around 35 mpg or else you are wasting their talent on the bench. So they are going to play more than 20 minutes a game together no matter how you stagger their minutes. You can't just ask Lawson to play the Beverley role during that 20+ minutes. Both of them can make each other more effective.
Either Lawson gets to control the floor or be a spot up shooter. It's nuts for the Rox to sit there and try to make him a spot up jump shooter...seriously? The guy doesn't look confident in this role so far
Fair enough. Guess I'm just wondering if the great abilities a player has with the ball in his hand can make an offense better when that player does not have the ball in his hands. Note - I'm not talking about making a good % of spot-up's. I mean should the threat of Lawson as a drive & dish player help Harden when he has the ball and vice versa.? Like one takes attention from the other? Or does it just not work that way? I'm not trying to make a point - I'm just asking the question to learn.
What's the protection on that pick again? Thank the lord Morey got that 2nd year nonguaranteed. Either he's gonna figure it out soon or the Rockets will be able to shop with free agency money he's gonna clear out when he's cut.
Harden is an very good player who play well with or without the ball. Give the ball to Ty and let him create or have Ty come off the bench.
That requires Lawson to have the ball, he's become a secondary ball handler with Harden. Hopefully they can learn to play better together, but I'm of the opinion that Harden/McHale need to better adapt. We have the ability to have 48 minutes of elite play making on the floor, there shouldn't be times when neither is on the floor. Bench Lawson, that doesn't mean he doesn't close out the game, and allow Harden to do Harden things and Bev to focus on D and hanging out on the 3 pt line. I understand Bev has been injured off and on, but Ty Lawson's talents aren't being used at all so far regardless.
The last part of the Clippers game is a good illustration. The opponent knew that our offense only had one option. The name of the play is called "Harden." So they doubled Harden before he even got the ball. Lawson should just take the ball and attack. Instead, he tried to force it to Harden. If he attacked, which is supposed to be his strong suit, the defense could never double on Harden again without paying. You know, the Warriors didn't say, "Hey, we got the best shooter in the world. Letting anybody else shoot the ball when he's on the floor is just stupid. Let's just put 4 non-shooters around him. All they need to do is play defense and get rebounds. On offense, just let the dude shoot the ball every single time because letting anybody else shoot is taking the shot away from him, which is just stupid." Anyway, this is all academic now. Lawson just plain sucks with the ball or without the ball in his hands.
It seems like we won't try to resign Lawson, so put him on the bench, we have nothing to lose but an awful play. Doesn't matter if he likes it or not
