Yes, I watched the entire game. Green on offense has a typical motion that are offense begins with where he is down low, rubs off on screens to collect a pass from the point guard. He then turns around and makes a single dribble side-to-side move which often fails, after which he quickly passes it back to the point guard and curls around the perimeter into the corner where he stands. This is not an effective way to use a second overall pick. Teams that are rebuilding are going to be bad. They'll get blown out. But playing the long game means sacrificing short-term success for getting the young guys their needed reps. Right now, it feels like too often we're neither getting the short-term benefit that you would expect with playing as many vets long minutes as we do, nor are we giving Green the shot count he needs. A good comparison is Devin Booker. In his second season at 20 years old, he was attempting 18 field goals a game. Green is currently averaging 12.5. The Suns had to endure multiple losing seasons to get the guys they needed. Booker was an inefficient, high volume shooter until his fourth year in the league. For the first three, he was shooting 43% or worse consistently. We need to give Green that type of leeway. I'm not saying he should dribble the clock out, to be clear. I'm saying he should have the freedom to make mistakes and given chance after chance to make plays even when he's ineffective or having a bad shooting night.
An honorable loss, so close yet so far. We need rim protection, rebounding and spacing out of the draft. Chet has a lead over Jalen Smith imo.
hes dissapointing as rim attacker... he has all the tools to be going 100% at rim all the time yet he rarely does it and always have trouble beating his man...hes the reverse alpi - deceptively athletic...his athleticism is empty and fraudulent....
That will backfire because KPJ is unstable and you dont know how he will react to being told he's no longer pg and I dont think we have the coach or gm for that. He will stay our pg and we will continue to be the worst team at everything and we will squander next years pick. Its not about wins I dont think we'd be winning a lot with a better point guard what i think is Sengun and Green would be much farther along in development.
The fact that this needs to be said (its something ive been saying since the begining of the season) is just sad. It shows just how bad and directionless coaching is. It also shows how stupid it was to not trade Wood and for us to have invested so much in KPJ because we are actively ignoring our drafted guys for the sake of selfish ball hogs.
So nice to see the ball movement and people getting involved tn without Wood hogging it out there. I know Gordon took a lot of shots but more guys were involved and touching the ball.
You know you can bundle picks to trade up or down right? Having more draft capital is never a bad thing
KPJ has had many 9 assist and 6 turnover games just like Schroeder last night. The difference is in the pace in which they played and everyone was moving and cutting.......it was more the absence of Wood than anything Tbh. DD
You know, he only has seven games with 9 or more assists in 39 games played, so not sure I would count that as "many." Felt like a lot of Schroder's TO's were also bad lobs? Must have been three or so just bad lob tosses (KJ, Green, etc.). Stats aside, Schroder definitely orchestrated the offense better than KPJ. And I think Sengun, Tate, etc. benefited from that.
I said it in the beginning, he looks fast but he's not. He's also a left hander that finishes with the right, the same side the defense is on. He's a decent player but to give him the keys to the franchise is flat out stupid.
We are burying the lead when we talk about Schroeder... our frontcourt put up 40 and 25 last night with passable defense and played within the flow of the game that’s ... why we were in it . Dennis look ok . kpj been looking better as of late too . And Gordon put up a real stinker . the “problem” besides overall lack of talent and experience is Wood
