If you look at our team, no one can create their own shot. When I mean shot, I mean a good shot, not a jacked up three pointer. The only one close to having the ability is Tmac. No one else can make their own shot. Let's take today's Chicago game as an example. Rose and Gordon just abused the PnR to get wide open jumpers or a drive to the lane. Us? We stand around for 12 seconds looking to get the ball into Yao, then we dribble for the other 10 seconds then jack up a shot.
Funny how this is such a difficult concept for some on this board. The NBA is not college basketball. You're toast if you can't beat a team off the dribble.
From what I've seen of Lowry, he's VERY skilled at creating penetration/driving lanes. I think he should get more opportunities to close games.
Uh...Ron Artest is one of the worst dribblers on the team. Many of his drives end up as turnovers. Personally, I think that Brooks has to work on his PnR. At the moment, his PnRs are just horrible, compared to other PGs'.
ron shot randomly at the end... fade away 3's with someone in his face. coulda faked and penatrated and drew the foul 3pt play
if no one is guarding him. we just need to have other plays when teams front yao. apparently we don't. scola is a guy i think of. but he only took 10 shots in 41 minutes (and made 7 of them) LUIS SCOLA, use that boy.
Von can, but turns the ball too much and many times he tries to go up against 2 big men instead of passing the ball out.
A lot of people unfortunately are in major denial about this problem. Defense alone isn't enough. Athletic big guards and forwards and guys like Shaq will always give us problems.
Lowry is a good neutralizer to have end of games. Cuz he'll go to the hole with the same aggressiveness as Derrick Rose and will at least pick up some foul shots. Foul shots ARE creating shots.
No one can create their own shot? That isn't the main problem. It's no one can create a shot for someone else. All it requires is for one rocket player to drive in, whether the defender is still on him or not, because no matter what it forces help defense and it can throw the defense off-guard. When you have players trying to force feed Yao, take jumpshots, do the same things over and over again, then you let the defense stay in position. The defense isn't interrupted, and no chance of running an offense. Artest kept us up because he made some horrible shots, and he took us away because he eventually missed those horrible shots. He didn't drive in at ALL, the bulls defense was left alone.
The thing is that we can't even get an OPEN shot. Not even a shot like Rafer's teardrop against the Lakers. Well at least he got a half decent shot off.
That's what Kenny and Charles said, every team that is gunning for a championship has that one guy who can get off that shot without hesitation with a hand in his face and drill it. We don't have that guy anymore with Mac out. There is trouble afoot...
"creating" contested jumpers and threes.. was Tracy's exact finisher mode of preference to close out games.. and if you watch the game people.. and I dare you to count them.. you'll notice that for every one Artest contested "jack up" there's 3(with the exception of tonight's 4th where they kept passing it back to Artest on the last two shots and he had no other choice) within-the-flow-of-the-offense open spot-up threes.. where the ball is rotated to him or kicked out.. his feet are set.. and he has to shoot it.. once again.. he's shooting 41% behind the arc.. talk about reaching.. let it go people..
We don't have anyone that can create shots for others nor do we have players that can create their own shots either.
Lowry can create his own shot I think,Brooks can't,but the team stay Brooks on the court,look at what he did on the 4thQ,turnovers,took the ball so long at every possession,couldn't defend his guy... RA selected Brooks not Lowry on the cluthtime was the reason we lost this game.
