I don't see that you can compartmentalize skills like that. Lin has to improve his shot to be a better PnR player. Opponents will just cover Howard and dare Lin to shoot from the outside. As someone else on this forum has already pointed out.
Although I know the P&R is our bread and butter, I'd like to see us run more set plays. I really like some of the plays the Warriors have in the half court to get them open looks. This elevator doors play in particular is beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUS4vUh4M6I
I think Morey still sees upside in Lin. The offense we saw last year is gone. New lead player so offense will be initiated differently.
Response No, I am trying to see where Harden ranks in PNR according to Morey's internal analysis, whatever that is. Trying to see from Morey's point of view. However, the data you are citing is not what I am looking for because I believe Morey uses his own system; therefore, I am just trying to see what Morey said about where Harden ranks under his "internal analysis".
I would think whoever ran the PnR more between Harden and Lin would be the one that ranked better on Morey's internal analysis. I have a hard time seeing Morey not giving McHale this information. I have a hard time seeing McHale just ignoring this type of information. Not having Comcast limited my viewing, but it seemed in the games I watched that Harden had a lot more PnR opportunities than Lin.
I think Lin is better than James at passing in the PnR, while James excels in scoring the ball himself. PnRs from Lin and Harden will sort of serve different purposes. I think Lin + Dwight will help get Dwight going much like Lin got Tyson going in NY. James + Dwight will be more 50-50, maybe 70-30 skewed towards Harden taking more shots imo.
Meaning that no competent GM will ever admit that a player is on the block, because that lowers their trade value.
The Houston Rockets are in a good position. If they keep Asik & Lin they have strong role players for this season. If a trade is made, it will only be for something better than Asik & Lin who which means a "star" type player. Everything's looking up, I don't see what all the arguing is about?
Morey (and another earlier article) said LIN play pnr 9+ time per game, 330 times is only 4 times per game.
It's very possible Morey is correct on that. That 330 times only accounted for PnR ball handler scoring. It takes two to execute a PnR play. Synergy only provides half of PnR data. It very possible that there were 738+ PnR's plays were involved with Lin, only 330 of them ended up with Lin finishing the play. Maybe those data are only available to subscriber, which I am not.
