I don't like Arizas offense either. Good thing he'll be like our 4th or 5th option with Josh Smith here.
LOL - obviously I am not a fan of inefficient offense, either in Ariza or Smith, but I do appreciate the defense that both bring. DD
Obviously Ariza's offense sucks, but I'd say he is worth roughly 8 mil a year in today's NBA. He provides a lot of qualities to this team, and I think he will get hot from the 3 pt line again at some point this season. Parsons is better, and we certainly miss him running the break and slashing, but Ariza isn't a bad consolation price for basically half the cost.
Ariza's offense, sadly, is an utter disaster... But his defense makes it all okay. Very valuable piece for us.
I'm still holding hope that with less minutes that Ariza has to play because of the addition of Brewer, that his shot will come back. His shot is absolutely BROKEN right now.
He's not getting good looks. If you go back to the first few games, he was getting wide open looks, nowadays, he's rushing his shots and taking more contested jumpers. Defenses are adjusting and we lack the firepower to make them pay because of our injuries. Ariza is the type of player who should not be taking 10+ shots a game. If he is, that's not his fault. It's the lack of offense around him. Josh Smith should help in this regards since he's quite a nifty passer.
Defense wins championships. It might not be pretty throughout the regular season, but it will pay off in the playoffs.
I wonder why Ariza hasn't been shooting this year like he was in Washington. What's so different about our offense and Washington's? If anything I'd think he is getting more open looks on.
Because John Wall was getting him easy looks and Bev can't pass for ****. I said the same thing over and over again. The only person that can get our players easy looks is Harden and he can only do so much and distributing shouldn't be his #1 priority anyways. The game would be so much easier if we had a distributor at the PG spot who can get easy buckets for wings in transition and make a simple god damn post entry pass to Dwight. The addition of Brewer and Smith (hopefully) means we can trade for a REAL Pg that's not as good as Bev on D but can do more of the traditional things at the 1 spot.
According to Bball-reference.com, Ariza is currently averaging the most minutes of his career at 38.3 minutes, compared to 35.4 minutes last season in Washington. That and I believe the Rockets' pace is faster than that of the Wizards, leading to more tired legs, which will considerably affect the player's jump shot. Bring his minutes down and I'd bet he will begin to find his shot again.
