For some reason I thought they must have passed it more in game 1 vs 2. It seems like they were playing more team ball. Then I went back and looked at the advanced stats since I was at the game and I guess I was a little biased. They made the same number of passes in game 1 as in game 2: 226 vs 228. The number of potential assists was the same 35. So what changed. Obviously "The Others" made their shots which obviously makes everyone look better. The second thing I noticed was the time/touch went down 17% for harden and went up for CP3, EG, Ariza, PJ Tucker by about 13% The second thing was number of dribbles went down for Harden and up for everyone else by about 10%. Obviously James was less efficient, but everyone else was more efficient. Even though our most efficient scorer is harden, maybe the other need the ball more to make them better or maybe its just a one game outlier.
It was all a change in aggression from the role players and a bit more pace , giving them more time on the clock to do so . Game 1 we found Trevor and pj and Eric in the same spots ..... but they didn't attack the rim strongly or shoot without hesitation. Game 2 , they had more confidence and we had a better defensive effort and more pace to offense
