That's a bit ridiculous. I agree with you on Turner. He has a low basketball IQ, makes bad decisions and turnovers.
And he currently has the best assist to turnover ratio on our team among rotation players not named Marcus Smart.
I'll never understand the unjustified hate towards Bradley around here.
Let me spell it out for you: Avery Bradley is a one-trick pony whose defense has long been not good enough to justify suffering through his offense (hint: when he's not taking one-step jumpers, he's actively hurting your team offensively).
He has no business taking 20 shots a game, and he's done that twice in the last 6 games (unsurprisingly, both of those were comfortable losses against teams with worse records than us).
Well, I would hope Turner does, considering he's been playing more point guard than anything else on this team all year. Before IT came, Turner was our primary ball handler. He's had more opportunity to get assists than anyone else. Doesn't change the fact that he makes bad passes into traffic all the time and chucks up inefficient, contested jumpers with 15 seconds on the shot clock whenever he sees fit while better looks from better shooters are left unrealized.
And You know what, your absolutely right. AB has no business taking 20 shots a game. The role he's playing on this team isn't the one that best suits his talents long term in the NBA, and is only being done out of pure necessity. He isn't going to be shooting 20 times a game when the roster we have now is all healthy, nevermind when we actually get good again. As someone else said, finding AB for a spot up 3 or that hand-off mid range look he gets are some of the better shots we're gonna be able to regularly generate with the players we have. And when your a top 3 option on offense, especially when your not meant to be, it effects defensive play. Bradley is still an above average defender and when he goes back to not being an offensive focal point he'll be even better.
Sure, He's being asked to play a role that really doesn't suit him. Yet, he's done fairly well considering that. What are these two games your talking about? You mean Sacto and LA? Because regardless of their slightly worse record, Sacramento is clearly a better team than us in the present, especially the IT-less team they played against a couple weeks ago. And not only was that game close until the last few minutes, but Bradley scored 28 points, had 6 assists and 4 steals while shooting over 50% and committed 0 turnovers. He was the reason we were in that game, not why we lost. And that LA game? Yeah they shoulda won it, but it went into overtime and we lost our best player. Hardly a "comfortable loss". AB in that game? Still managed 20 points, 5 boards, 3 steals and no turnovers. Not exactly destroying our offense.
Appreciate who he is as a player and not what he's not. He's not a guy who's gonna rack up dimes, blow past anyone with crazy handles or quickness and he's probably never gonna be a good finisher even if his recent improvement keeps up. But we're not debating if AB is going to be an all-star. We're debating how valuable the role he's fit to play is, how good his defense is at present, and what his future holds. Being a great 3 and D role player is exactly what Bradley is, and that's what he will become. Trying to say he sucks because he puts up too many shots or can't dribble and pass is you saying he should be doing those things in the first place, which he shouldn't be.