What did I tell you guys....
2nd 3rd passing
Hayward playing amazing... so is the team
i love irving, but there is definitely more ball movement without him
Entirely opinion based take
While I disagree with triboy’s desire to trade Kyrie, there’s some basic evidence for his point about ball movement / less iso ball.
Kyrie has missed four games:
Tonight: team’s 1st highest assist total
Against MIN: team’s 3rd highest assist total
Against Utah: team’s 5th highest assist total
Against NOP: team’s 23rd highest assist total
It’s probably not a coincidence that 3 of our top 5 games in terms of assists came with Kyrie out. He plays more iso than most of our other guys.
That doesn’t mean we’re better without him, though.