So we all know that last seasons team performed much better than the team this season. But lets look a little closer.
Offense was ranked 22nd in 2018 and 16th in 2019
Defense was ranked 3rd in 2018 and 9th in 2020
starters last season for 60 games was Irving/Brown/Tatum/Horford/Baynes
351 minutes 110.5 offensive 98.1 defensive, net 12.5 rating
Most used lineup this season was Irving/Smart/Tatum/Morris/Horford
505 minutes 113.2 offensive 107.3 defensive, net 6.1 rating
So Why the difference?Lets look
Many want to point to Kyrie, but as shown in many other posts and threads, his numbers improved indiviualy and he showed that he moved the ball more this past season. and he only played 7 fewer games this season than last season, so he is not to blame for the offensive or defensive slip this season overall as a team.
No BlameSmart played alot of starter minutes this year due to the bad start to the season for brown, but that bad start has been attributed to a change in role to accommodate Hayward
Tatum regressed a little this season, which most attribute to sophmore slump/ having role jerked around to accommodate Hayward.
Blame goes to HaywardHorford is not as good a defender at center as at Power Forward. As evidenced by a 105.5 defensive rating 2019 to a 100.8 defensive rating last season. why was he playing so many minutes at Center? Cause Morris needed to play...why did Morris need to play so many minutes? Cause Baynes was injured
Blame goes to Baynes and MorrisRozier, 103.3 offensive rating 2018 and a defensive rating 2018 of 100.8 for a net 2.6 rating
Rozier 103.9 offensive rating for 2019 and a 105.2 defensive rating for a new -1.2 rating
touch per minute
Kyrie 76.3/33mins = 2.31
Rozier 51.9/22.7mins = 2.29
Kyrie's points per touch is .310
Terry's is .173
Kyrie's assists per touch is .0898
Terry's is .0559
Terry was statistically worse this past season in pretty much every single advanced analytic as well as raw stats that the 2018 season.
Terry still feels like he sacrificed the most for it.
Blame STILL TERRYLastly Bonus blame
Terry playing 22.7 minutes per game
Bad timeouts
Bad lineups (playing Gordon when he shouldnt have been played at all?)
Never once taking a technical standing up for the team
Blame Stevens