Plenty of weaknesses:
Off-the-ball action skills/cutters/passers
Defense
Shooting
Also suspect depth/bench. Not necessarily bad but lots of uncertainty. Rookies (Edwards, Langford, Williams, Poirier) + Yabusele + Ojeleye + Robert Williams + Wannamaker = more than half the roster composed of players who've never had the experience of being NBA rotational players. Plus Theis.
Hard to say which is the biggest weakness. They're all correlated: lack of movemennt -> worse shots -> bad shooting -> bad defense (less settled) -> more stagnant offense (opp defense more settled) -> bad shooting, etc
Some of the players in this team have had very good career years in terms of shooting, but what if they have years more or less similar to the last one?
Tatum - .373
Smart - .364
Kemba - .356
Brown - .344
Hayward -.333
Yikes.
Any of the rookies making a (positive) difference shooting wise strikes me as wild wishful thinking. None of them was even that great in college.
Some fair points but probably too pessimistic on shooting.
Edwards was a very good shooter in college. Career .368 on 7.1 3-pt attempts per game. He dipped to .355 his senior year, but he was carrying his team’s offense, launching more than 10 a game. With slightly improved selection he should be a good three point shooter off the bench. Also, shot .837 from the line, usually a good predictor of pro 3-pt shooting.
Jaylen’s last-year 3-pt % suffered due a thumb injury. In the second half he was back around 40%, just like in his first year. He seems likely to be high 30s at least.
Hayward is more of a question mark. He may be busted as a 3-point shooter. But the end of the year gave some reason for hope. His last 26 games (all games in Feb-April) he shot 39%. Way too small to be a guarantee, but close to what he was doing before the injury and a reasonable possibility.
