Just unbelievable. How are you not prepared to play this game? EVERYONE knew exactly how this was going to play out given the losing streak and playing against us with a target on our back, especially at home, yet we still can't even come out prepared and do anything but jack threes?
This is why so many of us are still questioning Joe and his overall radical three point shooting scheme. Without the likes of a Curry, Thompson, etc., this type of scheme is just too risky with too much variance in the playoffs. Further, it doesn't seem like Joe differentiates between high and low quality threes at all, with us shooting a good proportion of low quality threes.
It’s not always the coach’s fault. At some point you need to look at the players. We all knew the effort would be lacking tonight by this team. This performance is NOT surprising in the least. When your stars don’t bring the energy and just go through the motions, it is evident.
Never said it was just the coach's fault. It's absolutely on both the coach and the players, particularly our best player in Tatum who is just settling for bad jumpshots and low energy all half.
But Joe's overall radical three point shooting scheme just exacerbates these issues with not being ready to play or sustain themselves through bad stretches. Ever since Stevens we've been a three point shooting team, but never to the extreme extent that Joe has us at right now. With our personnel it's just not a winning formula for the long haul, especially in the playoffs when things tighten up. We struggle every single time we're not hitting a high percentage of our three point shots that we shoot a ton of, and we simply don't have any backup plans when they don't fall. Joe's answer is just to keep shooting those shots, which leads to the non-sense we're seeing now where we shoot more than 50% of our shots from three despite only shooting at 16%.
Topic: Pistons (2-28) at Celtics (23-6) Game #30 12/28/23 (Read 40942 times)