Who are our clutch scorers?

[PhoSita]

The only guy on the roster who could realistically have a play drawn up for him specifically late in a game is Green.  Rondo will take some late game shots, but mainly just because the other team leaves him open from outside and the shot clock is winding down.

I don't expect this to be a very good team in crunch-time.

[syfy9]

I'm thinking the team won't be doing any one-on-one isolations in those last-possession situations.

Yeah, I agree.

I don't think that's necessarily a good thing, though. Why does everybody else rely on the one-on-one isolations (for the most part)? Because it is effective if you have a guy with the it factor.

For every beautifully ran play that works well, there's more that don't. Passes are harder because the defense is literally playing at 100% - I've yet to see a last play of the game be played passively by the defense.

Curling and running through screen does the trick too, like Ray often did, but who do we have to do this? Olynyk? He's slow and they could easily just put an athletic stretch 4 on him. Green isn't the best shooter and...my goodness. We don't have a single elite shooter on the team.

[bleedGREENdon]

The Klynyk

[Boris Badenov]

I see a lot of "teachable moments" happening in late game situations this year.

[LooseCannon]

I don't think that's necessarily a good thing, though. Why does everybody else rely on the one-on-one isolations (for the most part)? Because it is effective if you have a guy with the it factor.

Isolations seem to be the least efficient offensive play, so it's possible that everybody else relies on those one-on-one isolations for the most part because they are stupid and refuse to get in line with advanced metrics.

mysynergysports gives Steve Novak some surprisingly good defensive stats.  I read a blog post or comment (I forget where) where someone watched all his plays on defense and noted that it seemed to be because players would try to iso against Novak then take a bad shot.  For example, Lebron James would be isolated against Novak and end up taking an inefficient long two.