Only three games in, I know, but what I've seen so far is that this team looks good offensively when it gets out on the break, and looks awful in the half court, especially in crunch time when the opposition actually starts playing defense.
Certainly, the end of the Detroit game illustrated a real lack of competent ball handling, but their inability to do things like avoid turnovers and make a decent entry pass to the post in all three games has been glaring. At times they look like they're running a dysfunctional hybrid of a three man weave and the old Princeton offense, passing interminably and hoping that a back-door option opens up. If the C's were just able to consistently get the ball up the floor and run their sets, how much would that have helped them offensively in the past three games?
I think the combination of cutting down on TOs (which lead to easy points for the other guys) and actually making baskets more often because of competently run sets (which slows the start of the team going the other way, providing time to organize pressure and the defense) would be enough to make a noticeable difference, even if it only leads to a small measurable change. A swing of two more baskets a game prevented (from reducing turnovers) and two more baskets a game made (from running a non-dysfunctional offense) could cause an 8 point per game average swing. Still wouldn't make them an offensive juggernaut, but they would at least climb out of the "woeful" offensive category.
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