Or how about we actually let the guys play some more games (so we have a half decent sample size) before running around making rotation changes.
Seriously guys...
We have only played three regular season games so far.
- We beat Philly by almost 20 points, despite the fact that we could not make a basket
- We got very convincingly beaten by Toronto (every team has bad games)
- We had a narrow and hard fought loss against a Spurs team that's seen as one of the top 3 or 4 favorites to win a title this year
Lets give the team a few games before we start making hasty decisions, yes?
you're saying not to overreact but in the same post admit there's a problem with the offense. it's not overreacting if you're trying to fix something before it's too late.
in the 1st 3 games the common denominator has been lack of offense. particularly with the starters. like I pointed out 3 of the starters are basically the same player - all defense with minimal offense. common sense would say there needs to be a change between the 3.
I said we struggled offensively, I didn't say we had a 'problem' on offense, or that anything needs to change.
Game 1 against the 76ers we were getting great looks all night long - looks that our guys almost always make. Bradley, Zeller and Lee were missing wide open midrange jumpers. Thomas was missing layups and wide open threes. We weren't missing those shots because of defensive pressure - we were getting wide open shots, and they just weren't going in. I put that down to early season rust.
Game 2 was more of the same. We got plenty of good looks, we just missed them. But that wasn't even out issue against the Raptors. The issue was that we put them at the line far too many times, and we were giving up too many second chance points on offensive boards - that was the case all night, regardless of who we had on the court (second unit, or starters). Sure our bench was a bit stronger offensively on the night, but even with the bench in there we were still giving them too many second chances and too many free throws.
Game 3 I only saw the final quarter so I can't comment on the rest of the game - but in the third quarter we were the better team, and if we played like that the whole game we'd have had a win. In fact we might have had a win if somebody didn't decide to put Sully in the game to match up against LaMarcus Alridge - a horrible decision that cost us something like 4-6 consecutive (and easy) easy baskets, and one which may have cost us the game.
In fact our top two scorers today were Smart and Bradley (both starters) and Zeller couldn't have had much to do with the loss since he only played 6 minutes.
I'm not saying our starters are an amazing offense group, i'm just saying that they are better offensive players then their production thus far suggests, and we should give them at least 5 or 6 games together before making any hasty / dramatic changes.
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