Personally, I’m not sure we’ve seen enough of this team with a fully healthy roster to draw any conclusions that would warrant any trade besides a no-brainer.
hypespud
It’s not hard to anticipate a quiet trade deadline for Raptors, again as in most years.
The players that possibly need to go are not valued in other franchises I don’t think, such as FVV, he is solid but not the caliber of a leading player we need to pay him eventually, and his shooting inconsistency on a team that depends on kick outs and the 3 ball is not a good fit, and other teams know of the deficiencies if they will try to shop him.
Scase15
> “It’s about each individual just looking in the mirror, seeing how they can be better,” VanVleet said. “We got some pretty good individual performances, but we’ve got to find a way to put it together as a team.”
I appreciate Fred trying to internalize the issue but, this ultimately comes down to two places. The FO and the coaching staff.
The team that Masai and Bobby have built is deliberate. They specifically went after players who aren’t good shooters but fit a physical mould. These players should _thrive_ on defense and be meh to bad on offense.
The teams def/off ratings show this.
Then we look at problem number 2. The coaching. Nurse spends a LOT of time on defensive schemes and being some sort of savant, yet as the article points out, we have only led after the first quarter _eight times this season_. And we’ve now allowed 40+ points in the first quarter in 2 games back to back.
Why does that happen? Cause the defensive schemes run by Nurse rely on doubling star players and leaving open shooters at the 3pt line. How does that result?
* The Nets shooting 6/7 from 3, which then opens up the rest of the floor. * The Pels shoot 4/6 from 3, and 2nd year players like Herb Jones cook us despite him being a 44% shooter and 28% 3pt shooter.
And all this only touches on the defensive half. For offense we have inefficient players like Fred and Gary having the green light to shoot whenever and however they want, Scottie allowed to bring the ball down the court and shoot a pull up 3 with 16 secs on the shot clock. Part of this is definitely on the players but, a massive part of this is that our offense has no real system.
Someone mentioned it perfectly in a thread last night, we run a bastardized version of the Princeton offense and just do like 30 ball handoffs just to dribble it out another 5-10 seconds and jack up a contested shot. The _only_ player on this team who has earned the right to have a green light is Siakam, the rest of the team needs structure and that’s entirely on Nurse.
I am never not one to dump on a player having a real shit stretch as they share a decent chunk of the burden but, our inconsistent defense and non existent offense is not on them. And Nurse/Masai do not get enough of the flak for the mediocrity that we see on the court.
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Interesting article.
Personally, I’m not sure we’ve seen enough of this team with a fully healthy roster to draw any conclusions that would warrant any trade besides a no-brainer.
It’s not hard to anticipate a quiet trade deadline for Raptors, again as in most years.
The players that possibly need to go are not valued in other franchises I don’t think, such as FVV, he is solid but not the caliber of a leading player we need to pay him eventually, and his shooting inconsistency on a team that depends on kick outs and the 3 ball is not a good fit, and other teams know of the deficiencies if they will try to shop him.
> “It’s about each individual just looking in the mirror, seeing how they can be better,” VanVleet said. “We got some pretty good individual performances, but we’ve got to find a way to put it together as a team.”
I appreciate Fred trying to internalize the issue but, this ultimately comes down to two places. The FO and the coaching staff.
The team that Masai and Bobby have built is deliberate. They specifically went after players who aren’t good shooters but fit a physical mould. These players should _thrive_ on defense and be meh to bad on offense.
The teams def/off ratings show this.
Then we look at problem number 2. The coaching. Nurse spends a LOT of time on defensive schemes and being some sort of savant, yet as the article points out, we have only led after the first quarter _eight times this season_. And we’ve now allowed 40+ points in the first quarter in 2 games back to back.
Why does that happen? Cause the defensive schemes run by Nurse rely on doubling star players and leaving open shooters at the 3pt line. How does that result?
* The Nets shooting 6/7 from 3, which then opens up the rest of the floor.
* The Pels shoot 4/6 from 3, and 2nd year players like Herb Jones cook us despite him being a 44% shooter and 28% 3pt shooter.
And all this only touches on the defensive half. For offense we have inefficient players like Fred and Gary having the green light to shoot whenever and however they want, Scottie allowed to bring the ball down the court and shoot a pull up 3 with 16 secs on the shot clock. Part of this is definitely on the players but, a massive part of this is that our offense has no real system.
Someone mentioned it perfectly in a thread last night, we run a bastardized version of the Princeton offense and just do like 30 ball handoffs just to dribble it out another 5-10 seconds and jack up a contested shot. The _only_ player on this team who has earned the right to have a green light is Siakam, the rest of the team needs structure and that’s entirely on Nurse.
I am never not one to dump on a player having a real shit stretch as they share a decent chunk of the burden but, our inconsistent defense and non existent offense is not on them. And Nurse/Masai do not get enough of the flak for the mediocrity that we see on the court.