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What Resolves First?

  • Collin Sexton's Restricted Free Agency

    Votes: 19 38.8%

  • Baker Mayfield's Tenure with the Browns

    Votes: 30 61.2%
  • Total voters
    49
  • Poll closed .
RuanuLaw said:
Very encouraged that 4/5 of his FG came from the long range. I'm sure that I was not the only one who worried that Collin would end up a one-trick-pony who relied heavily on his speed to score most of his points by driving to the basket most of the time.
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He was bothered by the Celtics switching D and couldn't get to the hoop that easily. Looks like they tragetted him to me. Nice that he could be effective anyway. That is a sign of a good player. Gets frustrated but still contributes. Got some rebounds over bigger guys too. Love his grit.

He moves really well off the ball as well. I think if he can get more familiar with the offense he can really thrive. If they keep calling fouls like this, he is going to be living at the line.
 
It's worth mentioning that another past-Cav (Andre Miller), who was already starting quality as a rookie, had to wait half a season before supplanting his predecessor (Brevin Knight) as the de-facto point guard. If Sexton is good enough, he'll do the same, especially with a larger sample size.

I'm not sure how good he is at the moment, but I noticed in the last few minutes of last night's game that the Celtics were trying to force the ball out of Sexton's hands by blitzing him with another defender. The opposite of when the ball was in Isiah Taylor's hands (in which they dared him to beat them one-on-one; it worked the Cavs way in the last minute, but for only one possession).
 
The team/coach is telling Sexton to switch every screen/pnr automatically. What are your thoughts on that?

He is strong and he can box out pretty well for rebounds against bigger guys as well as deny post position pretty effectively because he is tenacious(although, it's much harder with the new set of rules). But still, I wouldn't want him to switch every screen as his ability to go over screens is probably his best trait as a defender. So now that the league is trying to enforce moving screens, we should try to switch less, and use our best PnR defenders(George Hill included) in a simple drop coverage with the BH defender going over/under..especially if he will share time with Zizic in the future.

I don't understand the need to switch automatically. Especially now..if the trend continues.
 
Sir'Dom Pointer said:
The team/coach is telling Sexton to switch every screen/pnr automatically. What are your thoughts on that?
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I don't like it, independent of Sexton. You let the opponent have full control over match-ups. And it is kind of soft defense. The opponent does not feel any threat, no room for mistakes. I am for making them work hard for every single thing.
 
rabman_gold said:
It's worth mentioning that another past-Cav (Andre Miller), who was already starting quality as a rookie, had to wait half a season before supplanting his predecessor (Brevin Knight) as the de-facto point guard. If Sexton is good enough, he'll do the same, especially with a larger sample size.
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Also worth noting that Miller was a four year college player and it was a different time and era of basketball. Sexton will eventually earn his starting gig, but a coach can use a start as a "carrot on a stick" for him to keep focusing on specific weaknesses early in the season.
 
Good for Sexton. Get that money.
 
Futuredome said:
He looks over matched right now. Probably not a NBA starter.
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Let the kid make it to his second pre-season game sans Marcus Smart before we determine that. Sexton going 5-11 (2-3 3pt, 3-3 ft) is pretty good considering he was nervous with some Earl Clark specialty turnovers near the corner 3pt line and missed two bunnies.
 
Collin's debut was fine, and the shooting was actually encouraging even if it still looks funky. At least it's not lonzo ball funky.

That said, I wish he was more of a true point guard, though the game seems to be moving away from that. And, thinking about it, there have only ever been so few TRUE point guards to come through the league. Even the ones that have the true point guard skills (Steph, Trae) don't necessarily play a true point guard game.

He seems like he can pick up enough of that aspect. The lob to Nance off the PnR was a nice start.
 
He looked better than I expected. He's hitting some jumpers and his passing was much better in this game even though he still only had one assist.
 
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