He looks good when he's actually looking to score. He just unfortunately isn't doing that much in these first two games. He basically brings the ball up the court, makes his first pass, and rarely sees the ball again. I'd love for him to be more aggressive but a lot of players are deferring to Durant and Melo.
I've been underwhelmed with how we've looked offensively. A lot of one-on-one, dribble drive ball-hogging crap, which is leading to careless turnovers. Hopefully our team plays with a bit more focus tomorrow against Australia. They will need to.
The Delly VS. Irving matchup is upon us!
Irving has received so few passes, it's ridiculous.. So many ball hogs... And I understand Irving is wanting to defer to team ball because of Coach K, but c'mon...
Yep... The team has been abysmal to watch... yet they win by 40+ anyways. Klay Thompson in particular has done his best Larry Hughes impersonation, complete with 1 on 4 pull up jumpers whenever he gets the chance. I honestly think a semi-close game where the opposition is within single digits in the 4th would do this team a ton of good.
The fucked up thing is, watching this as a Cavs fan (or just an NBA fan), it's fairly obvious that certain players are shutting Irving out on purpose -- this has been going on since the exhibition games.
I guess Coach K and Thibs thought that American pride would supersede their competitiveness; but some folks are just sore losers -- or in Durant's case, followers rather than leaders.
I think it was a poor idea to put so many Warriors on one team; particularly Draymond Green.
For what it's worth.. Delly looked awful defensively. He was getting torched at times and couldn't get through screens. I'm thinking the FO concluded Delly peaked defensively vs. Golden State and what we saw last season was him returning to earth.
He's still the undisputed floater king though.
Not quite.Fwiw I think kyrie took the most shots on the team last night at seven
The wings get the ball and just hog it.
Probably the difference between having a older/veteran PG like CP3 and a young/rising PG like Kyrie. CP3 would probably say something to the guys about how they're playing and the players would listen. Kyrie probably isn't going to say anything to these older, more established players as long as the team continues rolling. And even if he did say something, would they listen?It's crazy isn't it? Like, I've never seen Team USA play like this before. Quite often they would pass too much.
I hit disagree because the Serbian point guard looked good on offense in the first half, but it was all Serb big men scoring in the paint in the second half, when theu did score. Delly realized the Serbian guards had some offense, but didn't even try on defense in the second half. The Aussie defense figured them out, it just took a little while. He and Patty took advantage, blowing it open.