Your starting 5 can't be terrible if it won 51 games and two playoff rounds
Wright/Shamet/Precious are place holders can't create offense. Marginal defenders
Mitch/Deuce. Can't create offense. Solid defenders
Playing people more minutes. Who can't score. Is detrimental to team success. Lol
Yall want poor creators and poor FT shooters to play all game. shyts bizarre
Bridges showed he can create offense when trusted with the ball, combine him with Wright's size serves a 3 way relief
1 gives Bridges a breather on having to defend the opposing ball handler,
2 keeps bridges engaged in the game not having him play 45 minutes of runnning around doing the same thing no wonder dude would pass up on lay ups he tired from running all around the court, i only played D1 and Fiba ball but I played on the perimeter and down low its exhausting running around for 35 minutes + in 40+ games, never mind 40+ minutes in
101 games breh Detroit went 7, boston went 6 this went 6 add 82 to that its 101 games.
all the great teams found ways to give their main guys breathers while on the floor either via coaches positioning on offense , keep the main guy off the ball as a decoy or to pass the ball around. ala Chesse eyes passing to kerr, Paxton shiet 91 bulls title Jordan led the Bulls in assist and he was the shooting guard.
he Changed his chucking ways via coaching bringing in Phil Jax and
switch to triangle from Doug Collins Let MJ chuck all game ball we have a similar problem now with Brunson Love the guy to death but he dribbling the air out the ball and looked not tired but a lil less sharp probably from overthinking and from being hunted all game on defense which brings me to my third point
3 playing wright more would give Brunson a chance to get better rest and see the game from the bench and have a chance to see mismatches. I got hurt during my freshman year in college my coach played in the NBA and he taught me a lot about the game by going around the country scouting while I rehabbed and played with some pro's the one advice they all gave was watch the tapes and learn your matchups tendencies that meant learn their offense and defense so I can better position myself on the floor on both sides and take breaks while still playing. know when to slow the game down when to up the tempo. when being screened whom to cut under or fight over.
I understand Brunson feels he can beat anyone 1 on 1 but the coaching needs to realize his size and defensive limitations , alright one coach is his pops so he probably encourages it more the other one hopped on that same bandwagon that being Thibs cause he knows that his Job rides on Brunson being happy. the main solution was the ball maybe 10-15 minutes less off Brunson's hands feed the Bigmen, OG and Bridges more. bench Hart no more than 15-20 mins a game. sounds easy from an outside perspective but Thibs being thibs and trying to keep his job playing the game within the game. he prob gon come out and shyt on Kat putting the ball Roses court. but one of the Villanova guys is not happy with Thibs
