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ALonelyDad

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Van Gundy does not know how to generate good 3pt offense off of Ingram and Zion's gravity. Zion isn't a good enough reader of the game yet to even do it. He's better off just letting Zo be himself instead playing him as a pure SG. Zo and Zion should be the primary ball handlers for the first 3 qaurters. Ingram should probably play off the ball a bit more since he's the only one on the team decent at it until like the 4 th quarter. I have no idea what Bledsoe's role is.
Have you seen the shooters on this team? I would love to blame him but he isn't at fault for the bad shooting. Gentry was great with this roster because he ran the floor, that is not SVG's MO. If Griffin was going to bring in zero shooters, he should just kept Gentry. This roster and SVG's style combined is :huhldup:. Most Ingram's 3s last year were catch and shoot, I don't think he has shot more than 10 this year. Its sad
 
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Also, Zo currently starts because he's an all NBA defender. Outside of post defending Hart is barely passable. NAW can't defend a paper bag.

His defense ain't even 1/10 good enough to justify starting if all he can produce is 7 points in 25 minutes on 30% shooting (0% from 3!!! :mindblown:). Y'all gas him up like he's Jrue or Gary Payton on defense when he's never been close to sniffing one all-defensive team and he's a less efficient Acie Law on offense :dead:. You need to be prime DPOY Draymond or Ben Wallace transcendent defensively to TRY and justify that miserable of offensive production on that shytty kind of efficiency. And he still cheats off his man and blows his rotations 5-10x every game just like everyone else on the team; his 1 on 1 defense the only thing he's decent at. I'll take NAW or Kira actually driving, facilitating, and making some real shots and plays that actually manipulate a defense to think and move once in a while over whatever it is Lonzo contributes to a team right now.
 

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His defense ain't even 1/10 good enough to justify starting if all he can produce is 7 points in 25 minutes on 30% shooting (0% from 3!!! :mindblown:). Y'all gas him up like he's Jrue or Gary Payton on defense when he's never been close to sniffing one all-defensive team and he's a less efficient Acie Law on offense :dead:. You need to be prime DPOY Draymond or Ben Wallace transcendent defensively to TRY and justify that miserable of offensive production on that shytty kind of efficiency. And he still cheats off his man and blows his rotations 5-10x every game just like everyone else on the team; his 1 on 1 defense the only thing he's decent at. I'll take NAW or Kira actually driving, facilitating, and making some real shots and plays that actually manipulate a defense to think and move once in a while over whatever it is Lonzo contributes to a team right now.
I think Zo's offense would improve if he was playing more like himself.
 

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Have you seen the shooters on this team? I would love to blame him but he isn't at fault for the bad shooting. Gentry was great with this roster because he ran the floor, that is not SVG's MO. If Griffin was going to bring in zero shooters, he should just kept Gentry. This roster and SVG's style combined is :huhldup:. Most Ingram's 3s last year were catch and shoot, I don't think he has shot more than 10 this year. Its sad
JJ is washed but he shouldnt be shooting this badly. Actually, besides Ingram I believe the whole team is having down years behind the arc.
 

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Naw Van Gundy is “aFrAiD oF kLuTcH”
Plenty of Klutch guys come off the bench. That guy is just throwing shyt at the wall. Besides Zo's being their best perimeter defender they are starting him because they want it to work out (at their price) they see his potential and they traded for him. It's standard operating procedure.
 

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JJ is washed but he shouldnt be shooting this badly. Actually, besides Ingram I believe the whole team is having down years behind the arc.
Ingram's % is down as well and his attempts are too. Last year catch and shoot 3s were his butter, this year he is not getting those looks. Jrue masked a lot of the problems. It was honestly disrespectful to Jrue to say Bledsoe was a slightly worst version of him when they are not even close in reality.

You are right about JJ but he's also getting bad looks most of the time. SVG's coaching style does not fit the roster, you gotta give him shooters like he had in Orlando.
 

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AD is not a top 5 player in the league and never has been. Top 5 talent? Yes, but that's where it stops. I hate that the media ran with the narrative once they realized he was about to play with Bron.

I will say that screamin A and a few others like Amin have been consistent and have called AD top 3 well before he played with Bron. Even when he didn't deserve it.

I remember Curry literally lighting up the league and SAS said he wasn't ready to say he's better than AD. :russ:
 

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Pelicans have regressed. Alvin Gentry had the team playing better and Lonzo will be lucky to get the MLE. Dude stinks. Somehow he'll get at least 15M a season
Alexander walker already is better than him. Lonzo plays like he's depressed
 

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Kyrie in his second season with the Nets and hes in a place where he needs to fit in with Harden basically taking his role after only 2 games. Going to be interesting to see them mesh together.
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