The one good takeaway from last night was how well Siakam and Poeltl played. DeRozan just kept forcing a bunch of shyt and Lowry starting off the season like trash : scust:
Lowry looks lost when he’s not given free reign to iso all the time (even though he’s back to being skinny).
Derozan is who he is and plays well until crunch time like always. However, he and the rest of the team can’t forget what has made them better this year and that is ball movement early in the shot clock. Even in crunch time you gotta keep your philosophy. We don’t have anyone good enough to win by playing hero ball.
Poetl played his best game as a pro last night. The only thing he did wrong was blow that open layup at the end, but this was th first game I’ve seen him play with confidence. His activity on defence was great.
Siakim I felt deserved more minutes last year. It’s good to see that he worked on his jumper (even if it is ugly—but it goes in). Siakim has crazy amounts of energy and is long and athletic. Plus he can make open jumpers now. We need to make space for him in the rotation. Other teams HATE playing against guys like him.