Okay. I'm not going to dig up old posts because I'm not a ****ing moron with no time. But lets not pretend the suggestions that Cousins and Rudy were like Shaq and Kobe don't exist, the entire asinine discussion surrounding IT didn't exist, complaints about McCallum when he went on his run at the end of the year didn't exist, and now these stupid criticisms of JT don't exist. It all stems from the same stupid thing.
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The argument was always that IT shouldn't be taking shots away from them by jacking up his own. Here we are talking about JT taking a couple of easy open shots, when he's ahead in transition (oh wait, remember that time our PG didn't pass him the ball?) and overall taking shots within the offense. Don't blame others just because you can't tell the difference between the two situations
I'm not sure that you're using "veracity" correctly. Pedantic as I am, even I knew what he was alluding to, even if he was being way too hyperbolic to be taken seriously. But rainmaker is still "right" in the sense that HighFlyingMonkey cannot produce the sort of post he is describing, because they don't exist. And trust me, I know a pedant when I see a pedant.
The "problem," if you want to call it that, is that HighFlyingMonkey is conflating two sentences that really shouldn't be conflated, as demonstrated by his hyperbolic "You will find many people around these parts who think its a travesty that Rudy and Cousins each don't take 50 FGA per game and anyone else who even dares to think about putting the ball in the hole is a selfish cancer." That sentence only makes sense if you believe that
and mean the same thing.
The "problem," if you want to call it that, is that HighFlyingMonkey is conflating two sentences that really shouldn't be conflated, as demonstrated by his hyperbolic "You will find many people around these parts who think its a travesty that Rudy and Cousins each don't take 50 FGA per game and anyone else who even dares to think about putting the ball in the hole is a selfish cancer." That sentence only makes sense if you believe that
and mean the same thing.
It may be a mistake to wade into these waters when there's sharks lurking about, but the issue I had with shot selection last season extended to all of the "big three". DeMarcus, Rudy, and IT were all volume shooters with a good chunk of those shots coming in isolation situations. It made the offense a stagnant mess and basically guaranteed we would be stopped down the stretch of close games because a stagnant and predictable offense is easy to stop. DeMarcus and Rudy have both talked about keeping the ball moving more this season. IT has talked about proving to the world that he's an elite scoring PG. These attitudes are not compatible. I don't think IT is a poor player, just not the right fit at PG for this current group.
That also means that simply distributing Isaiah's shots throughout the back court is not going to help much. It's hard to see how DeMarcus and Rudy could possibly take more shots per game than they did last season, anyway. If that's the goal we're sunk already. Everybody needs to buy into a team concept where the shots will go to whichever player has the best opportunity to score on that possession. A lot of the time that will be DeMarcus and Rudy as they are gifted scorers and they'll be options 1 and 2 in most offensive sets by design. But if this works the way it's supposed to we won't even be talking about shot distribution at the end of the season because no one is going to notice.
That also means that simply distributing Isaiah's shots throughout the back court is not going to help much. It's hard to see how DeMarcus and Rudy could possibly take more shots per game than they did last season, anyway. If that's the goal we're sunk already. Everybody needs to buy into a team concept where the shots will go to whichever player has the best opportunity to score on that possession. A lot of the time that will be DeMarcus and Rudy as they are gifted scorers and they'll be options 1 and 2 in most offensive sets by design. But if this works the way it's supposed to we won't even be talking about shot distribution at the end of the season because no one is going to notice.
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