01-17-2022, 01:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-17-2022, 02:02 PM by KillerLeft.)
(01-17-2022, 01:48 PM)Davemo Wrote: Interesting take on THJ. I guess I always thought of him as great 6th man option….but he is not a creator as you suggest which one of the usual characteristics of that role. He is a volume shooter and can score in bunches which is what I was looking at.
Yeah, he can fill it up, no question. But, only when playing off of someone else.
Carlisle used him like Duncan Robinson, and I think he was making a lot of good things happen with his gravity in that role. Kidd seems to want him to be Michael Finley (not a perfect comp but the best one I can think of off the top, sorry) and that doesn't seem to have gone so well, to this point.
I like the green light to attack closeouts off the dribble and pull up from mid-range for Luka and Brunson (and Burke, if we're even counting him). I have not really enjoyed that from Hardaway this year, and it seems to be something they're trying to implement more and more. In his, specific case, I personally miss the the old "pump fake and sidestep...find a way to make the shot a 3."