06-23-2023, 04:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-23-2023, 04:34 PM by KillerLeft.)
(06-23-2023, 04:18 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: I think if this is true we would have seen a lot less of McKinley Wright last year. I always saw that as "Hardy is a scorer and we don't trust him to run the offense". I would like for them to view him as a ball handler because I think second unit minutes of Hardy/Green backcourt is fun but that is not how I interpreted rotations last year.
Hard disagree (with you, at least, and them, I guess, if you're right about how they view him). I think there's a huge difference between "on-ball scorer" and "someone we can trust to run the offense." I think what pops with Hardy is his uncommonly high number of on-ball counters to defense and ability to get a variety of shots off after creative dribble moves. Sure, he could be an off-ball shooter, too, but that part doesn't excite me nearly as much.
Further, what they allow him to do as a rookie and how they envision carving a role out for him within the structure of the team in the immediate to long term future could be drastically different things.