No, it's not the lineup of the future. Dyson is a shooter now? Better than BI, Herb, and Hawk? It's the only plus lineup because Denver just played really well most of the night. It happens.

And this narrative is overblown now. We have good shooters now--almost all the time Zion is out there this season, he's with plenty of people who can knock down the 3

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Posted by ThePistol

Lafayette, LA

Member since Mar 2007

1529 posts

Posted on 1/13/24 at 8:17 am to kneenola

You do realize we aren’t talking about guys who have shot well for the last 10 games? We are are talking about guys who the defense has to respect as shooters. Herb is not a shooter because he creates no spacing. Naji, Jose, Dyson, JV, BI are all non shooters as far as a defense is concerned. Saying Zion should play with two or more shooters at a time isn’t an opinion. It is a fact. Look at the numbers over the last two seasons. It not only maximizes our shooters but it unlocks our BEST player. The fact that Zion and Trey sub in for each other and don’t play together more is inexcusable.

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Posted by shel311

McKinney, Texas

Member since Aug 2004

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Posted on 1/13/24 at 8:42 am to kneenola

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No, it's not the lineup of the future

So you think Zion plus non shooters is the way to go?

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We have good shooters now--almost all the time Zion is out there this season

This is objectively not true. We we not maximizing shooters around Zion nearly enough.

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Posted by TigerinATL

Member since Feb 2005

61581 posts

Posted on 1/15/24 at 9:26 am to kneenola

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No, it's not the lineup of the future. Dyson is a shooter now? Better than BI, Herb, and Hawk? It's the only plus lineup because Denver just played really well most of the night. It happens.

I wasn't even remotely suggesting Dyson was a shooter, I feel like you didn't even fully read my post. I suspect it's because BI wasn't listed which caused a knee jerk reaction. Dumping BI isn't really the angle I was going for. In fact, BI would benefit from similar 2 shooter lineups that I listed with Zion in them. BI has been saddled more than once with no shooters in some bench lineups and been asked to figure it out, and surprisingly he often did.

I made a post the other day talking about how our starting lineup doesn't work well because BI is the PG, meaning he's not acting as a spacer, meaning he is surrounded by 1 spacer and 3 non spacers. Here's a new article from Shamit driving home the point of how bad our 1 shooter lineups are.