re: Game 2 Series Stats and Observations

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Both CJ and BI rely too much on that ISO type game which creates a stagnant offense. You see it so many times, one of them gets the ball and you have 4 guys standing completely still.

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This is why CJ as the #2 doesn't work. B/c you have to do this as the #2 at times throughout a game. It's inevitable b/c plays get messed up and you have to give it to someone and ask them to create something late in the shot clock. It happens a dozen or so times a game.
CJ as the #3 means that the best perimeter defender isnt' guarding him, and it also means if the other team is going small then their biggest wing defender is now on Zion, and their next best guy is on BI (or whatever #2 we bring in). And in these scenarios CJ is much more successful going iso.


But nothing pisses me off more than when CJ comes down the court and makes zero passes and chucks up a shot, especially when JV is in the game and we should be playing through him. Now you want to do that when you're 4-5 from 3 in the game, fine. But that isn't close to happening these last two games.
Same as when BI walks it up the court, then dribbles slowly at half court for 8 more seconds, and now it's under 10 on the shot clock and we've literally done nothing on offense yet.