I do not understand why so many people think Allen makes the spacing worse. Cousins isn't on the court in this shot, but it is post trade from a game at Utah in late March.

Dante shot 39.2% from 3 and look how much space they're giving him. Even if Hill improves this year they would still lay off him and pack the paint like they did with Dante. If you were scheming a defense would you be more concerned with any of the Pels wings shooting an open 3 or AD/DC getting the ball against a single defender? The only way there wouldn't be 4 guys in the paint is if they added shooters who had earned reputations like Korver and Ryno.

On this play Hill actually gets a pass from AD and bricks a 3. If you have Allen there instead of Hill I'd have him cut to the paint to move defenders while Dante side steps up court a bit and have AD pass it to Dante for an open 3.

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Posted by cgrand

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Posted on 9/12/17 at 4:26 pm to TigerinATL

except Dante is already open...

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Posted by eyeran

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Posted on 9/12/17 at 4:33 pm to TigerinATL

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If you were scheming a defense would you be more concerned with any of the Pels wings shooting an open 3 or AD/DC getting the ball against a single defender? The only way there wouldn't be 4 guys in the paint is if they added shooters who had earned reputations like Korver and Ryno.

Its baffling to me that this is the argument you've been going with.

Yes, teams will absolutely shift all of their focus to AD/DC. Which is why putting shooters out there is the most obvious move in the world. They don't need to be Korver-level, pulling guys from AD/DC. Whole point is to take advantage of the wide open looks they're gonna get. There's a wide swath of competent shooters between Kyle Korver and Tony Allen.

Our offense sucked last year. The idea that Tony Allen doesn't make it worse, but maintains the status quo, is of no comfort.

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Posted by TigerinATL

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Posted on 9/13/17 at 11:52 am to TigerinATL

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Prada had a good line--- something like "there a lot of ifs for this team. i hope it all works, but it just hasnt recently for them."

I understand that skepticism and it's logical, but I think there is one big difference this year. We have a clear cut #2 now. We are no longer hoping Jrue/Tyreke/Gordon would take a leap and become a significantly better player. Cousins is as talented as we need him to be, hopefully he'll be as good as we need him to be. Cousins giving his best in a contract year in a situation he seems to like and has bought into is a much safer bet than Holiday going from a top 60-100 player to a top 25 player.

This post was edited on 9/13/17 at 12:12 pm

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