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Originally Posted by Assani Fisher
I can't understand this team construction at all. Ben Simmons and Derrick Rose are two of the worst possible player types to play alongside Giannis imo- neither can shoot, both require having the ball in their hands to be effective, and neither are great at making the quick next pass. Moreover neither are good defenders. You basically took 2 much worse versions of Giannis....I guess you'll be able to run the exact same system when Giannis is on the bench, but otherwise its incredibly superfluous.
1. I don't get this line of argument for why Ben Simmons and Giannis are incapable of working together. For as much as we talk about Giannis being a point guard, basketball reference says that he played 0%PG/65%SF/31%PF last year. It isn't as if Giannis suddenly became incapable (or as you say, ineffective) playing without the ball. He only was given the point role for the same reason Ben Simmons / James Harden are. Their team had bad point guards and they were better. The same goes for Ben Simmons. (Can't defend DRose in the system. He was just a value off-the-bench pick)
2. You're saying Ben Simmons is not capable of making the quick next pass?
3. As for the shooting, yes, I agree spacing is the biggest problem. Hence why Korver, Ingles, & BroLo.
4. I admit that I don't have the imagination to really see this play out -- this idea of two point forwards (the whole point was to experiment) But for the problems it might create, I really can't see why having two (3+4 if you include BroLo and Ingles) big mother****ers who are triple-threats is considered superfluous. Like there's too much creation? It's better to have one point guard who can penetrate and surround him with 4 shooters?
Like I said earlier, the goal/fun was just in trying to create a positionless basketball team. Which meant getting jack-of-all-trades and jamming them together into a system. *shrug* I'll need a good innovative coach...
Giannis Antetokounmpo - Ben Simmons
Kyle Korver - Brook Lopez - Joe Ingles
(Derrick Rose) (Jaylen Brown)
Last edited by Wrane; 08-04-2017 at 07:12 PM.