Random NBA Observations 2016 - 2017

Emoryal

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They have the ball in his hands because the alternative is Beverly, and he's PG on offense, defensively Beverly guards the PG. When D'Antoni had Nash and JJ, he allowed Johnson to play on the ball at times and create. There's nothing about Mike's system that requires the ball to be in 1 player's hands only.


As for how you spread it around, same way teams like the Cavs, Warriors, Bucks etc spread the ball around. It's not that difficult especially when I really don't see Simmons being a dominant scorer, the Lakers used to share the ball between Kobe, Pau, Odom and Bynum. With Bret Brown being from the Popovich line and having coached with the Spurs during Manu/Parker/Duncan's primes I'm sure they'd be able to figure out how to get two ball dominant players and a big to work together.

I like Fultz or Smith more for them than Ball, but Ball has some positives if he's paired with Monk in that he'd be running the offense from the 2.
Cavs and the Warriors are surrounded by shooters though. And Kyrie is one the most efficient iso players in the nba. There are circumstances around the cavs, warriors, and the bucks. Giannis is a far more dynamic scorer than Delly/Brogdon while Simmons can score but it is mostly in the post.
 

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Russell Westbrook, as much fun it is to watch him play, doesn't make his teammates better
 
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