If all our overperforming players underperform and our underperforming players continue to underperform, then I agree our offense will be terrible.

Of course we’ve had some shooting luck in that time frame. So if we lower our 3p% to league average over that span, we fall all the way to 8th

and if you give us our 3pt% from last year we have the 16th ranked offense…

premature victory laps never made anyone look silly….

Miami was an elite team at forcing turnovers last year, #2 in the league. So I don’t know how much it was that they had a specific game plan to beat us. They were just very good at neutralizing one of our main strengths because forcing turnovers was one of THEIR main strengths.

Does it matter if it’s a game plan or a matchup issue?

Both are a problem unless you have the ability or versatility to adjust.

But fact is in today’s NBA there isn’t much value in defense first guys with very low usage because there’s just too much scoring. Guys like Frank and the theoretical good version of Cam are just not that playable for any extended minutes.

All else being equal I’d way rather have 5 guys that can score also.

But there are only so many shots. I’d rather have the ball in the hands of my best scorers most all the time and have 1-2 guys on the court that are elite in other ways. If those 1-2 guys can score better it won’t add much value because their usage will automatically be low given the ball is in the hands of the best players most of the time. However, if they are elite defenders, can make plays, move the ball, and at least hit an open shot, I think they’ll add more. But of course they have to hit open shots. Frank and Cam have yet to show they can do that.

The offense doesn’t suck anymore, I don’t know why that makes you mad.

Never said we had a bad offense. Said we had bad spacing.

We have a pretty good offense… largely because Jalen Brunson is a god… not because we have good spacing.

When iHart grabs an offensive rebound, for instance, that’s good offense, not good spacing.

Guys like Marcus Smart didn’t become as valuable as they are until they became decent 3pt shooters where they weren’t totally negative players on offense. There is no room in today’s NBA for guys like Frank unless you’re a tanking team and don’t care about winning games.

I’m sad that we won’t see Chet go against Mitch. That would have been fun.

Edit: I see Oklahoma has almost twice the blocks per game as the Knicks. Over/under on Chet blocking RJ? 2.5?