This is more of a question than a surprise. Am I alone in thinking that this team is less likely to move the ball than they did last year? I feel as though I’ll see a couple of 4-5 pass plays per game now, whereas it was more common to see at least a dozen during most games last year.
I am so impressed with how JT & JB gave grown their games by facilitating others, but I feel like there’s so much deliberate dead dribbling while they run screens to get one of the J’s isolated on a weak defender rather than simply running the other team ragged with snappy ball movement. Do you agree? If so, do you think it’s intentional to avoid turnovers or just falling back on old bad tendencies?
Pritchard has very much levelled up as a scorer in a way I was not expecting, both as an even more fearless 3 point shooter than before and as an interior scorer. It makes me feel just a tad better about the future as the Celtics will have to eventually move on from Holiday for salary shedding purposes. And speaking of...
Holiday's slow starts aren't anything unusual for him so I'm willing to give him a pass for about a another month. But if we're still having this conversation mid-January I think it'll be fair to wonder if this is age finally catching up to him.
On a different note though, this is just a small thing that bothered me, but you used, "interesting" twice to start two sentences in a row in the Holiday section. As I said it's a small thing, but for the purposes of writing flow it'd be good to avoid that sort of thing in the future. Something about that just felt really jarring for whatever reason.
This is more of a question than a surprise. Am I alone in thinking that this team is less likely to move the ball than they did last year? I feel as though I’ll see a couple of 4-5 pass plays per game now, whereas it was more common to see at least a dozen during most games last year.
I am so impressed with how JT & JB gave grown their games by facilitating others, but I feel like there’s so much deliberate dead dribbling while they run screens to get one of the J’s isolated on a weak defender rather than simply running the other team ragged with snappy ball movement. Do you agree? If so, do you think it’s intentional to avoid turnovers or just falling back on old bad tendencies?
Pritchard has very much levelled up as a scorer in a way I was not expecting, both as an even more fearless 3 point shooter than before and as an interior scorer. It makes me feel just a tad better about the future as the Celtics will have to eventually move on from Holiday for salary shedding purposes. And speaking of...
Holiday's slow starts aren't anything unusual for him so I'm willing to give him a pass for about a another month. But if we're still having this conversation mid-January I think it'll be fair to wonder if this is age finally catching up to him.
On a different note though, this is just a small thing that bothered me, but you used, "interesting" twice to start two sentences in a row in the Holiday section. As I said it's a small thing, but for the purposes of writing flow it'd be good to avoid that sort of thing in the future. Something about that just felt really jarring for whatever reason.