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Originally Posted by bballchik
Just to add a little balance to the board which will immediately be disregarded and scoffed at anyways consider this......Dixon is shooting a lot because he has to, no one else on our team was making any shots, we need this little thing called points to win, it's called offense.
Yes Blake has not performed the same lately as he did previously but guess why? They changed his freakin position to one he's never played before in his life, perhaps he wasn't used to it? Interesting concept. Also he was playing with another guard that never passed him the ball unless the shot clock was down to 2 so Blake was the one chucking up the shot and getting blamed for a bad percentage.
While Zbo and Juan can tend to slow down the ball movement at times, they are no worse than the young guys.
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I am going to disagree with you. Dixon shoots way too much. He misses opportunities to pass to open players a lot of the time, as does Zach. Both of those guys fail to pass out of double and sometimes even triple teams a lot. Thats the type of reason the team has such a horrible record and problems scoring. The offense bogs down with 1 on 1 play and they don't pass the ball.
Blake is only effective when he actually scores. He doesn't rack up enough assist to be considered an assist guy either. What he does do is tend not to make a lot of mistakes. In the NBA, that means you are a 2nd or 3rd string backup PG at best. The reason he is not successful as a SG is because midget ball doesn't work. When overmatched against larger shooting guards and you don't have much speed, you will never get your shot off without pressure being on you and you can't stop them from scoring. This is the NBA, and most shooting guards in the NBA are faster and bigger then Blake. Last but not least, Blake actually did start struggling well before he was moved to SG for part time duty. His streak of mostly 5 point and under games started almost 1/3 of the season ago.