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Originally Posted by RoddneyThaRippa
Shooting is fundamental to basketball. If you can't grasp that, I'm not going to continue to argue with you.
My concerns have to do with the playoffs, when teams have time to prepare for a seven game series - that's why Phoenix will never win a championship as currently constructed. When you have a paucity of shooters on the floor, you are somewhat nullifying other important things such as spacing and passing.
Face it: we aren't going to run up and down the court for 48 minutes and get easy layups and dunks in a seven game series. It is critical that we improve our half court set. Thus, it is critical that we add more shooters to this team. We don't need to be like Phoenix, but we need more than we have.
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All nice in theory, but you still haven't seen what the current team can actually do on the floor. The addition of AI to Melo is a huge impact on the half court set and automatically creates floor spacing. The half court sets failed last year because there was no one to take pressure off of Melo. AI has willed his team further in the playoffs with lesser teammates when teams have made him the focus of their defense.
The 9 man rotation for the playoffs looks like
Bigs: Camby / Nene / Eddie / Reggie
Wings: Melo / JR / Yak / AI / Blake
Eddie can make open shots (although he is in his annual slump right now), so the only guy that teams will collapse off of is Yak, but his 10 minutes a game would be with 2 of the 3 scorers (AI, Melo, JR) on the floor with him.
Of course every team would like to have a snipper that parks at the 3 point line or in the corner and waits for the kick out. However, there aren't that many of them that are able to contribute on defense and are available for what the Nuggets have to trade.
This team has improved a ton just by getting rid of Dre and the smurf