Tristan Thompson

[mcfly]

I thought Varejao's set shot from the corners of the key was actually looking pretty good. I am a little puzzled as to why we are not running the pick and roll more often. I do like watching the offense running through Bynum when he is in, but they need a more reliable, consistent approach when he is not.

 

[Fuggles]

TT has a much improved shooting stroke with his switch to the right hand, but his midrange game is still not reliable, nor is it respected.

He and Andy are just too redundant right now, and it makes them both look worse than they really are. Hell, is making everybody look worse because there's no floor spacing.

I don't know what the short-term answer is. Long-term, Tristan needs to develop that jumper. For now, we need Tristan to at least be comfortable enough to take the shots and just hope that he has some good nights along the way as he develops some consistency.

 

[rabman_gold]

Too bad Mike Brown can't give up on the Clark at small forward experiment and put them at power forward or center with AV. This is a major short-term solution but I'm not certain that would work well.

Otherwise we play a lot of small ball.

 

[staycoolbruh]

I haven't watched the last game, but I haven't seen him use his crazy floaters in the first 5 gams that he hit consistently last year. I know he got the right hand jump shot now but I would love to see him mix it up with those floaters.

 

[Tornicade]

Thompson is forgetting to pass out of double teams and find and open shooter.

 

[Rich]

Lack of floor spacing with the starting unit due to Andy and Tristan playing together is like problem 137 on a list of biggest problems with this team right now. Barely even registers. For one, there is no solution this season anyway. Bennett isn't going to start, because he's not very good. Zeller isn't going to start, because he's just flat awful. And then that's about it in terms of solutions.

 

[Derek]

*Insanely large picture of Al Jefferson*

I'll pass

 

[BKnight's Ankle]

Yeah he needs to start doing that hook/floater again, it's absolute money

Just keep shooting jumpers, I won't criticize him for missing jumpers if he gets progressively better eventually.

 

[Smooth]

I can't seem to figure out why Tristan doesn't get more plays run for him and the Cavs seemingly forget about him for stretches of times..

He's being relegated to essentially a rebounder/pick-setter on offense, when he's shown he can produced in iso situations... And considering the lack of offense up front, I don't get why they don't milk that.

 

[MoFlo]

One thing not being discussed all that much, if at all, is that Tristan has gone up so much stronger towards the rim this season. That dunk he just had not long ago, he wouldn't have converted that his rookie year and may not have last season either.

 

[artimusprime]

I can't seem to figure out why Tristan doesn't get more plays run for him and the Cavs seemingly forget about him for stretches of times..

He's being relegated to essentially a rebounder/pick-setter on offense, when he's shown he can produced in iso situations... And considering the lack of offense up front, I don't get why they don't milk that.

I really agree with this. I'd like to see the cavs more aggressively go after the other teams bigs, especially early. If we can get the opponents bigs working defensively that puts a lot more pressure overall on the defense.

 

[dark2332]

I really agree with this. I'd like to see the cavs more aggressively go after the other teams bigs, especially early. If we can get the opponents bigs working defensively that puts a lot more pressure overall on the defense.

How dare you speak perfect sense.

 

[Dshuks]

We really need to start to try and get Tristan more touches in the second half. It always seems like he does really well in the first half and then everyone ignores hm on offense.

 

[Visitor]

Tristan has done a really nice job this season so far. As he develops I'd like to see him truly anchor the defense. We seem to be scrambling often and I think back to the pistons in 2005-2007 and how they were always very well positioned. We look like a college team running ourselves to death on defense. I'm gla we are trying but the next step is to play smarter instead of "x" amount harder.

 

[QuadrupleDouble]

at least we can all agree that TT is a beast