Man Called X
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Yay, I share a birthday with David Blatt.
and my GFYay, I share a birthday with David Blatt.
I don't comment too often regarding observations and conclusions fans make on this forum.
Quite frankly, I don't believe I have the capability to do a better analysis job than the fan next door.
I love the passion that some of the new members bring to this site, and I personally learn a lot from their knowledge and experience. I also admire reading educated and evidence-based arguments that other posters often bring to the table (yes, I am looking at you @priceFTW).
However, looking through this thread recently I can't avoid but thinking of this:
And as a CAVS fan who believes the TEAM comes first, I only ask you this:
Personally, I should state that I couldn't care less about who gets credit and for what. If this team can win the Larry O'Brien for this franchise (and I trust Griffin to make a call on this Q) - then the rings everyone will receive will be of equal size. At that point I wouldn't give a rat's ass what the press says or how people will allocate the glory. Just get us the Championship.
Yay, I share a birthday with David Blatt.
and my GF
Happy BDay X!
Can't help but respond to this. I have refrained until now. So you are saying ISO is not an offense? It most certainly is and at times is a very good one. Many teams run ISO's for players against certain other players if a good matchup.Oh come on. You are baskebtall writer. Relying on players' strengths in iso does not mean that you cannot run an offense. In fact, what I really liked about our offense early in the season was that we would have constant movement and screening creating mismatches late in the shot clock that would lead to Lebron and Kyrie on a bigger defender enabling them to iso without any help under the basket. My favorite play that we ran was the weave into the PnR at the top of the key, giving Kyrie/Lebron a wide open iso to the basket.
No.Can't help but respond to this. I have refrained until now. So you are saying ISO is not an offense? It most certainly is and at times is a very good one. Many teams run ISO's for players against certain other players if a good matchup.
No.
I am saying iso is a play type and not an offense (though can be used as shorthand to refer to what we are currently running), not the offense that Blatt originally planned, was initiated when Lebron decided we would play that way and that he should not have done that, is effective against lesser competition, and scares me in a potential finals matchup.
See the distinction I made between play type and offense. It's why I said it is shorthand for the offense we are running right now, which is more accurately described as through Lebron. Often it results in an iso play, but more often a Lebron iso setup leads to another type of finishing play, be it catch and shoot, dunk, etc. That is not going to be reflected in the statistics you used.The last I checked, we ran ISO's about 28% of the time, which was first in the league. Although that still means that 72% of our offense is not ISO. Not sure what % it has been in the playoffs, though.
See the distinction I made between play type and offense. It's why I said it is shorthand for the offense we are running right now, which is more accurately described as through Lebron. Often it results in an iso play, but more often a Lebron iso setup leads to another type of finishing play, be it catch and shoot, dunk, etc. That is not going to be reflected in the statistics you used.
This, again, is taking a nugget of what I said and expanding it to absurdity. No, you couldn't describe any PG-centric offense as iso the way I defined it above. How many offenses have a guy taking up 35% of possessions and still dishing out 50% of assists? The only one I can think of that comes close is T-Mac, and we all know how far that took him.Nor should it be. By that definition, you could classify any traditional PG-centric offense as an "ISO" offense because it begins with the PG having the ball in his hands to set up other plays.
Who is doing that? I think you are arguing against ghosts again.I just think we shouldn't exaggerate/blow out of proportion how frequently that actually happens.