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Came back to this post after reading the SI article about Paul Pierce
Paul Pierce Reflects on a Hall of Fame Career
As the Celtics legend prepares to be enshrined, he is unapologetic about his past—and bullish about his future.www.si.com
Ainge didn’t see it that way. “Paul was the only untouchable guy on that team,” he says. “The team just wasn’t good enough.” In 2004, Ainge hired Rivers as coach. He and Pierce immediately clashed. “People wouldn’t believe how often we argued,” says Pierce. He recalls countless meetings with Rivers and Ainge that led to heated arguments about his shot selection. “They were always telling me how to play,” says Pierce. “They wanted me to pass the ball more. Well, who did they want me to pass it to? Jiří Welsch? S---, I’d rather take a bad shot than pass it to Jiří Welsch.”
Not saying Sexton is a HOF player but I find stuff like this interesting. You want to build good habits and play the right way, but with horrible talent around you, guys naturally lose faith in their teammates (won't find a worse scoring and three point shooting team than the Cavs). I never watch Sexton thinking he shoots too much, if anything I feel like he goes long periods of over-passing (Cavs tend to pass a ton without much purpose and the end results usually isn't pretty) but the issue for him is that he has frozen in key moments (missing an obvious pass or picking up the dribble early) that have become more memorable.
Most of the time,he get his teammates involve first and then score. When,he does score it's like 4-8 points at a time unless he's hot. Then,he goes back to getting his teammates involve again. Half of the time,you'll look at the boxscore and see he has a very quiet 20-something point game unless he has a game like Brookyln where he was crazy hot in both overtimes.
I just don't understand,why so many people have an issue with him taking the most shots when the roster is filled with non-shooters.
I think the only player Sexton trust 100% is Garland. And,that's because him and Garland basically carried the team last season but nobody wants to acknowledge it.There were many games where Sexton and Garland had no help from nobody.
How is Sexton suppose to trust his teammates when they're missing shots all the time.