I'm not talking about the defense. The offense is the problem.
Look, Tristan's ORTG/offensive impact is largely tied to his offensive rebounding and screen setting. The issue is, is that the new rules don't allow Tristan to be that effective in the 2 areas that were his best suits. Why? because almost all of his screens were illegal and weren't called. Now he has to set legal screens because the refs are calling that shit now...the way he had been grabbing players- he can't do that now.
The other issue is the 14 sec shot clock. His put back efficiency/.PPP will significantly go down now because the offensive efficiency after an offensive rebound will go down if you have to restart the offense, and since TT can't go up right after a rebound it will as a result decrease our offensive efficiency with him on the floor.
He has to be strong in those two areas because he doesn't provide any offensive value outside of that. Now that he can't screen as effectively his PnR efficiency and the ball handler's efficiency that he screens for will also go down. He won't get easy alley-oops, so he will have to develop some kind of range and a mini hook shot. He does have his mini hook shot, but how effective is that really? last game he couldn't even attempt them because Ibaka was blocking his shit.
Tristan last night killed ur offense because our offense is heavy on PnRs, and he was a non threat in this type of play.
As far as the defense, again, it wasn't my issue. It wasn't good by any means, but it wasn't the big issue. The issue is this:
Tristan's ORTG: 60 DRTG:110
Zizic's ORTG: 181 DRTG: 115
And Tristan played with much better all-around players. Zizic had to play with Clarkson, Sexton and Dekker. It's amazing how good Zizic was surrounded by such net negative players and that TT was such an offensive hole with much, much better players.