Cavatt
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Sure, but it's easy to have good shot selection against that level of competition. Hopefully when KPJ can't get to the rim at will he'll do the smart thing and pass the ball, but I'm not convinced that he will.
As for Garland's passing, that's exactly what people said about Sexton last year in summer league/preseason action. Not a lot of assists, but some really good passes where guys missed the shot, some hockey assists. If we really want one of these guys to develop into our PG of the future, we need to give them the reins to the offense for extended stretches, not have a crazy free-for-all where 7 guys take turns creating offense.
I totally disagree. TT had 2 quality assists. Cedi had 5 assists that came in the offense, mostly pick and roll. I want the team to move he ball like that. We have seen over and over again a sole initiator get shut down in the playoffs by our own team. We have seen Harden detsroy teams all year just to not be able to make the same passes in the postseason. Oladipo, Isaiah Thomas, Lowry, the Cavs shut down sole initiators repeatedly.
The quality of passes from Garland and Sexton are on a different level. I was not a believer in Garland's touted passes because of the numbers, but you can tell he is a better passer than Sexton after one preseason game. He can just see the open man better.
At 2:13 he passes to Cedi in a nice drive and kick which Cedi misses and TT score s on the offensive rebound. Broke the D, perfect pass, missed shot.
At 2:20 he lobs to TT and Bautista does the right thing and pushes TT away from the basket. TT gets the bucket by putting it on the floor, and Garland doesn't get the assist.
3:14 breaks the D again and passes to Cedi for his made 3 and 2nd assist after that sweet pass to cutting Love, which isn;'t shown here for some reason.
6:39 pass to streaking Nance who instead of jumping for the dunk makes a touch pass to Clarkson for the short jumper.
In 14 min 9 pts 2 assists with 2 other passes leading to scores and a +21 with him on the floor. I think if you saw what happened you would like what you see. He got everyone into the offense.
Both of these guys we have to wait and see, but their instincts sure looked good.