RubioFanLifer
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There's a variety of factors involved here that combine to make our playmaking very PG-centric currently.
1) Garland is ineffective when he's off ball. He doesn't really move, and while he can shoot from the outside, he doesn't scare teams as a catch-and-shoot threat - mostly because of his size, and the aforementioned lack of movement. We're maximizing his talents right now, and that means keeping the ball in his hands all the time when he's out there. (That's why the Garland-Rubio lineups are some of my least favorite ones. You often see Ricky taking the PG responsibilities, leaving DG to function as a meh combo guard.)
2) Talking about Ricky – for all his passing talent, he's truly a ball dominant PG by nature. He thrives when he gets to run the show. And like Garland, he's hardly a spot up threat on the weak side anyway.
3) Our ball movement has dried up a bit. Sometimes it seems we're almost addicted to the Garland-Allen pick and roll – and hey, it works. But we've started to ignore cutters and guys sealing smaller defenders in the paint since we're so eager to get the aforemention duo going all the time. I'd like to see the ball being worked around a bit more.
The above things sound like complaints, but we're playing very well, so consider them as something to keep an eye on. Predictability is never good in the NBA. Not individally and not on team level. What we're doing is working now, but this league will eventually figure you out. It always does.
The on court production speaks against you
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2 man combo of Garland/Rubio shows the best results by far. And both of them lead the team in +/-.
if you go thru 5 man lineups with both those 2 involved you see that almost all of them are in the plus.
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