I don't think he was killing it offensively, but you could tell that the offense ran better with him on the floor most of the season.
No it didn't. This premise is demonstrably false, Cavatt.
The offense did not run better with Delly than it did with either James or Irving initiating the offense.
He is great paired with Kyrie or Dion.
What?
Everyone is making jokes at Dion's expense right now, but that would have been a guy that would have been valuable against Golden State. Yes neither JR or Shump can create offense very well, and we knew that going in. No Dion didn't do it consistently, but he played his best ball with Delly.
We wouldn't have made it to the Finals if we had Dion Waiters on the team instead of Shump and Smith.
What we need is a combo guard that can create a little and shoot a little and then Delly is good backup pg.
Delly is not a good backup point guard.
Mo Williams is a good choice. A guy like Jordan Crawford would be a good fit. Delly is best when paired with another offensively tilted guard or a Lebron. Him running the 2nd unit isn't going to work great when there aren't any offensive players on the floor. That was our problem in the finals. Our one other offensive weapon was guarded by Klay the whole time and resulted in a stalemate at sg.
You wouldn't run the offense through Delly with Williams or Crawford on the floor next to him because those guys are (1) better point guards, (2) better facilitators, (3) better passers, (4) better isolation players, (5) better ball handlers, (6) better shooters when contested.
Defensively, Delly should pick up the opposing ball handler; and that in itself is very valuable.
How is a pg suppose to operate with a bunch of guys who are primarily defenders? It is such a silly criticism.
It's not silly criticism. Delly is not a point-guard, and you keep acting/assuming that he is one, or can play the position well. He can't. It should be obvious, and if it isn't I refer you to his statistical performance.
No Delly is not a great offensive player, but he can help you generate points if there is a guy out there with the ability to score points.
No he doesn't. He's not a good facilitator.
We relied all year on 3 guys to generate a huge portion of our offense. It isn't crazy that the offense stalled out once we faced an equally good defensive team and lacked 2 of those guys.
No it isn't crazy, and I understand what you're getting at, but just because Delly would look better in a motion, read-react, offense doesn't mean that he'd look better than the average basketball player.
I'm all in for a combo guard, but saying Delly can't orchestrate the offense when he clearly outplayed every backup in the playoffs minus maybe Shaun Livingston(who I would have loved to hang onto).
What? Again, with respect to "the offense," this is also absurdly false.
I don't believe Shump played Curry to get more offense, because Shump isn't an offensive player either and didn't have a single game as good as Delly's game 3.
Using one game, an outlier, a career game, to make your point, demonstrates the weakness of that point.
Delly played so few minutes because he was hurt after his visit to the hospital. His D was never as good after the first 3 games. I think rumors of his strained hammy were accurate.
...Not knocking his defense, we're talking about his offense. I think you are conflating the two.
If you respond, could you include some statistical evidence to backup your claims?