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Originally Posted by roscoe36  Lee, would you say that Delfino is a bigger offensive and/or defensive threat than Tay was in his second season?
I dunno. I'm old school. I sucked at free throws until I spent an entire summer shooting them. I had to build up muscle memory and comfort.
Maxiell has a lot of untapped potential. But the onus is on him to tap it. You don't get heavy minutes unless you have something to contribute, or your team is not planning to make the playoffs and will spend a season or two developing young guys.
Likewise with Delfino. If he can get some more consistency with his jumper, and maybe develop a back to the basket move, he would be a tremendous asset. His energy and hustle are (usually) decent to very good.
Some games, Delf will be feeling it and hit his shots open, guarded or otherwise. But on the nights he isn't, he becomes a liability. An NBA player must be able to create his own shot, either from post up position or the perimeter. |
On free throws. I played a lot of cut-throat. You make a basket, and then you shoot free throws. If you make your three free throws, you get the ball out for the next play. I got to 100% on free throws. So did the other guy who was always one of the captains when we chose sides for five on five. The solution was they kept moving the free throw line back until we were shooting double length free throws. Otherwise, we could not keep the other guys interested in playing. (Not to much fun if me or the one other guy won every game.)
Now for Delfino. Tay was very passive in his first full year playing. He averaged about 10 points a game I believe, with starters minutes. Delfino, given the same starts, would have scored more. On defense, Tay was pretty good, but lacked the size to guard some of the more physical small forwards. Overall, Delfino is the better defender vs. what Tay was that year. While both players can help handle the ball, for the most part, you would rather have the ball in Delfino's hands cause that tends to make the ball move around a lot better.
One thing about Tay, we have virtually never used the guy as a shooting guard. If we had, it might have helped his scoring average some. With Amir and JMAX in as our two forwards a lot last night, it suggests we could now use Tay at shooting guard yet for this playoffs. Depending on who the opposing point is, you could then move Delfino to point. How about this: Delfino, Tay, Amir, JMAX, Dale Davis.