Originally Posted by raxrets  Well, well, well, everyone, exept max, is blaming flip for this...As max said, rooks are not "magicians". Seems like this forum expected from bench a sort of explosion but instead of they see rookie mistakes and therefore try to blame flip for this. Let's see your argument: flip sr "is holding stuckey's hand", instead of letting Stuckey penetrate, he forces stuckey to follow "playbook" and that doesn't suit to stuckey.
This explanation is extremly popular, but for me it represents narrow-mindness.
Imo, stuckey's recent woes has nothing to with flip and his playbook. Stuckey's woes are his inabilities.
Let take this "stuckey-always-penetrate" and see what happens:
1. Okey at first sight S. syprized defence with penetration skills, but but defenders adjusted very easely. Why?
2. Defenders saw that albeit S. is good penetrator, he is not threat behind 3 point arc, he can't shoot even closer to basket, he has no jumper.
3. Billups is threat from everywhere and in addition, billups reads a game, "picks his spot".
4. So, thats why S. is struggling: he has no playbook, i.e. he doesn't read a game, he doesn't adjust to defence, or doesn't force defence "to pick their poison" a la Billliups.
5.Conseqently, only result to stuckey"always penetrate" will be turnovers, travelings and offensive fouls. And god thanks, that is what S. is trying to avoid, by learnig playbook, He is so one-dimensional that in order to be sucessful he has to be very smart. Even smarter than Billups. |
01-19-2008, 04:29 PM
