sunsbg wrote:I want to get excited, but just a reminder Bol Bol had better stretches in the past. Metu had almost 20/20 game, looked decent, and was waived.
RO has looked like a chucker on the Suns and has not done anything special on D either. Small sample size though. Based on this game Young is a worse finisher around the rim than Nurk. Guy has no lift. EG from the bench is a lot worse than EG as a starter. A dependable 6th man is really missing. Moving Grayson to the bench as a 6th man for scoring and putting RO to defend opposing best wing with the starters makes a lot of sense to me.
Royce is a chucker in the same role as Chowder, as is green light Gordon. But the Line up solution is simple. Bring Beal off the bench.* Having 3 formidable ISO players leads to a lot of watching and turn taking, especially down the stretch. Everybody has to get theirs. You can see it especially in Book when he hasn’t shot 3-4 times down… it’s in his DNA to take the ball and score. No reason why we don’t have two of the three ISO bros on the court at all times. It makes them more effective. Fortunate or not, it is the strength of this team. We won’t go far unless one of the them goes off. And they can alternate. We can hang with anyone when Book or KD is cooking. Ride the hot hand, if there is one. But last night shows what happens when there isn’t. It’s clear we can’t rely on defense
*could start ONeal or even Bol for that matter.