Double Helix wrote:KG1585 wrote:ATLTimekeeper wrote:Our offense is working pretty well. Hard to argue that he needs the ball more for us to put up points.
+1
I still don't understand the people bringing up offence. I couldn't care less what Hedo's usage rate is, as long as offence is this deadly.
Did you watch the Utah game where we weren't scoring? Have you seen how many open shots we're still missing? Our efficiency is dropping quick offensively. It's not as insane as it was to start the season and Bosh is still a huge reason for that efficiency.
Pretend for a moment our offence is a 70 out of 100. And our defence is currently a 10 out of 100.
Total = 80 out of 200.
I think it's more likely and we have better assets to turn our offence to a 90 out of 100 and with hustle get our defence to a 30 out of 100 for a total of 120 out of 200 than it would be to get our defence up to 50 out of 100 for the same result. The Suns were once 100 out of 100 on offence by such a wide margin that they actually had the best record in the league with probably a 30 out of 100 defence.
I know we're not the Suns. I don't expect to be anywhere near a top team but I think if our offence was as good as it could be we'd certainly make the playoffs. We can't simply pretend that we're as good as we can be on that end and think that we have the weapons necessary to become a very good defensive team. I simply think we need to maximize our strengths and improve upon our weaknesses.
I also know the scale out of 100 examples are a bit ridiculous. Nobody needs to point that out. I just wanted to try and describe the way I see both ends of the court at the moment.
I've always thought that our offense was never the problem, we're putting 100 pts on the board and do so with relative ease, but this is a very interesting way to look at our strengths and weaknesses I've never really thought about. I'm not sure I totally agree, I'll have to think about this for a bit, but it's rare that I read anything on this board that makes me pause and think. Good stuff.