The Maybe if We're Lucky Thread
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 10:01 am
Ok guys gonna try a lengthy post so bare with me lol
I been checking Basketball Reference ever since we went with Igor to try get an idea how our team would look compared to Jazz. I know many were saying over the summer "We have all these wings trying to play like the Warriors but are nowhere close" which is fair and correct but I was always more interested in sizing us up to Igor's former employer's squad
(33) Mitchell - Devin
(32) Gobert - Ayton
(31) Ingles - Ariza
(29) Favors - Anderson
(28) Rubio - Canaan
(27) Crowder - TJ
(17) O'neale - Josh
(17) Burks - Crawford/Daniels
(16) Exum - Okobo/Bridges
Jerebko - Bender
Udoh - Chandler/Holmes
Neto - Bridges / Melton
When you look at their roster it's understandable why they were expected to struggle with Hayward going to Boston. I paired players based on position and likely usage rate with Jazz player minutes in brackets and I think it seems like a fair expectation for most of our guys. I know Split likes to do his minutes projections and I think he posted quite similar numbers
* the obvious unlikely one is Canaan matching Rubio's minutes as Book and Crawford will cut into those
* Royce O'neale mins increased during the season and he actually play 24mins per in Playoffs so Josh should be between that range
* Jerebko, Udoh and Neto only played 12-15mins per being probably used based on opponent which I assume will be the case with those guys I have
Jazz obviously overachieved because nobody foresaw Donovan's play but as we know their Defense carried them and that was my main concern during the summer when I saw the criticisms of Ayton's D. I'm glad to see that he looks like proving those analysts wrong and although he will not be on Gobert's level from the outset it doesn't seem far fetched that he can be a solid anchor in due time.
I might just be being a homer but despite the rough preseason , looking at the two teams I think we gonna improve our scoring (both teams avg 104 last yr) and yes the two teams were on opposite ends of the spectrum on D (Jazz 100pts against) for 1st and we were last giving up 113. We haven't seen any evidence of it yet but I'm gonna allow myself to believe our points against will not be 113 this year , clearly I'm one of the optimist on here but hey Suns potentially scoring more, maybe giving up less should mean a more competitive team right ?
I been checking Basketball Reference ever since we went with Igor to try get an idea how our team would look compared to Jazz. I know many were saying over the summer "We have all these wings trying to play like the Warriors but are nowhere close" which is fair and correct but I was always more interested in sizing us up to Igor's former employer's squad
(33) Mitchell - Devin
(32) Gobert - Ayton
(31) Ingles - Ariza
(29) Favors - Anderson
(28) Rubio - Canaan
(27) Crowder - TJ
(17) O'neale - Josh
(17) Burks - Crawford/Daniels
(16) Exum - Okobo/Bridges
Jerebko - Bender
Udoh - Chandler/Holmes
Neto - Bridges / Melton
When you look at their roster it's understandable why they were expected to struggle with Hayward going to Boston. I paired players based on position and likely usage rate with Jazz player minutes in brackets and I think it seems like a fair expectation for most of our guys. I know Split likes to do his minutes projections and I think he posted quite similar numbers
* the obvious unlikely one is Canaan matching Rubio's minutes as Book and Crawford will cut into those
* Royce O'neale mins increased during the season and he actually play 24mins per in Playoffs so Josh should be between that range
* Jerebko, Udoh and Neto only played 12-15mins per being probably used based on opponent which I assume will be the case with those guys I have
Jazz obviously overachieved because nobody foresaw Donovan's play but as we know their Defense carried them and that was my main concern during the summer when I saw the criticisms of Ayton's D. I'm glad to see that he looks like proving those analysts wrong and although he will not be on Gobert's level from the outset it doesn't seem far fetched that he can be a solid anchor in due time.
I might just be being a homer but despite the rough preseason , looking at the two teams I think we gonna improve our scoring (both teams avg 104 last yr) and yes the two teams were on opposite ends of the spectrum on D (Jazz 100pts against) for 1st and we were last giving up 113. We haven't seen any evidence of it yet but I'm gonna allow myself to believe our points against will not be 113 this year , clearly I'm one of the optimist on here but hey Suns potentially scoring more, maybe giving up less should mean a more competitive team right ?