Q12543 wrote:Love the way Saric stayed square and walls up. That's how you do it!
He has been pretty impressive as a smart defender as a Wolf. I'm glad we got him in that trade and again we have him and Taj at PF plus Tolliver. We are now like living in luxury here at that spot or something.
Yeah, I was worried about Saric defensively, but he's impressed me so far. I'd need to see him playing starter-level minutes for a few weeks before getting too excited, but if he can defend and stretch the floor plus make some plays, he could be a real key pillar for us going forward.
I'm really on the fence with Teague. He is far from ideal and there was one point in the first half last night where he made like three or four bad plays in a row. He just has these mini-collapses which saps all confidence in him as a good fit for this team, but then he sort of balanced that out with spurts of decisive play and strong intensity on defense. I'm not sure the grass is greener with other options.
Q12543 wrote:Love the way Saric stayed square and walls up. That's how you do it!
He has been pretty impressive as a smart defender as a Wolf. I'm glad we got him in that trade and again we have him and Taj at PF plus Tolliver. We are now like living in luxury here at that spot or something.
Yeah, I was worried about Saric defensively, but he's impressed me so far. I'd need to see him playing starter-level minutes for a few weeks before getting too excited, but if he can defend and stretch the floor plus make some plays, he could be a real key pillar for us going forward.
Agree, but I don't know how Saric is going to get more minutes. It's an embarrassment of riches, but we have 2 PFs who have shown they deserve 30 minutes each night, and that doesn't even include Tolliver (clearly the solution is to play more double overtime games :)). Gibson seems to be returning to last year's form as a double double machine, and Saric has surprised many of us with his crafty game. Ideally I'd like to see what Saric could do with more minutes, but I take little issue with how Thibs is handling his PF minutes right now. If one of them were to get hurt, he could still give the other 36 minutes and Tolliver 12...I like our PF situation right now.
I'm OK with the Gibson/Saric combination this year too. It seems to be working. I'm also not too worried about the longer term because it was clear listening to Glen on Doogie's podcast that Saric is the future starting PF. It just may not happen this year. He's young and (hopefully) keeps improving.
Jim Pete talked about it last night repeatedly, the need for SPACING! Partly our players don't do it properly (coaching) and partly it's because of our lineup (coaching). Saric simply allows Kat to have more spacing then playing along side Gibson. Gibson does his job, he's a backup center, 18 minute guy ideally. Unfortunately Tibs doesn't see it that way.
Duke13 wrote:Jim Pete talked about it last night repeatedly, the need for SPACING! Partly our players don't do it properly (coaching) and partly it's because of our lineup (coaching). Saric simply allows Kat to have more spacing then playing along side Gibson. Gibson does his job, he's a backup center, 18 minute guy ideally. Unfortunately Tibs doesn't see it that way.
Interestingly, Peterson also pointed out how KAT and Saric didn't move out of the way after a drive-and-kick sequence that ended up with a Covington charge call.
I don't know if that's Thibs coaching... or the players not doing what they're told. Or what's smart. Because it makes sense that they'd be the ones open if they moved into space as everybody ran to Covington.
I'm only a men's league level player at this point. But I know that.
I don't know if you were disagreeing with me or being sarcastic Abe. Yes, it might not all be coaching, I think there is a fair argument it could be coaching in regards to our spacing Either way, I enjoyed Pete's unbiased view last night and liked how he analyzed and illustrated how we generally do a poor job of this as a team.
FWIW both Saric and Taj were 2-3 from 3. Obviously Saric is more of a spacer but Taj is a guy that offers SOME spacing. He doesn't always take them but he is hitting 45% on 3's and last night at least one was actually contested. He looks pretty comfortable at times getting them up. Taj has been playing some pretty good ball lately.
monsterpile wrote:FWIW both Saric and Taj were 2-3 from 3. Obviously Saric is more of a spacer but Taj is a guy that offers SOME spacing. He doesn't always take them but he is hitting 45% on 3's and last night at least one was actually contested. He looks pretty comfortable at times getting them up. Taj has been playing some pretty good ball lately.
Duke13 wrote:I don't know if you were disagreeing with me or being sarcastic Abe. Yes, it might not all be coaching, I think there is a fair argument it could be coaching in regards to our spacing Either way, I enjoyed Pete's unbiased view last night and liked how he analyzed and illustrated how we generally do a poor job of this as a team.
Not really either one.
I think Peterson does a pretty solid job most of the time. I'd have a real problem watching the wolves if I had to hear biased rubes all the time.
