Watching this game and hearing Scal talk about the Dame/Giannis PnR got me thinking.
He kept saying Milwaukee should run more PnRs with those two and the conventional wisdom is to have your best players working off each other… but do you really want your best two players playing off each other all the time?
Giannis and Dame individually only have the energy to be involved in so many actions per game, it almost feels like you’re wasting them by having them both in that action.
Obviously, this is a gross oversimplification but:
25 possessions by Dame + 25 by Giannis = 50 possessions
15 possessions by Dame + 15 by Giannis + 10 by Dame and Giannis = 40 possessions
If you’re demanding high volume out of two guys then do you actually want them spreading their workload out as much as possible?
The other alternative is to just add more possessions to Giannis’ already filled plate. The purpose of bringing in Dame was to lighten Giannis’ workload. I don’t know that making Giannis help Dame out on top of fulfilling his own obligations necessarily accomplishes that.
I think that was actually pretty clear to see when Giannis was off court. Sure you run a Dame and Giannis PnR when you need a bucket, but throughout the game I’d say you run more a Middleton and Giannis PnR (we have seen this can win a championship lol) and then you run a Dame and Lopez PnR.
Watching this game and hearing Scal talk about the Dame/Giannis PnR got me thinking.
He kept saying Milwaukee should run more PnRs with those two and the conventional wisdom is to have your best players working off each other… but do you really want your best two players playing off each other all the time?
Giannis and Dame individually only have the energy to be involved in so many actions per game, it almost feels like you’re wasting them by having them both in that action.
Obviously, this is a gross oversimplification but:
25 possessions by Dame + 25 by Giannis = 50 possessions
15 possessions by Dame + 15 by Giannis + 10 by Dame and Giannis = 40 possessions
If you’re demanding high volume out of two guys then do you actually want them spreading their workload out as much as possible?
The other alternative is to just add more possessions to Giannis’ already filled plate. The purpose of bringing in Dame was to lighten Giannis’ workload. I don’t know that making Giannis help Dame out on top of fulfilling his own obligations necessarily accomplishes that.
I think that was actually pretty clear to see when Giannis was off court. Sure you run a Dame and Giannis PnR when you need a bucket, but throughout the game I’d say you run more a Middleton and Giannis PnR (we have seen this can win a championship lol) and then you run a Dame and Lopez PnR.
There you also pointed out the reason why JB-KP plays are so good for us going forward.
And this makes me wish we had another big sort of like KP, haha.