Yes he hasn’t been playing well for a few games, but this is also a 6 or 7 game stretch at the very start of his career. He still has a lot to work on, but this shit I’m seeing on this sub about him is ridiculous. Why tf r u guys turning on our #1 draft pick when every NBA star has said on the record he has insane potential. And he cooked all of them over the summer. Social media is ruining basketball fr. He’s our guy which means u can’t switch up when it’s not going well.
We have to ask ourselves, why weren’t these Turnovers that predominant over the summer for the US Select Team?
I think it’s two things:
Teams are ACTIVELY scouting against Cade. He’s being doubled or trippled at the key every other possession. It’s part the Teams „fault“ for providing such abysmal spacing and partly on Cade just simply not being able to adapt to being double or triple Teamed. I know, these aren’t excuses, but cade being in his unofficial second season, playing the hardest Role in the NBA, I‘m not too worried.
The spacing. As I said above, it’s partly because cade just keeps turning the ball over, so we can’t accurately predict how much of the double teaming is being done to stop cade from getting to his spots or just to get him to turn the ball over. But if you watch the game, even if he does pass the ball to e.g. Ausar/Stewart, these guys aren’t automatic shooters. They hesitate, pass, drive into traffic or whatever. All of this leads to continued double teams, because why wouldn’t they? We need a legit 2nd scoring option on this Team (bojan/ivey) and I hope Monty see‘s that as well. And if he doesn’t, shame on me because i‘m sure he knows the job better than me lol
Over the summer? Team USA select team only had a few scrimmages against the national team.
Have you ever considered that these guys go about 25-50% in the Summer? It’s akin to NBA All Star game levels of effort.
It’s almost like those were 4 scrimmages against a team that had literally never played a single game together and maybe we shouldn’t have acted like it meant anything