I don’t remember how many times the “Time since past fg” stat popped up and it was over 4 minutes for us. Lack of Herro’s scoring, among other things (Bam not getting the ball, bench 3s not falling, no highsmith,….) are what cost us this game.
Thread is unsurprisingly full of Herro fans celebrating the heat lost lmao
This is why we need Herro. His playmaking and scoring allows Bam, who’s a good playmaker in his own right, the ability to go score and defend without having to focus on playmaking. Some weird sect on here and Twitter, think Bam ain’t a superstar cause he didn’t score, but if you watched the game, he essentially was doing everything, but unfortunately, no one was passing him the ball in his spots and if he tried to score he would’ve been doubled and if he tried to kick it out to possibly brick.
Also, in tired of pretending otherwise but Jimmy needs to stop handling the ball as much when we are setting up our sets and in crunch time. He predictably a lot of time in games, instead of scoring to keep the defense off balance, would drive all the way in but kick out at the last second. Only then in crunch time would be start to score, which gets predictable when the defense would key in on that, which adds to our iffy 4th execution. Not to mention he takes too much time to set up, making our movement dead in possessions when other players know he’s not going to pass much and just iso.
We need a shift to Bam and Herro as our main options and have Jimmy play off of that. Plus, please no more team offense where everyone eats like last season please. I’m tired of icing out Bam and Herro just cause we want others to overshoot. (Duncan is excluded cause hes not selfish).
Tyler got hurt in game 3 of the 7 game win streak and was a huge reason we won the first two games. This narrative that we’re better without him is stupid lol