5 assists from BI to Zion, 1 assist from Zion to BI
Maybe I’m mistaken but that feels like an issue for what is hyped up to be a “Dynamic duo.” I know it’s early in the season and we are reaching deep onto the bench already, but our two best players are not playing off of each other at all, the constant iso ball is a huge momentum killer and puts us in cold spells nearly every game. I feel like if you want to be a star duo then you have to find ways to win games even if some of your other starters are out, it feels like they have yet to take over a game when playing together.
I did this by going to https://thehighlow.io/ and filtering for Brandon Ingram’s assisted 2s, assisted 3s, and assists and then filtering that with “Zion” as the keyword. So granted I could be missing some plays due to weird scoring, but from watching every game so far it doesn’t feel like this is very far off.
Edit: This is only for this season if that wasn’t clear, feel like it was but who knows.
It’s like they need cj to bridge them, they can’t directly help each other. I can’t explain it because I don’t know why they are running iso sets half the time they get the ball. It feels like coaching malpractice to just not have any offensive sets so are they just calling iso on way too many sets? Or is Willie actually not drawing up plays and they’re just running free motion out there?