James Edwards
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 22 Apr
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I think Dennis Schroeder would be a great fit there. He can play with Steph some. If you look at the way he's played in FIBA, just giving them another guy who's looking to get to the basket, looking to get his own shot, can do some things. I mean, I mentioned Cam Thomas for about eight teams.
Yeah, Although I don't know if you can have him play in the same role as Dennis Schroeder. I think Schroeder is a better player because you can trust him defensively just much more. So that's my mea culpa. I don't think that this offense is going to be able to get him – I mean, maybe they win a playoff series. I don't think they win once they get to the elite competition of the playoffs.
Kawhi Leonard bobblehead night is coming up pretty soon. Yes. And maybe that's an indication that he's going to play. I don't know. You got to check out Law Murray over at The Athletic. Go read him because he'll let us know when that news is coming. That's going to do it for today's show, folks. The NBA Cup has been a lot of fun. I appreciate you guys riding through with us.
And we're going to be in Vegas this weekend. So expect fun stuff coming from that. For S. Baraheni, I'm Dave DeFore. And this has been the NBA Daily. Thanks for waking up with us.
It's a fascinating thing with this team. If you look at their record, I think they're 10-8, 10-9, and half or close to half have come against teams that switch. Like you mentioned, Boston on opening night, they had no issue putting Drew on Cat. Another one that comes to mind is Houston. They had no issue putting Dylan Brooks on Cat and switching everything. And then tonight, same example.
When they play teams that not only just switch but play with some heart like those teams do, you're hard-pressed to find a team that plays harder than Houston, hard-pressed to find a team that plays harder than Boston, and even Dallas. Dallas has been crushing defensively too this year. They just look like they don't know what to do with the ball.
A lot of ISO, they don't really get it moving side to side. They don't play out in transition because the defense isn't that good right now. They shoot well at the rim, but they don't take a lot of shots at the rim. It's not a great ISO team.
Brunson obviously has the ability to score at a high level with isolations, but he's not a guy that's breaking guys down off the dribble and getting all the way to the rim, right? He's usually getting floaters or awkward shots. Yeah. This is the second time, and this is the third time since November 10th that they've shot 32 or less threes in a game. One against Indiana, one against Philly.
I believe the Indiana, I can't remember if both of them were wins. I know the Philly one was a win. I can't remember Indiana. But I think they got to, what, 30 tonight, 29 tonight from three-point attempts. They just really struggled to get up threes against switching teams and I think a lot of it is they don't know, do I take my man? They don't really move as much.
The cutting's not as crisp as it is against non-switching teams. They just look really disoriented.
There's a couple things, and our colleague Fred Katz wrote a good piece last week on the weird season Mikael Bridges is having, because I agree the best way to describe it is weird. If you look at his two-point numbers, he's shooting the mid-range as good as anybody in the league, right? But above the break threes, he's in the teens.
And I wonder if the hitch in his shot has something to do with the further distance threes. As he's shotting better, he shoots much better in the corners. And obviously, as we know, that's much shorter distance than –
than on the wings uh and then you he doesn't get to the hole off the dribble all his baskets and he had one last night against dallas but that was like the first in a while usually a lot of his shots at the rim come off cutting he's not a guy that's breaking guys off the dribble and getting to the rim and when he does isolate he tends to always even if he has a lane to the to the basket he usually stops and shoot a mid-range jump that little pull-up
He really likes that. I asked him about it a few weeks ago and he said playing with two of the greatest mid-range shooters of all time helped rub off on him a little bit. I do agree with him too. He talked about in the playoffs it's very key to be able to get any type of shot, but it's like throughout the course of the regular season, you can never make too many of those shots.
Dwayne Casey used to say, you can never make too many mid range shots to overcome the math game in today's NBA. And yeah, um, for the, in the next case, it's showing to be true. Like they shoot a lot of mid range shots. Uh, the offense is phenomenal.
Uh, I want to make sure that's clear, but there are times when the offense is very efficient and it doesn't matter because teams shoot more threes than they do. Right. Um, and they make more threes. So Mikkel has had a weird season. I agree defensively as well. Um, he just doesn't really get through screens. Well, like you watch OG and Anobu who's one of the best in the league at doing it.
And then you watch McHale. It's like, he takes the long way around.
Very weird season. I think the defense has been like something that he earned the label early. I think the last few years it's, not been to the all NBA level that I think most, if you ask most people that he, he possesses, he's, he still has the capabilities of being a really good defender. I just don't think we've seen it that much.
And OG has, when you look at how OG and nobody's a great defender. Yeah. I would say if you pick a weakness and OG's defensive abilities, it's guarding smaller guards, right? So you get McHale, you think he can take those assignments. You can play OG off ball and let him do what he does, but, Mikael's just really struggled staying in front of him, getting around screens.
It's been a big issue for the Knicks, especially when they don't have a pure rim protector down there anymore with Mitchell Robinson out and no Isaiah Hardenstein.
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