James Edwards
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994 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 22 Apr
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Yeah, you would think so. I think the one thing that they do have in common is the cutting. I think OG cuts with more frequency. I think OG is a little bit more physical and does get to the rim a little bit more. But I think the big difference between them is OG shooting a career high on threes above the break and Mikael shooting a career low higher.
and I think that's really what's opened up OG's game. He's always had the cutting. Having Cat and that spacing just kind of accentuates it more, but the fact that he's shooting so well from everywhere on three has really bumped his numbers up and allowed him to have a few big games for the last few weeks.
No, it is. That's a great point. A lot of grenades. I still think OG passes up a lot of threes where he has a little bit of room and he should let it fly and still hesitates, but he's making them. Listen, the offense is really, really good. I still think there's some things that are a bit concerning, like
The fact that they don't get to the rim much is, I think, more on personnel than it is Tom Thibodeau because we know Tom is very much analytically driven. But I think that says more about the personnel. Jalen Brunson likes to get to the mid-range. Mikkel Bridges, I didn't know this, but apparently only likes to take mid-range shots. OG has been a great post-up player, but...
he's not like a guy that's going to break you down off the dribble and blow past you and get to the rim. Cat's usually playing out at the perimeter. Then they're also, because of that, they're not getting to the free throw line. So for as efficient as the offense has been, it could be even more efficient, I guess, which is scary because it's on pace to be like one of the best offenses ever.
But I do think that at some point it's going to come back to bite them. You just... If you're not going to defend well, you can't score that many twos and win against the really good teams. A la Boston. You look at the games that they lost, they shot tremendously on twos. The other team outshot them from three.
And that's just kind of been the weird story because they're not defending well and not always getting up the most amount of threes that they possibly can because they do struggle with things like switching.
Yeah, I'm not sure I'll have an answer for you. But what I think was was part of the logic, obviously. When the trade happened, there was a different front office in place. Troy Weaver and company were running the program. Then Trajan Langdon comes in. If people recall, Quentin barely played in Detroit, really struggled with a knee injury, which I think he had coming from New York.
I can't remember if he, I don't even think he, but once the trade happened, I think it took him a while to play. Then he tried to play and was like two for 25 from three and then sat out. And his time in Detroit wasn't, the most efficient, even though I thought he had some good moments defensively. Sure.
And I think part of it is getting the, the big expiring of Tim, as opposed to Quinton, which allowed to consider resigning. Right. And I think, yeah, I think they were very – I don't know why they had to give up Quentin to take on Tim, right? But they could have maybe kept both.
But maybe they looked at it as like we have a lot of guards we want to develop, and I'm not sure there's enough room there. They'd rather have the veteran leadership of Tim as opposed to taking another young guy who's only, what, Quentin's in his fourth year, fifth year, and trying to give him minutes and then –
uh, you're fighting with the SAR, you're fighting with Ron Holland, you're fighting with Ivy, you're fighting with Sasser. Like they had a lot of young guards, but to, to help usher in this new era, they go for the veteran and Tim Hardaway. So I don't really have a reason why they didn't keep both.
I just know that Quinton's time in Detroit wasn't ideal given the injuries and, and things of that nature. But, um, uh, Weirdly, it's kind of worked out for both teams. I know Detroit got popped last night, but with eight and twelve. And I think Tim has had a couple of moments here and there for them. While Grimes has been really solid and talked to some Mavs people last night at the game.
And they said he's really embraced the defensive end. They've really he's really embraced kind of his role. Yeah. And he seems to be in a good spot. He's a good player.
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