+1
Do we not have a play drawn up for these situations? We weren't down 2.
:shrug:
The first one that Gallo took I could live with; it certainly wasn't his fault they shot it back to him with a second left while he was sittitng back.
But him sitting back should have presented better opportunity to make a play I side. Especially when STAT couldn't be contained.
But it was a decent look he had, a solid catch n shoot for a guy who can butter his bread doing that. Still rubbed be wrong taking a 3 in such a spot, but I moved on.
The one Wilson heaved was an abomination. For better or worse, Gallo's game is defined by his ability and image of being able to nail down the long shot. Wilson's? No. And he was scoring at will with filthy moves around the basket at that point.
I think what we saw as an SSOL...breakdown. You said it wasn't there, Crazy, and I'd agree.
The difficulty of SSOL is that it's prolly pretty tough from a player perspective to not get lazy or take the simple route of settling for 3s.
On the Wiilson Heave, you could kinda see them just thrashing the ball around to each other, maniacally, all kinda camped around the perimeter, until time predictably necessitated Wilson do what he did.
That's *not* SSOL. Well. It is SSOL -- it's just a classic example of what can go wrong with it in practice. Not as a theoretical model or philosophy of play; but what can happen in actuality, with real players making decisions in the heat of battle.
Nash's supreme confidence and excellence in knowing all this, and being able go execute was the real rub with that Sun's team and SSOL -- Nash's actual skill set of course was very good and nice, but the mentality can't be overstated. It's the hook.
****and precisely why guys can have their game and perceived skill set get elevated with SSOL, even when they are 30 or skills really are constant and the same****
We won. We also saw, IMHO, a pretty great archetypal example of how it can breakdown in the actual playing of games. This doesn't discredit "SSOL" as rubbish or that it's a fail; but it's a...maybe the....main pitfall of it.
Plus, D'Antoni must get better at drawing up plays in CHOREOGRAPHED, or telegraphed situations. Not the chaos and bedlam where he seems to actually thrive. Classic situations, simple and simpler stuff that makes you go WTF. Like following big timeouts when you need just 2, or a foul, or gotta get it inside to X-player.
A wins a win. Haven't done this on road in a decade. We're .500. In the real hunt for a playoff birth, and could even fight for a 6th seed potentially. Azzy coming back.
And guys like Felton should just get better with SSOL, as STAT further emboldens our team as winners with passion.
So :gony: