Mixed feelings on this game. Thrilled with the effort and aura and would say “a good loss” but same concerns as always in games where Cs underperform. Brown 11/30, Tatum 10/25. That’s 21/55. Combined 6/29 on threes. Too many great players and depth for those splits.
White was 8/9, 5/5 on threes and carried them on both ends of the court down the stretch. Every time he touched the ball down the stretch he either scored or created a great opportunity, but the team goes with difficult three point attempts from the Jays when it matters most.
Other thoughts:
-Was Holiday benched? He didn’t come back in after leaving in Q3. He was having an off game. Not sure. Regardless, I think we could see less minutes from Jrue due to his age and Pritchard’s emergence. No one is going to be taking White’s minutes.
-Queta needs to play more. A lot more. His presence makes a huge difference. He owns the rim and especially with the starters they don’t need another offensive weapon. He should either be starting or coming in for Horford, taking Kornet’s minutes.
-I renew my objection to Jordan Walsh playing. He doesn’t seem to know what’s happening out there. Like, he’s just lost, timid, and doesn’t seem to know where to go and has no court instincts. Needs more development or just isn’t an NBA guy.
-Brown has improved his dribbling but needs to stop dribbling. It used to be a problem on his paint/baseline stuff but now he’s doing these little dribbles outside the perimeter for no good reason. But his defense has remained ferocious so I’ll leave it there in terms of his overall effect.
-Tatum just needs to lay off those off balance 3s. I’m fine with him taking more 3s but no player in the world including Steph Curry is making a living by off dribble contested 3 pointers. No one. It’s cool when it happens and it’s a great highlight, but you don’t see all the many misses. It’s a low percentage shot in the end. No reason to jack these up unless the shot clock is running down.
