@AnnaJaneSmith4 @FearTheBrown At the beginning of the season he was being asked to run the offense and defend the best player on the other team when Herb wasn’t on the floor. They put him out there with the worst lineups (all they had) and fans blamed him. When he was playing 3 and D he actually hit shots
@AnnaJaneSmith4 @FearTheBrown Then once his shots stopped falling he lost confidence to shoot and teams stopped guarding him.
@AnnaJaneSmith4 @FearTheBrown That’s what the raw data says it doesn’t explain the lineups he was going against or his role. I watched just about every Pels game he shot 39% from 3 until January as a 3 and D player he was fine he just was asked to do too much on both ends he was playing 30+ mins a game
@AnnaJaneSmith4 @FearTheBrown Yes BI would go out as would Herb and Josh and we’d be stuck with lineups of JV, Naw, Sato, and GT that’s just bad symmetry. When everyone brings up how “bad” he was they bring up the lineups +- never specifically what he did on the court to tank the lineups he was on
@AnnaJaneSmith4 @FearTheBrown Like he wasn’t turnover crazy, competed on the defensive end, shot 38% from 3 for 3 months on 3.5 attempts. Shot selection wasn’t ideal all the time but it feels like he’s being blamed for being on the court when a run happened
@AnnaJaneSmith4 @FearTheBrown Maybe so but Willie is a good coach that had some options once BI got back. I think he, like most coaches, thought that even though +- didn’t agree that GT wasn’t the person causing issues out there and that’s why he kept playing him until he did become the issue out there