OKC has showed weakness a couple times already, and Indiana has been a big surpise more than a couple of times. Worth a little bet?
Back to the Magic and jokes aside, everyone that has followed the playoffs should have the final confirmation (if it was really needed...) that while our defense was contender level (or maybe not, see stats below), our offense is really really far away to the necessary level to be postseason main characters. Eye test should be enough, with a lot of teams finding smart ways to beat defenses, and a lot of 3's that changed momentum and recovered big gaps. Ball movement being Key as JJZFL always remember us. It's also being a postseason lead by teams that have at least 5/6 players able to contribute on both def and offense in any given night. OKC has a single superstar, but it's the supporting cast that matters a lot. Indiana has a lot of very good players with no superstars, similar situation for NY and others. Our Franz-Paolo duo is almost useless if the supporting cast produces almost nothing.
Outside the eye test, those are some stats:
- Last on point made for game, 3p% (by a whole 4%), FT% (worrysome) assists (bm).
- Second to last on FG%, third worst in Offensive rating, and, surprise surprise, even in Defensive rating (I know it's a small sample, but still worrysome). And even in defensive stats like blocks, steals, def and total rebouns, in the bottom 5.
- Only thing that we did very well was limiting turnovers.
Way to go, a lot of things to improve.