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Originally Posted by yahyes
Which is pretty bad. The clippers team is full of individuals latter down the road heading into playoffs. Blake Griffin becomes a one dimension highlight reel with no accurate jump shot. DeAndre Jordan has bad basketball IQ who merely looks for lob passes, just to try finding a way embarrassing someone.
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I really thought that Blake would add onto his game once he got into the NBA. Just imagine what he could be with a decent midrange game. Even when Paul gets Griffin the ball when and where he is supposed to, it's dribble, dribble, allow a double-team, and throw a bailout to a teammate at the end of the shot clock. If he just added a move across the lane, instead of looking to either hook his opponent and go to the spin move for a dunk or power right over him, he would would be so much more of a threat.
There are way too many ball dominant players on the Clips to maximize the gifts that Chris Paul has. With no pick-and-pop option from the big in the pick-and-roll, teams just collapse to the hoop and muck up the works, relegating CP3 to an iso player who has to consistently bail out his team with the clock running down. He can certainly do that, but he can get teammates involved like few other PGs can today, and that makes him special. It seems like it's transition dunk or bust for the Clips, which negates Paul's great abilities in half court sets. And having wing players like Crawford and Butler, who seem to prefer breaking down defenders off the dribble instead of spacing the floor, working baseline, or doing the dirty work to free up teammates instead of just calling for the ball for an iso, further neutralizes many of his talents.
Carlisle would have an absolute field day with Chris Paul running point. We have seen what his version of a motion offense can do with a PG who can distribute while Kidd was here, and he was far more limited offensively than CP3 is.
Just thinking about Dirk and CP3 running the pick-and-roll makes me smile. With Dirk's ability to find shooters and exploit switches, life would be so much easier for Paul. I hope that he realizes that.