and I didn't hear what Fran said, but trying to dump all the P&R problems at Cuz and DJ's feet is pretty ignorant
they are getting poor work from Irving especially ahead of them, and then a huge critical and ongoing factor has been the effects of the lack of PF -- Melo, Durant etc. have been playing like complete wusses on the backside, and aren't rotating down to help at all, and when they do, not effectively. So play after play the pattern goes:
-- pick and roll
-- USA big either has to a) switch onto smaller man, or b) show for an excessively long time waiting for the guard to catch back up; or c) end up having to try both the guard and linger back far enough to cut off the pass to the big
-- while the big is thus occupied up top guarding 2 men, the "PFs" are being complete wusses, not rotating to the baseline, not fighting when they do rotate, and losing their men on backcuts. All of the above is going on behind the bigs.
End result is extended series of plays like:
-- big switches onto guard, guard beats big
-- big switches onto guard, guard throws pass into the post behind big, where nobody else has rotated onto big's man
-- big switches onto guard, guard throws pass to baseline behind big where forward's man has run right behind him to the rim
-- big shows hard on guard, guard throws pass behind big to his man who nobody has showed onto
Its a rambling wreck. But its hardly all on the bigs.
