Peja disappears for long stretches, and the whole team has to work to get him his offense. He is not the sort of player you force the offense through. His effectiveness and efficiency are limited to those times when he cuts and gets open, comes off a screen and gets open etc. Once those opportunities are used up, there is no reason at all to force the ball to him and ask him to beat his opponent with the ball in his hands. Once he's in that situation, he's just another player and we're much better off swinging it around to somebody else.
He's down a grand total of 1.3 shots a game this year from last year, when even as option #1 he still only averaged 17 shots a game. He just doesn't have the skill set to take 20+ shots a game with any real shot at efficiency. He's not going to beat his guy one on one, not going to draw a lot of fouls, not going to break down the defense. After you've used up the open shots and sharp cuts he gets, its time to get the ball to someone else.
P.S. If Peja was hitting his shots, he'd have 30 point games during that stretch and would be averaging 22-23 ppg this season. Its his inefficiency this year as much as anything that have held his numbers down.
He's down a grand total of 1.3 shots a game this year from last year, when even as option #1 he still only averaged 17 shots a game. He just doesn't have the skill set to take 20+ shots a game with any real shot at efficiency. He's not going to beat his guy one on one, not going to draw a lot of fouls, not going to break down the defense. After you've used up the open shots and sharp cuts he gets, its time to get the ball to someone else.
P.S. If Peja was hitting his shots, he'd have 30 point games during that stretch and would be averaging 22-23 ppg this season. Its his inefficiency this year as much as anything that have held his numbers down.
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