kingsofnba said:
i think everyone is missing the reason why peja is struggling this year... it's not because of injury, or pouting or his baby... it's because he is not getting the hard picks he used to from vlade or the laser passes from christie... peja cannot create his own shots, for the most part... in the past, he has depended on the high pick and drop off from vlade... or the laser passes from christie when he is cutting... this year no one is setting the wide picks for him to open him up and the passes he receives while cutting aren't as perfect as the ones christie used to throw...
peja seems out of sync because he is trying to force things... since he is not in his comfort zone when he gets his passes, he is trying to create his own shot, and that is not his game...
a solution to this is for adelman to run more plays using a high pick (from Miller or Skinner) to free peja up so he can get an open look in rythym... peja is at his best when he catches and shots, which is not happening right now... once adelman realizes this and designs more high pick for peja, i think his game will begin to blossom again...
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Alot of what you are saying is very True.But he can create off the dribble he just needs to know when to create off the dribble.He needs to round his game out, he's real fixed on the role he has played in the past seasons and he doesn't adapt smooth enough.He took posey or miller one of those grizzly dudes off the dribble the other game and He really shook the defender up with a dribble jab Between both legs and step back and hit a 3 pointer and that is a difficult shot for anyone even kobe or mcgrady to make off the dribble like that.HE CAN CREATE OFF THE DRIBBLE but you will not see kobe or MCGRADY with him creating off the dribble,The reason being is that he is 6'10 a Good 6'9 and three quarters,the dude is much bigger than kobE and MCGRADY so therfore he has to bend down lower to bring the dribble back up.
He can create off the dribble but with a passing game motion offense it isn't much dribbling that you can really do in this type of offensive set,This is why ball movement is emphasized and player movement.What he can do is find the dribble drive gaps in Between the motion and penetrate those little daylights.Mike bibby does this well and it isn't because he is the point gaurd but more of that he doesn't mono his game and he takes what the defense is giving him and jumps on the oppurtunity.
Peja like larry bird who only dribbled with his right hand while peja can handle the ball with both hands, he must like larry find the spots where he can take his man off the dribble,larry read the defense and knew what he could take advantage of and what he couldn't do.Larry exposed the weak soft spots on the floor,larry also came off of Big picks by Mchale and parish but he didn't stop there he found the shaded areas on the floor and exposed the defense with maybe one dribbble or two dribbles to get a good look.
You don't need to shake n bake like kobe or AI, which they over dribble.THe game is played like out in the driveway, it's not really alot of room anyway with the average player being 6'7 on the floor.So you must find the empty spots and expose the defense.He needs to open his game up take his time and he doesn't need to settle for just running his pattern in the sets,pass the ball go the glass get soem dirty buckets because they see you doing this they will think that you will do that the next play down and then you fool them and you are standing wide open for a long bomb.
What seperates larry from peja is magic and not magic johnson but the energy of magic.larry used magical vibrations with his killer instinct to get dudes away from him so he would be wide open.He made players paralyzed he made them fall,michael cooper chasing him and he falls,He pushed players off of him,he fought the biggest dudes literally.He had power which peja must try to sieze before it is too late.
