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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 5217221, member: 175"] Joey C had a simple role and he played it well. He was a gunslinger. He played one speed - he ran around hard off of screens trying to get a sliver of daylight to let it fly. He didn’t need any time to process anything (“I can see the rim? You’ve made a big mistake”). And he also developed a little bit of a two-man game connection with Clingan so he had his plan B as well. You’ve rushed out on me to take away the three? Now I’ll get by you and shoot a runner or throw a lob to DC if his man helps. Mahaney has all the tools. He can shoot, he can attack the rim, he can create his own shot, he can pass. But he over-processes everything and has turned into sort of a jack of all trades, master of none. He doesn’t come off screens ready to shoot. Or even wanting to shoot. And then if the ball sticks to his hands, he’s not attacking the defense with much of a plan. After all this time of watching him - I really don’t know what his Plan A is. What’s his “thing” that the other team is trying to take away? The unicorn-ness of Spencer was he could really do both things equally well - he was as good of a gunslinger as Joey C, but then he could take the ball and patiently carve you up with his Plan C or Plan D. You’ve shut all my options down? Oh well. Time to just do an unblockable fadeaway and you’ll have to hope I miss. Just about every possession when he had the ball played out on his terms. I hope Mahaney can treat this as a new season and just play. Feel like a gunslinger a bit more and hunt a few shots and just not try to over-think things. He’s not managing a game for 40 minutes - he can take some risks. [/QUOTE]

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