The thoughts on the process are all perfectly valid (and not new). Also, it is glaringly obvious that the Pels do not have a single healthy player who can beat their man off the dribble, even on cross-matches, which is the kind of paint touches that Willie talks about resulting in good shots (3s and dump-offs at the rim). Maybe getting BI on a switch is the best look they can hope for in crunch time (1st POR game maybe taught us a bad lesson), but you can't expect to just walk into that with 10 seconds left on the clock and think you'll be able to consistently generate even passable looks, and certainly not with non-shooters on the court. Maybe there are no great answers right now, but not at least trying something different is insane. Even losing in a different way would be much less painful.
The thoughts on the process are all perfectly valid (and not new). Also, it is glaringly obvious that the Pels do not have a single healthy player who can beat their man off the dribble, even on cross-matches, which is the kind of paint touches that Willie talks about resulting in good shots (3s and dump-offs at the rim). Maybe getting BI on a switch is the best look they can hope for in crunch time (1st POR game maybe taught us a bad lesson), but you can't expect to just walk into that with 10 seconds left on the clock and think you'll be able to consistently generate even passable looks, and certainly not with non-shooters on the court. Maybe there are no great answers right now, but not at least trying something different is insane. Even losing in a different way would be much less painful.