re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)

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Maybe now people will see what Ystar was talking about all year about Estrada.

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Not, not at all... let's do a hypothetical.

Who on this team can create their own shot?
Pringle, no
Stevenson, no
Nelson, not really
Walters, no
Wrightsell, a little bit, but we certainly prefer he be our guy to kick out too.


So basically you have two creators on this team. Sears and Estrada. Sears is great, but most of his creation is for himself which is great. Then you have Estrada, who once again had 7 assists today and I can count 5 more wide open chances he created for Walters twice, Stevenson, and even on 1 occasion, Wrightsell and Sears. Estrada isn't a natural point guard, but we are asking him to never stop the ball. Shoot or drive and finish or kick out. He is by far the guy we ask the most out of on this team. I defend him because it's bullshite to single him out because of the fact that we put a ton on his shoulders. Stevenson and Walters (until OT today) have been absolutely dreadful for 3 weeks. Yet since we don't ask them to do anything except catch and shoot, they don't catch the hell Estrada catches. Well I have news for you, if you pull Estrada out of the lineup for long you may as well pull all the spot up shooters out with him because they aren't going to get any looks unless Estrada and Sears are driving downhill and opening things up. Does Estrada have bad spurts, sure, but just sick of hearing how he is the problem. Imagine how stagnant this offense becomes without him.