Why'd Pope go 100% away from Williams?

[m080470]

I love this team and I think Amari has shown flashes of being great but I didn't think he looked focused last night. The effort on defense was poor, i.e. arms down, not contesting shots, allowing too much penetration to the basket and his offense backing down his defender is a little suspect and dribbles the ball too far away from his body. All that being said, he's a leader on the court. You can tell by the way his teammates respond to him. That can probably be said about two or three others too, but because of that he is always going to have give his best effort and if he's not doing that, he's going to sit.

 

[Fox2monk]

This is pure speculation on my part so take it for what it’s worth, which isn’t much. But I don’t think he likes running this offense and I don’t think he expected Brandon Garrison to be here when he committed.

Surely he didn’t expect to be the only big man on the team.

 

[gojvc]

Surely he didn’t expect to be the only big man on the team.

Agree. Obviously we’d have to have another big man. But maybe not a former McDonald’s All-American? I don’t know.

 

[LmdCat]

This is pure speculation on my part so take it for what it’s worth, which isn’t much. But I don’t think he likes running this offense and I don’t think he expected Brandon Garrison to be here when he committed.

I would like to know what offense he would like to run. Surely, he doesn't think he is a good low post player. He receives the ball a lot of times in scoring position and does nothing productive with it.