They run into this thing we see a lot now on teams with one hyperefficient scorer: you can let that guy get his, and as long as other efficient stuff doesn't happen around that, the team ends up with a pretty meh offensive rating.Yeah, even if you assume they don’t shoot 3s as poorly as they did it’s still like 105 points in a game there against a defense that has been pretty shaky. Not great
Boston avoids this because they're built to exploit any advantages once a team is in rotation, which lets them get away with primary scorers whose job is to create that rotation, rather than to be hyperefficient on possessions they use themselves.
Concretely: it sort of doesn't matter that JB has a meh TS%, because
- he consistently gets the defense in rotation and makes the right read at that point
- if you DON'T send help and let him play 1-on-1 jn space, his TS% goes wayyy up