Shower thought: Scoot playing like a legit starting PG instead of a bottom 5 rotation player in the NBA fixed a lot of the biggest offensive issues for this team.

Low quality post I know so the mods can definitely feel free to delete this, but I had this thought while I was in the shower (literally):

Scoot playing like a real starting PG this last month has fixed a ton of offensive issues for this team and has a cascading effect on the rest of the team:

1) It leads to Ant getting moved off the ball when he shares the floor with Scoot, which in turn leads to less inefficient and stagnant Ant iso touches, and being able to use Ant as a floor spacer/movement shooter/bucket getter off the ball which improves the spacing for everyone else on the court

2) No more having to play Banton for secondary creation off the bench because Scoot can't create by himself which in turn leads to not having to deal with Banton chuck fest

3) Ayton getting more (and higher quality) touches on offense which leads to Ayton being more engaged on defense, which is really key because as the center he's the guy that needs to call out coverages and coordinate the defense/call out help rotations.

4) Better defense allows us to play in transition more frequently which in turn helps the offense (and particularly Deni)

5) Scoot (and Toumani) shooting the ball well makes it so their defenders can't totally collapse on the paint when someone drives which leads to better spacing for everyone else on the floor