Brandon Knight puts the blame on his former team for his subpar assists totals according to Racinesportszone.com.
From Racine Sports Zone :
“I’m not trying to blame anybody,” Knight said while carefully choosing his words. “But the team we had … It was a tough situation.
“When you have shooters, it’s easy to get assists because they’re going to knock down open shots. We had, maybe, one (Kyle Singler) knock-down shooter.
“And I didn’t have any bigs who could stop and pop. The only one we had was Charlie Villanueva and he didn’t play much. And, when he did play, he was with the second unit so I wasn’t playing much with him.”
But that wasn’t the sole reason, Knight says, for his subpar assist numbers last season. He points out that, contrary to public perception, he wasn’t strictly a point guard. He also spent a considerable amount of time at the shooting guard spot.
“In the first half of the season, I was playing the point guard position; in the second half, I played off the ball,” said the 21-year-old Knight, whom the Bucks acquired July 30 from the Pistons in a trade for disgruntled Brandon Jennings. “So, of course, my assists are going to go down. A lot of people outside looking in … they look at the stats. But a lot of them didn’t know that.
What Knight is essentially saying is that he had no one to pass it to because there were no reliable scorers on the team. Blaming your teammates for your poor assists totals is not a good thing to do now that you are with another team it’s best that you have some trust in your teammates and know what their scoring abilities are. No excuses.
