I just don’t think NIP can really work with the looser style, in my eyes the more rigid, systematic style is very hard to get working well, while the looser, momentum based style is more fun, but depends a lot on the players hitting their shots. If they have a downswing in performance, it falls apart, and you have nothing to fall back on.
NIP’s players just aren’t on the same level individually as something like G2, and we have seen how good G2 looks when their players are in form, and how fast they fall off when they aren’t in form.
Obviously it isn’t that simple and there are tons of different things that affect a team’s performance, but that’s how I see the “broad strokes”. And don’t get me wrong, each one of k0nfig, Brollan, hampus, headtr1ck and REZ has had very high highs during their careers, but none of them can reach that level consistently. I guess it’s sort of a gamble to see if they could unlock that good form in a more consistent manner for their inconsistent stars with this? Or they just don’t have other good options.
It’s interesting it came right after k0nfig’s criticism of how they lost at the major. I guess they prefer the looser style of hampus.
I just don’t think NIP can really work with the looser style, in my eyes the more rigid, systematic style is very hard to get working well, while the looser, momentum based style is more fun, but depends a lot on the players hitting their shots. If they have a downswing in performance, it falls apart, and you have nothing to fall back on.
NIP’s players just aren’t on the same level individually as something like G2, and we have seen how good G2 looks when their players are in form, and how fast they fall off when they aren’t in form.
Obviously it isn’t that simple and there are tons of different things that affect a team’s performance, but that’s how I see the “broad strokes”. And don’t get me wrong, each one of k0nfig, Brollan, hampus, headtr1ck and REZ has had very high highs during their careers, but none of them can reach that level consistently. I guess it’s sort of a gamble to see if they could unlock that good form in a more consistent manner for their inconsistent stars with this? Or they just don’t have other good options.