Selfishness isn't the problem in this offense but misguided egalitarianism might be.
I like that -- "misguided egalitarianism."
Seems to me that there might be a conflict between helping our younger guys develop along the lines that will lead to greatest long term success in the NBA, versus what is needed for our offense right now.
Pretty much all of the players on our team have the makings of career role players, albeit role players who could carve out a nice long career in this league.
So on the one hand, you want to develop them into the best role players they can be. That means keeping their responsibilities small and encouraging them to keep the ball moving and focus on what they do best. Basically, you prep them to do what they would do on a good team, in the hopes that they are ready to succeed in that environment when the team gets good again.
On the other hand, we've got a team with only one guy, maybe two, who is an honest to goodness scorer and knows how to succeed in a high usage role. So sometimes having all of our role players look to share the ball before they look to score can actually hurt the offense. Teams need guys on the floor willing to take a lot of shots, even if those aren't always the most efficient shots.
That's why on this team I don't mind so much that Avery has taken a lot of shots, because at least he's willing to take them. Sometimes he gets hot and hits some big shots, which helps the team win close games. But ideally you'd have somebody else who is willing to be a shot-taker, somebody who actually gets inside and draws fouls sometimes. Isaiah can obviously do that, but he can't do it for more than 28-30 minutes a night without killing the team defensively.