DMo only got minutes with the mop-up crew in 13-14. They were terrible. The have made Lebron look bad. DMo was essentially banished to that role because James and Dwight wanted Terrence to start and we were also attempting to keep Asik engaged and build up his trade value.
He had 3 starts and was uniformly terrible in those 3. Also from Jan 2016 on, he routinely got 20-25 minutes of playing time. Let's not beat around the bush here. D Mo was not very good in 13-14. He was very good 14-15. Why re-write history? I don't care about the subtext with TJ etc... the fact of the matter is D Mo was well on his way to being a bust in 13-14, and we were all pleasantly surprised that this was not the case last year.
Wow. So, McHale deciding (along with nearly everyone on CFnet) to give up on the Twin Towers experiment with Howard and Asik is now a conspiracy theory about why DMo didn't beat out Terrence to be starting PF. That's another super dumb conspiracy theory. McHale didn't ever really want to do the Howard/Asik Twin Towers, but did for 9 games to appease Asik's fragile ego, since neither of the second year PFs had really started, yet. It would be too much of an embarrassment to Asik for either Jones or DMo to start Game 1. So, McHale let the experiment fail on it's own. Then he started Terrence, because he beat out DMo for the starting role. This wasn't some stupid basketballholic conspiracy that Howard and Harden made McHale start Terrence. It was no one wanted to start Asik and Howard together anymore, after those first 9 games. sheesh...the things that guy just makes up out of nowhere.
It is true no one wanted the Twin Towers anymore after 9 games. The rest is silly made up extensions to that to say Terrence was the "anointed one," whatever that means. He just beat out DMo. The rest is about the Morey, McHale, Howard/Harden AND ALL OF CFNET wanting to end the Twin Towers experiment. basketballholic is using very well known public knowledge about the Twin Tower experiment to invent something about DMo, because he knows suckers like you will forget history and time and place of what happened. It wasn't about DMo and Jones as much as it was about Asik.
Of course it is, it's way easier to come up with a simple answer that corroborates ones view; our coaching staff is dumb. Thanks for the data.
Agree. Also people forget DMO was a walking foul machine back then and it was hard to keep the kid in the game.
People have such ****ty memories . In dmo's second year he was a better defensive player than he was offensively. His shooting was atrocious and he was not a strong finisher in the paint . He should have played in he playoffs ( I think anyways) because it was defense we were lacking . But a second year player with no reputation was a likely bet to be shredded by Aldridge regardless . Dmo didn't earn a starting nod that year because his offense was awful . He was quite good defensively though he did sometimes run into foul trouble.
Partly because refs in the NBA are corrupt and unprofessional. Veteran and rookie calls is acceptable practice somehow.
Especially given the matchup and the fact that the guy they went with over him was completely worthless.....but I guess we should just gloss over that.
McHale chose to bring TJones off the bench after Game 2 and start Asik again. Asik started playing 32 mpg in the last 4 games, and Howard was getting over 40 minutes. And TJones fell down to less than 20 mpg. McHale wanted more defense. But he chose Asik over TJ/DMo...not really Jones over DMo in those last 4 games. Besides, guarding the stuff LMA was throwing up was as much about double teams as Asik over TJ/DMo.
This is one of the reasons Europeans laugh at NBA and call it a circus. NBA referees must be among the worst referees in the world.
Starting Asik was the right thing to do, having TJ in the game at all when you want defense (or even just competent play) was the wrong thing to do. If you have a more competent coach, they realize that if you play DMo instead of Jones you have a guy that can guard the center which allows one of Asik or Howard to be on LMA at all times. Playing Jones even off the bench means that you'll be putting in a defensive sieve which isn't exactly what you want.
I am European and to see some here to say that the NBA is corrupt and our leagues are not is LAUGHABLE. Hypocritical at the least. Get that crap out of here. You think that you can spew such lies because noone watches the european leagues to see the scum and the dirt and the outright MAFIA.
You're speculating and that's a fact. Regardless, I won't disagree with you about the corruption. But at least Euroleague has good refs. NBA refs are either incompetent or bought.
