puahah that hilarious. both those guys make no significant difference defensively over a extended period of time. You can continue to overrate players as usual instead of realizing what they truly can do at this moment and set yourself up for continued failure. Any other coach would still have to shuffle with these inconsistent players he currently has to field.
People are worried about Relationships, who's playing, etc. The problem is plain and simple; 1) We need energy in the starting lineup (Start Harrell), yes Harrell! Beasley is too important off the bench. 2) Harden needs to stop with the bounce passes. He's over 4 turnovers a game, that's ridiculous and be aware of his defensive assignments. You learn in Youth Basketball early on, to guard your man on the in bounce pass. 3) Howard needs to accept the fact that he is not a Postup Player. After 12 yrs, something needs to click in either him or the coaching staff. 4) Bickerstaff needs to man up! If Harden was on the Spurs, JVG's Rockets or any other NBA coach who's not afraid to make difficult decisions and would have lost his man like he did last night....he would have been immediately put on the bench!
Be careful.... I said this same thing a while back and Harden's fan base is more ruthless than Trump's fan base.. I would love to hear from Thornton or Ty after reading that there was another player's only meeting. T_Man
ummm well, Harrel gave us a jolt last night and not the 1st time he's shown he can do this for JB this year and he brings him in late in the game. Goldilocks rides the pine and makes TJ active....wow that makes sense...NOT. I don't care if KJ scores 2 points..put him on Reddick and see if he makes a difference or not. Give him 2-5minutes to see if he can be a stopper. His energy has made a difference in games. Yes, he goofed up last night but I can see why after being used to intentionally foul Jordan early in the game to only come in LATE to actually play basketball. I could go on...see the Coach's video on our defense put in here a few days ago. All we can do is SPECULATE WHY Harrel,Beasley, KJ wasn't the answer last night because we didn't get a chance to see it..but I bet Popivich would've tried it...I bet Kerr would've tried it. Just one example of many...let's not throw in the high pick and rolls that gave the Clippers open lanes in the paint to score.
Struggling Rockets have another players-only meeting Rockets have another players-only meeting after latest loss
so because KJ was put in the game to foul DJ, it was ok for him to play the way he did. You fail to understand if you get the chance to get in the game you have to find some way to take advantage of it no matter what the situation is and especially being a young player. Once he got in the game he showed us once again why he doesn't get into game on a higher basis.
Bad coaching decisions led to the loss over lack of effort? Or was it their lack of effort and focus, that lead to bad coaching decisions? You have to fix the effort/focus issue first. Otherwise, you'll never know what the coaching really is doing or not doing. If a good player isn't listening, do you keep the good player in or put in a worse player who listens? the good player could start listening, so maybe you keep him in....or maybe not. As a coach, you can end up screwing that up either way and it's not really an indication of how good of a coach you are. It's almost a guessing game.
Judge the "alluded to personal agendas" tweets for yourself Here's the video where Dwight says "put aside any personal agendas,,,if there are any." He says it like a counselor would. As in, if they exist, let them go. I didn't get the impression that they talked about specific agendas and were pointing fingers. But, I do believe there were in the past (if not still now), players with some ulterior motives in their play at times...like Thornton and Lawson. If you made me pick, I'd be pointing at the man who mentioned the possibility in the video above.
Not that they are lying, but that they just might simply be wrong about the coach. I could be wrong also, but the possible facts are that coaching on and off the court seems to be lacking at the moment. By watching the games, the substitutions are ridiculously questionable, and the style in which this team plays is also questionable at the moment. You can listen to whomever you want about coaching, that is fine, but I think there is a lot that goes on during the game that can be questioned solely from a coaching standpoint, along with players faults during the game.
You must've watched a different game than everyone else. He was put in to foul Jordan not to guard Reddick. Your logic is off.
I think it's time we had a fan-only meeting. Someone offer your house. I'll bring the chips and queso. Only 14 games left! Let's do this! :grin:
is that not what I said at the beginning of the post. If you watched the game then you would know what im talking about because he then played later and fumbled some opportunities
I did one better now that you addressed the 1 KJ issue...we can debate that..but what about the rest of what I stated below...I took out the KJ piece so feel free to ADDRESS the rest of the points below: ummm well, Harrel gave us a jolt last night and not the 1st time he's shown he can do this for JB this year and he brings him in late in the game. Goldilocks rides the pine and makes TJ active....wow that makes sense...NOT. I don't care if KJ scores 2 points..put him on Reddick and see if he makes a difference or not. Give him 2-5minutes to see if he can be a stopper. His energy has made a difference in games. I could go on...see the Coach's video on our defense put in here a few days ago. All we can do is SPECULATE WHY Harrel,Beasley, KJ wasn't the answer last night because we didn't get a chance to see it..but I bet Popivich would've tried it...I bet Kerr would've tried it. Just one example of many...let's not throw in the high pick and rolls that gave the Clippers open lanes in the paint to score.
Relax guys this players only meeting was so that Michael Beasley can get the hang of things around here.
This team just sucks. Period. There is no heart, no discipline, no desire, they simply are a fatally entitled basketball team. No amount of "team meetings" is going to cure your two superstars not giving a **** and the rest of the team playing like they really do not like each other. Give it a break. This team is composed of losers, and no meeting is going to fix that at this point.
Ive already addressed the Harrel issue previously. You can continue to name all these guys names but they're weren't going to fix that horrendous defense. Thats not something one player is going to fix. Thats something every single player that steps on that floor needs to address themselves
You guys keep mentioning Harrell. He's still a terrible rebounder. Significantly worse than DMo. You can't have a PF who rebounds so poorly.
Good point on the players and at the same time, JB can't coach quickness and speed no matter how much effort is given and if JB continues to do silly BS plays like High Pick and Rolls then they'll continue to get the results. Ariza not gonna be faster and quicker overnight with the same set plays to defend against the next time they play the Clips, Warriors, Spurs or whomever. Bringing in Harrell late in games when it's too late won't help along with other "Definition of Insanity" non-sense. Pops/Kerr heck even Rick Carlisle of the Mavs wouldn't have these issues in my opinion. Mavs beat Cleveland putting Dirk at Center and they had no answer for that. Kinda the stuff I'm talking about knowing how to use rotations versus the definition of insanity JB is rolling with. I agree, the players are accountable. Yank them out and use the bench differently.
