Rakeem Christmas: 6' 9.75" 243 lbs. 7' 5.25" Wingspan 9' 2.5" Standing Reach To the poster who told me standing reach and wingspan have no correlation to rim protection, @ me pls
Rome wasn't built in a day. Harden had a bad game. NBA is about matchups, and we knew defense and rebounding would be an issue. You're not saying anything new.
The bottom line is that our bench got demolished last night. Most people end up in prison for committing lesser crimes than what the Pacers did to our bench last night. These guys need to talk more. Serious talks.
The thing is... it's NOT about matchups... it's ALL about whether the 3 ball is dropping for us or not - period. Either its dropping and their defense is scrambling... we're getting 3s left and right... stuff is opening down low for Clint and Nene cause defenders are running out on shooters... and we look great... Or its not falling, defenders can clog the lane... and we're dead. No balance, no real defense to keep us in games, no back-up plan if 3 pt shots are off... It's a house of cards... We need a banger or two... I love Clint and Harrell, but them and a limited availability Nene aren't enough to protect the paint and give us a legitimate down low threat... If you're gonna use the pf slot as a stretch 4... you better have a monster down low... That's my rant... hope i'm wrong and we go on to win it all... but i'm not real optimistic...
If regular season dont mean a thing than why are you frustrated about trends you noticed in last nights loss? You cant use negative aspects of the regular season for your argument about why we arent playoff ready while also disqualifying any optimistic evidence from the regular season that suggests we are playoff ready
because there's a difference between losing a few games because you're resting guys or dealing with injuries or playing with rotations or something... vs not being able to make adjustments.... If we're firing on all cylinders we have a chance... if we're not - Pops is gonna eat us alive...
After the Williams trade, Dantoni badically said that he has a bad as squad, and that any losses from here on out would be on the COACH and not the players. I don't mind DantonI calling it like it is. We SUCH AT GETTING REBOUNDS. mainly because Capella and Nene watch the ball above the rim rather than boxing out. SAME OL' STORY
Yeah its a make or miss league for every team. Make you win. Miss you lose. There is a lot of evidence to think we will make 3s. You can be fixated on the losses. Ill focus on the wins.
I cringe at people who don't want Bogut at $3.5m for rest of season. Because they don't like his personality and his illegal screens (that don't get calld).
It's completely about matchups when you think about additional fatigue from having to defend 3 or even 4 times on a single possession.
We are 7th in the league in points in the paint, it isn't a house of cards from my perspective. We simply fall into the iso Harden trap when things start breaking down and it infects other players. We aren't contenders with the likes of GS, but we still are a good team. I really don't see a reason why one shouldn't be optimistic for this team compared to a year ago.
I think your overreacting to one game. The bench actually had the lead at 17 so 6 points more from the end of the 1st quarter. The problem is, MDA took Capela out whe he made a bad pass outlet pass after securing a rebound. He put trez in and it was all she wrote we couldn't defend down low or rebound. That second unit with bev/lou/Gordon playing the 1-2-3 spots has to have Clint with them. Hes still our best rebounding and defensive big. I think with Capela in the game we would have been just fine. Nene can play with the starters in the 2nd quarter or even trez can because Ariza and harden are much bigger and better at rebounding that Lou and Gordon. Our bench is very strong we just had a bad shooting night, It happens. I read earlier that we've only had 4 games we're we made 10 or less three and they were all losses. So that's the real reason we lost. Not the bench or MDA adjustments. He's so much better of a coach that McMillan, that's disrespectful DUDE!!! Lol
