I understand what you are saying but you will not win a championship with all defensive players on the court all the time. Some players will never be defensive players. Teams know that and try and mix in players that are with those players. You dont have to hold teams to under 85 pts to win a title. You have to be able to get stops when you need them. More importantly you have to be able to score the ball from multiple ways. We can debate this forever and a day. So I will just see what coach they hire and then more importantly (too me) what roster moves they make later on. Martin, Scola, Budinger will NEVER be real good defensive players, but they will score the ball consistently.
Really? Not to dismiss your argument without thought but what about: The Celtics San Antonio The Pistons It's true you can't have nothing but defensive players on the court all the time. THAT IS WHY THE COACH make ALL the player work hard on Defense, even the Ray Allen's, Rip Hamilton's, Tony Parker's. A Championship coach will make all his starters commit to playing defense, not just the defensive players. Jordan's Bulls? Some of the best defensive teams in the NBA because they SOLD OUT on defense.
Compare our current line-up to the one we had several years ago with Ron-Ron... Current: Hayes, Scola, Battier (traded)/Budinger, Martin, Lowry 2008-2009 Season: Yao, Scola, Artest, Battier, Brooks Difference between the 2 lineups...a 7-footer and defensive PLAYERS. Yao and Artest were 2 way players, and Battier was a defensive pest...Yao clogged the paint and kept players from penetrating, Artest and Battier on the wings was suffocating, while Brooks and Scola provided scoring punches. Now, you have Hayes giving 110% each night, but cant clog the paint, doesnt block shots, and doesn't scare players from penetrating, an older Scola, Budinger+Martin on the wings, and Lowry who is a 2-way player. If Martin, Budinger and Hayes replace Noah, Bogans, and Deng for Chicago, there is NO WAY they would be in the ECF... that team would be set for failure! Dont blame the coach because of what "King Morey" couldn't provide the team with... 2-way players, height, and talent.
Why do people keep ignoring the fact that Adelman has had top defensive teams in the past? Why do people keep ignoring the fact that we were a good defensive team under Adelman before Yao went down? Why do people keep assuming that if you are a good offensive coach, you can't care less about defense? Why do people keep assuming that since Adelman is creative with offense, he can't also be "old school" whatever that means?
Dunno. A lot of people think unless you grind it out and keep the score in the high 80s that you aren't a good defensive club. But nothing could be farther from the truth. Good NBA defenses contest and they force the opponent to play their tempo. And the best defenses are seen in point spread between points scored and points given up. A team that gives up 110 ppg could actually be a good defensive team if they average 118 ppg and they consistently force the opponent to play their uptempo pace and wear their opponents down. That's what defense is all about. Defense and offense are linked. The game is about the spread.
RJ: Owner really impressed with Frank. Fact its not done makes you think Casey is really serious candidate. Guessing they interviewed Casey again too. At this point, if I had to rank them, in order they get it: Frank, Casey, McHale. McHale is the wildcard. Dont think you can go wrong with any of them.
This has NOTHING to do with Rick anymore. They both wanted to move in different directions. Keep him out of it
I don't know if this has been posted yet, but one very good thing i can say about Frank is, we already have 2 players who are somewhat familiar with his system( Lee, Williams).
good now hopefully all of t-will's twitter stans and groupies will shut up about his lack of playing time now.
fg% is what i am looking at not score. when talking about defense, ppl always think about 85 pts. it's misleading. total pts depends on the possessions each team has. the difference btw you and me is i would move "More importantly" from the 2nd sentence to your 1st sentence.
this is misleading. this actually came from ppl who is favor on offense. a good defense team makes opponent take low % shots. however, when other teams force you to play half court and slow bball that are seen in playoff very often, those offense oriented teams are often exposed. offense oriented teams always attract audiance and make fans excited but at the end, title is what fans want. when you win title, all those low score and boring games are irrelavent.
Adelman got them to play D. The best they could with what they had. Look at the stats after the trade deadline once we knew who our team was. Rick's teams in the past also played good D. Ray Allen, Tony Parker, even Pierce play 'sometime' defense. Not consistently, but what those players will do consistently is SCORE THE BALL. Duncan, Garnett, and Wallace were the bigs behind them that protected the rim. Pippen was a top 50 player of all time and considered one of the best defenders of all time. They also had Rodman and Grant was a rim protector on those Bulls teams. I'm not saying playing defense is not important, but you are saying a coach can make Martin, Bud, and Scola play better D. Not gonna happen. They are not physically on the same level as a lot of the guys they guard in the league. Sorry, just not gonna happen so you put guys around them that play very good D.
unfortunately, i didn't watch other teams when his team played good defense. when i do watch him leading our team, his team defense were getting worse and worse. either he lost his interest in defense or his player didn't listen to him anymore. who knows what happen to him.
A good offense team is a team that turns the ball over very few times and squeezes the most points out of each possession. Doesn't matter how long it takes them to score. What matters is how often they score on the possessions that they have, how they use those possessions. A great offensive team can be a grind it out offense that only averages 92 ppg, but they have single digit turnovers and they get the most points out of each possession.
you are still in the scope of one on one defense. think about team defense alit bit more. stay in front of your man. make them shoot Js. weak side help d, and so on.
