i know right? people are acting like players don't know what 96% means. why would they judge morey on something like that? i doubt they even gave it a second thought. DerpDerp must think the NBA players have the thought process of a teenage girl.
That sums up your entire post in a stellar way. Heart and a will to win don't show up in stat sheets or analytics.
Geez folks, all I said was players probably rolled their eyes at the 96.38% comment and Morey probably put the .38 part as a funny. Senstive people, must not criticize der morey. DD
i don't really care what you said about morey. i just think it's unfair to generalize nba players IQ as below average like that. i agree that they probably aren't as broadly educated as the majority of the population. i'm sure it wouldn't be the best pool of people to take financial advice from or take advice on who to vote for, but it takes a some kind of intelligence to understand basketball at the highest level of competition in the world. it takes a balance of bball IQ and physical talent to make it in the nba. so, a lot of players get by on just their athleticism (mcgee), but i'd argue that the majority of players aren't physically gifted enough to just rely on that. maybe my perception of the average human intelligence is off, but i don't think hearing about %'s are outside of the norm in a morey run team. i don't think mchale is out there preaching about stats, but i'm sure the assistant coaches were picked because they buy into stats. meaning lot of their instructions to players are based on stats. to clarify, i'm not arguing about the eye rolling. i totally understand why someone would roll their eyes at morey thinking it's relevant to take it out 2 decimal places.
I have nada positive to say about Jimbo. I think he could be a Sterling-like addition to Lakers' future. However, after a gabillion reports that JB would NOT trade Bynum for DH12 reports say he green-lighted it. It surprised me; made me concerned that just maybe he would allow BB decisions to be made over his head (and isn't everything??? :grin
Short visit http://houston.cbslocal.com/2012/04/19/mavericks-crush-playoff-hopes-of-rockets/ http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/nyc.podcast.play.it/media/d0/d0/d1/d0/dB/dN/dZ/10BNZ_3.MP3 Thanks for the time, good morning. Good morning. You lose 117-110 last night. Putting up 110 in a key game good but giving up 117 not so good. 4th Q did not go according to plan. Can you breakdown what went wrong last night? Yeah, sure. It was pretty basic. It was mostly PnR defense in the half court. They broke us down with that. They're obviously one of the best but we didn't execute well at all. They broke that down and either took advantage of that or when we had to rotate to help, took advantage of the open looks that created or attacked off the hard closeouts. It was pretty ugly. Obviously the 4th Q is where we lost it. Although we played pretty well in the first half and our defense let us down there too, we probably needed to be up 10 at halftime to withstand a very good team in the half court and very good team in the 4th Q. They're a tough team to handle given their experience and talent. A broad stroke question, we had JVG on. He said the NBA is almost rewarding teams that crater, I know you don't want to do that but here you are maybe 3 years in a row with the 14th pick, it's gotta be frustrating knowing you're doing things right and trying to win and then in the proverbial no-man's land. Well, that's absolutely true that uhh that's how the draft is set up. Set up to help teams that are performing bad and trying to create parity in the league. The rules are the rules, we know them. We have to work hard to execute what we're trying to execute. Not being in the playoffs the last 2 years isn't acceptable to us. Our goal is to make the playoffs this year. We aren't out of it yet. We obviously made the road extremely hard. We have to win all 4 and look for a little bit of help from Phoenix and Utah. You had that 4 game winning streak and come home and things have gone south. Key difference between the success you were having and lack of success in the last 5 games? I think on that road trip, a lot of is we played well, made our 3 pointers in particular and won a couple of close games which are often toss up affairs. In the 4 games since, a lot of our losses were, we missed open looks, D wasn't as tight and lost at least one close one in there, and Dallas was a defensive breakdown. Against a good team but as you said, scoring 110 should be enough to get it done. It's frustrating. We allowed ourselves to think we got something going positive here and really it's hard to win every night in the NBA. Looking at the boxscore, often it's easy to point to something, whether transition D or missing shots, you did a lot of things right yesterday other than the 4th Q. I think I asked something similar last week. Has this team, combo of youth and having to win so many games, did it hit a wall? I don't think we can use that as an excuse. We're a younger team, deeper team, and every team has a compressed schedule so I don't think we can give ourselves a pass there. We're a team that is not quite good enough. When we won those 4 games, it looked like our path to the playoffs would be something we could execute but we were right where we thought we were right now. Before the season, we thought we'd be fighting for one of the 5-8 seeds in the playoffs. That's where we're still at. It's not over. Obviously before, the road looked more likely, now it seems less likely but we do have multiple games against teams that look winnable and with the big game being(beating?) Miami in Miami. New Orleans tonight on the road. Appreciate the time. Best of luck rest of the way. Happy to come on. New Orleans has been playing pretty good with obviously a lot of injuries there as well. A big game. A must win. A must win at this point. All the others have been pretty much win. This one is pretty much we gotta win 4 straight to get in I appreciate the time guys. (Poor Daryl sounds depressed on that last line)
Its pretty obvious here that they agreed to save the "what now" discussion for next week, and focus on the losses and winnable games to close out the season. Nothing real earth shattering here.
The defense breaks down only after the offense goes. To stop the Rockets pack the paint. Even with a Yao on the Rockets they would be still be reliant on their outside shooters to make shots.
Yes, you know the rules, you know everything about running an NBA team backwards and forwards. You know every intricate detail of the salary cap. You know all this, yet you keep doing the same thing every year hoping for a different result. You say you have to work hard to execute what you're trying to execute? What the #### does that mean? It's means you don't have a ####ing star that's what it means. Not being in the playoffs the last two years isn't acceptable to you? Then why do you keep doing the same thing every year, hoarding assets and hoping to land a deadline deal when all that does is make it difficult to distribute minutes and develop talent. You let Lin slip through your fingers because you saw him as an asset/contract, and his contract wasn't worth keeping on the roster, because you didn't think any other GM would want him. Forest for the trees right there. We have just enough assets to win just enough games to not get a high draft pick, but no star to win a championship with, and there is no indication whatsoever that Les-Morey are going to do anything different next year or the year after that or the year after that. I'd love to know just how long Les-More plan to keep ####ing off in circles before they buy a ####ing clue and build a team the one way, the only way, that has ever worked for us - by tanking! Jeezus!
Relax!! Try not to post anymore. It could be hazardous to your health. Next Morey press conference I halfway expect to see you Van Gundy style wrapped around Morey's leg!!
Hmh. If that's true...where do you suppose he got that bit of "bad" behavior from? Tracy McGrady, maybe...?
How much contact does Morey actually allow between himself and the players and coaches during the regular season? I know a lot of GM's are hands off entirely, but Morey seems to be one of those guys who blurs that line, and it causes problems.
I wasn't angry when I wrote that. I'm actually less frustrated now than I was at the beginning of the season, because most opposition to tanking has finally bottomed out.
Just funning you. I am frustrated too. I just don't think it is Morey as much as it is Les. We blame the Messenger for the Message when the message comes from Les. I think we could have gotten value for Yao even hurt but Les wanted to keep those Billion or so Chinese Fans as Rocket fans and all the revenue that would have been lost in that trade. I think he gives Morey the win now edict. I think Morey does what he can under the orders he is given. His situation reminds me of Hunsickers with the Astro's. Everyone blamed him for the problems of the owner but I am sure Tampa thanks us every day for running him out of town.
