Time to let go and improve our bench. This decision making was not a good one and getting rid of Garcia and improving the bench should have been done in the offseason. We are not a bad team like Philly developing players like Capela, Johnson, Daniels and Black.
I didn't watch preseason this year. Did Adrien look that bad? I thought he was going to be a good pickup for us.
This is all on Morey. Dorsey "best defensive big in Europe" Giving guaranteed $$$ to a grade A scrub like Dorsey thereby not cutting him while cutting the better player in Adrien. Dorsey can't even get time when we are without 3 starters. Pathetic
He played well with the time he had, but Black played better...Adrien had a guaranteed contract and Black did not. Now the point is moot.
The point is: who plays better in NBA games? Can we get Adrien back? Cut Dorsey if we need to. McHale is not playing him anyway. Adrien would have gotten us some rebounds when we needed them in the 4th quarter.
The fact that Dorsey didn't see the floor in a game like tonight says a lot about him. Rockets clearly made the wrong choice in Dorsey over Adrian, but we all knew that at the time as well.
Nah... Adrien had consistently 6 or 7 boards in limited 17-18 minutes on a broke ankle. Dude was solid IMHO. Black had one or two games with double digits rebounding and scoring but playing more minutes... He exploded for two games
Dorsey was gonna be her no matter what. Letting Adrien go and keeping black was a bad idea though. Black blows.
Black was playing really well in the preseason with major minutes...now his prior play is looking like an aberration. Flash pan performance. Guessing Mchale wanted to keep him over Adrien, bc no way in heck Morey is giving out guaranteed contracts and cutting folks (basically the reason Dorsey is on this team)
I do not have problems keeping a guy like Black but you have Capela, Johnson, Daniels, Canaan, Papanikolaou. 5 -6 roster spots already occupied by very young players. You do not see that often on a contender. Food for thoughts.
We kept Dorsey because Morey doesn't want to be stuck with his salary next season when he'll have an easier time moving him.
Does Jeff Adrien have another gig yet? You'd think somebody would sign him to a minimum deal. He is better than somebody's 15th guy, no? The Lakers, for one, can use a big guy with some ability to bang. Boozer is washed up, Sacre is a scrub and Hill/Davis are skinny.
Adrien and Black are both better than DMo. Dorsey is the worst of them all but it wouldn't surprise me if he also ends up better than DMo.
Tarik Black is terrible, I haven't seen him do one significant positive thing in the regular season. Adrien is a beast that has been let go 7 times, and is currently unemployed. Dorsey is only here because Mory screwed up and gave him guaranteed money. D-Mo is by far the best player of that quartet, which isn't saying a whole lot.
Dmo has the size and potential to be clearly better than Adrien, Black but he is not doing it on the court night in night out. Adrien is a consistent guy who can give you 5-8 rebounds in less than 20 minutes every ******* night
If Adrien is as good as so many think he is, why is he unemployed and why do teams repeatedly let him go? Black has done nothing, he was benched today because he was so woefully ineffective. At least he's young though.
People value size (Adrien cannot play Center) and I am asking myself too. Adrien had his best season with the Bucks. Perhaps a mediocre or bad team like the Bucks are not worthy of any mention? Plus Adrien is fairly old at age 28 but his stats have been getting better. He is not really athletic. NBA is very prejudiced you should know. 7 ft busts happen all the time.
I'm of the belief that numbers on bad teams don't mean much. If you put 5 bodies on the floor, the team is gonna grab 35 rebounds regardless of talent. He went undrafted, and finally found a little playing time on 2 terrible teams in Milwaukee and Charlotte. He's poor shooter, doesn't protect the paint, and has average defensive awareness. Being a decent rebounder doesn't make up for that. He's simply not very good. Granted he is better than Dorsey and Black, but none of those 3 will contribute on a winner. FWIW Neither will D-Mo unless he can ever consistently give what he gave tonight.
