Shhh, don't bring up post counts. You're hurting the feelings of your accomplices tinman and zboy now.
Not sure why you are so angry and obsessed with a player whom you say is just a scrub. You are calling people "white knights" while you and your partner are the ones who are fighting incessantly in this thread. You have posted less than 4700 posts in 10 years. 260+ of those posts (more than 5% of your total post count) are in this thread started less than 6 months ago. Tell me who is the white knight? You are assuming you know who my hero is. LOL.
I wouldn't say it was a tough spot, it just required him to exercise some basketball IQ and his own judgement which we all know he's notorious for not having on the floor. His coach is an idiot and gave him instructions that everyone agrees were stupid as hell. He made a choice to follow the idiotic instructions rather than doing what he should know is the right thing to do in that situation. It's not arm chair basketball even a little bit. He wasn't even pressuring the ball. If they wanted to pressure the ball to try to force a turnover and then foul with 10 seconds then that's sound logic. Instead he was just standing there looking at the sidelines like a junior high school point guard. Now coach? Now? Now? What about now? Lin is a $15m a year player that Scott has already criticized in the press at least twice and benched him for Ronnie freaking Price, a journeyman nobody. What would Byron Scott do to him that he wasn't already? Double bench him? Take away his locker? Honestly I feel bad for Jeremy Lin, he's in a bad downward spiral and he doesn't know what to do about it.
Agreed. He should have pressured the ball. I think he was awaiting Scott to give him the green light to foul. I don't know.
Actually it wasn't just Lin. Wesley Johnson was right next to Lin and likewise had no intention to foul...and nor did the other Lakers move to foul...all except for Kobe. Four players obeyed the coach's orders because as a professional athlete that is what you are told to do.
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Scott is an idiot. I do not think lin is to blame. But i also understand kobea reaction. I am loving this lakers year.
Rationale is Scott has no clue what he's doing. Between wanting to run the clock to 10 secs left and not shooting 3's, seems like his strategy is to be different for the sake of being different Plus he spends most of every interview talking about his newest plan to manage Kobe's minutes, I think he spends 90% of his working hours spreadsheeting Kobe's minutes and 10% on actual basketball
Not if they fire him at the END of this season. In that case, next season they will only be paying just Byron Scott as Mike Brown and D'Antoni's contracts run out. Btw, is there any way to find out which thread is currently the longest in Clutchfans history? I think this thread can break the record.
Scott was always overrated as a coach. CP3 was running the show in NEw ORleans. Jkidd was the real coach in New Jersey. He said he didnt want to foul until there was 10 seconds left to save timeouts. Which makes absolutely 0 sense, if you want to waste time, just foul off the top, then have your guy hold the ball until 10 seconds and then your play.
CP3 and J Kidd are elite PGs you a right, they know how to play the PG position correctly. If Bryon Scott told Jeremy Lin to jump off the cliff, Jeremy Lin wouldn't think twice. that's the problem.
FWIW, Bob Voulgaris' take: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>What an idiot - 14 seconds doesn’t make much of a difference according to Byron <a href="https://t.co/dRLUtKjHB4">https://t.co/dRLUtKjHB4</a></p>— Haralabos Voulgaris (@haralabob) <a href="https://twitter.com/haralabob/status/551440486959816704">January 3, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> He is a professional sports gambler who uses analytics to bet on NBA games. At the very least, this is a guy who reviewed the data and ran the probability calculations on these end of game situations.
