The only chemistry problem we have right now is that there is too much iron in some of our jumpers....we need a slight case of anemia to cure Tmac and Rafer of their constant banging of the iron.... They need to avoid iron at all costs and stick to the nice smoot feel of cotton...... Let the ball touch nothing but cotton.....and leave the Iron alone. DD
Do you guys realize our assist number dropped significantly recently? Alston was obsessed with scoring but forgot he was a PG. He had no belief in Carl/Scola rather took nonsense 3s by himself. TMac is the only guy who could find the opening in the paint. Coach called on moving the ball more but not enough. We were moving the ball except in a smart way. I think ASSIST is the catalyst of the game. If PG is blind, other ppl just get frustrated and stop running and fighting for better positions. No assist No chemistry.
I think the team is just in coast mode or relaxing right now... so I'm not going to panic until I see them keep it up for too long.
Alston is the one changing the plays on the fly in the game. What bugs me is we had 3 days to prepare. 1)Alston needs to give T-Mac the ball in the post when the other team scores. 2)Or find him in a set screen jumper. He is the one changing the offence up and making it to where when nobody cuts then he A) drives for a brick floater. B) passes to T-Mac out on the perimeter This will not work. Every time the other team scores T-Mac needs to be in a better position to counter. Once they score then they need to get back on defense and get the rebound. Then Alston needs to change it up. Keep them from zeroing in on what our plan is or "weakness" I would much rather have T-Mac on the post finding his shot then. A) Rafer jacking up a outside shot/ brick floater B) T-Mac jacking up a outside shot/ stagnant offense This is not efficient basketball. Way to predictable. Alston has a weakness to the point to if he shoots from the outside he will miss under pressure and alot of time wide open Spurs know this and there game plan is to close out cutting lanes and let him shoot. T-Mac has a weakness (think Alston) of not getting his shot in rhythem or best location on the floor. Spurs know this because when this happens they call "audible" when he gets the ball outside on the perimeter and then play tighter on role players taking away any player movement and allowing him to create for himself from the outside. We lose every game if both T-Mac or Alston dont have over 10 assist combined. T-Mac did everything he could. Alston had 1 assist?
T-Mac is capable of putting up 25ppg/10assist/7rebounds for a season at point guard. The fact that he does indeed makes everyone else better is a proven fact on that 22 game win streak. I think at T-Mac's stage and career Adelman should consider moving him in the point guard position. Why? Lets face it he isnt explosive as he used to be because of his back that has gave him back spasms and reduced his ability as a professional athlete that enabled him to be more of a playmaker. Do to this he isnt as athletic but has developed more smarts and much better decison making because of it. He has better ball controll than most point guards around the league and nobody 6'8 or taller can controll the rock better than him. At his size 6'8 he would be the biggest point guard in the league and still put up similar numbers as a elite point guard in Assist except he would have a bigger scoring average. He would draw so much more attention from defenses thus making him even more dangerous. His size gives him the ability to see right over the top of the defense. I think this would be ideal because he has lost his first step a little and explosiveness but has showed flashes that he still has it in the playoffs. His ability to score anywhere on the court and break down his man and score over the top is amazing. Basically has everything you would look for in a point guard except he has a added package do to his size. Him at point guard would make everybody else who has a point guard irrelevent on defense. He could be utilized to be a more potent scorer in the post do to that being his main strength and for the fact he would over shadow who ever is guarding him. I believe he would be even better than Magic Johnson at this position. If he was to make the All-Star team he would be the first player ever to make the team as point guard, small forward, and shooting guard because he has all of these abilities. His defense gives Adelman yet another option because he is 6'8 he and Shane Battier both can switch things up. Shane Battier should be transitioned to the 2 guard because he still has all the intangibles that would make him a great shooting guard. - Spot up shooter developing post game. - Great spot and perimeter defender. - Hustle guy - Intangibles What eles do you need in a shooting guard basically he would be a improved and taller Doug Christie. Rockets need to sign Josh Smith this off season in a sign and trade deal situation since Atlanta is always in constant rebuild mode and we have the Pieces to aquire him. Disrupt everones plan to make changes to their roster to match up to us this off season because they all believe we are after a point guard when the fact is he remains in the starting line up. Yao 7'6 - best center Scola 6'9 - hustle guy/intagibles Smith 6'9 -17 ppg 9 rebound guy/ shot blocker 3 blocks a game Battier 6'8 - great defender/intagibles McGrady 6'8 - elite point guard This is one tough team that needs to be taking very seriously. McGrady ability to set up the offense under JVG proves this, score off the pick n roll and or attack the basket with Yao proves this, finding back door cuts with Adelman proves this, back door cuts under Adelman using point guards proves this. The only problem is he is in the wrong position and needs to be moved to point guard. To him season averages mean nothing the only thing that matters to him is playoffs. The addition of Josh Smith upgrades the team. Defense improves - not that it needs to Transition defense - improves Rebounding improves - not that it needs to Fast break points - improves Overall size - improves Offensive flow - improves Athleticism - improves Ball movement - improves Speed - Improves Tempo - takes a little hit- but with T-Mac at the point you care about tempo? Josh Smith is versatile enough to where he can indeed play the high-post.
We had so great chemistry, probably the best in the laeuge during streak. And what finally it has broken? I don't think so.
Put it this way we went from one of the most disapointing teams of the season to one of the biggest suprises in the last 37 years.
Last night, we were off in our shots. I am not sure why but this happened occasionally (quite frequent sometimes) but against a good team like SAS who so happened to be hot, we are not going to win.
hahahah, that's exactly what I was thinking. On the bright side, our schedule gets a little easier. I'm done b****ing about this team. We are to close to the playoffs and this team really has done more than any of us thought they would. Let's just hope they start playing better TOGETHER and gear up for the playoffs.
Do the Hornets have bad chemistry? They just got blown out by the Celtics. The Suns were beat by Detroit and Boston in back to back games. Are they in trouble? The Jazz lost to a terrible Minnesota team yesterday. They must have chemistry issues. Its not just about chemistry. If it was, me and my four best friends could go out and compete. It is also about talent. The spurs talent is better then ours and when they play as well as they did yesterday and we play as bad as we did, we lose. No big deal.
We are 25-5 in our last 30 games. The 5 losses came to the Jazz, Spurs, Celtics, Hornets and the Suns; and all with one of our 2 stars missing!
What??? I hope you didn't mean much by this, tmac would get torched trying to defend PG's. He's been PG for a while now anyways, Rafer's been playing like a SG, Sura was a combo guard, he is always the main playmaker on the team because it is his strength. It's obvious to me that we would be just fine with a small shooter playing PG (a jason terry type player) because tmac is only useful if he is making the plays. The warriors play the much stronger Baron Davis next to Mona Ellis, alot of times JR Smith plays next to AI. It should be the inverse of this, instead of a bigger stronger guy playing PG next to a smaller faster SG. We need a smaller faster SG playing next to tmac. Everyone is falling in love with the playmaking PG's but we would be fine without one. When you have 2 great passing stars you put scorers around them and worry about everything else later.
We are not worrying about losing. Everyone lost a game or two once a while. Continuous blown out is a issue.
i think people are forgetting that the other two teams that had our winning streak bombed after it ended, why should we be any different, why would we wanna be any different those teams won it all, we got 9 games to regroup, it'll be alright
