artest NEVER NEVER moves the ball quickly. he is killing our offense...poor shots, holding the ball etc. shane must start to give us some chemistry.
There are a number of players who are killing our offense, unfortunately. It's not like we were a good offensive team last year.
battier never stopped the complaints that yao and tmac can't play well together. suddenly he'll now fix everything. rafer is the problem. morey is even willing to settle with "1 out of 3" shooting from him.
It's mainly because he's expending so much energy on the defensive end. Hopefully when Battier comes back he can go a bit lighter on D and have a solid offensive game that emphasizes driving, which seems likely.
Don't know if it is Artest, but here is a link to our shooting percentage thread: http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=157296 Read and weep.
3 Losses: one against the World Champs that was a close one one by a lucky shot to a very good, young team at home one to the team favored to win it all this year Calm down. That said, Battier finally has earned some respect for what he brings to this team (and it isn't offense). It's about time.
i agree, its especially bad when he gets beat on the defensive end and he wants to get even on the next possession
I agree, his one on one is killing the offensive flow. When Battier comes back he should be relegated back to the bench. He can be part of the 2nd unit. He is also taking a chunk of the shots away from Ming and pretty much clogging the low post lane.
You know, it frightens me that you blame a man who has succeeded in a system, while ignoring a man who has had trouble adjusting to a system for two years. I continually see Artest move without the ball. Yes, he does go one on one and stop the ball at times, but that was understood coming in. He averaged his career high in assists with Adelman previously and would be doing the same here if a certain spoiled brat would quit whining about injuries and actually hustle.
I said tons of times that he doesn't fit...said it when people wanted him and said it again when we got him. He does not fit......but, since we got him so cheaply, I will give Adelman a chance to make it work...if not, we should be able to trade him at the trading deadline for some talent. DD
WTF? Our offense isn't working because we have a PG who no one needs to defend. We have a SG who loves taking bad shots. We have a C who likes to get his shot blocked. It isn't Artest.
Artest is more than willing to defer. He started trying to go into takeover mode because Tracy and Yao have not consistently been putting their footprints on games. Ron is the least of our problems right now other than possibly still getting familiar with our team defense. Then again, almost the entire team is playing lousy defense right now other than possibly Chuck.
Artest does not even has a say to our offense. It's like to blame our offense on Hayes. Artest is not the one who is controlling the ball and our offense. TMAC and Rafer are. Brooks is good at offense but when he was paired with TMAC or Alston, he played bad offense because the offense had to go to those two. TMAC&Rafer are our offense and only them can kill our offense.
Kinda figured this would come up, more in the form of if the Big 3 are having trouble spreading the shots around. Artest hasnt made Yao get blocked by the rim twice, or McGrady channel into Luther Head playoff mode. He's definitely stopped the ball shooting up contract year shots. But whats more wrong at this point is Artest isn't making. If he was he'd be one of the rare ones on the team doing that.
Yeah man it's all Artest's problem. He doesn't help at all. T-Mac brings this team together and win games for us and plays perfect defense, he should get DPOY.
