It's not about making him the starting center, but giving him some consistent minutes to see if he can be a serviceable backup center. It's disappointing that the Rockets didn't play him to see what they have instead of having him ride the bench making good money.
Turns out it was nothing big according to chron article, just a brief meeting where they all agreed they need to work harder. Lame, we need Battier / Hayes back, this team is worthless. How you can not come to work and give it your all when you're getting paid millions to play a simple game. For me, there is zero excuse for how these guys are playing since the break. I am all for taking their pay when they give up and lose.
To a degree..... both cerebral Battier and Hayes worked hard because they were limited in their talent
Play harder blah blah blah. Look at me, I'm Sam Dalembert. And play with effort blah blah blah. Spoiler http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterockets/2012/03/rockets-talk-must-give-way-to-hustle-to-halt-slide/
Dal-em-bert! Dal-em-bert! Dal-em-bert! Dal-em-bert! Dal-em-bert! Dal-em-bert! Dal-em-bert! Dal-em-bert!
SHOULD Get-outta-here! Get-outta-here! Get-outta-here! Get-outta-here! Get-outta-here! Get-outta-here! Get-outta-here!
did he sign this before or after averaging 6.1 assists/3.5 turnovers a game and leading his team to a .500 record in the East?
It doesn't matter to me who's giving the message. Dalembert at least recognizes the problem and is willing to speak up about it. Good for him.
conidering how he's played or hasn't. no one would care or worse it ticks some guys off and leads to chemistry problems.
In this case, I don't think it does. Whether we like it or not, Dalembert is a vet on this team and is viewed by his teammates as one of the leaders especially on defense. Lack of effort is a team-wide issue, not just a Dalembert issue (even though he's been a part of the problem). Having a meeting to discuss it as a team is only a positive. Explain to me how it can make matters worse than if there was no meeting at all?
Have you ever played basketball on a team where the dude that couldn't play was doing the jawing and trying to tell everybody else what they needed to do? It simply doesn't work....unless the whole team is trash. Lowry and Scola are simply classy enough to cover it up and try to make it work. But on most any other team, multiple teammates would tell Dally to Sit Down and Shut the .... Up! Do you want to listen to Barack Obama talk about the budget and the deficit? That's what it's like for Dally to talk to the team about effort. Now, if he simply apologized for his own rancid effort, there may be some merit to it if he busts his a.. for the remainder of the season here. And I suspect that is probably more of what happened. One player can't hold others player accountable for activity and attitude that he lacks in himself. If it doesn't matter who gives the message, then Hasheem Thabeet should start having team meetings and telling guys what they should be doing and having accountability sessions, since if he did it, it would show he is a leader and worth having around, right???? The guy that needs to step up and hold guys accountable is Lowry. He needs to remember some of that fire he had at 'nova and start blistering his mates when they start the stupid clown act. There have been multiple, multiple instances this season where Lowry should have gotten in Dally's face to the extent to motivate Dally to play. I say the most likely scenario here is Dally called his teammates to apologize to them for his own rancid effort. Nothing else would be acceptable. From there I imagine Lowry and Scola took over. This is Lowry's team. Dally has all he can handle keeping his own self motivated to play hard. In the final analysis, a player's only meeting in this situation makes no difference. McHale is going to bench whoever doesn't play hard anyways. And there's only so many wins that can be squeezed out of this bunch. Won't make any difference. Plopping guys on the bench for crappy effort accomplishes the same thing. Really, what it comes down to most likely is Dally wanting to give himself another chance before McHale kicks his hiney to the inactive list for a couple games. This team is too simple to play against. All an opponent has to do is double out on Lowry, and take it to Dally on offense and get him in foul trouble. Once they bounce Dally to the bench, everybody knows, the Rockets know, the opponents know, and the fans know....we simply don't have a chance. Doesn't matter of Martin and Lowry pour in 60. All the opponent has to do is negate Lowry's effectiveness and take it to Dally. Game over. Cuz we simply don't have any other options. Players like Dally holding team meetings simply opens up the opportunity for a huge mutiny to occur. It's not worth the risk. On most any other team in the league, it would fracture the locker room. Just imagine if Kevin Garnett would have been in that locker room when Dally pulled that crap. What do you think Garnett would have done? (It would never have occurred because Garnett would be kicking Dally's butt all game long. We don't have that kind of leader.)
I have not read the whole thread but this sounds a lot like the Kings and 76's of old. Those are two team that I wish we would not try to immulate. I wish KMH/Lowry/Scola would be the leader of all this and not Sam Dalembert. This were a good coach or team captin comes in and cleans it all up and the TEAM gets even closer. This MAYBE the reason that EVER team Sam Dalembert has been a part of sucked. Hey Sammy know your role and shut your hole.
Why does everybody have to constantly cite Jeremy Lin - even when its not pertanant? McHale liked Lin - appreciated his attitude - contrary to Thabeet...
I don't disagree... but the lead up was DD contending that Sam was a bad signing... then insinuated we'd still have Lin, if not for the signing.... Leaving us with Thabeet and JHill as our only centers....
If we (or any other team for that matter) had a clue how good Lin was - then we'd have moved Flynn for a 2nd rd pick, or amnested him, or waived him... but we wouldnt have carried 4 pgs - esp with our starter being 25 with no history of injury... one of those 4 pgs spots had to be converted to a big - end of story...
