Is our bench good enough for the 2012-2013 season?

Hells no

It's terrible to be honest in every position except for maybe streaky Delfino and 10 power forwards

Compared to last year, we had Dragic, Lee, Budinger, Patpat, Dalembert bench

 

So far, not at all. They just haven't been able to keep the lead safe, for the most part. You see the occasional flash like Aldrich or Morris getting a few baskets, but otherwise guys like Toney Douglas and Delfino are having piss poor shooting even with wide open looks. My god Delfino does some really dumb **** bricking stupid step back jumpers and crap, ugh, outside of the first game he's pretty much been awful. This can't keep up, the starters can't play 40+ minutes every night.

 

No reliable producers on the bench as of yet, but we haven't seen enough of them play to know. I have high hopes for Greg Smith, hope it the injury won't keep him out long. I thought the most valuable reserves this year would be Smith and Livingston (rookies take time to grow, so I'm not expecting immediate consistent contributions). At least we kept Smith. Delfino has done well (other than being cold this last game), hope he keeps it up. The glut of power forwards is confusing. I'm sure alot is happening at practice that we just can't see.

 

No. Add poll or /thread.

 

I think Delfino, Douglas and (JMO) Patterson are the stop gaps between us being a power in this league.
We need a better facilitator from the backup guard position(perhaps Machado? possibly a trade) Maybe if Royce could improve either his inside presence or outside shot he could facilitate from the forward position.
I am warming to Mook as a sixth man as he is bustin it on defense and gaining confidence on the offensive end

 

Slight better than Lakers' bench...


PATHENTIC

 

I think Delfino, Douglas and (JMO) Patterson are the stop gaps between us being a power in this league.
We need a better facilitator from the backup guard position(perhaps Machado? possibly a trade) Maybe if Royce could improve either his inside presence or outside shot he could facilitate from the forward position.
I am warming to Mook as a sixth man as he is bustin it on defense and gaining confidence on the offensive end, where he is obviously highly skilled. Like to see him post up more
PPat seems like JAG to me, replaceable, luckily we have the roster to facilitate that
Lin & Harden are going to be tired all season if we cant get more playmakers off the bench

 

I like G.Smith and T-Jones the most thou...

 

No. We have a couple of solid pieces, but not much after that. And Toney Douglas is hot garbage. Good grief.

 

They will be the starting five in Charlotte or Orlando.

 

I'm one of the few that think that our bench is fine in the C and PF positions. Greg Smith and Aldrich are competent backup centres with athleticism. I'm not a huge fan of PPat but we've got M.Morris, who's looking better and T.Jones who has untapped potential. DMo has pretty good skills as well but buried deep on the bench.

SF we have Delfino who needs to take better shots, wouldn't mind having another versatile player there as well. As for pg, I've never been a fan of Toney Douglas we definitely need some help there. I'd like to see Machado get a crack I'm almost positive that he'd be more productive than TD.

Our bench is not too bad, we're just not using it.

 

Honestly, the bench is going to be a hot mess all season.

Takes ALOT of games to gel. Just look at the 0-11 Lakers. Loaded with Hall of Famers and they're a total mess. We have 13 players NEW to the Roster -- the biggest roster change in the league.

Toss in that they're young as crap and expect a lot of hot and cold stretches.

People underestimate the hurdles that McHale has. Usually when you play young players, they have veterans beside them to stabilize their play. They tell them where they need to be, remind them of sets, etc.

The Rookies/Sophomores are trying to figure it out without that help.

It's just going to be a rough ride. Nothing you can do about it.

Really, being 2-1 is pretty darn impressive. And that 2-1 is only happening because of the high BBIQ's of the starting 5. They're playing streetball and carrying the team on talent/intuition.

 

McHale's bench:
Aldrich
Douglas
Delfino
Morris

I'm not feeling real good about that bench.

 

Need more than 2 practices to get this team playing better. Will be able to add more Offensive and Defensive plays with the practices and get the must needed Chemistry.

 

I know that the bench is rough around the edges, but I also think there are issues w/ PPat. Nobody is taking any of the pressure off of Lin & Harden, so they have to do essentially everything every minute they are out there. This PPat as Steve Novak experiment isn't going to work, that's just not his strength. So if you insist on running it constantly, find a trade partner (Spurs for Neal?) to get that backup PG/SG and move TJo into the starting rotation. That will hopefully relieve pressure on both units.

 

We have to remember that this is far from the final roster.

Remember, Morey is on the hunt for a 2nd big player, so essentially we're talking about most of the team being trading chips.

That we're even in the playoff conversation is a pleasant by-product of that purpose.

The last thing Morey wants to do is trade players for veteran role players versus develop the younger talent he has so they have increased trade value or can step up into bigger roles.

So yah, it's not ideal, but it's what we got until Morey makes his next big move.

 

I'm ok with the bench except for Toney Douglas. He plays good D but holy hell he make a basket even if his life depended on it.

 

Honest, you have to be willing to sub our bench players in the second half besides Delfino if you want them to improve.

Aldrich when he was in there was actually having a decent game in the first half, then he never got back in for more then a minute in the second half if that. Asik and the rest of the starters were running on steam and you could tell that when they lost the lead in the 3rd. They wound up playing better defense in the 4th but Aldrich and Morris should have been in there to spell Asik, Parsons (who spent a lot of time at the PF position when they went small ball) and Patterson.

Our bench shows promise but they have to get time to gel together as well as some of them used to rest the starters before they live up to it.