good night guys, what a bad start to a promising finish in the playeroff last year, i can't say this team is doomed, but they are no where near championship material, we just don't have that chemistry right now, don't know what happened to this team, confused, they need to figure this out quick otherwise, it's going to be a long season for us fans
You can play acceptable and shoot poorly and the other team shoots well . If you get an open look but don't make it , that's not poor basketball . Similarly if you play good defense and the other guy makes a tough turnaround jumper that's not poor basketball .
once or twice and if happens occasionally, maybe. otherwise, for sure it is crappy bball. my question to you is, if its indeed like what you said that they only played poorly for half a quarter, then how the heck did they play only 6 minutes of poor bball, and turned a 20pt lead into a 20pt loss?
Didn't get to watch the game tonight, I see it was another terrible game though. Questions Why didn't Howard play? Why did Capela only get 14 minutes, he okay? How much of a beast was Thornton?
His FG% is definitely regressing. Everything else is more or less the same. But no, that's just 3 games out of 82. They mean nothing in the grand scheme. 32 attempted 3PTs already. Only made 3. Stop forcing the issue. Less 3s, more driving or driving & kicking.
man harden has such a limited offensive game. if he isn't his 3's and getting free throws he's straight trash. and he can't fight through a bad games like other superstars. he's either really good or absolute trash. no post game, no mid range game, no moving without the ball, no nothing. just getting chucking garbage and hope you get going.
McHale is set in his ways. There is no deviation. If somebody who plays a lot does poorly, there is no adjustment. They will continue to see minutes. If somebody who rarely plays steps in and does well, they aren't given more minutes. They have served their purpose and that is that. If a lineup isn't working, McHale doesn't act quickly. He lets it ride far longer than it should, usually leading to an opposing team making a run.
I know they are not the same player but this reminds me of Kevin Martin. Soon as they took away that rip through foul stuff his game was destroyed. He relied too much on that and took away his effectiveness.
Howard is not playing in back to backs Capela did well but McHale had to match Miamis small lineup so he took Capela out Thornton was unstoppable in the first half he couldn't miss but non-existent the 2nd half but then again so was the whole team especially Harden
I use to think when people posted about how McHale did this it was complete BS but I see now it's true. McHale is the Hinch of basketball cause AJ does the same thing.
Some of that is a result of really poor spacing on the floor. McHale's strength is his leadership and intangibles. He isn't an expert at a particular phase of the game. I wonder how long they let the team free fall before a coaching change is made. These are fundamental issues like not knowing how to defend a high school level PNR, not playing transition defense, terrible offensive spacing, no defensive rotations....
We need to go back to Harden being the primary ball-handler with Lawson's role being more like a spot-up shooter (his 3pt% is great, and yet he attempted 0 threes tonight). Whatever we're doing right now isn't working. Harden is repeating last season's performance. Was absolutely awful from three but then stepped it up late in the season. He needs to go for more mid-range shots.
