Well then today is your lucky day because DMo is doing what he is doing with almost no NBA experience. He had a double double last night on almost all hardwork and raw talent. Imagine when he gets some real NBA experience. He has improved immensely from last year with almost no playing time. He is only going to get better. You are wrong and your hopes and dreams have come true already. How lucky you are.
Mchale tends to be an all or nothing guy. Also makes decisions very fast and then sticks with them come hell or high water.
Exactly, people who don't understand probably don't actually play basketball. The more you play the better you are, you may suck at first but if you have potential and you play against the best, you will get better. Cutting is minutes I would have understood but completely benching him and still running with Garcia was not the right choice.
I never understood that either. People keep saying you have to earn playing time, but from what everyone was saying he was working hard and doing good in practice, so why bench him completely especially when your backup center doesn't want to play for you. Makes no sense.
It's not necessarily that people the he was a great defender, he did well. When you need a 7foot backup and you have one on your roster that supposedly sucks so bad that he cant get playing time, when he comes out and does well, everyone wonders why he just didn't get playing time. He is what we need, we had injuries, Garcia was sucking, why not just play him a little? It makes no sense, I think that's why people are replying the way they are.
If you no scared of wolves and want to learn to play PnR defense or how to set glorious screens, just pay attention to Demo. Beautiful passer and beautiful posts moves. Glad the coaching staff finally figured it out that demo at the three point line is not as good as demo on the post. go figure. Oh and he seals his man better than dwight does. quite impressive. How are you not entertained?
Exactly! I questioned the same thing after the second loss to Mavs as to why DMo wasn't guarding Dirk. You can dig up my post on Fire McHale thread. It absolutely drove me crazy to see Brook, Bev, or Lin guarding Dirk during crucial plays. Dirk is an outside shooter who rarely takes it to the basket. You need length, not quickness to guard him. If Dirk is faced with someone shorter, he will just shoot over him. Best way is to put DMo and tell him to play CLOSE. He is a lot easier to guard than Aldridge, whom will drive in when given the chance. I have no doubt if McHale wasn't stubborn enough, we could easily win one of those. This is what gets me about McHale. I know he has all the credentials and the reason Les hired him because he was "smart." But some of the smartest people are also the dumbest ones.
I've been on the DMo bandwagon since we drafted him. He's got ridiculous upside and every single game he's showing improvement defensively and on the boards. He has the best post game on the team, and one of the better post games in the league, he just needs to focus on finishing better after he's faked his man out of his shoes. I don't think DMo will ever be an all star, but I think he could become a VERY good PF in the next few years. If we can keep DMo and Jones at the 4, that could become our biggest strength on the team.
I feel like a big time breakout game is coming for DMO off the bench. Not disputing his recent outings. I am just saying we could see 20+ points and 9 rebounds soon. They really need to feed him in the post.
Make it 10 games in a row now. He didn't have the most impressive stat line in the world, but the Rockets were +15 with him out there. He does a ton of little things that don't show up on stat sheets all the time that help his team.
The coaching staff wanted him to do certain things, he wasn't doing them, and at one point it seemed the only thing he was interested in was posting up. When he made his trade request, perhaps someone sat down with him and spelled it out, because from then he's doing those things. I'm not sure how much more the coach could spell it out even to the public, Mchale's words re Dmo are literally the opposite of what he was saying a month or two ago, "doing what was expected of him" Yes Dmo has talent, but he doesn't have transcendent talent where learning on the fly is tantamount to the future success of the franchise. Do the basics, the rest will come ad infinitum, now when he isn't scoring, he's being a positive influence, whereas in preseason and early season, when he wasn't scoring, he was a tremendous negative.
I argued with someone in another thread that Mchale (and I could be wrong, maybe its the coaching staff as a whole) was never really good on developing young players. I really think TJones and DMO would have been playing at this level last year if they had given them time to play.
I don't think so. I think the off season helped them a lot. But I do think they would have been playing better last year and a lot better this year if he had played them more last year and this year. So in that sense he has slowed there progress down. To be fair to McHale bringing in rookies when you are trying to win now is risky. But IMO, for whatever reason, DMo has been in McHale's doghouse and that is why he did not play in obvious situations when we desperately needed a body, any body just to match up and DMo still got a DNP. I hope that's it, because the alternative is that he is stupid. The same goes for tonight. He subs out Parsons and TJones for DMo and Lin. Good move, those guys both contribute to turning the game around. Noproblem there. But then he needs to rest Harden and subs Casspi at small forward spot. Stupid move unless Parson is in the little doghouse. Come on how can anyone argue against that. There have been times when Parsons back was killing him and he wouldn't sub him out. Casspi on his best day is not better Parsons. The substitution worked going small but now you are resting Harden. Why Casspi over Parsons? I know Van Gundier will find a bull**** excuse but anyone else? I was waiting to hear Parsons was injured but nope, not the case. 19 minutes for Parsons and no injury, that's a big time first. Maybe Parsons wasn't doing what he was told on the court and McHale wanted to teach him a lesson. I am totally fine with that but it also might be a little bit that McHale doesn't like Parsons talking about internal stuff no matter how true it is. Who knows... I certainly don't but no one is going to make me believe McHale does a 180 on how he rotates his players just because he says that "he was looking for combinations that would click". HA! That's BS if I ever heard it. Since when did he sub out Parsons to look for combinations that would work. And when did those combinations include DMo. And when has he ever subbed Casspi in ahead of Parsons when he has been resting for 2o minutes on the bench. The answer is NEVER! F$#@KING NEVER!
I like when I see Beverley teaching him in the game, right after he does a mistake. That would only help him.
D-Mo has an amazing work ethic, drive & attitude. Rockets would be absolutely crazy to trade him. Tremendous improvement by him in the past 1 + 1/2 year. If he maintains the same upward curve of development he will be scary good next year at this time. Donatas Motiejunas @DonatasMot 2h "One kid asked me yesterday : what he should develop the most to become a pro basketball player He was shocked with my answer when I told him that he should work on getting up every day same time work with the same energy No mater how tired you are or your body is in big pain. I told him that I feel pain every day . If you want to reach something pain should Be your best friend" Matt ice working me out today with ball boys http://pic.twitter.com/rJQPachaD8 Day off http://pic.twitter.com/xF4BgflsGB
