Donatas Motiejūnas: "I want to play, rather than sit on the bench"

My post has nothing to do with McHale at all. It has to do with maximizing a return on the players you have and not simply throwing them away and replacing them with another player that may not do any better in the short term.

Your statement concerning provability also applies to Morris, and to some extent Pat.

 

dmo and anxiety kid gonna beat each other up for playing time

 

rookies seem to feel awfully entitled these days.

 

Morey hiring McHale was like when the Bills hired Chan Gailey - everybody knew it would fail. Hiring a retreat is never good unless it is a Rick Adelman or a Stan Van Gundy quality coach.

 

Fixed it for you...

 

Nice.

But it looks like you free'd Mo!... ???

 

NRA = Nation Retread Association

 

Sometimes the rookie need to be thrown out there. They need to struggle and experience big games, big matchups. Yeah you risk winning games, but right now we aren't doing too much of that. If he was starting from the beginning of the year, can you imagine how improved he would be at this point? I mean, sure, we all have different opinions just as coaches have different opinions on who they play. If I were a coach I would have him out there, learning from his mistakes. I think this whole utilization of the D-league in the Rockets organization could cause some of these talented rookies to become bitter with the front office. This could tarnish their long-term relationship with the front office. We have all of this trade talk going on, but why the @!*# don't we try to develop these guys. Kevin McHale, in my opinion, is one of the worst coaches, if not the worst, coach in the league. D-mo should've been getting minutes a long time ago and I think McHale needs to be fired before we think about championship contention.

 

That is good and all, but every time DMo steps on the court he falls down b/c someone significantly stronger bumps into him. He needs to put on weight and get significantly stronger before he can do anything of note. I'd rather he work on things down in the D-league where he can run up and down the court and not get completely physically over powered, while working on his physique. Either way, he shouldn't be in Houston sitting on the bench.

 

Ralph Sampson was 7'4" (4" taller) and weighted the same as Dmo. I dont remember him falling down a lot.

 

shows how hard he wants to work

 

I feel for him. I don't understand why the coaching staff just won't give him a chance when Patterson, Morris and Asik have been sucking lately. He's watching them from the bench and thinking to himself... " I can do way better than that"..

Our PFs have been so bad lately that D-Mo and Jones all deserves to play. I just don't understand our coaching staff sometimes. I always try to give the coaches the benefit of the doubt but the things they do really questions me. The fact that the coaches constantly keep going with Morris and Pat over and over again even though they are averaging like 4 points together. That's how bad they been. Plus, I wouldn't mind D-Mo playing a little bit at center also. Asik has been pretty bad lately too. His rebounds are down and his productivity on the court is absent. Watching Asik unable to catch a simple pass over and over again or him doing difficult layups and missing it instead of dunking it is just frustrating. Our big men are just terrible altogether.

 

You are comparing him to one of the most incredible talents in the history of basketball?

 

For real, what's this guy thinking.


Sampson couldn't hold Dmo's dirty socks.

 

This is clear evidence that, in the coaches' eyes, the source of the recent struggle lies in the PG position, or the backcourt (and since Harden absolutely cannot be the problem, it must be PG).

I just feel sorry for DMo. The coaches haven't got a clue how to play the starters, helping the rooks develop would be the last thing on their plan, if they have one.

DMo's problem is likely defense, not that Rockets' defense is any good. But the coaches probably felt that adding more rooks would be disastrous.

 

Nobody wants to play for Mcfu$&boy. How many has he allready ran off?

 

I wish we were a team that didn't rely heavenly on producing our rookies from the DL, [even though Greg Smith has been awesome... but he's just one example... does anyone feel he would have been much better if he played much more during his rookie season?] but just play our rookies and give them a chance to grow on the real field, during real games.

I personally think D-Mo should get more minutes than Morris. D-Mo has so much skill AND potential, it's killing me as a Rockets fan not seeing him play at least 10 minutes a game night in and night out. And I don't think D-Mo would travel every game like Morris has been. I'm sure many of you agree with me. McFail at his best again. Or is it the coaching staff and not McHale himself? Is it ultimately McHale who always decides who gets to play and who sits? I'm curious. I never really thought about this.

Mr. D

 

Wow, why recall the only guy that's willing to go to the DLeague?

 

D. Motiejunas
RGV
points 22.6
rebs 10.4
assists 3.2

3.2 assists is quite good stat too.