For the love of mercy…..QUIT playing Smith over Eason at the ends of close games. Every time and I mean every time we lose in these scenarios. Smith is not a horrible player, but he’s not clutch on defense or offense like Eason who is a game changer (along w/Thompson) when there is pressure at the end of the game. Watch the last two minutes of Jabrari’s absolute choke defense at the end of tonight’s game. He stood watching multiple layups instead of attacking like Eason and (as usual) could not make a clutch shot when his team was in need. Always been a decent player first three quarters of games, but sadly it just isn’t in his DNA to be a closer in the fourth quarter when it counts.
I dunno what you're on? A. Tari was 0-7 today. Putting him in would have been dumb. B. Tari DOES close games when he is on. C. Today it didn't matter who was defending. We got plenty of stops but failed to score. FVV and Alpy missed good looks or forced bad shots. Bummer. It happens. I doubt 0-7 would have made a difference today.
Tari shot all of his bullets Friday against the Blazers and had absolutely nothing last night. It happens. Udoka made the right decision on closing: Amen was in for Jalen but he kept Jabari in.
We needed him for rebounds and help defense. Stop thinking Jabari is some sniper, he's not plus hes a liability on crucial defensive moments
Tari was one of the worst players last night. Absolute tunnel vision on all his fast breaks, 0-7, gambling on defense.
There are certain players you can count on raising their game in the final 4 minutes of a contest, because they are not nervous with fear. Amen is one of those guys and so is Eason. I don’t care if he’s 0-10, he ain’t going to watch three straight unimpeded layups to close out his team in the final 2 minutes the contest as Jabrari did. As always the moment was too big for Jabrari and he lost his aggressive when it was most needed. The thought of 6’11”Jabrari taking control at the end of games is much better than the actual reality of Jabrari taking control at the end of games.
Ime made the right call, Tari was bad. Cannot have double standards, any moron understands that, especially knowing how Ime operates.
I do understand the notion Tari should have closed instead of Jabari, regardless. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Tari simply has not earned that level of "benefit of the doubt", yet. Maybe later in the season.
Not sure if you watched the last 2 minutes? I didn’t see Bari do anything wrong defensively. Sengun got targeted on almost every play and either got scored on or fouled. Maybe Tari should have been in for Sengun? And on offense at the time Bari was 3-6 on threes and took a decent look for in and out, making him 3-7. I get it we are frustrated but kinda idiotic to blame this loss on Bari when Tari played a much worse game today lol
Some people think basketball is played on one side of the court and don’t understand basketball from any other perspective. . FVV and Jalen were sucking. Simones was even burning Amen. Tari’s defense alone coupled with Jalen or FVV sitting their sorry asses would have won the game. It is my biggest complaint with Ime, is his rotations often suck. In no world should your best player come off the bench. Amen needs to be completely unloosed on starters. If we are not a CONTENDER we should be concentrating all our effort on developing our core and figuring out if Jalen and Jabari are part of it (personally I think Jabari is). FVV and Brooks are stop gap guys that have helped us change the culture. Neither are starters on a contender.
Ime made the right move. Almost no one could score yesterday. And Tari was one of the worst offenders in that regard.
Tari's offense was not good last game, but he is still impactful on defense. We let Simmons go off like superstars in final minutes. Tari would be much helpful. We absolutely should play Tari in the end of last game.
Tari also didn't play the final minutes of that game lost to the Bucks. Tari was good on scoring that game, but still.... Just stop finding excuses for Ime's stubborn.
