That is an idiotic statement... since DMo is a matchup liability vs. pretty much anybody right now. He's not strong/durable enough to go against the big bigs, he's not quick enough to go against the smaller bigs, and he has zero stamina. Dirk, at age 47, is moving 100x better than D-Mo is.
That's actually the idiotic statement. DMo has been pretty solid on defense recently and Dirk is absolutely a perfect matchup for him. Do you even basketball bruh?
I respect JB for taking action if DMo was not respectful in practice, but then he should have started Beasely and backed him up with Josh Smith who has size and almost single handedly beat Dallas in the playoffs last year. Neither Brewer nor McDaniels have the size nor body mass to play the power forward position in the NBA. Rookie coaching mistakes like this will cost JB whatever minimal chance he had to keep his job.
You respect him for hurting the team in a game they absolutely had to win? I mean, if the goal was to make the playoffs, then JBB couldn't have screwed up worse than he did last night. If the goal was to miss the playoffs and be unemployed as quickly as possible, he did awesome.
Why do we need to shuffle up the lineup on the biggest game of the season? This was slap in the face to Rockets fans. Playing Mcdaniels was just JB's hidden agenda to play Brewer at that position instead. The organization is in autopilot right now, Morey is just sitting back watching him intentionally ruin it all.
What I don't understand is this was JBB's SHOT, it will be YEARS before he gets another one. And he did not bring the team together, didn't outline a plan for success, and did not hold players accountable - IMHO, he blew it. DD
Neither Brewer or McDaniels were playing PF at all last night...as already mentioned in this thread, when KJ got the start, it was Ariza who slid over to PF to defend Dirk.
No matter what position he played He still replaced the Power Forward in the starting lineup. And on the offensive end the opposing team guarded him with their power forward. It's the same case with Brewer, We can say he's not the small ball power forward on defense but he definitely is on offense because no one is guarding him. If we aren't spreading the floor, It defeats the entire purpose of going small. Why start Ariza on Dirk, when we can just finish the game in that fashion? The team is clueless, the players have to speak up and say something to the coach. Of course Brewer doesn't have a problem with this.
Well, he could have come up with worse b.s. lines to throw to the media, but it's still obvious b.s. "Yeah, we wanted to throw KJ into the mix for lineup reasons. He's a guy who showed he can actually play when I finally gave him some burn, and I took out D-Mo, an actual 4 who could match up okay with a 53 year-old Dirk. I just wanted to screw up the lineups again, throw off our rhythm.....you know, same ole same ole."
And so you waste your best defender on Dirk instead of letting a real PF take that assignment, PF's that have done well with that assignment in the past. The lineups were indefensible.
why are you even complaining about the move. it was a match up opportunity and It obviously was a plus bc the rockets were winning when they did this. the collapse in the 2nd quarter was when the game turned and as usual they had to try and climb back in the 2nd half. It's more of everything else that happened and that was for some reason brewer soaked up more minutes than he should have. Everyone was all excited when the rockets game out the game with great energy and a good lead. Now with the end result people want to act like this was the real issue when it wasn't
I'm complaining because the move was made in a intent to play Brewer in small situations. He basically used KJ as bait and switch. If we are taking DMo out of the starting lineup, the most obvious move is to add Beasley. The collapse you speak of happened when he brought Terry and Brewer in the game while leaving beasley on the bench with harden sitting. I have the right to voice my opinion.
had we known what benefit this would do to brewer of course it would be a dumb move but playing KJ in the starting lineup wasn't.
D-Mo had a tough time with Dirk even when he wasn't hobbled/stooped over/getting winded after 2 minutes. Dirk at his advanced age is moving better, and able to play more quality minutes than D-Mo. He's clearly a liability out there... everybody sees it except the blindest of D-Mo supporters who think he's some sort of super-stud in waiting. Even a team dumb enough to be putting out Terry and Brewer would rather take their chances with guys who can actually run up/down the court, vs. D-mo.
