If he knocks down his 3s like he did last game, and if Terry makes some of his 3s, we'd have probably won the game. Still doesn't address the issue we had of getting to the basket this game.. obviously credit their defense and our inability to execute and to come up with a solution.
That's because guys like Bev can't get to the basket off the dribble. And against the better defensive teams .... they scramble just enough on the perimeter to make the shooters speed up the release just an extra tenth of a second or so and there goes that glorious shooting percentage...straight in the ole garbage can. We gotta have another guy on the perimeter with quicks to get to the rim and to get off the 3-balls faster. Another point on Canaan....he's got a quicker release than any of these other guys we've been talking about....Bev, Smith, Brewer, Ariza, Terry. Canaan has a quicker release and he's actually more accurate when he hoists and fires (like a cannon) without any hesitation. Canaan is the best shooter on this current roster. And he can finish better than any other perimeter player we have besides Harden. I love the D these cats are bringing all over the floor. But Terry doesn't D it up. And we need Canaan's quicks and offensive skill set on the floor both to complement Harden and to hold the second unit together when Harden takes a break. Tonight's game was overwhelming proof of it.
McHale is seriously a moron, don't care: win or loss, he's a moron. It took him a long time to give Canaan a shot, he delivered and how quick McHale forgot when everybody was healthy again. Hope for Canaan he gets traded, he will never grow as a player with a dumb coaching staff like ours.
Yea, Mchair should give him 10-15 mins a game. Dude was balling before his injury. He can definitely shoot the ball better than PB
Ok here is why he is not playing: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/spo...-from-injury-to-find-playing-time-5964667.php
And that is a crock of bologna from McHale. Terry does NONE of those things well and is an inferior passer/playmaker to Canaan. It's a total crock of bologna. Don't buy it. There's another reason why McHale isn't playing the kid. This ain't it.
Here's Canaan, scrambling, making steals, dishing, hitting open shots, making plays, shooting the basketball. Don't know what else you can ask the kid to do. Don't know how you can't see that he's quicker, faster, better defensively, better playmaker, and better in all phases of the game than Terry....including shooting spot-ups. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7b8dEgIWYnk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> We can't find 10 minutes a game to give this kid when Harden sits down?????? Gimme a break.
Taking Steph Curry to school. Can any of Terry, Bev, Brewer, Shved, Smith, Ariza do these things? Naw man. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/CMU6TQDIpSA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
If defense is the issue (which I don't think it is) then why play the "Russian Turnstile" Shved? If the answer is to build trade value, okay but how many games do you lose because you want to build trade value?
Terry is a championship starting pg only a few years removed. He's also a floor leader and vet. He runs the break pretty darn well. I don't know if I'd call Terry an inferior passer! Canaan is really young, I could see that McHale wants him to do certain things in practice as a means to get PT. There's a bigger picture here.
I won't go as far as saying that Canaan should start. I do think however that he has earned some time in the rotation.
So according to McHale, Canaan has to become Chris Paul to get playing time? Where's the McHale thumbs up pic when you need it? So what if Canaan is never anything more than a smaller Ben Gordon? That's exactly what we need when no one else on the team can create a shot for themselves outside of Beard.
Not to mention he was destroying Chris Paul to the tune of 13 points in 15 minutes before he hurt his ankle and was holding his own defensively as well. Harden had 16 points in 38 minutes and Ariza 13 points in 38 minutes against the Clips the very same game. Canaan can play. I don't understand this decision to not play him and give scrubs like Ish Smith opportunities to play ahead of him. He may not be much of a passer, but he is by far a better offensive weapon than every other guard on this team not named James Harden.
Today...not several years removed...but today...Terry is a spot-up 3-ball shooter. Today...Terry can't finish. Today...Terry can't defend a fire hydrant out there. Today...Terry gets chased down from behind when he attempts to lead the break and all he can do is cover up and protect the basketball. Canaan is 23 years old. He's not real young. Real young in the NBA is age 20. Canaan's got a full 4-year college resume and a rookie campaign behind him. So...now you're going to assume Canaan is lolly-gagging it in practice? It's a crock of bologna. If he wasn't doing things in practice then why did he get minutes before? Why didn't we just give those minutes to Nick Johnson? Or Troy Daniels? It's a crock of bologna.
Thank you for sharing your find. It's good to have McHale's actual words before calling them out as horses***. He always says that: "Well, so-and-so has to learn this, learn that." I especially love it when McHale says a player doesn't defend, a word he could barely even spell before Morey decided to switch gears this season and implement some D (McHale was using the same excuse the last two years). Thing is, like many (most?) coaches, McHale loves vets. Jason Terry hits a few threes in one game and he's gonna get plenty of minutes going forward (even if he comes up with nothing but oh-fer this and oh-fer that for all those games after the one good game; see also Garcia, Francisco). And don't get me wrong, I used to hate Terry (when he was a Maverick). Now I like him. We're going to have to live with it, but McHale never has, and probably never will, utilize the proper players. Canaan deserves some run. Papa does, too, but he'll start to sport mold soon, pushed to the back of a damp cupboard. Last year, Tjones got no run until McHale's hand was forced. Same thing this year with Dmo and Canaan. But never a "oh, Tjones/Dmo/Isaiah can play, maybe I should concentrate more on what he can do than on what he can't." Maybe they're trade bait now anyway.
