MEmphis wins again

Take another look at the article. The Grizz were down by 25 points in the third quarter, then probably came back by playing their starters against the Sonics' 2nd and 3rd stringers.

 

grizz made their run with a team of knight, collins, battier, gasol and ike austin. hardly their first unit. dickerson, swift and wright didnt play at all in the last 20 minutes and jwill only played the last 5 minutes after knight led to the team to cut the margin from 25 to 0. sonics played lewis, barry and mason for almost the entire last quarter. they were the ones with the starters in the game

 

Either way you look at it, at least the Grizz are better than ESPN's prediction of them being at the bottom of the league. Surely this team will be better the 2 or 3 other teams. This may have been a wake up call for J Williams to play to win and not play to get on the highlight reel.

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i listened to this game. jwill is more out of control than ever, but now he doesnt have some coach breathing down his back so i think hes just having fun without pressure and playing better as a result. he did like 3 passes that had the announcers screaming for a while and the crowd cheering and one that hit lorenzen wright in the face. and those trademark pullup 3s in transition are still there. he took 3 of them in the last few minutes of the game when it was a real close game, difference is he made them all. hes got some guts.

 

The Grizz will be the surpise team of the year. They move to Memphis and all of a sudden they draft right and make good trades..... The move done them good!!!!

 

Let me see...they trade a superstar in Raheem for an unproven foriegner in Gasol. Then they also turnaround and trade a solid pg in Bibby for that sorry Jason Williams. I highly anyone is going to agree that those were good trades


Also what are they planning on doing with Swift, Battier and Gasol. None of them are centers.

 

4 months ago, I talked about Gasol for first time at this thread, many things happened in this time, but one still being the same:
Gasol is THE REAL DEAL, no patriotic fanatism, simply I´m a lover of good basketball.
Pau will send Swift to the bench in a few regular season games.

my Grizz´s starting lineup would be:

PG:White Chocolate
SGickerson
SF:Battier
PFau "E.T" Gasol
C:Lorenzen Wright

If coach lets acopplish this team, they will be a Play-off contenders next season.

In my opinion Gasol will take 25-30 mins this year with an average between 12-18 PPG and 6-8 rebounds.

Add to this a great intimidation (better with zonal defenses) and a amazing winner mentality and you has a little vision of this guy in future.

 

"MEmphis wins again"
--Well, they have to get them while they CAN.

Let's see, the Gizzards last year had no bench, no center, no PF, a very good sub-26 year old SF, and a good pair of guards. They traded their one very good player, and half of their remaining asset (their back-court). In return they got a point guard who half the time had to be pulled in favor of no-J Bobby Jackson, and 2 rookies who are going to have very little guidance by quality veterans.

The only team that MIGHT have a worse record than the Gizzards next year is the Bulls.

 

I dis-agree. Mike Bibby (and fans riding his jock) in his wildest wet dream couldn't begin to come near the talent of Jason Williams.

The Suckamento No-Rings now have (on their roster) a PF who is more concerned with which teams didn't pursue him during free agency; an undersized, no-impact, non-athletic PG; and an incompetent coach.

There's a lot of talk about how Bibby will make Sacramento a better team, Memphis will be a bottom-dwellar in the Midwest (if not the league), and the eratic play of Jason Williams. What happens if Sacramento actually sucks this year, Bibby is benched, Memphis does well, and Jason Williams is given All-Star consideration? What does that say about Sacramento's system/team and Adelman's incompetence/inabilty to relate to his players?


University (Passing a bib to the Bibby jockers.) Blue

 

Blue, you forget J Will was often replaced with the journeyman Bobby Jackson, and before he got there, the journeymen Delk or Barry played heavy 1 minutes if I recall. If Bibby stinks up the joint like JWill did 1/2 the time, the Kings are just back to where they were last time--relying on No-J Bobby Jackson. Personally, I don't think Bibby will be as inconsistent or ineffective than JWill was at times. Bibby is a better shooter, passer and defender in the team concept than J Will--the latter of whom often had to be benched anyway. The Kings didn't need a self-absorbed if talented playmaking PG, because they have the scoring and more consistent playmakers already there, they are far better off than a more consistent, if less spectacular, PG. I fail to see any realistic positions for how the Bibby-JWill trade is a significant net loss for the Kings.

 

This is less an indication of Jason Williams's effectiveness and more proof that Adelman's an incompetent coach.

What kind of doubt would a player have (about his own skills/effectiveness/role on the team) if the coach decided to play "journeyman" players more minutes/in critical situations? Jason Williams being a supposed "self-absorbed"/"brooding" player is not the cause of Sacramento not doing well, but the effect of Adelman's grade-school psycho-logy approach to handling Jason Williams.

So the Suckamento No-Rings didn't well in the last two playoffs. They lost to an LA team with poor transition defense. Whose fault is that? Not Jason Williams's.


University (Whose fault will it be this year?) Blue

 

It's the PRESEASON! How many times have teams had winning records in preseason and stunk the joint up in the regular season? The Grizzlies may be better then last year, but that isn't saying much.