I guess I must've offended someone. Or.... afraid the wizard will log on to his clutchfans secret account and get butt hurt when he see's the thread title. LULZ
Kind of hard to have a good bench when last year guys like Battier and Chuck didnt get alot of minutes when we starting winning. Yet now coach Adelman decides they should eat up most of the minutes over Jordan Hill and insert whoever Battier is replacing now.... What it boils down to is we need a upgrade at SF. Adelman needs to use either Hill or Patrick Patterson more. Preferably both. Heck put Patterson at SF at time in for Battier to see what happens. You have Hill, Chuck Hayes, Patterson, Martin, and Lowry in the game at the same time. He just throws the same crap out there that doesnt work over and over. Battier with Chuck Hayes and Lowry. Alot of all defense and no offense. All offense and no defense. All slow team. All cant shoot team. All slow team. All small team lineups. Its frustrating watch him manage games.
Come on, that is not fair, Clutch changed the name of this site so he would be away from the Rockets and not influenced by them in any way. We are free to be as critical or as praising as possible, that is why he changed the name in the first place. You must be confusing Clutchfans with the Chronicle, they are the ones in the Rockets pocket. DD
Our real bench: Lowry Lee Budinger Hayes Miller/ Hill Our current bench: Ishmael Smith (3rd string rookie) Lee Budinger (just came back from injury) Hayes Hill (3rd string) The bench will improve once everyone's healthy, hopefully. I missed tonight's game, thankfully, but in the Chicago game the ball movement of the bench guys was really bad. I'm surprised because Smith and Lee seem to be above-average passers. Is it just lack of chemistry or something else?
Tonight's loss was not the players, fault to me I blame Adleman! His substitution pattern sucked!!! You play Lowry and Martin 40 mins!!!! Martin Is not a Go to Guy and to many turn overs! Lowry can start but with out scorers around him, his limitations begin to hurt the team. On a team were nobody has stepped up to be the bench scoring punch you bring in Budinger for 14 mins and you see he is struggling 0-6 tonight. C. Lee 1-3 tonight in 7.6 minutes and last game 1-6 in 22 minutes. You have Jefferies and JT over there rotting on the bench while the people playing are stinking up the gym. The other night JT went 4-8 and scored eight points in 21 mins. Seems like you would want to build some confidence in a player who in spot duty is playing better than the guys in front of him. In a season like this no one should feel comfortable with there play. If you can't produce then on to the next one.
I'll give Ish and Hayes a pass, since they're offensively limited and have been playing their roles - but Lee and Bud have both been inexcusably bad. Injuries aren't enough to explain why Bud has been so bad.
Which one of our guys doesn't stink in one aspect of the game? We have too many 1-D players. AB - no D KM - horrible D Battier -horrible O Scola - above horrible D Hil - average in both, for a bench Ish - no shot, average D Kyle - can't shoot Lee - balanced but a 15-20 min guy Chase - no D, sturggling in O Chuck - no O Miller - no D, sub par O our only person that is 2-D is yao ming but he is not a true star player that can carry the team. He doesn't have the ability to will his way towards a win.
Part of the problem seems to be that Adelman has so much faith in the guys he knows, he leaves them forever. No other way to explain why Budinger got more minutes coming back from injury then Lee. Apparently the possibilities and potential of this squad had hurt Adelman's once genius offensive mind, because he is looking flabber gasted as to what to do with the rotation.
