Where to begin... Adelman has no confidence in our bench anymore and rightfully so since Budinger and Patterson are the lone serviceable players. Brooks and Hill can't defend you or I let alone a competent NBA player and they constantly break plays on offense by dribbling too much and being basketball r****ded, respectively. Lee has the most inconsistent jumper on the team, seemingly clanging every wayward chuck off the back of the iron. Meanwhile, Williams needs some playing time and needs it badly. Thus, with our bench being terrible our starters are tired at the end of the game and in turn we are rendered the absolute worst fourth quarter team in the league. Sure Martin scores a sizable amount in said quarter but with a minute left you can't run a play for him, he's too soft/mentally weak to handle it. This leaves Scola as our ONLY offensive option and due to having no real back up he's dead tired at the end of the game. Lowry, Battier and Hayes are all one way players, no matter how many threes Lowry jacks up (which, lately, has been way too many). We need a trade. We need a shake up. Something, somewhere, somehow. Because the '10-'11 ship is sinking... if it hasn't sunk already.
Stop playing the veterans for Godsake. Tell them the situation and that you are trying to ship them out soon....................................... We are hurting our team in so many ways by consistently putting out this old lineup.
Not shocked at all. Also sure would be nice to see some of those young guys for more than a minute and change
Welp Im ready for us to start shopping and try and trade Brooks in the next two weeks before we over pay for him in the off season. He just has not looked good at all, regardless of whether it is still a lingering injury or not. When he is just chunking up bricks like he did tonight he is dead weight, because he is just going to keep getting lit up by scrubs like JJ Barrera.
Morey's job is tough. What do you do with Brooks? Trade him? Or resign him? His value has certainly diminished A LOT, and there is no guarantee it will return.
Aside from Scola and maybe Patterson, that was a very, very poor 4th quarter effort. As soon as they started knocking down those three pointers, it was like our guys just shut it down.
Adelman played Brooks way too long. He was constantly throwing the ball away and jacking up shots while ignoring guys who were hot (like Budinger) just so he can pad his stats. He is one selfish m***** f*****.
When Martin and AB play that badly, no chance. Scola is consistent, really works hard. The injury has apparently destroyed AB's game; may take him a season to get back into form. He looks terrible. The Spurs are quietly the best team in the NBA.
Rockets were right there early in the 4th and the Spurs went into another gear. Regardless of how easy the schedule might be or not, after these 4 games, it will be pretty obvious this team isn't one player away.
Carmelo or not, Paul or not, Granger/Iguodala/Nash or not, we aren't going anywhere with this team. However, I still look on the bright side of things. 2012 has just about as good of talent as 2010 Free agency had. Daryl Morey knows this. It's so very obvious a big move is coming. Stockpiling 15 rotation worthy players and having them rot on the bench is a move no GM in the NBA would make, let alone Morey. TWill will get playing time after the deal, as trading for him is a step towards our future.
Our starting unit can't really hang with the star-studded starting line-ups of playoff bound teams. This is where RA should get imaginative and mix and match the 1st and 2nd units so they can match up against opponents. But no, RA does almost platoon subs of 2nd unit for 1st unit. As a result, we are way too predictable and easy to scout. SA did a good job defending the paint. When our perimeter shots weren't going in, we couldn't also get anything inside except for Luis. KM again got no FTs. When both KM and AB are cold, why not use CB as SG more or even TW? To be fair, when KM was in, SA was only up 6 pts on us. SA made the huge run on us with Manu getting his shots against CL. That was the time AB was in also.
