The problem with the offense is the other guys missing open 3 pointers. If Battier or Rafer each hit 1 open 3(which would still qualify as having a dismal shooting night) the outcome may have been much different. How many wide open 3s were missed by players not named T-mac?? All but 1. 1 for 11. Not contested 3 point shots, bad pullup 3s(Rafer is notorious at this), or heaves at the shot clock. Good shots that were in the flow of the offense. Also, how many of you expected the 3 by Battier to find the bottom of the net? (regardless of his 0-fer night the previous 47 minutes.)
in this two games, every one sees how bad the two guards --jame and alston played... i just wonder why rick's dont give a chance to sf3 what i mean is that just give him few minS. if sf3 performance in the game is really bad, then no one will complain to rick agian . that is really hurt that seeing sf3 in the brench but noting he can do.... hey, just look at jvg and wells last year. the different is... sf3 really want to make a contribution to the team just give him a few mins! plZ!
What a turd. Lets forget you just lost to a terrible terrible terrible Memphis team. One that had its "star" player disappearing softy at the end of games. Lets just say "hey before the last several games we were 1 and 0 I need to trust it. Lets forget that realistically the Rox should of lost the game before with the Bobcats. That you play the Lakers, Spurs, Mavs and Suns next four. What happens if you lose 3 of 4 and become 7-5? Are you going to say "hey we were just 6-2 with this rotation." Psssst. Ricky. We were 6-2 last year at this point too. This team went on to win 52 games with Yao out for 38 games and Tracy out 9. Think the way things are going you could get that done also? Well that team still lost in the first round, at home. Open your eyes man, get the salt off of our toungue and move on. OH and BTW Rick. WTF were you doing sitting Tmac so long into the 4th quarter. Why did you wait till the lead became 10 with only about 6 minutes left? Bad decision coach. TMac should of entered at around the 8 minute mark at very least. Along with a replacement for James, and Rafer, and Head. Nice job of coaching.
guys, I'm not blaming TMac for his nice shoots . But this game get something like that lost against Dallas , same hot TMac , but lost . We can see in those two games , Yao kept a high(even higher than TMac) offense efficient . What I am trying to express is Rick's System . His system is an equal system runs between our two superstar , Yao and TMac needs to be part in this . We saw today Yao only had one assist , but in those win games he at least had 3 or more .On the other hand , TMac had a 28 shoots tonight , how many of those shoot was passed by his teammates ? What that means? I think that probably damage the organization of the whole SYSTEM . I did not saw the game thru TV for I am a Chinese , I was sitting in the office this morning , watching the sina web broadcast by text . My opinion is just by the game stat. . Please excuse me if I was wrong , I'll go watch the rebroadcast when I get home tonight . Thanks and have a good night .
the funny thing is people taking speculation and assuming it. it's all lies whether it is pro oer against francis. no one here knows. time to cut the cr**. what we do know is rafer is playing badly and francis is another option thathasn't been used.
clutch only passed only speculation and he never said anything about francis not pulling his weight. he said francis wasn't putting in extra effort and only doing the minimum of what was required but that's still meeting requirements.
well then i would ask you if you were the boss would you promote the one just doing the minimal effort to get by? or stick with the one who is doing marginally ok. In my opinion Rafer and Mike James currently are Borderline, there are bad and good things they do. But Francis is doing nothing to make himself better. Its a simple work situation that management face all the time, and RA is making the right choice. You can't reward stupidity and thats exactly what Francis is displaying.
we all think refer should get replace by steve. but refer is only true PG on our team. not mj, not steve both are offense mind PG, that is why even refer shot ugly like that, both jvg, and adman have to use him a lot.
so our PG problem still there, and pf looks not much improve, we coming fast start, but in fact nothing big has changed. oh, maybe only one is wells. (mj is new head now)
RA has to find the right balance between keeping faith in the two (Rafer/James) that have shown something previously (as in past seasons), and realizing that Rafer and James aren't making the grade (so as to speak) and give someone new and fresh an opportunity (Brooks and/or Francis). It is only 8 games into an 82 game season so I think he is doing the right thing in showing faith to the 2 guys that have busted their guts in training/practice. IMHO this issue of whether Francis/Brooks should be playing instead of James/Alston is something that is better addressed 20-30 games into the season. By then all the players (not just Rafer and James, but Scola, Wells, T-Mac, Yao etc.) should have had ample opportunity to get accustomed to Adelman's plays and offensive sets, develop better chemistry on the court and gel. If we are still struggling after those 20-30 games then I think it would be time for Adelman to change things up. But for now I'm happy to see him persist with Alston and James and show them enough faith that they wil eventually get it right.
its not Tmac's fault... we lost... it was bad defense... and guys like James and Bonzi taking too many shots when they were cold... however Tmac after going 9 for his first 11.... went 7 for his next 17 missing his last 3 shots...clearly Tmac tried to do too much in this game...
