I searched the first few pages for a thread on this with no results, which was a little surprising to me. Is no one else curious or concerned about Dalembert's play? When he started the season slow, I was thinking sure, give him some time, he's out of shape. Then he turned it up, and I thought he had gotten it together. Now he's playing as badly as ever for the past 5-7 games, and I have no explanation. I know McHale is shrinking the lineup to go small a lot, but even when he's gotten minutes, he's been nearly a complete non-factor much of the time. What gives? On a related note, though, my god, our bench is truly amazing lately. Three straight rock-solid road wins when arguably our three best players haven't been very good ('Bert, Lowry, Martin) in most of them. Especially K-Mart and Sam.
What we are seeing basically sums up dalemberts career. He can be a very good defender, he can protect the rim, he can get you 8-10 boards a night. When he shows up. That is why its hard to believe he was making as much money as he was in Philly and Sacramento.
He's playing with no energy. He just posts up way to far and makes silly post moves just to shoot awful fadeaways.
I know he's only making 7. What I was trying to see is that is how much he should have been making before as well. Its a pretty good price for him.
I agree that he makes some really cringe-worthy post moves and takes some bad shots sometimes, but that's not really the only problem. While it would be nice to get back those 2-3 dunks we used to get from him every game, it's defense and rebounding where we need him. He just looks lethargic and totally invisible much of the time. Sometimes I forget he's even out there for a while... But yeah, I think he'll get it together at some point. We probably need more consistency from him if we're going to get to the playoffs and have a chance at keeping things interesting with whoever we face, though.
Yeah, we were warned about him, in that he will have a very good stretch followed by a long off stretch. We were warned lol
It just sums up his career. If he could be consistent and play a full season the way he was playing at the start he´d be a All-star center.
Last 5 games: 15, 20, 7, 18 & 17 minutes respectively, with 4 games of less than 4 rebounds and only 1 game with more than 1 block. McHale better set him straight or his ass is gone, last night he was so lost we had Lowry guarding Gortat and Dalembert did not even realise it for a good 5-6 seconds.
He was just lukcy before. Now his true colors are coming out. I don't like his post up play, his jump shots. Unless it's a dunk, he should not try to shoot the ball.
Often plays with low energy, low basketball IQ, poor positioning, doesn't cut off baseline, doesn't always box out, leaves his man open right at the basket to doulble team, likes to shoot but not a good shooter, poor passer, poor court vision. Other than that, he's pretty good!
