David Locke is a Clown

[Handlogten's Heros]

The good news about not believing Quin is the problem is that we can spend another couple years spinning wheels until we realize that's the case. We will get worse results next year, and I'd expect this same argument to happen.

He's gone... per my Best Buy rumor in the other thread... too many threads today.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Hassan couldn't be in the game last night... he just couldn't. He has options like Paschall and Hernangomez... hell dust off Rudy Gay. Hassan was always going to be situational in the playoffs.

But Quin didn't really experiment with 5 out during the year enough... the ****** sample mostly came in games where injuries and Covid absences necessitated it. He didn't experiment enough and I think it is the biggest issue in this series. They adjusted the defense with bigs but he could never trust a 5 out offense or defense enough to mothball Hassan... so yeah... he gets some ****ing blame too because there is enough for everyone.

Also, why not go to Hassan in the deep post if he is in the game? He's actually been proven to be very effective against small ball. You can tell his energy was super low because he would never get the ball. A couple time he ran the court on fastbreak to get deep position against a small in the post and he never got looked at.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

With Quin its a staring contest... Doc is trying to do the same thing. They both want out... they both want their money... they both want to get that double check... so what do you do? You go full Castanza and get fired or let go. We have to say we want him back... or else Danny can't get that second rounder and Ryan can't save that money.

Locke and TJ are the ones pumping the breaks here... they are company men not to be trusted with rumors imo.

 

[416Klawzz]

I can't stand him, he is pure pro jazz and justifies all their mistakes. Is this guy paid by the Jazz organization?

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Also, why not go to Hassan in the deep post if he is in the game? He's actually been proven to be very effective against small ball. You can tell his energy was super low because he would never get the ball. A couple time he ran the court on fastbreak to get deep position against a small in the post and he never got looked at.

Agree... he's better with his hands than Rudy... It's wild we never figured out how to adequate punish 5 out lineups that are small-ish (its not true "smallball").

 

[Bawse Dawg]

Quin was 1000000% not the problem

Quin is incredibly dogmatic. I think it hurt the team.

 

[fallenchicken]

Hassan couldn't be in the game last night... he just couldn't. He has options like Paschall and Hernangomez... hell dust off Rudy Gay. Hassan was always going to be situational in the playoffs.

But Quin didn't really experiment with 5 out during the year enough... the ****** sample mostly came in games where injuries and Covid absences necessitated it. He didn't experiment enough and I think it is the biggest issue in this series. They adjusted the defense with bigs but he could never trust a 5 out offense or defense enough to mothball Hassan... so yeah... he gets some ****ing blame too because there is enough for everyone.

I wish they had never signed Whiteside and forced Snyder to experiment and introduce small ball into his system. Whiteside signing was supposed to be situational, take burden off Rudy, add another guy on the bench. But what happened is it allowed Snyder to just play his normal Gobert scheme the entire game, every game of the season. And of course, the every good team knows how to disable the Gobert defense now. They all saw the Clippers series. It’s been happening all year. And he never tried to build another option we could go to.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I wish they had never signed Whiteside and forced Snyder to experiment and introduce small ball into his system. Whiteside signing was supposed to be situational, take burden off Rudy, add another guy on the bench. But what happened is it allowed Snyder to just play his normal Gobert scheme the entire game, every game of the season. And of course, the every good team knows how to disable the Gobert defense now. They all saw the Clippers series. It’s been happening all year. And he never tried to build another option we could go to.

Well Rudy Gay was supposed to be good too, so that kind of ruined that whole thing.

Plus EP couldnt rebound to save his life, so they could do that either.

Quin had no choice when it came to backup center for the regular season.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I wish they had never signed Whiteside and forced Snyder to experiment and introduce small ball into his system. Whiteside signing was supposed to be situational, take burden off Rudy, add another guy on the bench. But what happened is it allowed Snyder to just play his normal Gobert scheme the entire game, every game of the season. And of course, the every good team knows how to disable the Gobert defense now. They all saw the Clippers series. It’s been happening all year. And he never tried to build another option we could go to.

I regret nothing with Whiteside. I never thought we were real contenders though. The Whiteside Roller Coaster was one of the more fun things about this season... which 1000% tells you about how the season went.

I also think Hassan was kinda homies with Rudy and I feel like he need some homies.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I regret nothing with Whiteside. I never thought we were real contenders though. The Whiteside Roller Coaster was one of the more fun things about this season... which 1000% tells you about how the season went.

I also think Hassan was kinda homies with Rudy and I feel like he need some homies.

You can tell Hassan 1000% feels the same way Rudy does about not getting the ball and how much he has to help bad defense. Hassan just looks over it 75% of the time.

 

[homeytennis]

The good news about not believing Quin is the problem is that we can spend another couple years spinning wheels until we realize that's the case. We will get worse results next year, and I'd expect this same argument to happen. You can't have guys consistently not coming out ready or focused over the course of an entire season and not point blame to the coach. Again, it's the captain of the ship blaming the guy at the wheel. If the captain isn't always at the wheel, there's some assumption that nothing can be his fault.

Sloan or Belichek wouldn't put up with this jackpotting around or playing in tuxedos. They would get players in here that would play hard and smart.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

You can tell Hassan 1000% feels the same way Rudy does about not getting the ball and how much he has to help bad defense. Hassan just looks over it 75% of the time.

I also respect that it looked like we might be moving away from Hassan and we went back to him and he locked back in and gave us some good basketball. He was also mostly fun. Sometimes basketball should be fun.