Grantland Article on Jefferson & Bobcats

[Stifle Tower]

General NBA

The article mentioned Favors and Kanter.
Bite us!

 

[Stifle Tower]

Bitch.

George >> Hayward

 

[honz]

George >> Hayward

Meh. George is probably a little bit better, but I still called it way better than most of our booing and irate fanbase.

 

[franklin]

Meh. George is probably a little bit better, but I still called it way better than most of our booing and irate fanbase.

You're starting to sound like Archie's bitch. Better step up soon or submit..

 

[Hotdog]

So Charlotte panics because they've been such losers over the past several years and the lottery has been a bit unkind to them. Higgins is squarely in the hot seat and is desperate to do something to justify his job. Meanwhile, the Jazz have a history of fighting for the playoffs. They've built up enough goodwill to see the team through a terrible season in PRECISELY the year the Jazz NEED to be bad. And that, my friends, is the difference between a team that will regret a decision to build around Jefferson and the team expertly managed by Dennis Lindsey and KOC.

Charlotte will NOT make the playoffs. They'll likely land in the late lottery and still pick up a nice player, but not all-star caliber...unless they hit on that 3-5% chance of moving into the top-3. Frankly, I like a 20% chance at a top-3 star and almost assured chance of getting a true impact player by finishing with the 5th or 6th worst record.

This.



What a dumpster fire Charlotte is..

 

[LogGrad98]

I don't recall making a point, lemme check back. Nope, no point made.

FWIW, I bolded that part because I thought it was interesting that Corbin tried several approaches to solving the p&r nightmare, according to Lowe at least.

See now that's a coherent point. I knew you could do it!


Anyway, that is one way to look at it. Another way is that maybe Corbin changed things up when he didn't need to. He could have been creating confusion among his players rather than sticking to a particular tactic or technique until they understood and could execute it. Sloan always wanted his players to go over the top of the screen in the P&R, to fight through it, rather than go under it and allow an uncontested shot. It wasn't always in every circumstance the best strategy, but it was one they could understand and reliably execute, so it was fairly effective. Corbin needs to focus on consistency rather than tweaking in every game, or in his case just throwing **** at the wall until something sticks.