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Jazz still not watching film together

One Brow said:
Earlier, Jefferson was talking about Williams and he going over the film. So, the film seems to be available to the players.

Does anyone think that the coaches said, "You can have two players in this room, but not the whole team"?

With the bargaining agreement, the practice time is limited. Would this film time be coming during practice time? Is that the best use of practice time? Can players be mandated to watch film out of practice time? Are coaches even allowed to lead such a film session?

Sloan may very well be throwing away an oppotunity. But until someone can answer those questions, we don't really know. I know Williams is a passionate, dedicated player who I suspect doesn't care about the restrictions of the labor agreement, but team management is required to care about these issues.
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Right on cue. As expected.
 
To clear up, every player receives a DVD after EVERY GAME. On road games, these are handed out on the planes so they can watch them immediately after on their DVD players/laptops in-flight. So if the players aren't watching the tape at all, or don't feel like joining other players who try to organize their own thing, blame those players; not Sloan, who is limited in the amount of time he is allowed on stuff like this due to the CBA. It's like a player's homework. Do your ****ing homework, players. I'm sure Sloan expects each player to have gone over before the next practice, but it is obvious that many of them are not.

I wouldn't consider myself a Sloan apologist at all, but if you don't think that Sloan knows what he is doing at almost all times, you are out of your ****ing mind.
 
twentytwo said:
To clear up, every player receives a DVD after EVERY GAME. On road games, these are handed out on the planes so they can watch them immediately after on their DVD players/laptops in-flight. So if the players aren't watching the tape at all, or don't feel like joining other players who try to organize their own thing, blame those players; not Sloan, who is limited in the amount of time he is allowed on stuff like this due to the CBA. It's like a player's homework. Do your ****ing homework, players. I'm sure Sloan expects each player to have gone over before the next practice, but it is obvious that many of them are not.

I wouldn't consider myself a Sloan apologist at all, but if you don't think that Sloan knows what he is doing at almost all times, you are out of your ****ing mind.
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We are doing our homework. Did anyone say that the players aren't getting game film? I think not. The criticism is that they aren't going over game film as a team. And your mention of CBA limitations isn't particularly relevant; somehow Phil Jackson and the world champions find time to go over game film as a team. AFAIK, they aren't breaking any rules in doing so. Again, this is coaching fundamentals: review game film as a team, make adjustments in games (perhaps from the game film).
 
The team is probably watching film as we type.

Minutes later, while the Olympic guard sat by himself on a trainer’s table and self applied athletic tape, Utah coach Jerry Sloan responded to his star player’s comments.

Sloan said Jazz coaches had already watched film of the team’s second consecutive blowout loss, a 110-94 nationally-televised defeat to Phoenix on Thursday. A group session was then planned before practice Friday.

“We’ll see what happens,” Sloan said.
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https://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50569066-76/williams-jazz-sloan-team.html.csp
 
So Deron should take matters into his own hands. He's the sole team captain, does he think the coaches are going to intervene if he gets the team together to watch film?
 
As the lone team Captain now, Deron should organize film sessions with his teammates if he likes the idea. What/who is stopping him from doing this?? Maybe Boozer was against doing this before?
As Captain Picard would say, "MAKE IT SO"...
 
The question is not whether Deron can gets his guys together to watch film. The question is whether Darth Sloan can look deep inside of himself and just for once, bend a little and JOIN the players during the session. I mean, he is the coach and has years of experience that would be very helpful for the young guys as well as the veterans.

I mean, let's say they come upon a point in the viewing session where they watch a specific breakdown in a play. What are they supposed to do? Come up on a fix on their own and implement it? That would be ludicrous. Darth Sloan needs to be there to add his opinion and to help the players understand.

Why are we arguing about this? It's ****ing common ****ing sense.
 
Sloan is such a great coach....

His we do things all as a team or we don't do them line is crap. They don't watch film as a team?
Is this more of the "I expect them to be prepared on their own" line of thinking. They are all grown men.

It sounds like a cop out for Sloan to not do his job. He doesn't talk to players....because they should already know stuff is crap.

Ok end /rant
 
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