It's time to move Foye over to the backup 1. Get rid of Tinsely, or Watson.
Play Burks more.
Break up Sap, and Big Al.
Play Burks more.
Break up Sap, and Big Al.
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Mo Williams didn't deliver tonight. He couldn't get us going, and he didn't take shots. Conley took him out of his game.
Would you like to see Big Al paired with Favors more?
Big Al is flat out lazy on defense too much. You have to see that dude. He watches people go to the rim, he's one of the worst pick n roll defenders, etc.
I hope you can see that. He does have an offensive game. I just can't stand to see him and Sap play together so much, esp against elite top teams.
Let's just committ to the youth to see who we should keep and who we should trade.
At this rate , we will finish 8th at best. With Youth , we will be 8-11. Not a big difference. Thing is , after you commit to youth, STICK with it.
Here are my starters:
1. Mo (relucatntly...hope we can trade Al for someone better)
2. Burks
3. Hayward
4. Favors
5. Kanter
At this rate all our young guns have been inconsistent. Some(Burks) have not been given a fair chance.
Let roll with these 5 STARTING & FINISHING games with at least 26 mins/nite each. We need to know what we have.
I have a feeling we will play more fun ball and actually close strong after starting 10 games slow.....
I think we should have gone to our Big-3 line-up and made Rudy Gay try to beat us.
Marvin was a wuss tonight offensively, and we needed Favors/Al or Al/Kanter to match up with their bigs.
Millsap could have played SF.
Marvin was a wuss tonight offensively, and we needed Favors/Al or Al/Kanter to match up with their bigs.
Millsap could have played SF.
I think Corbin wanted to run, but their transition defense and rebounding was too good.
Edit: They got 11 more FGA due to their rebounding.
Edit: They got 11 more FGA due to their rebounding.
It's hard waiting for the future. We know a lot of these vets won't be here next year.
We also may ruin our relationship with Burks. Completely burying him on the end of the bench might be too much for him to get past.
He might just move on when his time comes up.
BHP
Active Member
And that is when the coach is supposed to make offensive adjustments in the flow of the game to negate the defensive adjustments.
Yeah, Al's weak on 'D', but I'm used to seeing Okur, Boozer, and even Millsap get run over, so I don't notice too much. There would have been no harm in giving Kanter more minutes tonight. He had good energy and was playing efficiently.
Yeah, but our offense doesn't have much ability to adjust. Either we play through Al, or we speed up the game, swing the ball or make cuts. We don't have much offensive versatility. We have guys who can score only in certain spots and certain situations.
Edit: Al, Kanter and Hayward are the only guys we can isolate. Memphis shut down the first two, and Corbin shut down the third. Sometimes we can isolate Millsap, but its when he's going against a player with limited length and quickness, and when he's feeling it from mid-range.
Kanter looked good, especially in the 1st half. A few nice low post moves were impressive. He was really playing hard.
He really needs to focus on defense as well if he wants to be a starter for us somewhere down the line.
CAKAR
Well-Known Member
WTF and whats with Kanter ?
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Big AL was burned up by Corbin again, Kanter with a great start against Marc Gasol, but after that he gets only 4 minutes in the 2nd half of the game.
Enes Kanter on his last 9 games...
10 points on 59 percent shooting, 5 Rebounds and also with 80 percent freethrow shooting in 17 minutes per game. What can this 20 year old young guy do, to earn more minutes on an average NBA-Rooster ?
Bottom line: Memphis is a good defensive team. Their defense on the perimeter is really good with Conley, Allen and Gay, and their defense inside is pretty good with Gasol and Randolph.
BHP
Active Member
Yeah i was alluding to the fact that corbin didnt put kanter back in early enough.
Memphis is a better team than we are. I don't think we're beating them anytime soon, unless our shooters go automatic.
orangello
Well-Known Member
Kanter did a much better job of neutralizing Gasol than Jefferson did.
I'm done harping on Jefferson. We know what he does and we know that he will not change anything dramatically. My fight is with Corbin. Did Jefferson "earn" those 34 minutes that he played? I would say no. Kanter looked absolutely amazing out there in the very few minutes that he was given. Corbin needs to grow a pair and teach some lessons by benching guys when they are not giving their all to the team.
Tinsley looked terrible from the beginning. Corbin should have done something about that immediately. Corbin is the enemy.