Posted by nixluva:
Posted by BlueSeats:
Posted by nixluva:
You guys are real funny, but I think you know exactly what I mean by losing a year under LB. We had to start from scratch to begin this season. That won't happen this year. We'll come in with some things already established. We can look to add on to the gameplan and put in some new wrinkles. We can look to perfect what we started this year. That wasn't possible after LB's season. But go ahead and make jokes. When you're done clowning maybe you can add something substantial to the conversation.
I happen to disagree with your blaming Brown for last season. I blame Isiah's terrible starting rotation.
The one hope we have is that Marbury won't come into camp out of shape and sulking, Francis wont be out there wobbling and sniveling, and Frye and Jeffries wont be confused about which side of the court they're on.
I happen to think the guys who play best with Curry are JC, Lee, Balkman, Malik and possibly Collins. I don't expect all of them to start, but last year none of them did. He was perfectly uncomplimented out there.
I understand your point. Things certainly could've been handled better by Isiah. My point tho is not in disagreeement with yours in that Isiah had to try and figure things out, cuz there wasn't any established rotation that worked. LB never settled on anything and we came into the season a broken team, lacking confidence or any kind of chemistry. That is a set back. You don't want to go into a season like that. LB's job was to set things up and instill order. He didn't do that, but instead created chaos and doubt.
This doesn't absolve Isiah from his own poor decisions, but it made things much harder for him. To start with he had to build up confidence again and he had to try to put something together that would work. Even if LB didn't have great season, if he had at least established SOMETHING this team could've come into this season with something to build off of. At least we'll have that this coming season. That's a source of hope for a better year.
It's fair to say Brown didn't establish anything, but it's also fair to say that things revealed themselves under Brown that Isiah ignored and further mismanaged. Things like Frye not being a good defensive frontcourt partner with Curry, a lack of leadership from our backcourt, weakness at the SF position, poor perimeter defense, high turnovers, difficulty establishing a tempo and point of direction, soft starts and a need for the bench to bail us out, etc.
Isiah preferred to pretend these were all the fault of "lost" confidence under Brown when some of them were physical "truths".
It's convenient that coach Isiah didn't have GM Isiah and his proxy undermining his credibility with the players, so that was one less thing for him to contend with, but if we had a new coach this year we could equally excuse him for having to undo much of the coddling and poor assignments given out by Isiah. So lets just say after 5 coaches in 4 years, consistency in the ranks of coaching on may be a blessing, whoever it comes from.
5/11/2007 9:43 AM
