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I respectfully disagree. From my point of view, I'm less concerned with playing well and more concerned with playing hard. Q, Balk, Lee and Collins are not playing well and none of them have for extended periods of time.

And yet I feel all four "get it"

Granted the fact that Q is playing like crap and has been for quite sometime now he still gives an effort. That I think is the difference. Too bad his skills have diminished because we could really use a leader that can play well and get the team to play with more effort.

I think sometimes Q plays lazy and falls in love with the 3. He just sort of camps out there.

and he is the one who always guards the tough 2/3.

I feel like last year he was more active last year scoring closer to the basket, but you're right that maybe he's being asked not to because they've got 2 post guys.

He's missed his last dozen or so 3 pointers though.

Posted by VDesai:

I feel like last year he was more active last year scoring closer to the basket, but you're right that maybe he's being asked not to because they've got 2 post guys.

He's missed his last dozen or so 3 pointers though.

remember when Ricky Davis landed on his elbow? Still bad is my guess. Not that he was ever a pure shooter.

Q is also coming off of back surgery. That takes time.

Posted by martin:

Posted by VDesai:

I think sometimes Q plays lazy and falls in love with the 3. He just sort of camps out there.

could be that he is trying to spread the floor for his 2 big men. It's a chicken and egg thing. Q is a power guard.... should he post up or let Curry Zbo get the ball in the post.

Ball movement is not there. Cutting is not there. Pick and roll doesn't even exist.

This is what has been bugging me. If you look at the times this team has been successful, it has been the games where we got full team involvement in the offense. Guys are moving and cutting and the team is passing the ball quickly and decisively. Now due to what I believe is Isiah panicking, the team has slowed everything down so much and oversimplified the offense and it can't work like that. There's no deception and defenses have no problems clogging up the paint and making it impossible to score inside. We need to get back to the guards attacking, guys setting picks and guys moving. make the defense work. Many have said this before, but don't always make Curry the primary. Let him and even Zach and Lee, get some easy looks off of guard penetration. Drive and dish, pick and rolls, give and go... it's not that hard. I blame this on Isiah, cuz these players are more than capable of doing these things, but they're obviously being told to focus on only one thing and so we've lost all the continuity and flow to the offense.

in the 1st 3 games you saw the higher FG% and the higher Assists. That wasn't a fluke that was the team playing to it's strengths. I don't know what we've been doing recently, but it's not the offense that we expected to see or that we MUST play to succeed.

OH YEAH I almost forgot. PLAY CHANDLER OVER Q!!!! We've seen what Q can do, how about giving the kid a long look?

[Edited by - nixluva on 11-21-2007 10:58 AM]

Posted by nixluva:

Posted by martin:

Posted by VDesai:

I think sometimes Q plays lazy and falls in love with the 3. He just sort of camps out there.

could be that he is trying to spread the floor for his 2 big men. It's a chicken and egg thing. Q is a power guard.... should he post up or let Curry Zbo get the ball in the post.

Ball movement is not there. Cutting is not there. Pick and roll doesn't even exist.

This is what has been bugging me. If you look at the times this team has been successful, it has been the games where we got full team involvement in the offense. Guys are moving and cutting and the team is passing the ball quickly and decisively. Now due to what I believe is Isiah panicking, the team has slowed everything down so much and oversimplified the offense and it can't work like that. There's no deception and defenses have no problems clogging up the paint and making it impossible to score inside. We need to get back to the guards attacking, guys setting picks and guys moving. make the defense work. Many have said this before, but don't always make Curry the primary. Let him and even Zach and Lee, get some easy looks off of guard penetration. Drive and dish, pick and rolls, give and go... it's not that hard. I blame this on Isiah, cuz these players are more than capable of doing these things, but they're obviously being told to focus on only one thing and so we've lost all the continuity and flow to the offense.

in the 1st 3 games you saw the higher FG% and the higher Assists. That wasn't a fluke that was the team playing to it's strengths. I don't know what we've been doing recently, but it's not the offense that we expected to see or that we MUST play to succeed.

OH YEAH I almost forgot. PLAY CHANDLER OVER Q!!!! We've seen what Q can do, how about giving the kid a long look?

[Edited by - nixluva on 11-21-2007 10:58 AM]

It's because the guards don't know how to run a team, can't run the team and don't know how to kick-start the offense. The ball is in Marbury and Crawford's hands and those 2 keep ****ing up.