Posted by nixluva:
Posted by Bippity10:
If Curry isn't being fed the ball 15-20 times a game, what does he provide? Why couldn't the coach see that until now? Too much optimism? Blind support?
TO me this is the problem. Curry's biggest asset is his offense and it is the coach and Perimeter players job to make sure that he is fed well and often. Yeah Zach needs touches, but the guy rebounds so well that you almost don't have to go out of your way to call his number. Curry tho, is a different story. If you have a one dimensional player then you have to make sure that he's able to provide that dimension. It's about focus. We have had our guards go into a mental funk and resort to simply standing around and trying to make telegraphed passes to Curry. No team is just going to alow that. SO what do you do? You do what we did in the Nets game and many of the wins. You move the ball and force the D to move and then you feed the post. You make cuts and penetrate to draw defenders attention so they can't focus on the post. It's not rocket science and this is what I was expecting from day one, but for some reason we lost that along the way. As a coach you have to be able to recognize that and correct it right away. Isiah was slow to address it and so we kept losing.
The Europeans have shown that by playing fundamental ball any team can compete, and if you have talent that should be enough to make you a winner. We have failed to do these things. There are 2 arguments going on here. One is whether this team is able to play winning ball as constructed and One is whether this team is on the right path to contention. I don't think at this time that the contention argument is worth getting into right now. We need to get this team to the point where it can win games. Then address the overall issue of how to make it a contender. We weren't expecting contention this year anyway. Only the losing has made this a big issue at this point. You don't jump from big losing to contention without a KG and Allen type of addition.
I don't understand the logic of Bip and your reasoning. You want ball movement yet a power game and are suggesting giving Curry the ball 15-20/gm? That's would be a major setback not to mention you end up turning Zach into Channing Frye. Here's what we know giving Curry the ball that many times/gm will result in increased team turnovers, less ball movement, out of sync offense. On the yr so far....
Zach has 42ast(Black Hole)
Curry has 13ast(Black Hole X 10000)
That right there is all we need to know that giving Curry the ball 15-20/gm would be one of the dumbest ideas to boot. Our team ....as poorly constructed as it is.... needs players to be less selfish, move the ball/pass, and play with effort every night. It's really simple. We don't need to cater to any one player on this team, no matter how good they are at 1 thing.
I mean Bruce Bowen and Brent Barry are both shooting close to 50% from downtown should the Spurs look to give them more touches? They both only shoot 5x's/gm, maybe they both should receive close to 8fga's/gm.
Curry and his apologizing fans to needs to shut up!
[Edited by - TrueBlue on 12-17-2007 11:11 AM]
