Olbrannon wrote:Bippity10 wrote:CrushAlot wrote:fishmike wrote:thedpj wrote:Long time lurker... but I just can't take it anymore, so I had to post. Besides making these guys run more than everyone else, what does D'anfraudi teach them?Defense is atrocious
Offensive-Awareness is atrocious
Passing is mediocre
We used to always say that the mark of a good coach is when the team has a well-drawn out play after a timeout. When was the last time we actually saw that? Its always drive and kick, a desperation shot, or a turnover. I'm sorry, I understand this team is full of middle class mercenaries due to 2010... but they really should be better than this. A good coach, and this team might have 3 wins.
good adjectives. What adjectives would you use to describe the skill and talent levels of the players on this roster? No need to break it down player by player... just glancing at the 9-10 rotation guys from a talent and skill standpoint. How would you describe the group over all?Words like mediocre, atrocious and well below average come to my mind.
What coach is going to change this? Lenny Wilkins is a great chemistry guy.. lets try him. Larry Brown is a great defense and fundamentals guy... lets try him. Isiah is the great players guys... lets try him. DAntoni is the great offense guy... lets try him.
See a pattern?
Whats coaching got to do with it??? Whats coaching but a 2nd hand emotion?
We need better players. When we have those and the team looks lost lets talk X's and O's
His team has looked unprepared, and unmotivated.
Dear everyone: You guys refuse to listen to Bip. I told you that the year we said "it was okay to quit on LB because he's mean to us" that this would haunt us for a long-time. Our core players were either a part of that team or taught by someone who was. We are infected. I have seen this before at all levels of coaching. People think I'm off my rocker, but as I said then, I'm saying it again now, we are infected!!!! Unfortunately a shot is not enough to get rid of the infection
Well might not mean anything but there are others around like Allan Houston? And at least for TD I'd have to reckon 'Chahlie' is as close as a phone call if he has questions.
Having guys like Allan around is a start but it doesn't help when the guys are in the thick of things on the court. I think back to my basketball days when I was a young buck. I was confident, I thought I could take on the world. But I made dumb decisions. Coach was in my ear yelling at me, but it's tough to apply what someone is saying on the floor when you don't see it. Then I go to varsity. I'm playing next to the best player I've ever played with in my life. He's an unflappable PG. Shows no emotion, he was just a straight killer. Last 5 minutes he would kill you to get a rebound or a loose ball. When the team was f'in up he was calm cool and collected. When our offense stagnated he never cleared it out, he immediately became the coach on the floor pulled the ball out and ran a play. If you didn't run the play he motioned to coach to get you out. If you didn't play defense he motioned to coach to get you out. In the meantime like I said, while he was yelling he was never once a hypocrite. He always hustled on D. He never gave you the opportunity to question his actions, because he was always doing the right thing. There were at least 3 or 4 other guys just like him. As a young idiot had no choice but to behave like they did. I'm in my 30's now, and we play together all the time.
In a preseason game a team beat us 3 times in a row on back door cuts where we feel asleep. Coach is yelling and nobody is listening. My budd was so mad that he took the inbounds pass and threw it out of bounds on purpose and said he was going to continue to do this until we decided it was important to play defense. The fans thought he was crazy but everyone of us got the message. We are both in our 30's and play together now all the time. People think we are twins because our games and demeanors are so similar. It's beause I looked up to him and copied everything he did.
We seem to think this doesn't happen at the pro level, but this is exactly how it happens on the pro level. If the star players are Steph, Zach and Jamal and they just quit on their coach or take crazy shots in crunch time, or don't play defense guess what? This becomes acceptable to the young guys. They then ultimately do not develop. You can have all the talent in the world but if you are in the wrong environment.........it becomes an infection.
