Posted by djsunyc:

well since lou gehrig is white, then he can only be referring to renaldo balkman.

Posted by TheGame:

Posted by arkrud:

Posted by TheGame:

Well since JJ2 is hurt, he won't have to think too hard about benching him. Balkman should start the season getting about 25 minutes a game and that should continue even after JJ2 comes back. He also needs to limit Curry to 32 minutes and give Lee 30 minutes a game. This team can win if IT is willing to sit the guys that don't play smart basketball. Collins should also get some burn.

"smart basketball" is played when coach has game plan and players are executing it.
I don't think we have any game plan in place and we do not have many players who can execute anything.
At least they never show they can.
Isiah and his players are at the same page in playing intuitive basketball which is exiting (of chaotic if you are realist) but always losing against any well organized team.

That is our other problem. We need a better game plan, but even more problematic is that our players cannot run the game plan that we do have. Too many turnovers and lapses on defense. Even with the current game plan, if it were better executed, this team should be a .500 team.

Maybe our game plan is too complicated

Posted by TrueBlue:

This can't be said enough

"Too bad his players don't respect him enough to give him their best and to play hard every night."

Posted by Solace:

How lame. The guy is too busy trying to be everyone's friend than their coach. He needs to stop living vicariously through the players, realize that he's retired and that his job is to help them win, not buddy up for drinking night.

This is why Nichols isn't on the team. He couldn't be bothered to cut his friends from the team.

Posted by BasketballJones:

Once upon a time there was an incompetent regent. He wasn’t evil, mind you, must incompetent. His name was Regent Layden.

Under Regent Layden served Sir Chaney., who was in charge of the Knights. Chaney was a good man who meant well, but he could not inspire his Knights. Most of the Knights at this time were elderly. Their best days had passed.

King Dolan knew that something drastic had to be done, so he had Regent Layden beheaded and installed Regent Thomas in his place. Thomas had a long history as a brave Knight.

It didn’t take long for Thomas to begin correcting the errors of Layden. First, he brought Sir Marbury back to the kingdom. Sir Marbury was from the kingdom and was beloved by all its citizens, but he had been away, fighting in foreign lands.

Then Thomas had Sir Chaney beheaded, expelled the Knight Van Horn, and installed Sir Wilkins. Alas, Sir Wilkins had become senile, so Thomas had him beheaded and brought in the illustrious Sir Brown.

Unfortunately, Sir Brown was full of treachery and tried to undermine Sir Thomas in the hopes that The king would replace Thomas with Brown.

So Thomas had the evil Sir Brown beheaded. Seeing that there were no competent leaders for the band of Knights that he had gathered, he took control of them himself, and led them on a victorious campaign, winning 33 of 82 battles in one year.

Things were looking up, but there was one more evil presence stalking the kindom. That’s right, it was the evil dragon Anucha. Anucha was a mean, nasty, bitchy dragon who, much like Sir Brown, wanted to undermine Sir Thomas.

Thomas knew that if he could slay this dragon, the future for the kingdom was very bright indeed.

Knowing that dragons are repulsed by humans, he put his arm around the dragon and sais “What, I can’t get any love from you today?”. Then he called the dragon a bitch.

This enraged the dragon, and she started thrashing about blindly, giving the hero Thomas a chance to SMITE HER WITH HIS SWORD

He slayed the evil dragon, and all the Knights were very happy, because the dragon had terrorized them and made them attend boring meetings with the Barons and Lords who funded and enjoyed watching their battles.

King Dolan rewarded brave Sir Thomas, naming him head of the knights in perpetuity.

The King, the Knights, and all the people of the kingdom were very happy, and showed their love and respect for the triumphant Thomas.

The End.