cheers wrote:fishmike wrote:franco12 wrote:When everyone says Randolph is not putting in the effort, how exactly do we know this to be a fact? Are we basing it on what we see, in terms of him not playing?
2nd that... He's 21. I havent heard a negative peep. Maybe its because we are winning so his lack of contributions arent really noticed, but I think its just like Bip said. He's played in 107 NBA games (with an 18mpg average). He played one NCAA season (30games?). I just think he doesnt know how to play yet. Sure he can dribble, shoot and score but he doesnt know when to do what when there are 9 other guys on the floor.Let him keep working and he will get his chance. Might not even be this year.
Personally I like the idea of a pipeline here and a 21 year old who has great upside but isnt ready to play yet.
i would agree if ar didn't look absolutely miserable riding the pine. everything looks rosy when you winning. i lol'd when mda started chandler over turiaf for the minny game, so i check knicks live chat-- knick staff said coach plan is to "slowly" work turiaf in. slow must be two minutes, cause after minny beasted from tip off, mda put turiaf in with a quickness.
when coach needs you he grabs you, doesnt matter how good you are but if he doesnt need you he doesnt grab you. its not that ar is not good, he just doesnt feel he needs ar right now. the problem again is the kid looks miserable. ar wont hurt the W column if coach just gave him spots minutes here and there. this game is a lot about confidence ar needs to see coach believes in him.
D'Antoni has said nothign but glowing things about AR. There should be no doubt that D'Antoni believes in his long-term potential. Doesn't mean you hand him minutes. The quickest way for a player to gain confidence is to earn something.
Let's say you started working for me and you sucked. You came to me for help because your confidence was in the dumper. My response was to give you more responsibility, more money and a pretty title. You would have more money but would your confidence go up? You still suck and now you have more responsibility which probably means more failure, and lower confidence. Let's say I do the reverse. I say I beleive in you. "Long-term I think you will be great, but right now it's not working.Let's take a step back. Let's break your job down into components and increase your responsibility as you get better in each area." You may go into the tank with that approach as well, but if you do, that just means the job isn't for you. But there is a solid chance you will see the small successes and build confidence from there.
Basketball is no different. I have coached the same way, and had a pretty good reputation for development. You don't want to throw a low confidence player to the wolves. This will destroy him if he continues to fail. It's better to see incremental success in practice, then spot minutes, then major minutes. This is how 90% of the players in this league develop. The guys that were handed minutes because they were young and talented end up like Eddie Curry and Steve Francis etc. Talented, but little knowledge of how to win.
