Posted by islesfan:
Posted by martin:
Posted by islesfan:
Posted by martin:
Posted by islesfan:
Posted by martin:
Posted by islesfan:
Posted by GKFv2:
Most of the team sucks on defense. Do you think Boston built a great defensive team because of Thibodeau or because of Garnett, Perkins, Rondo, Posey and others? Who do we have? Hughes? Jeffries? Name me a guy you have ever seenplay good defense in their entire career.
Last year the Charlotte Bobcats were 20th in the league in ppg. This year they're 7th. They've also improved from 22nd in Opp FG% to 12th this year. Mostly the same players and they've had a lot of players miss a bunch of games. Different coach though. Amazing how that works.
Oh, and the Knicks went from 22nd to 28th in Opp PPG and from 28th to 29th in Opp FG%.
[Edited by - islesfan on 03-26-2009 03:13 AM]
they have 2 new starters. Diaw, Bell.
And they were weren't with the team for a good part of the season. Certainly not long enough to be the reason for their defensive turnaround.
you mean that 50 of the 70 games isn't enough?
Do you even think before you post? LOL.
Blah blah blah, Charlotte is mostly the same team. I hope my **** sticks!
Diaw has played 48 out of 71 games and Bell 40 out of 71. That means that Diaw hasn't played in nearly 1/3 of their games and Bell has played in less than 3/5 of their games. I'm not sure what you mean by "enough" but I said they weren't with the team for "a good part of the season" and that's exactly what the numbers show. I know that's a lot more than Il Bustino has played but that can't be the biggest reason why the Bobcats have significantly improved their defense this season.
But for any injury through the rest of the year, Diaw/Bell are gonna be with the Bobcats for 60 game out of 82 games and both of whom consist of 2 starting positions on the court. Compared to last year, you consider that to be equivalent to the same team?
2 starting positions for 3/4 of the year? Not to mention adding Diop.
Keep twisting it, you almost got a point if you close your eyes enough.
Why are you adding games to skew the numbers? Right now after 71 games, and even before that, the Bobcats had shown significant improvement defensively. Adding games to their total to change their percentage of games played, won't affect their defense from what it is now, the improvement has already been made. Yeah, and I'm the one twisting things.
What is your point exactly, do you begrudge any impact that their head coach has had on their defense? I'm sure that adding those players helped to a degree. The same way adding Duhon and making Chandler a starter should have helped the Knicks. That's 2 new starters too, right? They also traded away 2 of their worst defenders in Zach and Crawford early in the season. The Knicks haven't gotten better, they actually gotten worse. And it's not like there were peaks and valleys that you can explain with roster turnover, they've been bad all year.
Maybe you should open your eyes a little more and stop being blinded by your dislike for me.
I don't dislike you - I don't even know you - but you constantly make points without consideration to what you are saying or consideration to the opposite point. And you make your points blindly.
Of course their coach has had an impact on the team. Duh. I never said the contrary. He is one of the best defensive coaches out there, but it does go to show you that a coach himself can't make a team better defensively on his own (Knicks with Brown is a good case study). Nor can players do the whole thing either.
They also traded away 2 of their worst defenders in Zach and Crawford early in the season. The Knicks haven't gotten better, they actually gotten worse.
So, who did they get back in the trades that were supposed to be better defenders? AL HARRINGTON? Tim Thomas? Mobley? Larry Hughes who hadn't played in months and now is hurt? LOL See my point about you not considering what you are saying?
Why are you adding games to skew the numbers? Right now after 71 games, and even before that, the Bobcats had shown significant improvement defensively. Adding games to their total to change their percentage of games played, won't affect their defense from what it is now, the improvement has already been made.
dude, I thought asians were supposed to be good at math. Adding in the 10 games or so doesn't really skew the overall percentage of total play Bell/Diaw have played in the starting lineup, which was my whole point. Remember when you claimed: "Charlotte is mostly the same team as last year".
