its true and I dont think i have heard him mention Inside Defense all year long which if you ask me is our biggest weakness. If im an opposing coach i tell my team "take it to the hoop you will get layup after layup"

Posted by MS:

He has lee and frye guarding wallace instead of balkman, the man is dumb

I agree that he should have played Balkman on Wallace more. Balkman made a couple of rookie mistakes when he got in, but you just have to live with that and let this guy play. Over the course of a game, his positive contributions will far outweigh his rookis mistakes.

Posted by Queeniepop:

Isiah's biggest misstep was starting Nate at the half. It threw everything off.

Why are we always adjusting to other teams versus other coaches adjusting to our team

I guess thus what better teams do - make you to ajust.
When we will be better that oppenets - they will need to ajust

back to inside defense the most important deficiancy on this team...........

Posted by TMS:

Steph was clearly ineffective because of his bum knee... why was he even in the game in the 2nd half? why wasn't Balkman guarding G Wallace?

D Lee, Jefferies & Channing were unable to prevent Wallace from penetrating into the lane for wide open dunks all game long... at 1 point Isiah was scolding 1 of them on the court saying "The ball's over here, what the F are you doing over there?!?!" during a FT attempt by a Bobcat player (wasn't sure who he was talking to, but i'm pretty sure it was Channing)

i thought Curry did a decent job of guarding Okafor last night, so i can't pin the lack of D on him as much as i'm sure many of you would like to.

I saw that and watch it like 3 times over to see who he was talking to... I thought it was Curry. Curry was under the basket and his guy, Jake, was the one who had the ball.

Posted by Elite:

actually okafor was just in foul trouble and hes not exactly a huge offensive threat. Currys man-to man defense actually isnt horrible.. its his help defense that is so bad. Unless you count boxing out your man as man-to man.. then thats horrible too

no, i'm not saying Curry's defense is any good... obviously he's a horrible defender... just saying last night i thought it was D Lee & Channing who were really terrible on rotations.

Isiah just isn't a good coach, if your getting beat all day long and no one is protecting the rim, why not insert Cato along with Balkman who could have slowed Wallace down. If Frye can guard the fours i think cato can as well.

Isiah has proven to be incompetant more and more of late. He always has Lee guarding 3's for some reason and deep down I know it sounds a little sick but I think he tries to expose lees defense in order to justify not starting him. I can't think of another reason you would ever have Lee out there guarding kicker threes. Channing has been horrible all season and he needs minutes at center in order to be effective on both ends of the floor. How does Isiah not see this, when everyone can.

Cato
Lee
Balkman
Nate
Crawford

Do I think thats a great combo no, but at least you have a few people out there that are going to go all out. This team really misses Q badly...