Congrats on the mind games coach, your players gave up on you for a reason

I must've missed how KD was part of the greatest team ever assembled.

You're choosing to blindly disregard the points I mentioned and brought up absolutely irrelevant points for no reason whatsoever.

Curry being a good shooter doesn't hide him being a terrible defender (unless he's guarding Jalen Green in the playoffs and then he's a lockdown defender)

You failed to comment on Draymond.

And then brought up KD for no reason whatsoever.

That's acknowledging defeat if I ever saw.

Kerr taking a break? Good 'gotcha' comment bro. If it wasn't for the fact his players are in the twilights of their career after running rampant throughout the league. Meanwhile the Rockets are young bloods with all the livelihood in them... they should be far more than three games ahead of the Warriors.

 

Fire IMe.

DD

 

This team has played 10 more away games than home games. Even after this recent skid we're still second in the league in point differential.

Historically point differential has been my personal favorite metric for measuring how good a team actually is, and its fairly accurate.

We have some serious problems, but I'm not ready to say the sky is falling.

Just saying Jabari is 12 for his last 47 shooting and 1 for his last 19 on 3s. No team can win with a player getting his minutes shooting that atrociously.

 

Steph is a black hole on defense? Please tell me more, I’m sure you can’t..

 

Got to admit, it's hilariously incompetent the team was firing on all cylinders with Okogie in the lineup.

Now Ime is doing everything he can (with the losses piling up) to not go back to what works.

I'm not surprised. He sees Sengun or Reed light it up and then benches them and never gets the ball to them again when they get on the court.

 

@Joe Rocket the 60 year old dementia patient has already started saying so.

 

He's sure as hell lost the living room. This team is a hard, hard watch.

 

I do not think the overall Composition of the team and the age gap is that great either.... as media has hyped them to be.

The media is somehow in love with KD.....and they avoid talking about Udoka in more than a few sentences.

It is a bad time to be having this skid......but I do think they would play better after the AS Break.

 

Not unless they de-emphasize KD, they won't.

DD

 

That’s what’s funny about these knee jerk reactions. They put blame on one person instead of a collective.

• Amen can’t shoot
• Sheppard has shot 32% 3pt past 15 games coming into tonight
• Smith has been shooting poor last 3 games or so
• DFS hasn’t shot well since coming back
• Sengun shot poorly this game

but let’s find a new scapegoat each night. If you people want accountability then hold all players accountable not just one or two and not put all the onus on the head coach.

 

Jalen Green has only played one game this season. Stop

 

...except why play Holiday over Reed? And if Ime is trying to teach Reed some kind of lesson, then why not play Jeff Green over Bari? They players stank, but Ime has a lot to answer for as well.

 

Amen didn’t need to shoot last season, put him where he belong in dunker position
Sheppard is getting inconsistent mins to get any flow going
Smith should only take open shot and after third miss he’s ban from shooting
DFS situation is unfortunate but he is like 6th or 7th option
Sengun really didn’t shoot since November, he is basically same Sengun from last year

nothing really changed from last season other than we lost Dillon for faster switch defense and downfall of Amen by inserting him in the PG didn’t help either. If I was Ime I would put Alpi, Amen, KD, Okogi and Reed as my starting line up to shake up our play and just abandon defense first identity and just go with offense and hustle from Amen and Okogi while relying on Alpi, KD and Reed for offense.

 

I'm out on Ime.

That dumb ass double big lineup he goes out of desperation because it worked last year just shows he has no clue what he's doing.

I hope he proves me wrong yadda yadda yadda but right now I can only expect failure.

I do think he ruins players confidence too because he'll literally yank hot shooters time and time again.

 

But why is that?

I think @LosPollosHermanos has a point man, if we continue shooting this badly at home then what?

I'm just seeing too many head scratching decisions to defend him, I want to, I do, but at this point I just don't get it. The Adams/Sengun thing is dumb, then you have Amen out there, what can you possibly do with that? Amen drives and kicks to Sengun? For him to do what? He has to pump fake and drive closer to the rim, which yeah Sengun can dribble...FOR A CENTER...how about we get more action with Sengun at the elbow or post? Where he's actually COMFORTABLE at?!

Why do we have him creating from the three point line like he's CP3? I mean yeah, he can do it, but it should be a once every quarter thing. You don't see the Nuggets have Jokic dribbling out at the three point line trying to create off the dribble near as much as Sengun does. Jokic if he gets the angle can do it but it's more like whew, luckily we got away with it that time!

I had to check the net rating for this trio, Adams/Sengun/Amen 5.8, this is terrible. IT IS NOT WORKING, yet it is one of our most played lineups.

Doing it for the first 10-15 games okay I get it, it worked last year, but it's not working this year. It just don't work. We are almost 40 games into the season, it's time to start looking at what works and using it and abusing it and adjusting.

The reason Bari works with so many lineups because we can still be big and and stretch the floor, well, someone stole Jabari's NBA shooting ability so that won't work either until he gets that back, but the point is the man is not understanding space.

He doesn't seem to understand that Amen needs space in order to dribble drive, and him kicking out to Sengun doesn't really do anything. It doesn't create a good shot for Sengun.

I think the reason we lose games is because we lose close games and the reason we lose close games is because EVERY team tightens up their defense in close games and we simply can't generate good looks when they do that.

 

Let’s fire them all then.

 

Yep, when I Saw that double big lineup late in the 4th I pretty much gave up. I even barely posted, knew the L was coming. We were not going to generate good looks and the ONLY positive for the double big is to get rebounds AND we were not even getting that lol

Here is what I want Ime to do.

He always says guys are mentally weak, pathetic, etc etc....

How about this Ime. Take them out.

He's a Popovic protege, how about actually taking guys out that are disappointing you? Sengun didn't give effort on the boards? Sit him. Jabari taking too many shots? Sit him.

Every other team uses their entire lineup throughout the season except us. We run a playoff rotation for the whole year, no wonder guys start bricking, they are probably being overplayed got dead legs Ime over here playing the same 9 guys on a b2b giving 37 year old KD 40 mins.

Why did Okogie lose minutes???

Okogie has been good all year long, barely played. Why though? What did he do to actually lose minutes? Why doesn't JD get a chance? He comes in and plays well when he's had a chance at meaningful minutes, does that just mean nothing?

Someone said "Well who else can we play outside of Bari?" I don't know...how about we TRY? Maybe it'll light a fire under his ass once he realizes his minutes are not guaranteed, that goes for all of these players.

Popovic would punish ANY player for lack of effort or ignoring the coach. It could be Timmy or some rando on the bench.

Meanwhile Ime was whining about how in the first Portland game last week that people were not guarding Deni the way he asked them to...okay fair...so why didn't you sit their ass on the bench and find someone that will follow your instructions?

I mean he's supposed to be the hardass coach but is he? He clearly has his favorites and the players he gives a short leash.

He better turn this around quickly, these kind of grumpy coaches lose a team VERY quickly but yeah, IDGAF if it happens.

As long as we keep Sengun, Reed, and Amen I really don't care what happens to anyone else on this team. At least these guys are all like 23 or younger so whatever.