Eventually Christopher, Garuba, TyTy, Jalen, Cam, Sengun, Sheppard, Tari will be gone and next thing you know you’re building around Ben Simmons and the coach’s handpicked washed veterans. Ben Simmons | Aaron Holiday Kevin Durant | Marcus Smart Dorian Finney Smith | Jae’Sean Tate Giannis Antetokounmpo | Jeff Green Steven Adams | Clint Capela You like the look? (Good, I hope Reed gets traded to a better situation)
Half of this has nothing to do with Udoka. The team is poorly constructed with players that have serious flaws that prevent them from playing together.
Not exactly sure what you mean when you say “his first four and a half seasons.” He’s in his fourth season. Also, you act like he was bad to start the season - his first thirty games, Bari averaged 16/7 while shooting .38 from 3.
87th now on the ringer's top 100 players(100th on 12/24, 90th on 1/29, 87th on 2/24, castle is 50th clingan is 90th): https://nbarankings.theringer.com/
lol you read this thread and posters are acting like we are struggling at the 9 seed despite making an “all in” trade. So weird. We’re third in one of the toughest conferences in recent history despite a couple bad injuries. Our current starting lineup has a really solid net rating even though four of the guys are 23 or younger. Guys like Amen are Bari are taking leaps, and we still have a ton of draft assets going forward. The whiners need to get a grip.
That's all true, but good coaching can optimize talent and put them in the best situation to get the most out of their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. Playing 5 forwards isn't the answer. I laid out in another thread what I believe is a better way to utilize the talent we have (starting lineup/rotations). I won't rehash that here, but the most simple thing that can be done is start Sheppard and play him 30-plus mins. That alone will improve our ball movement, spacing, and overall offense. Ime clearly doesn't want to do that, he starts everyone but Reed and even has Tari bringing the ball up (WTF). Stone seems content with letting the season ride. F that, let's inject some more of what we need that just happens to be on our bench.
If Bari finishes the season strong your faith in him will be well placed. When I was really down on him a couple months ago someone rightly pointed out that you have to look at the end of season averages and not judge mid-season. I think that’s right. The fact that he’s recovered his shooting efficiency certainly bodes well. I’m just arguing it’s best judged at the end of the season. I wanted bari shooting at least over 37-38% this season. And it looks like he might pull that off. Didn’t look like that a couple months ago. So I’ve learned my lesson. Hopefully he continues to finish strong and looks good in the playoffs like he did last season.
WTF does that matter, we have no PG? And he refuses to let REED play in crucial moments, the man is a certifiable basketball moron. He is so stupid that his alphabet only has 24 letters, they left out the X's and O's. DD
"That's what I was saying in my Dickerson DM's, Jabari, honest, you were BEING r****ded BY ime" - KD Snipa
You have a good point and stone gets the lions share but there’s no way he conveniently collected a bunch of defensive forwards etc that can’t shoot (Udoka players that are in Udokas mold). I think Udoka played a huge part in the teams construction. Ultimately it really does fall with the GM though they both need to get the boot to be honest. Beg Daryl to come back etc
The final straw was playing 20% 3pt shooters down 3 with 2 seconds to go coming out of a timeout. that was so pathological and insane that he should be under investigation for rigging or get th boot for incompetence. we’re going to see our starters go down with major injury and should not be a surprise with the minutes he plays them. Udoka makes all these moves and decisions but always deflects the blame.
Is Reed's 3P shot officially back? Shooting 50% the last 5 games after shooting 20% (!) the nine previous games.
Yeah I think the issue still persists. The results are kind of similar with Jalen and KD although KD I think is much more consistent. Both are what I would consider two way scoring wings. Jalen... WHEN HE WAS ON (which was about every 1/3 game) was probably a better fit for a young athletic switchable defensive minded team because he was an attacking guard who did more to break the defense down where KD is a bit more of an isolation shooter rather than someone who breaks down the opposing teams defense. However I'd prefer KD because of the consistency while Jalen was wildly inconsistent albeit a better fit for the team style of mish mashed young talents that don't really fit well together. Last year Ime just had more variety and depth to work with to win with different variations & defense & rebounding especially with Adams later in the season really coming on strong. But both KD and Jalen I would fit into that role you are describing even though you don't think of either as defensive stoppers. Both are better than you'd think. Making a change from KD to another well rounded wing isn't going to move the needle that much if there aren't other major changes. I sound like a broken record but it really starts with Sengun and Amen.
I really like this post. I like Reed, Amen, and Sengun individually, but see their problems when their duplicate weaknesses are on the court at the same time. I don't fault Stone for drafting them. I don't fault Ime for having difficulties integrating them. I think the roster still needs some work long-term. I had hoped FVV and DFS would make having Amen and Sengun's deficiencies manageable.
I don't believe Silas was incompetent, he just didn't have a lot of talent to work with. They were all young and inexperienced or washed up. His offense generated the most open 3's by percentage in the league by a fairly large margin. Hell, rookie Jalen Green was statistically the worst player in the entire league. He didn't come here to coach a bunch of kids, he came to coach Harden and Co ... what he got was KPJ, Armani Brooks, House, Garuba, Nix, Nwaba, Martin, Woods, Fernando, & Christopher .... of that group only 2 are still in the league, none are starters and only one of them gets regular rotation minutes. Many here thought about half of them were "Franchise Players" at one time or another - they weren't, they were just bad.
