frankenwolf wrote:winforlose wrote:guest81 wrote:
Yea newsflash, every team who has ever played in nba history has had games where they should of won but didn't. They aren't a perfect team for sure, but no team is. Their best player is 22, of course there's going to be mistakes
You’re missing the point. When you are head and shoulders better than anyone else (like we are,) the standard is higher. We keep melting down in the fourth. This is something that needs to improve and is not. Lack of improvement is a sign of poor coaching. Twice this week we lost while blowing double digits leads in the fourth. Likewise, we almost lost the Nets game in the same way. At what point do you want Finch to actually do something about it?
To address the bold part of your comment, what can Finch do? It has been pointed out that our losses recently have been with out, or with a minimum performance from, Minnesota Mike. The lineup he put out there to start the 4th qtr of the Spurs game was indeed questionable, but he quite possibly is showing TC that we need another MC, someone who will see the game for what it is and stop the bleeding. Also, but I since I am not in the coach's inner circle, maybe he's drilling some lessons into these guys who think they can just cruise along.
IDK, I am upset that the Wolves have not done as well as I thought they would recently, but Finch is not 100% responsible for the construction of this team. If you had told me that Shake would be as bad as he has been, I would not have not agreed with you at all, yet here we are.
Finch solutions:
1. Bench Ant when he plays too much hero ball.
2. Call more plays, and have NAW or JMAC run the offense.
3. Run more of Naz, Karl, and Rudy together, especially when the offense is dead and the defense is leaking like a sieve.
4. Maybe come out and say I take responsibility for my poor rotations to start the 2nd and 4th quarters. If I am going to put my players on blast, I need to acknowledge my own failures when they happen.
