Knrstz wrote:NaturalThunder wrote:Thundershock88 wrote:That lineup at the end of the third changed the outcome last night. What the hell kind if lineup is Christon, Dipo, Singler, Roberson, Grant? Grant was somehow supposed to stop Nene? The Rockets didn't even need Nene, because they got to the rim at will. Was that supposed to be a defensive specialist unit? They got lit up and there was no consistent scoring on the floor. Someone needs to explain to Billy that going small is only effective if everyone can score.
Or, you know, if maybe at least 2 or 3 players in a smallball lineup can score. That lineup has only one player who can create his own shot and kinda sorta score in Oladipo, and he's not very good at it.
We've now played 84 games this season and Donovan still has no clue what combinations of players work and don't work. He's clueless.
In Donovan's defense, (which I hesitate to say) is it possible that no combination of lineups will work because these players aren't good?
It's both. The players aren't good, but We got outscored by 15 points in six and a half minutes without Russ. That's not an outlier, and There's no combination of NBA players in history that should be that bad on a consistent basis. Nobody has any clue what is expected out of them, there are the guys with defined roles on this team; Russ is expected to do everything, Robes is expected to lock down the other team's best player, and Enes is expected to score all points when Russ isn't in the game. For everyone else it's a free for all, they don't know what they're supposed to be providing and even worse they don't know what's expected of them to get playing time.
Abrines can shoot 40% from 3 for a few weeks in a row then all of the sudden he's out of the rotation so that Cole and semaj can play together.
Jerami Grant is a stretch 4, then a 3, now a 5?
Domas is supposed to stand at the three point line and launch three's, or should he set picks, or is he a scoring option, or should he completely avoid the ball altogether?
McBuckets is a scorer, let's run him off screens and work to get him shots, wait, just kidding, go stand on the wing while Kanter massages the ball, nah we can just play Kyle instead!
Speaking of Kyle, hey you're the second player off the bench, jk wearing street clothes, playoffs are coming time to get you back in the lineup.
Semaj? Bro, just come in for the 10 minutes every night that Russ sits and don't turn the ball over. Unless we play you next to Russ because we need more..uh... whatever it is you provide.
Cole, we signed you to be our backup poi...Er backup pg's back....Er backup sg?
Taj: F*** YOU