Don Nelson....Enough with the small ball crap

Souvlaki · Post #101 » by **Souvlaki** » Sat Apr 5, 2008 5:39 pm

There are plenty of minutes at PF for Wright which is the position that he's mostly played under Nelson. It's funny that even when Nelly goes super big the whiners still complain.

turk3d · Post #102 » by **turk3d** » Sat Apr 5, 2008 6:20 pm

He's gone "super big" once this entire season, and for how long? And unfortunately, he left out the best on in the bunch when he did it. How about trying the 3 best? Hasn't done that yet.

Post #103 » by **FNQ** » Sat Apr 5, 2008 6:39 pm

Wright plays PF... gotta love it. Here's who he partners up with most:

Al Harrington (26 min) + Austin Croshere (37 min). He also played with Webber (22 min).

Who's protecting the rim then?

The C: Wright. He only plays the PF spot on D when Biedrins is with him... otherwise he plays C or plays the center of the zone. What Nellie 2 games ago where Wright was a the floater in an apparent 2-1-2, man that worked well. Wright was changing all kinds of shots and was a ball of energy...

Wright plays C in this (Please Use More Appropriate Word) offense... playing him @ PF in smallball would be stupid for someone who protects the rim as well as he does. Ironic that his future position is the one we should be playing him at least, right now.

Post #104 » by **Hopper15** » Sat Apr 5, 2008 7:08 pm

floppymoose wrote:I've watched a lot of Bobcats games. There have been many games where Okafor is force fed the ball. He gets a lot of touches. And Felton is not bad. Cats have been playing ok lately with Jason's continued improvement, the return of Wallace, and the ditching of McInnis. And Okafor has gotten better after spending much of the season looking like a young Adonal Foyle.

Ignoring Okafoyle is a good thing. I was down on Felton before the season and he did start off quite poorly. But, he's actually grown on me a bit.

Post #105 » by **floppymoose** » Sat Apr 5, 2008 7:43 pm

Felton needs to be given the PG keys and not jerked around. The Cats weren't going anywhere this season. Felton should have been given command, then he'd be even farther along now because he has shown the ability to improve.

Post #106 » by **tsherkin** » Mon Apr 7, 2008 2:00 am

floppymoose wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

I've watched a lot of Bobcats games. There have been many games where Okafor is force fed the ball. He gets a lot of touches. And Felton is not bad. Cats have been playing ok lately with Jason's continued improvement, the return of Wallace, and the ditching of McInnis. And Okafor has gotten better after spending much of the season looking like a young Adonal Foyle.

Okafor is not fed consistently and rarely gets the ball back if he kicks it out to try to repost and get better position. The wings are clueless and Vincent doesn't do anything special to design the offense in a way that exploits Okafor's threat, it's just an overloaded iso play on the left mid-post, every time. He's too crowded and Felton et al aren't capable of improvising in the absence of good coaching.

Felton is crap... as a scorer. He's a very athletic player and a good passer, though he's got poor decision-making skills and he's miserably inefficient.