Quake Griffin wrote:QRich3 wrote:Wouldn't it make more sense that since the Warriors and Spurs are so good so far, regular season record is less important and being good in April, not now, should be the priority? What's the urgency? I'd rather they be rested and healthy.
Also, Lance hasn't done sh*t. He's not been a net positive all season. He makes a couple highlight plays in garbage time and worries more about stuffing the boxscore than helping the team, and suddenly he's some kind of savior that'd solve our problems if he played more? I like Smith, but he's not exactly been setting teams on fire either. Not playing Crawford is always a good idea, but please can we stop this circlejerk that says he's the one single thing holding the team back? he's been doing the exact same thing for 3 years and suddenly everyone is outraged just now? Where were all those twitter open letters after the 2014 playoffs?
And let's not forget that even with all our problems, we were this close to beating peak warriors twice, just two weeks ago.
Where'd you come up with the bolded?
By coming in here/twitter/real life for the last few years? if you want specific examples of me criticising Jamal in the past, and the general vibe of this place being favorable to him, a quick search gives me
this,
this,
this,
this,
this and
this.
It's alright, I'll try to keep my moaning to the minimum since it's evident most people don't see things the way I do, I just find it funny how these things shift in group and everyone's mentality go together to put the blame in random places. If the beehive says Doc is to blame for everything, everyone's gonna blame every little thing that goes wrong on him, even if there's no reason to in that specific case. If the hive turns on Jamal, everyone blames everything on Jamal, even though he's just doing the exact same thing he did for the past 3 years, and Doc is playing him the exact same amount. Not saying either of them are doing things well, they're an important part of the problem, but I just see it as a completely random thing that the focus is on them now, when nothing changed from the past couple years. Last year, the blame was put mostly on Blake shooting long twos, which wasn't very justified either, but at least there was a change there.
nickhx2 wrote:also i don't want to speak necessarily for justin russo, qrich, but if you are hammering on him for blasting crawford he's been extremely critical of him for a while now too, as far as i know. the suddenness that you are seeing was already there.
I don't really follow Russo or his opinion on Jamal, I'm talking more about the general vibe of the Clipper fandom, either in here, other places in the internet or real life. It's pretty evident everyone hates Jamal now, and I know from experience that most Clipper fans would disagree with me whenever I shat on Jamal in the past.
nickhx2 wrote:Being better in april is definitely the priority. Personally I couldn't give a rat's ass if cp3/jj whoever were out and hurt and needing rest time to be healthy if it meant we were solid come april. But being better come postseason relies in the premise that you iron out the issues currently wrong with the team in the meantime. What is going on now isn't an issue of "resting guys to be healthy for postseason." What's going on now is the team has major structural flaws that look like they need immediate attention. And doc playing favorites is either ignoring them or eventually going to exacerbate them.
But if the flaws are structural the only way to solve them is changing the roster's structure, and that's only gonna be possible via trade, changing rotations is gonna help little. And again, those issues are not any bigger than they were last year, and we had a really good year last year. I'm a lot more worried about Paul's and JJ's health than I am about the result of a couple December games against Indiana and Utah.
nickhx2 wrote:Anyway honestly i like discussing things with you but you seem to keep centralizing things towards crawford being the sole issue. Maybe it's my own tone or tenor when we talk about it but he is definitely not the only problem in my view. Furthermore god knows i've been griping about him for over a couple years now, and last year i'd say a good number of people were too, but this year is definitely different because he is a lot worse than before and what looks to be a gigantic negative impact on the entire team. It's not just that he's been bad, but the obviousness of it and the conjoined obliviousness of doc..
Alright, point taken and I'll slow down on that. I do not agree that Jamal is any worse than before though, I'm actually surprised he's been able to maintain his skills this far. His defense has even gone from disastrous in years before to having flashes of good effort here and there in the last couple years. And he still can break down his man like it's nothing, if only he was a willing passer after he's done that... but yeah anyway, he's bad and a big detriment to the team and he should be gone. But we're still good in spite of him and no one that plays under him is gonna greatly improve what we do. That's my point, as ever.
nickhx2 wrote:I think everyone should be entitled to be more outraged this year than last.
I don't see why? Our flaws are the exact same they were last year. We have a similar record on a harder schedule. We have the 5th best offense and the 18th best defense this year. Last year, at the end of November, we had the 5th offense and the 17th defense. I just see this season as a very similar one as last year, with the exception that we had a harder schedule and injuries to Paul and Redick. That's why the outraged vibe shocks me a bit more.
