First Five Games

[weasel]

I still think we can make the playoffs.

No way you can even sneak in the playoffs turning it over 25+ times and playing horrible defense. There are just too many good teams in the west that will take that spot.

Do you really think we are going to turn the ball over that many times each and every game? All season long? If Rambis was still the coach, yeah, I could see it, and the above playoff statement never would have happened in the first place. Adelman will get them to improve and drop those turnovers down to at least 24. Count on it.

And regarding the defense. Our defense gave up almost exactly the same amount of points that OKC and MIA did. So those teams play horrible defense too, right? Take away the fast-break points Miami got and I'd say we did better on the defensive end than they did.

[southern wolf]

I still think we can make the playoffs.

No way you can even sneak in the playoffs turning it over 25+ times and playing horrible defense. There are just too many good teams in the west that will take that spot.

Do you really think we are going to turn the ball over that many times each and every game? All season long? If Rambis was still the coach, yeah, I could see it, and the above playoff statement never would have happened in the first place. Adelman will get them to improve and drop those turnovers down to at least 24. Count on it.

And regarding the defense. Our defense gave up almost exactly the same amount of points that OKC and MIA did. So those teams play horrible defense too, right? Take away the fast-break points Miami got and I'd say we did better on the defensive end than they did.

Down from 25 to 24? lol that's why he gets paid the big bucks.

[Foye]

I still think we can make the playoffs.

No way you can even sneak in the playoffs turning it over 25+ times and playing horrible defense. There are just too many good teams in the west that will take that spot.

That is a myth. We played solid defensively vs. the Heat. We forced Wade, Bosh and LeBron to take an awful lot of long jump shots.
The only thing that hurt our defense is that we were turning the ball over like crazy. Heat made 30+ points from our turnovers.
Had we turned over the ball 10 times less they would've scored less than 90 or 95 points that game. That is a very solid performance defensively considering the Heat also shot close to 50% from the field.

The biggest problem isn't the defense itself it's transition defense and turning the ball over. Other than that I think we have improved on D. Kevin Love especially. He's contesting a lot more shots than last year.