winforlose wrote:Folklore wrote:How is this SOB not being called out? I like the fact the fact that some of you can see the bright side of the season, but this is ridiculous. This team is finished, I will always see and as another streaky low IQ shooter and Towns is what he is. but I don't believe that Naz or Noell (not that I really care) will be here next season. Towns in NBA 2K makes for a great PF because I could draft or trade for McGee and he'd anchor my DEF. But in real life Rudy is older and slower. And Towns should only be compared to faster PF who can also shoot. I realized this when we Towns played against Cam Johnson. But this team isn't fun to watch because it's another step back with that ridiculous* trade.
Respectfully I disagree. I think the real problem isn’t the two bigs at all. In fact, our highest net rating is when both towers play together. The real problem is our back court. One screen defeats all our guards. Basketball is a game of breaking the defensive scheme and using that breakdown to find the open shooter. KAT, MCD, and Rudy are trying to cover, but the imbalance is made worse by guys not taking the initiative and switching to the open shooters.
Another serious issue worth mentioning is the lack of box out. When I was a kid the coach’s taught us to find a man and put a body on him when the shot goes up. Tonight and repeatedly over the past two years we don’t do it. Finch talks about it all the time. He says we need to be more physical. To box out with physicality. He is 100% right. Those rebounds often occur when our defense is broken *d+own and result in open shots, often 3s or layups.
Our passing is being affected by a lack of off ball movement. Guys stand around and then Ant or Dlo or KAT dribble into traffic, look for somewhere to pass the ball, but everyone is stationary. This leads to congested passing lanes and long distance passes which result in turnovers and points the other way.
I could go on. Rudy didn’t make Ant suck tonight. I know because Rudy didn’t play. Rudy didn’t make Dlo’s defense suck tonight, or JMAC bad at shooting, passing, and defense. The trade is fine, it is everything else that isn’t.
You have some good points as for the problems on the team right now. But if we didn't make the horrible trade, we'd have a better team and not put our hopes in trying to find a fool who would give us picks and great players on cheap contracts.
JMc/Pat/DLo
Ant/Beasley/DLo
Mcdaniels/ prince
Markkanen/Naz
Towns/Van/Kessler
Then attach two more picks and a swap to DLo for Kyrie.
Finch is getting all the blame because Con gets credit for drafting after we picked Kriss ahead of him and Nikola developing as if he personally trained him? Con doesn't seem to realize that the players had a bond, in the short clip of Ant throwing the football Van was actually there with him. The unhappiness i's really showing with Ant and Jim Pete noticed it too and it's probably the same with the rest of the guys. So why would they put in 100% for each other when they know or hope that they won't be on the team next season?
If the players liked Towns, they wouldn't be bold enough to complain about him to each other, if Prince landed on someone else's foot, it would have been fixed with a "that's my fault" then he would have let it to. But Towns is unliked and it showed, I don't think that unless we get a a superstar somehow this team cannot be turned around.
