Great Read: Coro assesses where the team is at right now

[rsavaj]

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/heatind ... -news.html

Great, yet painful article.

Read it! I'm not going to copy and paste excerpts b/c it would do no justice to the original material.

[Kerrsed]

[TruthTelling]

Must be the first article he has written that is worth reading in the last 5 years. Usually his article are nothing more than a paraphrased interview or chatlog or collection of wiki facts.

[MathiasPW]

"Great" article ??? He picks a few biased partial stats to sustain a point that has been repeated all over the place, without adding any good insight or torough analysis on reasons behind that.

One example: "The bench play is frequently good for rallies because there is little difference in quality from the starters, leaving the bench to shine against another team’s reserves."

This is utterly BS, to anyone who's watched a few games this season

I actually looked for +/- stats to sustain my point, but they prove me wrong . Even so, I'd put that blame on the Beas/Brown combo on the 1st unit (which for some reason does not even show on the 2P-Combo +/- NBA stat page), not on the "shining bench quality".

To me it's just another article on Coro going with the flow without really adding substance or value, just noise.

[rsavaj]

"Great" article ??? He picks a few biased partial stats to sustain a point that has been repeated all over the place, without adding any good insight or torough analysis on reasons behind that.

One example: "The bench play is frequently good for rallies because there is little difference in quality from the starters, leaving the bench to shine against another team’s reserves."

This is utterly BS, to anyone who's watched a few games this season

I actually looked for +/- stats to sustain my point, but they prove me wrong . Even so, I'd put that blame on the Beas/Brown combo on the 1st unit (which for some reason does not even show on the 2P-Combo +/- NBA stat page), not on the "shining bench quality".

To me it's just another article on Coro going with the flow without really adding substance or value, just noise.

I've actually made the same point before, after reading similar thoughts from a commenter on Bright Side.

We have 2 starting quality players(Dragic/and a fading Gortat), and 8 bench players. The reason why our starting unit will always fall behind(no matter what combination we play), is because there is no combination out of those 10 that you can string together that will be able to compete against other team's starters.

However...since our team is basically 80% "bench guys", it makes sense that they're able to make up lost ground against the other team's reserves.

As you said, the +/- supports Coro's claim.

[TruthTelling]

the starting quality of Dragic is questionable I'd say... Certainly not to the point that you would say the position is set for sure for the future.. I'd try to sign Eric Bledsoe in 2013 regardless of Goran.

At best he is an average starting PG in the league but he has lots of holes in his games, not fundamentally sound and has a hard time to be effective if he does not dominate the ball...

[BurningHeart]

Goran Dragic is questionable, but Eric Bledsoe is an answer.

lol

[TheMoochinator]

Goran Dragic is questionable, but Eric Bledsoe is an answer.

lol

Yeah I'm not sure how that makes any sense either.

I think Goran has pretty much shown he's a starter in this league, minus the last couple games where he was sick and his teammates were making me sick.

Oh and Paul Coro is a saint, all of you should repent.

[rsavaj]

Playoffs are basically already out of the picture with a quarter of the season done.

Over the past 3 full seasons, the 8th seed in the West has averaged 48-49 wins. Sounds crazy, but it's true.

We need to go 41-19 the rest of the way to reach that mark. Unless you guys see something that I see, that's not happening.

On the bright side, the Lakers need to go 39-21...which actually might not happen either