SacKingsPejaFan wrote:The Martin fan club is only responding to cries for a shooter by saying, hey we had a shooter but our owners/GM traded him before giving him and Tyreke a chance to mesh. There is no "fact" that they can't work together---they barely played more than 10 games together because Martin was injured. I guess you thought it was a "fact" that the Heat couldn't play together when they started 8-7: that's more games than Evans/Martin got.
And before the whining recommences about why are we talking about Martin: Any Martin talk is veiled disrespect---perhaps deserved disrespect---to Petrie and the Maloofs. They've assembled an appallingly imbalanced roster of people who cannot shoot the basketball. Nobody is dwelling on a guy who plays for the Rockets because he's who we want to talk about--We are addressing our roster's lack of shooters and our GM/owners' knee jerk and under-thought moves than brought this team to the bottom of the league.
Defense does not win games when you can't turn stops into points. We get stops, sure. But then we go to our guys who shoot 30% or worse from the field and the stops become 100% meaningless. Hell, our bricks are so bad our stops end up turning into fast breaks for the other team.
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I wouldn't call myself a "fan club member" as you put it, but I am just calling the game how I see it. It's just, certain people around here act as if I'm speaking the name Voldemort or something (A.K.A. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named) when mentioning KevinDeMart.
The whole entire point that I've was trying to make last season was that we need more than a handful of games to evaluate Martin's role in the offense and with the team. He came back in the middle of the season, and on our longest road trip of the season at that. We needed more time. Was that really so much to ask? Why is that an exaggeration? We needed more time. Plain and simple. If he had played the remainder of last season, HAD A FULL TRAINING CAMP WITH EVANS, and the team had still started this season 5-22, THEN you can see about trading him. I wouldn't even say anything. What exactly did we have to lose? Our PLAYOFF postion??? (PLAYOFFS?!?) So far, in the same amount of games that Martin played last year, nobody this year has proved that they "fit" together either. So if you followed that same logic this year, everybody on the team right now should fall into the same category as Martin last year, and therefore the whole team should be traded. Does this make any sense? Obviously not. You get what I'm saying?
The whole entire point that I'm trying to make this season is that BECAUSE we gave up so quickly (under the pressure of the angry cowtown mob, armed with pitckforks and torches) and signed off the a knee-jerk trade, we now have NOBODY on this team who can either shoot, make free throws down the stretch, or even score with consistency. How many times has this team even cracked the 100 point mark? We had no plan. Let's just trade this one guy, and all our problems will be solved. THAT was the extent of our plan. And it failed miserably. If you ARE going to trade one of your two best players, you better damn well know what the F you're doing. Landry is going to walk after the season if he's not traded first. same goes for Dalambert. They're not coming back. Period. No big name free agent is going to come within 100 miles of Sacramento after watching them this season. You can't even use the "to play with Tyreke Evans" card anymore. So what do we do now? We put ourselves in a position where we have no choice but to make yet ANOTHER trade to get ANOTHER guy who can throw the ball into the ocean. SO we're going in circles. Traded a shooting/scoring wing man for a big man. Big man will not resign and must be traded. Current need is shooting/scoring wing man. Big man must be traded for a shooting/scoring wing man... That, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when you make a knee-jerk move without properly planning in advance. I tried to tell you. PLAN first. I swear nobody ever answered my question as to WHOM we ought to have traded Martin for last year.
We handed the keys to the team over to a guy who could not shoot for anything, traded the one guy on the team who COULD shoot, and failed to bring in anybody else who COULD shoot to spread the floor and also relieve the scoring load... because we expected Tyreke to do it all. Tyreke is getting better, but he's still not "there" yet from distance. And I think the nature of his game combined with the responsibility we thrust upon him, perhaps before he and his body were ready, may well have contributed to his new-found injury problems. He's like 19-20 years old and driving into the trees every play of every game just to keep the team competitive because nobody else is doing anything. It was my suspicion that THAT was a major contributing factor into Martin's injury prone-ness of the past couple years. And now surprise surprise, NOW EVANS is getting hurt every other game doing the same thing Martin had been asked to do (carry the team). Coincidence?
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