nate33 wrote:CntOutSmrtCrazy wrote:And let me go further why Wittman deserves a huge chunk of the blame:
1. He plays the AARP squad for too long. They are aged veterans you have to understand when you've got what your going to get out of them and not look a gift horse in the mouth.
2. Seraphin has been glued to the bench. Before he got injured he was playing well, he would never do that crap to a veteran when they came back from injury. To make things worse, Booker has had a string of really bad games, you think he'd give Seraphin a chance to steal some minutes.
3. Harrington has a green light to take awful shots that kill momentum, lead to fast breaks, or are simply awful shots. These 34 foot relatively guarded three point jacks are getting ridiculous. Maybe if he was shooting well all season you'd let it fly ala Ariza, but he hasn't. I'm fine with him taking wide open shoots in the flow of the offense and driving to the rim, but just because he's a veteran shouldn't mean he gets the green light to play offense like J.R. Smith.
4. His love affair with Bradley's bad shots and overall selfish play, enough said.
5. Sitting Wall and Gortat too long. How many times has he waited too long to put these two back in and when he finally does the other team has all the momentum and they are coming off the bench cold and out of rhythm.
I think this is a good list of grievances. Everything except the last one. Wall is averaging almost 37 minutes. Gortat has averaged about 35 minutes per game since Nene went down. It's pretty hard to say he's sitting them "too long". Also, I don't think Beal is being particularly "selfish". I think he is doing exactly what the coach wants him to do: shoot midrange jumpers whenever he gets a look.
Yeah but he could be a little more shrewd about how he divvies up minutes. For Wall, right now he's playing Wall for all of the 1st and 3rd quarters and bringing him back in around the 6 minute mark in both the 2nd and 4th. When he does bring him back early its usually because we are running into deep ****. Now I can deal with the 1st half minute distribution, but the second half I think should change. Play him for the first 9-9 1/2 minutes of the third. Sit him for the rest, he'll have a small added break with the time between quarters, and the first 2-4 minutes of the fourth. We can't have our best players sitting for 10+ minutes (with stoppages and timeouts) and come in cold in the fourth with only 6 or so minutes to play when that's the exact time when teams are making their final run and things tighten up. Its a double net negative in that situation. First because you allow to long in the fourth for opposing teams to get momentum rolling and, second, because your bringing him in cold against a team that has likely ratcheted up their defense and with no time for him to adjust. If he can't, that's the end of the game unlike any other quarter, and likely a game that shouldn't have been so close or a ugly lose. If you play him all of the 1st, the last 6 minutes of the 2nd, the first 9 of the third, and the last 9-10 minutes of the fourth that only puts Wall at around 37 minutes which he is more than capable of doing.
As for Gortat, again he tends to sit him too long, especially when Gooden and/or Harrington are playing decent. I also feel Wittman often brings Wall and Gortat in around the same time in the fourth, again brining him in cold at a time you can't afford to be cold and intensity goes up a level.
Not asking Witty boy to run the players into the ground just finesse the minutes better. But I guess that's a lot to ask with a guy of Wittman's rotational acumen.
