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Dat2U · Post #301 » by **Dat2U** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 3:59 am

Jimmy Recard wrote:2-5. Good for last in the East.

Best 2-5 team in the East. Book it.

long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #302 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:01 am

D-bag move by Wittman... Putting in Vesely and GR Jr. for their first minute of the season with one min left in a blow out away loss.

Post #303 » by **montestewart** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:01 am

Jay81 wrote:
nate33 wrote:That's it. I'm done.

No sense tuning into the San Antonio game either. I'll see you Saturday when we play Cleveland.

Spurs might rest the big 3

We might rest our Big-3 (Vesely, Seraphin, Rice) too.

Jimmy Recard · Post #304 » by **Jimmy Recard** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:02 am

queridiculo wrote:Who **** cares about scoring.

This team continues to pile up losses because they give up points at a damn near worst in the league clip.

You're not going to win games that way, I don't care how well you do on offense.

Opponents FG% is .529 not counting tonights terrible effort.

+10000

Outside of the second half against BKN and 45 minutes against OKC, our defense has been godawful. And it's not just because we miss Oak, Marcin has been pretty decent imo. It's our perimeter D, poor individual defense from our gaurds coupled with the whole team being too slow/lazy on rotations and closing out on shooters.

queridiculo · Post #305 » by **queridiculo** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:04 am

Worst defense in the league.

Not sure how you expect to win games that way...

DANNYLANDOVER · Post #306 » by **DANNYLANDOVER** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:04 am

not even mad :no:

jeffsays · Post #307 » by **jeffsays** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:06 am

DANNYLANDOVER wrote:not even mad

That's ok I'm mad enough for everyone on this board. :evil:

Jimmy Recard · Post #308 » by **Jimmy Recard** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:06 am

long suffrin' boulez fan wrote:D-bag move by Wittman... Putting in Vesely and GR Jr. for their first minute of the season with one min left in a blow out away loss.

I hope tonight's performance by Kevin all but spells the end of his career as a Wizard, or at least keeps him in the doghouse for the foreseeable future. Im good with Vesely being our first or second big off the bench. At least he battles out there.

TheBabyMaker · Post #309 » by **TheBabyMaker** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:07 am

DANNYLANDOVER wrote:not even mad

Me neither Why is Whittman still a coach. These fools will probably steal a game in SA. Nope they will lose by 30

Tricky_Kid · Post #310 » by **Tricky_Kid** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:10 am

Not worst game by my man TheG 12pkt 12 reb and 4 blocks. Unfortunatelly Wittman reminds me Alvin Gentry and his rotations. 2nd suns unit sucxed but Genrty changed all first lineups for 7-8 minutes and we lost our momentum.
Change the coach first of all and hire backup PG and big who can like Gortat rebound. One player over 10rpg ... and best joke was Al defending Dirk heh

Post #311 » by **montestewart** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:12 am

DANNYLANDOVER wrote:not even mad

It's already been pointed out that nothing we are seeing is a big surprise. Okafor, the central piece in the team's defensive surge last year, is gone, and without him in the paint, the defense has fallen apart. A possibly not-ready-for-prime-time (or at least max contract) Wall backed up by a not-ready-for-much-of-anything Maynor, a shortage of depth among bigs, a shortage of rebounding, etc.

Yeah, not even mad. Many of us were hoping for the team to develop in a certain way, for it to gel, for the breaks to go our way. But, oh well. It's not like we can say, "Damn, didn't see that coming."

BruceO · Post #312 » by **BruceO** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:16 am

Look on the bright side. With the three points scored by rice. Jr his per 36 scoring is108 points and a top of the league 100 percent three point percentage.

Seriously though I don't understand why he's not playing. Dude got Crawfords moxie. Hopefully we don't lost too many more games and he and porter can help on the second units wings. Our bench sucks and these guys can help improve it.

Other holes in the team is we need a big who can help with interior D and rebounding and a pg to run the second unit. This of course without compromising our future flexibility. I'd actually do ariza, ves, seraphin and Booker for lin and asik but don't know if that's enough although Houston gets out from under lins contract. I also think the Houston squad with harden and them are being douches to him

hands11 · Post #313 » by **hands11** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:18 am

This team can take you from such highs to such lows.

The OKC game was right there. That would have been huge, but no.

Then they come out looking great tonight. But no.

queridiculo · Post #314 » by **queridiculo** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:19 am

Sorry, I'm not buying this Okafor theory.

This team has breakdowns all over the place with one or two players consistently out of sync.

Players hesitating on closing out, unsure whom to rotate to. Forcing players baseline when there's no help defense to cut of the lane. Not making an effort to shrink passing lanes, out of position on help defense, the list goes on and on and on.

There is no one player that could fix all those shortcomings.

tontoz · Post #315 » by **tontoz** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:21 am

Ariza goes off and we still lose by double digits. Looks like a made a good call going to the gym rather than watching the second half.

Might as well get started early...

80sballboy · Post #316 » by **80sballboy** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:22 am

dlts20 wrote:Im sorry but Wall cant be guarded by Calderon all night and end up with just 9 attempts, espically when he's over 50%. Im guessing everyone is ok with that though

WGAF when you can't stop anybody and can't grab a defensive rebound. John is not a two guard the last time I checked. It's not his fault Nene mailed this one in.

80sballboy · Post #317 » by **80sballboy** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:28 am

dangermouse wrote:Whittman continues to annoy me this year. He gotta go. So much talent and we cant seem to get it all going together.

Some questionable calls all game too though.

A lot of offensive talent, but mismatched. Who consistently plays defense other than Ariza? Who protects the rim? Who is tough underneath basket? Who busts his ass after loose balls? Still not giving up hope. It's a long season. I knew we had no shot tonight after we choked that OKC game away and had to go OT.

Illmatic21 · Post #318 » by **Illmatic21** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:28 am

tontoz wrote:Ariza goes off and we still lose by double digits. Looks like a made a good call going to the gym rather than watching the second half.

Might as well get started early...

Julius Randle looked pretty damn beastly today.. imagine if we had him instead of Seraphin. I can't even..

TheBabyMaker · Post #319 » by **TheBabyMaker** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:48 am

80sballboy wrote:
dlts20 wrote:Im sorry but Wall cant be guarded by Calderon all night and end up with just 9 attempts, espically when he's over 50%. Im guessing everyone is ok with that though

WGAF when you can't stop anybody and can't grab a defensive rebound. John is not a two guard the last time I checked. It's not his fault Nene mailed this one in.

I still blame Nene for the OKC lose. He took out Westbrick which ultimately gave OKC the win. :evil:

hands11 · Post #320 » by **hands11** » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:49 am

Jimmy Recard wrote:
queridiculo wrote:Who **** cares about scoring.

This team continues to pile up losses because they give up points at a damn near worst in the league clip.

You're not going to win games that way, I don't care how well you do on offense.

Opponents FG% is .529 not counting tonights terrible effort.

+10000

Outside of the second half against BKN and 45 minutes against OKC, our defense has been godawful. And it's not just because we miss Oak, Marcin has been pretty decent imo. It's our perimeter D, poor individual defense from our gaurds coupled with the whole team being too slow/lazy on rotations and closing out on shooters.

So why is that ?

What is different from last year.

Same team except Okafor, Crawford, Martin, Price some Collins, Barron, Livingston, Mack and Pargo
They played Singleton, Ves and Temple at different times.

I guess you can go back and look at the games they won and see what the trend was.
Was it great D or better offense ?

Okafor, Temple, Ves, Price ... ? Crawford ? More Kevin ? Ves ? Martin ?

What was it ? If there was any it to it.