panthermark wrote:Guru wrote:panthermark wrote:We are not talking about medicating Pat to make him more aggressive.
No one is concerned if Pat is passive off the court.
He simply does not have fire in his belly, and you can't teach heart.
It is why Eddy Curry and Andrew Bynum and Derrick Coleman and Ben Simmons and a bunch of others never lived up to their potential. If we could transfer Noah's heart into these guys, it would have been done.
Tim Thomas should have been better. Lamar Odom should have been better. Some guys just didn't give a crap beyond a paycheck.
That's not PWill. He cares. He's obviously just hard on himself and deferring. There is a part of me that wants to send him down to Windy City for 2 weeks and make him dominate the ball. Too easy to defer when you have Vuc-DDR-Lavine-White
DDR is not on this team.
Lavine missed plenty of time last season.
Pat is still passive, AND he lacks the skill needed to do much more than cut and spot-up.
That excuse is old.
He is going to have a double double tonight.
These takes always remind me of people who claim global warming doesn't exist because it happens to be cold today.


















