Rich4114 wrote:The one thing that makes Vincent lose all credibility with me is that they said openly that they wanted Felton to look to score less and look to create for others more... then he makes him play SG. Last time I checked, a shooting guard is there to score first, everything else second.
I think statistically speaking Felton is actually better than last year, in fact early on in the season he was playing very well, we saw him scoring 20 and 10 type of numbers for a while there and the biggest thing was his foul shooting attempts were up. That meant he was getting to the rim a lot more and not getting out of control but drawing good clean contact.
If you look on our roster, everyone in this forum will agree the best PG we've got on our roster is Felton and the worst SG we've got on our roster is Felton... so if he is who we've got, then why are we going out of our way to use him in the way that most negatively impacts our team?
The two guys who are the most VITAL to this team's success are Okafor and Felton. The big man and the little man. We need Wallace and J-Rich for scoring/balance/options but what this team has now become is a systemless cluster**** where the offense involves standing around and watching these guys jack up shots and hold onto the ball for long periods of time with no movement from anyone else. They too are being used in the wrong ways but our coach is doing nothing about it. If they were fatiuged last night in the 2nd half (as has been suggested by Vincent as an excuse for the loss) then I'm not surprised. Because you know what happens when you're constantly forcing shots, fighting through traffic to get to the rim, and giving up long rebounds and fast breaks to the other team? Well you get tired as hell.
The results of that are an even more emotionless Okafor on defense who's too worried about getting a foul now than actually focusing on defending opposing bigs, and a frustrated Okafor who can't get involved in the offense at all (even when he gets post position 2 other guys are crowding around him bringing their defenders with them along for the ride).
Basically saying, the four main components of our team aren't functioning together, nor is our top bench scorer (Carroll), which makes young guys like Hollins, Dudley, and Davidson difficult to develop under a free for all system.
This is the most talented Bobcats team yet, but the most frustrating to watch play. I also feel like nothing has changed with this playing Felton at SG crap because it's been like that since opening night.
Just my opinion of what's going on here. We can blame our players all day long but at the end of the day if you want a team that's consistant, has everyone playing as a team knowing their roles, is happy, and most important of all gets wins... then you need a coach who knows how to accomplish that and a GM who knows how to give the coach the tools he needs to accomplish that. Right now I don't think we have either, but the GM is a better GM than the coach is a coach IMHO.
Well put. I agree. The fact that Okafor has regressed is clearly a problem in the coaching system, unless suddenly both Felton and Okafor started taking the "suck" pill every morning.
"If you look on our roster, everyone in this forum will agree the best PG we've got on our roster is Felton and the worst SG we've got on our roster is Felton... so if he is who we've got, then why are we going out of our way to use him in the way that most negatively impacts our team?"
That's really it. Play the best PG at the PG spot; play the best SG at the SG spot. See what happens. Clearly this jacking around lineups is getting nobody anywhere in a hurry. It simply can't be worse than the status quo. The Bobcats are currently UNWATCHABLE.