Where has Eddie House gone???

ArmstrongInGreen · Post #1 » by **ArmstrongInGreen** » Thu May 8, 2008 1:28 am

I was at yesterday's game and simply CANNOT understand why he didn't see any time. This is a perfect series for him. House won't have any problems bringing it up against the likes of Delonte West, and lets face it, House won't get beat off the dribble anymore than Cassell does. Not to mention that our offense becomes stagnant with Cassell pounding the ball into the floor, degrading things to the selfish one on one crap and long scoring droughts.

House is the perfect player to bring in when you have a 10+ point lead. If he hits his first jumper great leave him in and see if he gets hot, if he misses, great sit him down before the lead slips away.

The thing with House is the spacing he brings to the floor is something we're sorely lacking right now. When you play him with Ray Allen it opens everything up inside cuz you simply cannot leave either of those guys to double down. The fear of House's jumper is what gets guys like Allen open threes off ball rotations and single coverage for Pierce on post ups.

Granted I still like Cassell, but he should only enter the game for the following reasons:

- The offense isn't producing cuz our players are reluctant to shoot and deferring to eachother too much.

- The other team has a big PG on the floor ala Chauncy/Deron Williams.

- End of game situations.

greenbeans · Post #2 » by **greenbeans** » Thu May 8, 2008 1:31 am

preachin to the choir here man.
maybe you SHOULDNT go away from one of your key bench contributors when you get to the playoffs???? hmmmm, im just getting silly now. lets go DOCC!!!!

s1ickd · Post #3 » by **s1ickd** » Thu May 8, 2008 2:42 am

house is a good player in spurts but is even more detatched from the team offense than casell.

ArmstrongInGreen · Post #4 » by **ArmstrongInGreen** » Thu May 8, 2008 2:49 am

the thing that's so frustrating is that House is the epitomy of a front runner - use him that way! bring him in to spell rondo when we have a lead and momentum, if he gets hot then we're likely to increase our lead. Instead been bringing in Cassell for these situations, team basketball goes out the window and the other team back in the game.

the only times Doc played House in the Atlanta series was at the end of games when we're down after House's been rotting on the bench the whole game. OF COURSE he's not going to come up big. That is a classic Sam Cassell situation there, NOT Eddie House!

House = front runner to use when we have the lead & momentum
Cassell = closer for end of game situations and playing from behind

can someone remind doc of this please!?!?!?!?

SonicYouth34 · Post #5 » by **SonicYouth34** » Thu May 8, 2008 4:53 am

greenbeans wrote:preachin to the choir here man.

bruno sundov · Post #6 » by **bruno sundov** » Thu May 8, 2008 11:42 am

I know the answer to this one. The far end of the becnh is his location.

pballa · Post #7 » by **pballa** » Thu May 8, 2008 5:33 pm

bruno sundov wrote:I know the answer to this one. The far end of the becnh is his location.

oooh sorry incorrect, we were looking for BENCH, not BECNH.

consolation prize though, free link to gilbert's new blog:

http://my.nba.com/forum.jspa?forumID=400032200

MyInsatiableOne · Post #8 » by **MyInsatiableOne** » Thu May 8, 2008 5:37 pm

pballa wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

oooh sorry incorrect, we were looking for BENCH, not BECNH.

consolation prize though, free link to gilbert's new blog:

http://my.nba.com/forum.jspa?forumID=400032200

In all seriousness, though, we need more House and less Sam.

cavsfan_osiris · Post #9 » by **cavsfan_osiris** » Thu May 8, 2008 8:50 pm

Some fans are never happy huh? Sam had a good game one and was one of the main reasons the Celts hung on to win a game they really should have had no problem winning.

He's Eddie House, not Dana Barros in his prime.