weneeda2guard wrote:and my only issue with boozer is his attitude and fight. he just looks lost out there. i dont see any hunger or motivation to want to be the best at his position out there. he looks like half the time he dont even want the ball. there is no hustle from him, he still lazy on defensive rotations. i think as much as we dog boozer we all know he has the raw skill to be good. we so angry because he wont show it. he has shown flashes of being a top 10 power forward with great offensive post moves, and a sweet 12ft jump shot. he can rebound well. but he lacks that other part you need to be a winner. if he could grab some of that heart that noah and taj has he would be great for us. we could almost forgive boozer if he shot 1-11 but we saw him playing his ass off hustling getting on the ground going up for block shots or hard fouls etc. he just dont bring any of that. he just wants to yell when he gets a rebound and shake his head when someone else scores. after that he looks lost trying to figure out where to be and what to do, and he been here 2 seasons now, he should have the game plan down.
Boozer - We had the best record in the league, and that's all that matters, yo.
Spot on post. Boozer needs to show some fire and start being more assertive. At times it looks like he's content no matter what he's doing on the court. And if the Boozer apologists doesn't like me saying it, just read what Horace Grant and Scottie Pippen (who were real winners) had to say about Boozer in the past. Certainly wasn't a ringing endorsement.
http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nba/n ... id=6485998"It will be a long time before I could be a head coach, because I don't care how much money you get paid," Grant said. "If you're not producing more or if I feel you're hurting the team, especially in the playoffs, I'd bench you.
"If Boozer is having an off-game scoring, he has to do other things. You have to rebound and you've got to play defense."
http://espn.go.com/chicago/nba/story/_/ ... tie-pippenAs far as Boozer's struggles on the defensive end, Grant believes that those issues are something which he can be coached through over time.
"You can be taught that," he said. "You can always be trained to be that defensive stopper. But more or less, if you don't want to do it, then you have a problem. But they're going to need him to do all the intangibles for them to get over the hump."
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/ ... %E2%80%9D/“You can’t hide at this stage of the season. At this point, you have to be able to play through everything because if you’re trying to hide a guy or a guy is not performing for you, it’s going to show offensively in the playoffs and it’s going to be magnified … We all know Carlos did not play at the level the team needed him to and that that hurt them more than anything because they couldn’t rely on him.
“The flagrant foul, the pushing calls, the inability to finish strong around the basket. Now you’re a liability. We can’t hide you and now we have to take you out of the game.”
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/ ... toughness/‘‘They’ve all got two legs and two arms,’’ the six-time NBA champion said. ‘‘You’ve got Carlos Boozer out there who’s spending fouls and a lot of his fouls are not needed at the time that he’s giving them. Those could be hard fouls. Those could be fouls that you knock a [Darren] Collison to the floor, you knock a [Jeff] Foster to the floor.
‘‘Utilize your fouls and make them more valuable for you and your team.’’
Now go ahead and tell me that these guys don't know what they're talking about.
