dTox wrote:I do agree with your sentiments that he's making the best of what he has, but part of my problem is the fact that he holds the younger and players on a cheaper contracts much more accountable where as players like Andrea get a free pass and they continue to do a half assed job, same could be said of Calderon last year when he shared pg duties with Bayless and continued to start when Bayless clearly put more effort on both ends of the floor. And what about Fields, why is he continuously starting this guy when its clear that he's not fit for the NBA let alone the starting lineup (I get the feeling that he's trying to validate his contract even if it means by force).
I'm not questioning his X's and O's (not that they are terrific to begin with) nor questioning his defensive schemes (which I think he's done a great job with), but his rotations just atrocious. If the excuse is that we don't have talent, then you should be playing your top 7-8 players and keeping the rotaton to the said number, what's the point of playing your 10th/11th/12th man if they are so terrible? Yesterday we've seen a lineup of Lucas/Anderson/Mcguire/Amir/Gray during the end of the 3rd quarter for quite a long stretch when we needed to make a come back when its clear that lineup wouldn't make a dent on the offensive end.
I actually differ on that view;
He may be the only coach who has kept Bargnani even remotely accountable; save for the Nets game when Bargnani didnt have it, he played 24 and 25 minutes against OKC and MIN and Davis was given his minutes instead, and when he was feeling it on offense against the Mavs and to a degree the Pacers (he was getting to the line) he got his 30+. That is far more then any other coach has ever done with Bargnani
I have never felt that any coach that Bargnani has had with the Raps had the balls to simply bench him, I don't feel that way about Casey, I suspect if this continues his minutes will drop as he shown he is willing to do.
The argument I will make about rotations is that our 7th, 8th, and 9th guys aren't exactly head and shoulders more talented then our 10th, 11th, and 12th guys.
Good teams have a pretty clear distinction between second unit and third, we simply don't have the talent.
The thing with Lucas/Anderson/Mcguire/Amir/Gray is that Johnson, McGuire, and Gray all had a positive plus/minus last night, and Lucas is the only thing on the roster that resembles a PG that isn't Jose when Lowry is hurt, so the issue is why did Anderson get 16 minutes?
I would suspect because DeRozan played >40 and Fields is terrible, and Ross racked up 3 (?) fouls on 1/3 shooting in eight to ten minutes so he clearly wasn't feeling it.
The only guy who's minute confuse me on the Raps is Ed Davis, however I suspect an argument could be made for match-up's.
Everyone else is a by-product of a terrible rotation of players that Casey had little say in bringing in
