The Mike Dunlap Thread

[countryboi]

I can always tell when we lose a tough game because this awful thread gets bumped to the top.

[MasterIchiro]

We won't likely be much better in 2014 than we are in 2013 so we'll likely pick 5-10 in 2014. Also, we'll likely have a 9-14 pick with the Pistons pick. We may even have a Trailblazers pick in the 12-18 range in 2014. So we could have 3 picks in or around the lottery. With a bit of luck one of those might be high enough to get Wiggins or Parker. Otherwise, we might be able to package them to get something useful. Who knows?

By my count we'll have pick 5 in 2014 plus pick 10 (from DET). POR is not a bottom 12 team in 2013. That might be a conservative outlook because Washington is different team with Wall, Varejao was out much of the year for the CAVS and E. Gordon has sparked the Hornets.

We may very well finish dead last in the NBA next year.

Phoenix could be right there with us though so we may draft 1-2.

It's quite plausible we end up with Jabari Parker or Andrew Wiggins.

[catch20two]

I hate when I read people use Kemba and Mullens improvement this season to justify Dunlap's ability to develop players. All he's doing is giving them more opportunity but I seriously doubt that they're learning much from this idiot unless you consider giving them in-game experience as teaching.

[amcoolio]

Dunlap is in way over is head. I get tanking, but you at least have to win the games against high profile teams to drum up some sort of excitement for the fan base. We should have swept the Lakers. Losing 18 and 20 point leads late in the 3rd quarter is unacceptable and you shouldn't be an NBA coach if you can't protect that sort of lead with 15 minutes left.

[thruthefire]

I was actually going to post at halftime in the game thread that we would lose, but didn't want to be unnecessarily negative. But if you as a coach can manage to blow a 17-point lead in the final five minutes of a game (like against Portland), you're capable of any amount of stupidity.

[Liver_Pooty]

He will coach atleast another season.

[amcoolio]

We could have 16-17 wins right now. I guess it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Dunlap will be gone before we try to actually make the playoffs.

[Bobcatsbball]

This is not tanking...we just stink and I'm tired of it.

[catch20two]

We suck as a team as far as talent but Dunlap suck just as much as a coach. If he has theories where he believe Sessions could defend Kobe for stretches of a game in the 4th quarter then he obviously doesn't have no clue what he's doing.

[Diop]

he was trying to sacrifice defence for offence, but it was just stupid.

And the 4 guards don't necessarily score better when all they are doing is ISO and drive.

[Eoghan]

If MJ just wants a guy to play young players and not care about loading up L's on the resume, I will totally coach this team for way less pay than Dunlap.

[KembaWalker]

Dont get why people are brushing off the development thing. Until dunlap got here a bobcats drafted player has never improved from their rookie years. Dj morrison may felton okafor ajinca. Henderson didnt play enough for a good sample but his per 36s have been pretty much the same thing since hes gotten time. Gerald wallace is the oonly bobcats player i can think of that ever improved his game in his bobcats tenure pre dunlap.

[catch20two]

I don't think anybody is brushing off the development thing. If Dunlap was truly trying to develop the young players and not focused on winning games then what's his excuse for having MKG on the bench of almost every 4th quarter in favor of his small ball lineup? Sure he may play the rookies extended minutes that a real coach probably wouldn't but that's not teaching them. They are teaching themselves through experience. Kemba, Biyombo, nor MKG will reach their true ceiling playing under this guy.

[KembaWalker]

Mkg just got out of the hospital with a brain injury like 4 days ago

[Liver_Pooty]

Everything is fine. Higgins admitted a few days ago that Dunlap is learning on the fly just as the players are. For him to publicly say that means that his job is definitely not on the line.

He better stop this 4 guard lineup **** though. That was just ridiculous.

[catch20two]

Mkg just got out of the hospital with a brain injury like 4 days ago

Then he should've played JT. Anything but a lineup of Kemba-Sessions-Gordon-Hendo and your pick of Biyombo, Mullens, or Haywood. Another thing that bothers me is this Sessions-Kemba backcourt so much where Sessions take over the ball handling duties. It seems like every game Kemba start off with 4-5 assist in the 1st quarter and then he's resorted to being a SG at the end of the 2nd quarter when he return for Gordon, top of the 3rd quarter when Sessions sub out MKG, and the whole 4th quarter when he return down the stretch of the game. I don't see how that's developing him into a PG if he's playing off the ball 60% of the game.

[KembaWalker]

Im fine with 4 guard lineup. Send a message upstairs that it doesnt make sense to have all 90 percent of your scoring tied up in 2 positions. If youre mad about not winning games then you should be mad at Cho for giving you this roster to root for.

[Diop]

I agree if you insist on playing "small ball" do it with MKG at Pf, not Hendo.

Keep Hendo on Kobe.

[catch20two]

Im fine with 4 guard lineup. Send a message upstairs that it doesnt make sense to have all 90 percent of your scoring tied up in 2 positions. If youre mad about not winning games then you should be mad at Cho for giving you this roster to root for.

Dunlap was hired to turn the other cheek towards the foolishness that happens upstairs. I seriously doubt that he's trying to send a message. He just has a bizarre way of managing games that obviously don't work.

[Eoghan]

Mkg just got out of the hospital with a brain injury like 4 days ago

Ooh, good point. I forgot that it was particularly dangerous to play in 4th quarters with a brain injury. The first 3 quarters though, no problem.