enetric wrote: I would advise you to show a bit more respect in your choice of words or phrasing.
get over yourself. i didnt name call you or anything. your opinions arent above being disagreed with.
As for our PPG allowed being where they are...dictates by its very nature that we must be doing a better job with setting pace or overall D than you are giving credit for.
our offense sets our pace, not our defense. we were last in the NBA in fastbreak points at last check
(and im sure we are bottom 5 at the very most right now). We rarely get early offense and most of our attempts come in the last 10 seconds of the shot clock. teams know they can get buckets if they make us work in the pick and roll and dont force quick shots as a result. Teams are fine playing the game at our pace because they can have success with it as scoring against our defense sint difficult and offensively we are inconsistent enough where we will evntually lay an egg of a quarter, as we have in so many 3rd quarters this year.
You incorrectly make it sound as if we had added one stud defender like Josh Smith that suddenly we would go from being the 3rd or 4th seeded team to in Miami territory as a true contender. My point is, while yes there are issues of severe inconsistency...its not something we are without personnel to execute to be as good as anyone in the conference beyond the Heat.
We would go from first round fodder to, in my opinion, a lock to win in round 1 and a great chance to win in round 2. I'm sorry, but putting josh smith, an All-NBA defender, at the PF spot, a huge achillies heal for us defensively, would make a world of a difference. in addition to being a huge boost to our pick and roll defense, his shot blocking and help defense would make up for alot of poor rotations by his teammates. right now, outside brook, we dont have another rim protector. scheme wont change that. getting a PF who blocks shots would.
getting a josh smith type defender would make a much bigger impact defensively then PJ having better schemes.
Above all your more petty complaints...the big picture is that its a superstar's league and we do not have superstars. We win now on decent offense and decent D. Honestly...if we were as awful as you made it sound we would be the Kings right now.
we win now by beating up on the crappy teams. if we were in the west would we be the 8 seed? honestly would we? houston is the 8 seed now, has 2 less wins then us and has beaten us twice. im not sure we would.
And listen...you say antagonistic things like we would for sure lose to the Bucks in the playoffs on a day we were sitting with the 3 seed and they had the 8th and we had just beaten them back to back. Could we lose to them? Sure. But your criticisms are overly harsh.
they beat us twice handily... the third game took joe johnson heroball to win. and the third game they would have tied it if ellis didint choke his brains out. i dont like that matchup at all, especially now that they have another 3pt assasin in reddick.
Just relax. Stop trying to make people want to punch you in the face.
dude, its not that serious. deep breaths man.
