Post#1566 » by Hornet Mania » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:03 pm
Just finished watching the game, what the hell man. This bum needs to go. Point blank. If they want to let him play our his contract, or think the young guys like him personally, then at MINIMUM we must bring in an offensive coordinator who has complete authority over that end of the floor. The Kings are a god-awful defensive team and George Karl is not known as a defensive guru, we still had almost no quality looks.
I understand that our guys are not great shooters, fine, but it's not like we're missing wide-open looks consistently. We get less open shots than the other team nearly every game, and we have a top-5 defense when everyone is healthy. That is simply unacceptable, I refuse to shrug and chalk it up lack of floor spacers or whatever. That is a piss-poor scheme, or no scheme, and it is killing us. How many more games do we need to watch guys setting screens with no purpose, or Kemba/Mo burning 15 seconds of clock before passing it into Hendo just to get the ball right back? That's not simply a personnel problem, the guys literally have no plan to work from many possessions and it's obvious to anyone who pays attention. One of the "plays" in the 3rd quarter was just laughable. We had Mo running off screens early in the clock, problem was it wasn't working. A team with an NBA-level offensive scheme would have some sort of safety valve or second option given that we still had 15 seconds left. Nope, we just ran Mo back and forth THREE TIMES under the basket until he finally got open for the shot he inevitably missed. It was crystal clear that Kemba (or it may have been Lance, can't be sure) was told to do nothing except hold the ball until Mo was open and then deliver it. That miserable inflexible train wreck is what passes for offensive sets in Charlotte.
We barely score more points a game than the Knicks. The Knicks. No one can ever convince me that our offensive talent is on par with that flaming bag of dog crap. Hendo alone would step in on day one and be their undisputed first option(this scenario assumes Melo's injury, btw). **** Clifford's offense, we need something different.
Rotations were typically awful. Mo over Hendo late in the game for #spacing? You betcha. Did that mean the Kings took full advantage of the Mo/Al defensive lapses for open looks and easy buckets? You're damn right they did. Also, Sactown starts 6/7 from 3pt land and stays scorching for the entire first half. Teams have found a massive liability in the way we play defense, no way that happens three straight games by pure coincidence.
Anyway, put this guy on the street or give him training wheels on the offensive end. One or the other.
