Kizz Fastfists wrote:Atomic Punk wrote:But my earlier point is this; playing angry or with attitude may give you a little edge temporarily, but it isn’t sustainable and it isn’t a strategy.
Who is responsible for strategy? The players or the coach? I read the quote as Felton basically saying they have no plan so the are just going to go out and play hard and try to intimidate the other team. I am definitely not going to say the players are perfect, but it looks like they are just being told to go out there and win. That works in college when you have a nice talent gap from superior recruiting, but not in the NBA.
So this team went out and accumulated a roster full of dumbasses that’s don’t understand how to play fundamental basketball? The only thing they can do is just play hard and try to intimidate? I get the play hard part, but for crying out loud some of the stuff Melo and Russ are doing makes me cringe. PG too. Players are not stupid, they know perfectly well what is working and what isn’t. This is just as much on the players as it is the coach. There is too much hero ball going on with these guys, they don’t need a coach to tell them to move the ball around and work for the best shot, or box out, or try and keep their man in front of them, this is basic stuff. Slick made an interesting observation, he called Melo a force multiplier for all of Russ’ bad habits, i think that is very astute. Russ needs to stop deferring and start leading and the rest of the guys need to own what they are doing or not doing to contribute to all of this. It’s more than a coaching problem right now.