Ruzious wrote:Dat2U wrote:leswizards wrote:Kelly Oubre, Mike Scott and Tomas Satoransky are all playing much better than could have been expected. I would hope none of these players were the problem in the team meeting.
Otto Porter and Marcin Gortat are both playing well. Considering that they are starters, and should be team leaders given age or contract size, they could both be producing more, but overall, I find it hard to believe that any "harsh" criticism should be coming from their teammates. I would hope they weren't the problems.
Chris McCullough, Tim Frazier, Jodie Meeks and Jason Smith are all end of the bench players. Maybe one of these players were the problem in the meeting, but I would hope not. Their production is too irrelevant to the Wizards' fortune.
John Wall, Bradley Beal, and Ian Mahinmi are all very well paid players who are under producing. Regardless, they are producing enough that the Wizards should be winning consistently. I could see one or more of these players over reacting to comments in a team meeting, but not enough for things blow up in the media.
Markieff Morris sucks. He doesn't belong on the court. I could very easily see him blowing up over comments made at a team meeting, and then things going public.
I hope all this is about Morris.
Marcin Gortat is NOT playing well. The numbers may look okay but the defense is terrible. The most important job of a center is to be that last line of defense and he's failing miserably at that.
But the biggest defensive problem has been dribble penetration - which causes a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation for the center. If he comes out to switch, the penetrator either has an easy dish to his big, or the penetrator misses and a teammate has an easy put-back. Left-handed compliment: Compared to the rest of the team, Gortat's been a good defender.
He's also been a great rebounder.
Marcin had 11 rebounds in under 18 minutes and Scott Brooks did not play him anymore in that game.
One of the problems is that they expect Gortat to play all the defense. Sometimes Beal chooses to go under a screen and leave a perimeter shooter wide open. A lot of times Wall does not stay in front of his match up. That player gets around the corner and it looks like Gortat gets burned for the layup. All the times when they switch and Gortat gets caught on the perimeter he is just lost in space.
Ruzious, it really is a damned if you do damned if you don't situation. I think the answer could be to play with more physicality and better chemistry and better communication between Wizards players.
Energy
A lot of it is on coaching. When Satoransky comes in the game he plays the right way. Right now Scott Brooks doesn't value energy I don't think.
I don't think he should have taken Gortat out of the Dallas game.
