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this is why we lost, not Trezz
I enjoyed the whole season up until Game 4
you made every game thread a misery from Day One
this is a virtual community
nobody would EVER invite you over to have a beer and watch the game and that's the difference, smart guy
so stop harassing me and enjoy your gloat
I came over to this other thread to get away from you
this is why we lost, not Trezz
I enjoyed the whole season up until Game 4
you made every game thread a misery from Day One
this is a virtual community
nobody would EVER invite you over to have a beer and watch the game and that's the difference, smart guy
so stop harassing me and enjoy your gloat
I came over to this other thread to get away from you
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Game 7 was part of why Doc got fired, but he got fired because of game 5, 6, 7, probably also because the Dallas series also showed a bit of shakiness, but not simply because of game 7.
Game 5 2nd half lost 67-49
Game 6 2nd half lost 64-35
Game 7 2nd half lost 50-33
I think it is quite disingenuous for that person to suggest that it was a one game decision. The team shouldn't have been in a game 7 in the first place, and while players play, a coach has to also be able to find a way to get his team to not collapse in the 2nd half three games in a row. If the coach is saying "well the players should figure it out", okay, sure, but then why is the coach getting paid?
They averaged 34 pts/game in the 2nd half of game 6 and 7, that's an average of 17 pts/quarter in 4 quarters in the 2nd half. Teams with worse players would struggle to do that, a coach can't simply be excused for that kind of consistently bad performance.
Game 5 2nd half lost 67-49
Game 6 2nd half lost 64-35
Game 7 2nd half lost 50-33
I think it is quite disingenuous for that person to suggest that it was a one game decision. The team shouldn't have been in a game 7 in the first place, and while players play, a coach has to also be able to find a way to get his team to not collapse in the 2nd half three games in a row. If the coach is saying "well the players should figure it out", okay, sure, but then why is the coach getting paid?
They averaged 34 pts/game in the 2nd half of game 6 and 7, that's an average of 17 pts/quarter in 4 quarters in the 2nd half. Teams with worse players would struggle to do that, a coach can't simply be excused for that kind of consistently bad performance.
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this is why we lost, not Trezz
I enjoyed the whole season up until Game 4
you made every game thread a misery from Day One
this is a virtual community
nobody would EVER invite you over to have a beer and watch the game and that's the difference, smart guy
so stop harassing me and enjoy your gloat
I came over to this other thread to get away from you
Doc got fired because of everything leading to a game 7. Post the numbers of the off and on of your guy forcing Harrell to play.
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og15 wrote:Game 7 was part of why Doc got fired, but he got fired because of game 5, 6, 7, probably also because the Dallas series also showed a bit of shakiness, but not simply because of game 7.
Game 5 2nd half lost 67-49
Game 6 2nd half lost 64-35
Game 7 2nd half lost 50-33
I think it is quite disingenuous for that person to suggest that it was a one game decision. The team shouldn't have been in a game 7 in the first place, and while players play, a coach has to also be able to find a way to get his team to not collapse in the 2nd half three games in a row. If the coach is saying "well the players should figure it out", okay, sure, but then why is the coach getting paid?
They averaged 34 pts/game in the 2nd half of game 6 and 7, that's an average of 17 pts/quarter in 4 quarters in the 2nd half. Teams with worse players would struggle to do that, a coach can't simply be excused for that kind of consistently bad performance.
Some people don’t get this and I’m calling out any narrative that tries to paint game 7 as the fault. Game 7 was brutal but he was outcoached by RC and Malone
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TheNewEra wrote:esqtvd wrote:unresponsive
this is why we lost, not Trezz
I enjoyed the whole season up until Game 4
you made every game thread a misery from Day One
this is a virtual community
nobody would EVER invite you over to have a beer and watch the game and that's the difference, smart guy
so stop harassing me and enjoy your gloat
I came over to this other thread to get away from you
Doc got fired because of everything leading to a game 7. Post the numbers of the off and on of your guy forcing Harrell to play.
You're entitled to your opinion. Zu's minutes were doubled and Trezz's cut in half.
Doc got fired because the entire organization failed, from giving away the farm to get PG, signing a non-point guard to play point guard, to every player [except Zubac!] playing WAY under par in the bubble. Doc is NO victim here but he's the logical one to pay. He failed at his #1 thing, keeping the troops fighting. They quit, and if they wanted him back, he'd be coming back.
The only way for everyone to save face [including the players] is to make Doc the scapegoat and roll the dice again next year with a new figurehead.
I agree with the decision. But make no mistake--if this goes to hell, we could easily be in worse shape next summer than we are now.
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esqtvd wrote:TheNewEra wrote:esqtvd wrote:unresponsive
this is why we lost, not Trezz
I enjoyed the whole season up until Game 4
you made every game thread a misery from Day One
this is a virtual community
nobody would EVER invite you over to have a beer and watch the game and that's the difference, smart guy
so stop harassing me and enjoy your gloat
I came over to this other thread to get away from you
Doc got fired because of everything leading to a game 7. Post the numbers of the off and on of your guy forcing Harrell to play.
You're entitled to your opinion. Zu's minutes were doubled and Trezz's cut in half.
Doc got fired because the entire organization failed, from giving away the farm to get PG, signing a non-point guard to play point guard, to every player [except Zubac!] playing WAY under par in the bubble. Doc is NO victim here but he's the logical one to pay. He failed at his #1 thing, keeping the troops fighting. They quit, and if they wanted him back, he'd be coming back.
The only way for everyone to save face [including the players] is to make Doc the scapegoat and roll the dice again next year with a new figurehead.
I agree with the decision. But make no mistake--if this goes to hell, we could easily be in worse shape next summer than we are now.
Bro you're putting all your eggs in the game 7 basket. Game 7 was the contingency any coach should have planned for. So in game 7, both our stars had bad games. That was the contingency. We should have never been pushed to a game 7. I don't think Ballmer looked at game 7 only or that West looked at that one game.
I'd say we all take the high road and talk about the future rather than dwell in the past.
Doc is no longer the coach.
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esqtvd wrote:TheNewEra wrote:esqtvd wrote:unresponsive
this is why we lost, not Trezz
I enjoyed the whole season up until Game 4
you made every game thread a misery from Day One
this is a virtual community
nobody would EVER invite you over to have a beer and watch the game and that's the difference, smart guy
so stop harassing me and enjoy your gloat
I came over to this other thread to get away from you
Doc got fired because of everything leading to a game 7. Post the numbers of the off and on of your guy forcing Harrell to play.
You're entitled to your opinion. Zu's minutes were doubled and Trezz's cut in half.
Doc got fired because the entire organization failed, from giving away the farm to get PG, signing a non-point guard to play point guard, to every player [except Zubac!] playing WAY under par in the bubble. Doc is NO victim here but he's the logical one to pay. He failed at his #1 thing, keeping the troops fighting. They quit, and if they wanted him back, he'd be coming back.
The only way for everyone to save face [including the players] is to make Doc the scapegoat and roll the dice again next year with a new figurehead.
I agree with the decision. But make no mistake--if this goes to hell, we could easily be in worse shape next summer than we are now.
Cool story bro. Now you can find out where Doc is going to coach next and where Trez is going to land and you'll have two new teams to root for next season instead of the Clippers. Time to purge some of you agenda driven folks from here anyways.
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esqtvd wrote:TheNewEra wrote:esqtvd wrote:unresponsive
this is why we lost, not Trezz
I enjoyed the whole season up until Game 4
you made every game thread a misery from Day One
this is a virtual community
nobody would EVER invite you over to have a beer and watch the game and that's the difference, smart guy
so stop harassing me and enjoy your gloat
I came over to this other thread to get away from you
Doc got fired because of everything leading to a game 7. Post the numbers of the off and on of your guy forcing Harrell to play.
You're entitled to your opinion. Zu's minutes were doubled and Trezz's cut in half.
Doc got fired because the entire organization failed, from giving away the farm to get PG, signing a non-point guard to play point guard, to every player [except Zubac!] playing WAY under par in the bubble. Doc is NO victim here but he's the logical one to pay. He failed at his #1 thing, keeping the troops fighting. They quit, and if they wanted him back, he'd be coming back.
The only way for everyone to save face [including the players] is to make Doc the scapegoat and roll the dice again next year with a new figurehead.
I agree with the decision. But make no mistake--if this goes to hell, we could easily be in worse shape next summer than we are now.
Cutting Harrell’s minutes in HALF wasn’t enough and that’s what we are trying to tell you. Vogel had McGee play 2 minutes on a close out game. You don’t think McGee who won a title is prideful and wants to play ? Vogel sat Dwight and McGee to beat the Rockets that’s the difference you adapt and do what it takes to win.
Harrell should of been shut down and it was fairly obvious early in the series. By game 6 he should of been benched for Green and someone else placed into the 4 spot like Patterson
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Ballmer being the one pushing for this has me believing again
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Clemenza wrote:esqtvd wrote:TheNewEra wrote:
Doc got fired because of everything leading to a game 7. Post the numbers of the off and on of your guy forcing Harrell to play.
You're entitled to your opinion. Zu's minutes were doubled and Trezz's cut in half.
Doc got fired because the entire organization failed, from giving away the farm to get PG, signing a non-point guard to play point guard, to every player [except Zubac!] playing WAY under par in the bubble. Doc is NO victim here but he's the logical one to pay. He failed at his #1 thing, keeping the troops fighting. They quit, and if they wanted him back, he'd be coming back.
The only way for everyone to save face [including the players] is to make Doc the scapegoat and roll the dice again next year with a new figurehead.
I agree with the decision. But make no mistake--if this goes to hell, we could easily be in worse shape next summer than we are now.
Cool story bro. Now you can find out where Doc is going to coach next and where Trez is going to land and you'll have two new teams to root for next season instead of the Clippers. Time to purge some of you agenda driven folks from here anyways.
Thanks for adding your tiny little dagger bro. I think I'll stick around and see how this little handful of creeps finds a way to whine their way all through next season too.
Me, I enjoyed this season all the way up to Game 5. I had a great time. This is supposed to be fun. That's the only agenda of a real fan.
I've had my say. You don't need to shout me down.
The only way for everyone to save face [including the players] is to make Doc the scapegoat and roll the dice again next year with a new figurehead.
I agree with the decision. But make no mistake--if this goes to hell, we could easily be in worse shape next summer than we are now.
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Doc got fired because games 5 and 6,his love for Trez and hate for Zubac.
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"I agree with the decision. Now let me get back to insisting that this is all Kawhi and PG's fault for one bad half of basketball, pretending Doc didn't have enough talent to work with, and implying that the decision was unjustified."
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Yall can say whatever yall want.
Ballmer read this thread and made his decision.
We could give the credit to MTV but he's been asking for years and Ballmer wouldn't listen.
So, I want a role in the Clippers org.
A company car.
And an office in the new Ingleworld stadium.
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Ballmer read this thread and made his decision.
We could give the credit to MTV but he's been asking for years and Ballmer wouldn't listen.
So, I want a role in the Clippers org.
A company car.
And an office in the new Ingleworld stadium.
- Quake Over and Out.
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TheNewEra wrote:Ballmer being the one pushing for this has me believing again
On the other hand, Ballmer asked Paul George's opinion on firing Doc? WTF?
If we already know PG by now, he'll delusionaly think that he did a OK job on this Playoffs unlike Doc Rivers and justifies his shortcomings. Pg should be asked to account for his poor performance somehow.
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Need to try to trade Paul George. I'm sure who the Clippers can land for him, but if they can manage to get someone like Towns or Embiid for him, I say do it.
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im 20, and i did grow up watching MJ play in the 90's.
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dautjazz wrote:Need to try to trade Paul George. I'm sure who the Clippers can land for him, but if they can manage to get someone like Towns or Embiid for him, I say do it.
Embiid isn't going anywhere.
It is an absolute NO on Karl Anthony Charmin. Jimmy Buckets was right about him. Charmin will never lead a team anywhere. The Rockets guarded him regularly with Harden in the playoffs 2 years ago and Charmin couldn't even dominate that match-up.
Paul George will be just fine. We aren't finding a better defensive complement to Kawhi than George.
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clipperlover wrote:dautjazz wrote:Need to try to trade Paul George. I'm sure who the Clippers can land for him, but if they can manage to get someone like Towns or Embiid for him, I say do it.
Embiid isn't going anywhere.
It is an absolute NO on Karl Anthony Charmin. Jimmy Buckets was right about him. Charmin will never lead a team anywhere. The Rockets guarded him regularly with Harden in the playoffs 2 years ago and Charmin couldn't even dominate that match-up.
Paul George will be just fine. We aren't finding a better defensive complement to Kawhi than George.
I agree with this, I just wish PG guarded Jamal a bit more in games 6 and 7. I think PG gets going a bit by his defense. I think he should try to be the teams defensive ace especially against smaller guards. Kawhi has a tough time navigating through screens, plus he was asked to carry a bigger load offensively.
I honestly go back and forth on what the team should do. A part of me thinks if they had a defensive center (not blaming Zu) just to slow Jokic down in the second halves of games 5 and 6, they would've definitely moved to the WCF. Also, perhaps if Pat Bev was 100 % in the buble both physically and emotionally, perhaps Luka and Murray would've had tougher series. But there was a bit of helter skelter to the team all year, which kinda made losing 7 games to the 2nd best team in the west sound about right.
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DieHardFan wrote:TheNewEra wrote:Ballmer being the one pushing for this has me believing again
On the other hand, Ballmer asked Paul George's opinion on firing Doc? WTF?
If we already know PG by now, he'll delusionaly think that he did a OK job on this Playoffs unlike Doc Rivers and justifies his shortcomings. Pg should be asked to account for his poor performance somehow.
I don’t believe Paul George is as bad as he was this year. He needs a system and a healthy season to get right
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