shangrila wrote:I get the feeling this team buys its own hype. Or some players do, anyway.
Ant touched on it in that Pelicans game but we're still, and have been for years, too quick to take our foot off the throat. We are nowhere near good enough to coast. And then when we get punched back we shrink.
The way I see it, career numbers are good bench marks. Guys can have up and down years, but usually career numbers are a fairly reasonable bench mark for a player. Now before I continue I do want to address the obvious by saying yes older players tend to decline and younger players tend of rise so career numbers are not bulletproof. That said they are a good way to track growth or decline acting as a baseline. Most of our players are playing well below their career stats. Our shooting is awful, our rebounding is unacceptable, and free throws are starting to become an issue as well. Some of this mental, some of this is start of the season conditioning issues, but some of this is an X factor that I just cannot identify. My theory is the guys are spending so much energy on defense they are lacking wind on offense. Also teams are collapsing and forcing us to hit 3s. Whatever the case may be, we need to get back to baseline sooner rather than later.
