dlts20 wrote:Hands, I understand what you are saying but you dont bench the #3 pick in the draft who is just 20 and has showed so much promise.
You wanna know what you do? You bench him but you do it "in game". Thats how you send a message. Once he takes those back to back or 3 in a row terrible jumpers, you pull the plug on him. Thats how a guy like him gets it. Honestly, you shouldnt even have to do that if you have a great coach. I just cant believe he's continuing to do this if someone on the staff is ripping him for it. My guess is that they just make general comments to him and our guys about getting to the FT line more. Instead they should tell him how truly horrible those shots are. How he is looking like NY & Crawful. How he went from being an All Star to a one dimensional bench player. Our coaching staff sucks
Good point dts
I wouldn't want to send him to the bench permanently. I just wanted to see that other rotation to set a standard. Something tells me Wall, Webster, Trevor A, Kevin and Nene could play a level of ball we all could be proud of and they could keep each other in check. Webster would can talk to Wall and TA. Nene can keep charge of Kevin.
Then once the standard is set, let Beal step up to it with Webster mentoring him from SF. See, that is what we miss by not having Webster out there with Beal by having Trevor A starting. Not that TA shouldn't start because of that he add in defense, but lets not ignore what Webster add as a mentor/leader to Wall and Beal.
As for saying he is looking like Crawford. Hmmmmm. Crawford had good handles. Had the herky jerky get you off balance and then drive part to his game. Beal doesn't have that. Now if you mean Crawford I'm going to dribble up the floor and take a Gil. Then yeah. But like Crawford, Gil would also drive. No, Nick Young is the only good comparison. None driving ... all jumpers. Only Beal doesn't dribble around in one place before doing it.
Hmm. One denominational bench player. That was the message I was trying to send by putting him on the bench
Now I would hate to affect his AS chances in doing it but maybe he need to earn it more first. He is young. He need to have goals. But I get your comment. Its all just so frustrating. I wish I could trust in the fact that I thought Randy had a handle on things and knew how to make it better. I just don't have that feeling. Oh sure, maybe two weeks down the road he might stumble into the answer. That's the Randy way. I expect in the next week or two he might figure out the line ups I wanted to see since I know what the roster was.
