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Some thoughts...
1. Hibbert. Excellent game by him. 12points 10reb 4ast 2blks. Gave exactly what I thought he would.
2. Randle struggled from the field. Finished with 15 & 11. But the one positive is nobody, not Towns, not Dieng, not Garnett can stay in front of him. He will always beat them first step. Once he learns body control, he'll be much more efficient. He'll never be a 55% shooter, but high 40%-50% is plenty good enough. He'll never be great in terms of % because he will take a lot of attempts with plenty of contact. Positive, he'll get to the line a lot, negative if he doesn't get the foul call it's a higher risk shot. He needs to develop that right hand, but I think he can get away with it by going up with both, to get more control, while he develops a right.
3. Lou Will & Nick Young were really good.
4. Clarkson started out hot then died down. But still an overall solid game.
5. D'Angelo Russell is a PG. Not a shooting guard. He needs to be handling the ball and setting up the offense. It's one thing when Randle is taking the ball in transition off a missed shot. But when we have to inbound it, Russell should be the guy who has the ball the most. If you're going to have him stand around, you might as well never play him at all.
6. Bass should not play the 5. You either play him at the 4 or you play Kelly at the 4. Tarik Black is much more suited to play the 5.
7. Kobe deserves some of the blame because he had a few stupid heat checks.. But for the most part, his shot total is not on him. It comes from not having any option. There was a few times when Kobe had an option other than to shoot, he took it. Too often we gave Kobe a pass, everybody moved to the other side of the court, and then just sat there. There was no movement, no off the ball picks. NOTHING. And it's not like Kobe could pass it out, the next closest guy was so far away, it would be a turnover. And he can't dribble it back to reset the offense because by that time, you'll have under 10 seconds to run a new set.
When Kobe was coming off a screen, he made those shots. The fact that he is not getting more screens on and off the ball to free himself up or free someone else up is ridiculous. Hell have Kobe set some of the screens and pop out.
He shot 5-11 from 2, 3-13 from 3. Gotta limit the 3s to open shots, and clock winding down attempts.
8. Byron blew it by not calling timeouts, not trying to reset the offense when it got stagnant. As well as halting the offense by not running plays, and running so many damn isos. He's in the huddle after we blew a 15 point lead talking about defense, when we were shooting 3-18. He's an imbecile. I'd take literally any other coach in the NBA over him. I'd take Vinny Del Negro over him.
1. Hibbert. Excellent game by him. 12points 10reb 4ast 2blks. Gave exactly what I thought he would.
2. Randle struggled from the field. Finished with 15 & 11. But the one positive is nobody, not Towns, not Dieng, not Garnett can stay in front of him. He will always beat them first step. Once he learns body control, he'll be much more efficient. He'll never be a 55% shooter, but high 40%-50% is plenty good enough. He'll never be great in terms of % because he will take a lot of attempts with plenty of contact. Positive, he'll get to the line a lot, negative if he doesn't get the foul call it's a higher risk shot. He needs to develop that right hand, but I think he can get away with it by going up with both, to get more control, while he develops a right.
3. Lou Will & Nick Young were really good.
4. Clarkson started out hot then died down. But still an overall solid game.
5. D'Angelo Russell is a PG. Not a shooting guard. He needs to be handling the ball and setting up the offense. It's one thing when Randle is taking the ball in transition off a missed shot. But when we have to inbound it, Russell should be the guy who has the ball the most. If you're going to have him stand around, you might as well never play him at all.
6. Bass should not play the 5. You either play him at the 4 or you play Kelly at the 4. Tarik Black is much more suited to play the 5.
7. Kobe deserves some of the blame because he had a few stupid heat checks.. But for the most part, his shot total is not on him. It comes from not having any option. There was a few times when Kobe had an option other than to shoot, he took it. Too often we gave Kobe a pass, everybody moved to the other side of the court, and then just sat there. There was no movement, no off the ball picks. NOTHING. And it's not like Kobe could pass it out, the next closest guy was so far away, it would be a turnover. And he can't dribble it back to reset the offense because by that time, you'll have under 10 seconds to run a new set.
When Kobe was coming off a screen, he made those shots. The fact that he is not getting more screens on and off the ball to free himself up or free someone else up is ridiculous. Hell have Kobe set some of the screens and pop out.
He shot 5-11 from 2, 3-13 from 3. Gotta limit the 3s to open shots, and clock winding down attempts.
8. Byron blew it by not calling timeouts, not trying to reset the offense when it got stagnant. As well as halting the offense by not running plays, and running so many damn isos. He's in the huddle after we blew a 15 point lead talking about defense, when we were shooting 3-18. He's an imbecile. I'd take literally any other coach in the NBA over him. I'd take Vinny Del Negro over him.
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