khans2k5 wrote:Come on longstrangetrip. Bringing race into the argument of why Adelman would or wouldn't play Bazz is just ignorant. You can see just with Dieng on the floor why he doesn't play our rookies that much. He looks clueless most of the time on both ends of the floor. Our rookies don't have the basketball IQ to be confident with this system on both ends as most rookies are the same way. Adelman goes with the vets because at the very least, they don't look clueless on the floor, they understand where they need to be for spacing purposes and they know the offense and defense much better. Why do you think rookies hit walls and lack consistency. Most of them have the talent, but they don't have the legs and IQ yet to pull off a full year of strong, consistent play. Adelman is playing the guys with higher IQ's because we don't have the ability to throw away wins by playing guys who don't understand how to play the game yet. It's always easier to say the unknown would do better because you have no idea how well they would do when given a chance, but there just aren't that many rookies in the history of basketball that make big impacts off the bench. The backup QB is the most popular guy on the team until he plays and people actually see why he is a backup.
We aren't a winning, our vets look completely lost and can't do their jobs. Most can't even be effective at the one dimension they were brought in for. This isn't debatable at all. It's the reason we continue to lose games. They is zero reason for Shabazz not getting minutes with the inept bench we have. Once again it comes down to two lousy players (at worst in Shabazz's case) but has upside. Maybe, just maybe, we should explore that.
I don't care what the fallout will be, we have to cut Rick loose, and try and salvage this season. Who on this board can't guess what our late game play out of the timeout will be. We will take the ball out on the left side and inbound to Love or Martin and hope one can set a pick for the other to take a 3. If I know this, don't you think the other team does as well. Adelman's is done as a coach, and I agree with Long on what it seems that Flip is saying. What I don't understand is why he traded DW for another one dimensional player if he truly believed that to be a problem.
One other note. It has only been 3 games, but it should be pretty obvious that Pek isn't as important to this teams success as some make out. Yes, our offense struggles more to score, but our defense seems to be much better, and that is with a minimum level player taking his place. Pek's importance should never have been more noticeable than in last nights game against Gasol and Randolph, but yet Gasol was completely taken out of the game by Turiaf.
I say we look to move Pek, cut rick loose, and I might even explore a bigger deal moving Ricky and Pek to Cleveland for Irving. Sounds like he might be unhappy over their, and I would think a Ricky and Pek for Kyrie and AV might make sense.
