Q-is-here wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:29 pm
The losses to OKC and Charlotte might be the first nail in the coffin of playing ultra big. Obviously we aren't going to blow anything up the rest of this season, but scouts are watching. Quickness and shooting wins the day.
We're so busy praying someone giftwraps us Tyus Jones but this team is doing nothing to fix their offense. This team has guys like Nix just hanging around for the sake of vibes. Get someone who can shoot. Tale as old as time with this team. Connelly is being complacent with the roster and the players are complacent with their performance and it leads to this.
If bettors wanna make money this week, bet these awful teams to at least cover against the Wolves.
Q-is-here wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:29 pm
The losses to OKC and Charlotte might be the first nail in the coffin of playing ultra big. Obviously we aren't going to blow anything up the rest of this season, but scouts are watching. Quickness and shooting wins the day.
Q-is-here wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:29 pm
The losses to OKC and Charlotte might be the first nail in the coffin of playing ultra big. Obviously we aren't going to blow anything up the rest of this season, but scouts are watching. Quickness and shooting wins the day.
Are you suggesting to sell high on Towns now?!?
you think this helps Towns?
All anyone is gonna say about tonight is "this is why KAT is a loser and we should stay away from him. Embiid scores 70 and wins. KAT scores at 62 and loses. Clearly it's a KAT problem"
For the season in the last 2 minutes of games trailing by 3 or less/tied and is shooting 0% on the season. When leading or trailing by 3 or less he is shooting 16% from the field and 2nd in the NBA in turnovers in the last 2 minutes in 3 pt games
First year of the playoffs he shot 18% in the 4th Q.
Q-is-here wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:29 pm
The losses to OKC and Charlotte might be the first nail in the coffin of playing ultra big. Obviously we aren't going to blow anything up the rest of this season, but scouts are watching. Quickness and shooting wins the day.
kekgeek wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:38 pm
Can we talk about how much of a loser Ant is.
For the season in the last 2 minutes of games trailing by 3 or less/tied and is shooting 0% on the season. When leading or trailing by 3 or less he is shooting 16% from the field and 2nd in the NBA in turnovers in the last 2 minutes in 3 pt games
First year of the playoffs he shot 18% in the 4th Q.
How great he is he is currently a loser
and I've always felt like TC ignores PG purposely to basically make Ant the de facto PG going forward. Man is that gonna be a horrible idea.
Ant was butt-hurt about whatever shit came his way after the Thunder game. He decided he was going to show the coaches what happens when he isn't aggressive. True, he may have been under the weather, but he was well enough to play 37 minutes. He clearly had an agenda.
KAT saw the lineup Charlotte put out there and decided he was going to make them pay for the lack of size. I noticed right from the jump that he had it in his mind to attack or shoot every time he got the ball. And then he started making everything which only fueled his mindset. All of that is well and good, but when he started to miss it began to hurt the team. At this point we needed an adult to get us back on track. Conley was in civies, and Finch waited way too long to intervene.
You have to wonder after a failure like tonight whether KAT and Ant really can co-exist. I think KAT can most nights, but I'm not sure about Ant. Kek pointed out his struggles in crunch time, and I believe they are real. He stops moving the ball and tries to do everything himself. And it just doesn't work. Hopefully it's all part of the growing process for him, and it doesn't force us to move on from KAT.
Coolbreeze44 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:53 pm
Here is what I think went down tonight:
Ant was butt-hurt about whatever shit came his way after the Thunder game. He decided he was going to show the coaches what happens when he isn't aggressive. True, he may have been under the weather, but he was well enough to play 37 minutes. He clearly had an agenda.
KAT saw the lineup Charlotte put out there and decided he was going to make them pay for the lack of size. I noticed right from the jump that he had it in his mind to attack or shoot every time he got the ball. And then he started making everything which only fueled his mindset. All of that is well and good, but when he started to miss it began to hurt the team. At this point we needed an adult to get us back on track. Conley was in civies, and Finch waited way too long to intervene.
You have to wonder after a failure like tonight whether KAT and Ant really can co-exist. I think KAT can most nights, but I'm not sure about Ant. Kek pointed out his struggles in crunch time, and I believe they are real. He stops moving the ball and tries to do everything himself. And it just doesn't work. Hopefully it's all part of the growing process for him, and it doesn't force us to move on from KAT.
This is where the "just give Ant the keys" chatter hurts the team. Ant gets to do this stuff because for now, he'll be blameless. He gets to do this because everyone wants him to, team be damned. After all, in a perfect world to the basketball media, we're only developing him for someone else. It doesn't help that TC blatantly disregards the PG position and if he tries to address it via the draft, he's gonna come up empty handed now. We have this 17 year vet with nobody to soak up that knowledge for when he steps aside. We're not addressing the shooting. The team is atop the West and the urgency to stay there isn't there and that came from the team admitting they're resting on their laurels.
The gap between 1 and the play-in is not that big and they're playing a bunch of supposed cookies on the schedule that a real team beats handily. This team had a guy go for 44 and because they were only up 5, we were worried they'd lose and they did. Deadline is 2+ weeks away. I need to see a move for move's sake that at least shows they're trying to address the shooting and turnovers. If it stays the same just to keep the vibe going, that vibe will go up in flames in the first round.
The officials had been calling it all night for softer contact on KAT's drive to the hoops. Yet when it really counted they didn't want to call it. A case of the officials hoping the other official would make the call, and no one ends up making the call.
If that was Embiid it definitely gets called a foul.....
Two minute report will tell us it was a foul, but that doesn't change the result.
At the end of day you should put a team like the Hornets away, not count on the last play of the game to win or lose it. I didn't see a bulk of the 4th quarter until the last 2 minutes so not sure what went horribly wrong tonight.
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