Originally Posted by
NemesisKING
This is getting even better, some of these guys are delusional and don't understand their limitations. I hope it makes them feel better, but probably will make them feel worse when it doesn't help.
At least we know that Monty hasn't lost the team. What ever he's selling, there still buying. If they really feel like they need to have a meeting about effort, i'm all for that. But if the meeting is about them believing they're a talented team as presently constructed, from top to bottom, and they should have a more wins than losses, then all of those "veterans" are crazy.
A quarter of this team shouldn't be on an NBA roster and if wasn't for the Hornets wouldn't be, this season. Another quarter though talented, are still in diapers and are learning on the job, but being held back by the other guys' lack of talent.
We've barely had Anthony Davis and never had Eric Gordon, it's about time we stop including them as a reason for losing. Eric Gordon hasn't really practiced with this team, didn't go on the bonding mission and has't played a minute in one win or one loss.
The reason we're losing has nothing to do with youth, because they're two guys barely out of they're teens that skew the whole age issue.
Everybody else with the exception of Darius Miller is either over 25 or has multiple NBA seasons under their belt and is technically considered a veteran by league standards.
It's a talent issue, It's these Monty-lite guys. These underdog type with out much talent that Monty has a soft spot for are the problem. This is the same coach that wouldn't give Marcus Thornton any playing time, barely gave Q-Pon minutes and got rid of Darren Collison before that, but he's telling Brian Roberts to shoot more.
So basically he's saying don't set up the offense or complete the pick and roll/pop.
Every time you get freed up shoot don't pass it to the open guy, Well that's the game he's been playing, so Monty wants to see more of that. A guy that requires picks/screen to get open to shoot, already is going to take more shots out of the flow of the game and away from guys like Ryno, Darius Miller and Austin Rivers.
Lance Thomas is another end of the bench guy who should never see the court, you're wasting minutes on him, he looks like they guy at the court that everybody is scared of when he's guarding them and you get out of his way when he drives to the rim or he's rebounding because you're going to get kneed or elbowed.
He looks clownish when he's trying to put the ball in the whole, getting blocked by the net or the rim or himself. He's a young Ryan Bowen and Ryan Bowen never left the bench until the game was decided, did you ever see Ryan Bowen in a Hornets Advertisement.
You give anybody minutes an license to shoot and open looks and they're going to make some shots. The fact is that the bottom of this roster should be ever changing this year and maybe next. You should be looking for young talent all over the place, "reclamation" projects.
Those former first round picks that were drafted by bad teams with poor coaching and given up on, even if there still on the roster of a team, if they have talent, they're young and can be had for cheap, go get them. Those guys we're giving minutes to right now will not get any better and are not apart of our future, why are we trying to actually win games with them.
This isn't about EG or AD at all or making a trade for a starting PG or SF, it's about the rest of the guys. Right now we have an Elite 3pt shooter at PF, to go with AFA,AR,DM,RL and i'm going to add GV, and again if you can't see that he's a back up in this league you're on another planet.
The rest of those spots should be constantly changing, trying to discover and develop NBA quality talent. And of that group all are roll players to various degrees, someone maybe come a legitimate starter but most with be backups.
If you're really trying to develop guys, thats where most of your minutes should go, if you're trying to Win while doing so, you need to clean up the bottom of your roster and add more talent to help you compete and than can push the current crop of youngsters.
Those Vets minus Ryno are apart of the problem, they don't know their limitations.
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. This was what I was afraid of, also Davis has been lacking effort when he was playing too. I pray this team will at least play a little harder...
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