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Melli screened his own teammate! Man that guy is garbage
Why is Melli in the game?? Put in Hayes
Melli is just unplayable right now. Gabriel needs to hurry up and take those minutes.
He is pretty much unplayable. Not sure why Hayes is not getting some minutes instead of him to get some experience. Also, would be nice to see the game called evenly. Ingram and Zion have been getting mugged all game and Lebron and AD get FTs if someone breaths hard on them.
You know what I wish more teams would do? What the Celtics did when they got Javonte Green.
Is he good? No. He's not.
But if your 12th man is going to suck, you may as well look in the G league to find whoever is doing cool stuff and just give them 6 minutes every 5 games and tell them to go wild. Better than playing Melli. Both guys would suck but at least the G League wizard would be fun.
Not impressed with SVG. This team is no better than last season. Still bad defense, still can shoot free throws and still a turnover machine.
Melli should be getting blisters on his buttocks from sitting on the bench. He is not an NBA-level player.
Griffin needs to go Europe and literally beg for Mirotic to comeback.
This Great Value Brand Mirotic just ain't it.
SVG stinks!! How can he not see that Melli needs to be on the bench!! I would rather see Hernangomez or Gabriel over him if he doesn’t want Hayes in there for whatever reason. The only thing Melli’s good for is being a stretch 4 and he can’t do that right now. His confidence is in the gutter and this is not the game to let him find it.
I don't care about anything you just said. I care about what our youngest players do. The stats and the game results are the sprinkles. I can do without them. The cake beneath is the development of our core.
Won't get a full taste of that cake until more games are played. So far, I'm beginning to like the aroma coming out the oven.
Never forget kicking Christian Wood to curb
Just woke up and know melli needs to be on the bench the biggest liability all facets of the games
I think melli is brought in to be a decoy, a white big that stays outside to fool teams in thinking he is a stretch big... stan sticking with him is a head scratcher as well.
You know, Josh Hart went out the game and appeared to be squawking at SVG early in the third, and he has not returned.
It doesn't work. Guys literally leave him with 15 feet of space because he is not a threat to shoot in volume and he's not accurate enough for his small numbers to count, and nobody fears him putting the ball on the floor. A decoy that doesn't fool anyone is called a waste of time.
Redick is 3/10 from 3 by the way. His struggles continue.
Our GM Griffin will be fired within the next 3 years...bank it. He hired SVG and selected the players
Zion up to 21/12/4
Ingram has 20/3/5 with 2 steals
NAW had 10/2/2 in his 14 minutes on high efficiency (also fouls and turnovers like a machine but y'know, one step at a time)
Some fun stuff in the box score at least, even if we lose
Harrell killing Zion on the offensive glass!! That’s what Harrell is known for Zion!! Box him out please
SVG losing this team he better be careful.
This team is a turnover waiting to happen!! Unreal how much this team turns the ball over
We are a bunch of **********es inside. Embarrassing.
Maybe SVG is here on borrowed time. Griff. Still looking for the right person?
Our guards and SF put our bigs in bad situations alot. They can't keep their man in front of them.
Got severe roster issues, but we all know that. NAW is promising but he's not quite there yet. We were banking on JJ to be a spacer and obviously that's an understandable bet (and he did it last year for us) but this year he's just completely fallen off a very very tall cliff. Melli's just nothing.
Roster issues, some of which were forseeable (we knew coming in that we didn't have The Guard) and some of which weren't (I don't think anyone predicted JJ suddenly becoming a 30% shooter lol), but the issues are there all the same.
Y’all are way to reactionary. Yea we’re losing a lot right now, but it’s way too early to judge SVG. Its also still too early to judge this FO too. The end of next season is when you should know for both.
If we continue to have the roster look so disheveled, then yeah. Drafting Zion was a no brainer. We got what we could from the only team we could trade Anthony Davis to...
Griffin's moves have to start working out. Like MM has said. SVG could be his only coach hire.
...but we're like...freaking 11 games in? THere will come a point where the criticism and all are valid. But we aren't nearly there yet.
Why haven't we just emptied the bench down 25 with under 5 to go?
If NAW doesn’t get in foul trouble due to the terrible officiating we may have had a shot. Well up until SVG gave Melli minutes fir some reason. We could of been up 10 and lost due to that unexplainable stretch. Why did he not have Hayes in the game?? He’s outplayed Melli by 100s of miles
There could be some fireworks after this game.
I agree that people are being a bit too trigger happy. We're not there yet, that's obvious, there are roster moves to make and while the coaching is far from perfect, it's not like SVG hasn't been a good coach in the NBA before with various different styles of team.
Part of the problem of this team, and it happens year on year, is that we keep getting murderous schedules to start the year and then we get hit by injury or circumstance that means that we end up getting in a massive hole early. And while on paper, I think the reasons for that are clear, it doesn't stop some people just looking at a 4-7 record and seeing red.
A lot of these issues was started in Griffin 1st year and has course corrected as much as he can in one offseason. We really got to keep pushing forward.
Cuting off dead weight next year is a priority and keep building the core with a probable excellent option in the lottery.
Spot on
Roster flaws and offensive schematic issues on display tonight
— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) January 16, 2021
Well hopefully JJ can start making shots to get his trade value up there. And Ball can look halfway decent to get his value up as well. Trade both of them. I would like to get a decent wing and veteran backup 4 unless you can get a pick for Ball. Then likely finish around the same as last year to get us a lotto pick for a really, really good draft.
I love Kira’s speed! He’s gonna be a good one down the road
We made some of the dumbest turnovers i've ever seen this game. Ingram straight up threw a few right out of bounds with no one near him. Redick and Bledsoe had it go right through their hands out of bounds. We are just basketball retards right now.
It is what it is
Oh well. On to the next one. In fairness, it was an expected loss coming in: Lakers are the best team in the league.
Jaxson Hayes talking trash down 20 is the energy I'm here for
— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) January 16, 2021
I feel like this is exactly what NAW needs to help him grow. He saw what a very smart, faster than him guard can do. He's bigger than him, but maybe not that much stronger. He'll see the flaws in his game and how he's got to be able to overpower quicker guards trying to fluster him...and how to draw fouls when they get into his body.
I feel like I’ve seen Hayes hit a 3 in summer league