Herb might have to be moved to the 2nd unit in order to pair CJ with a PG (Kira, Jose, or Dyson)Originally Posted by As I See It
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Herb might have to be moved to the 2nd unit in order to pair CJ with a PG (Kira, Jose, or Dyson)
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Funny, the way I remember it Pete let those guys Gail Goodrich and Truck Robinson down with a show off between the legs pass from half court that blew his ACL.
Injuries have always killed New Orleans basketball teams.
It's that the Hornets unashamedly quit so quickly in Game 4 after fans in New Orleans showed up this season with greater regularity than the team could have ever dreamed, shaming misinformed know-it-alls like me who kept telling you that local residents couldn't possibly invest their time and money into something as trivial as rooting for the local basketball team while still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. - Mark Stien ESPN
I agree with a lot a what you post, and further agree that our Bigs are lacking. But, the biggest need of this team is a PG or Coxswain to steer this boat. Right now we are rudderless. In any four consecutive possessions, you can have any of four different players in the starting lineup orchestrating (tonight: CJ, JRich, Herb, and BI). There is absolutely no continuity. With each successive possession everyone's role changes. Players start standing around and our scorers end up playing hero ball to beat the clock.
Funny how people see things differently, huh?
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One season of Truck and an old outdated Goodrich for a # 1 that cost the team Magic Johnson is how I remember it.
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Herb should be moved to the second unit ! I am not sure Willie will start Jose, Dyson, or Kira though, i think his preferred option would be Josh Richardson.
I think, Richardson, CJ, Val, Nance (until Zion returns), and BI should start. Against smaller teams Trey for Larry to add spacing..
Billy gets Nance bench minutes, with Herb, Dyson, Jose, and Naji all sprinkled in.
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Me too.
The Lakers always get the breaks!
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Really ???
You been listening to Antonio Daniels a little bit to much.
Is he an adequate NBA center who can have big games..... yes.
Is Val a #1 option that offenses should revolve around ......NO.
I really wish we should've went after Poeltl along with Richardson. Without Zion i don't really see much for this team and Willie has been a disappointment this season.
I'm all for trying this. I understand the problems it might create on defense, but we have a more fundamental flaw with the team. Willy is adamant that the team play with pace, that it employ a .5 mentality on offense. It's not happening. The ball is sticking. Why? Because our two stars out there right now, Brandon Ingram and C.J. McCollum, are basically iso players who like to hold the ball, dribble and probe for their shot. Sometimes that's appropriate, We need their scoring chops especially at the end of the shot clock.
But neither should be orchestrating the offense. CJ should move back to his natural position at scoring guard and one of the young guys should be given a shot at starting. Personally, I'd give the job to Kira Lewis. I know he's stuck to the end of the bench right now, but I think he's looked pretty good with the minutes he's been given. Plus, I don't want to give him away this offseason without getting him at least some serious run to see what he can do with the starters. Kira would be the ideal candidate to push the pace after missed or even made shots. He could threaten opposing defenses with his speed and punish them for sagging off to double BI or CJ by taking the ball into the paint. If they still don't want to start Kira, then ok, give Jose or Dyson a shot. Just play a PG who is going to push the ball up 80%+ of the time and try to attack the defense before it can settle in and make the Pels run their half-court sets, which we can see are a real slog right now. Speed, speed, speed. It could be what we need to break us out this funk...
I agree and honestly Dyson has been the best at this when he was healthy in the early part of the season. I think both CJ and BI have shown a willingness to play in a fast paced offense, but that was when we were healthy and responsibilities were clearly defined. All of the injuries have totally muddied the waters and now no one really has a clue what they are supposed to be doing in these lineups. So those two go back to what they know which is iso ball, and everyone around them just watches.
Right now it's on Willie to buckle down and get this figured out. He did a great job in camp getting this team ready for the season and it showed by climbing up to the #1 seed. The talent is there. This team sulking because of the amount of games BI and Zion have missed needs to stop, and we need to start competing again.
It was a nightmare 46 minutes of play ... in 2 minutes of playing well you won't win a game in the NBA. Pathetic loss
Yeah, it?s a little depressing right now. Watching the other top teams in the West, we suddenly don?t even seem close to them. Sacto, Memphis, Denver, the Clips, Phoenix, Dallas? I don?t see us beating any of them, certainly not in a series. Even the Lakers have pulled ahead. Right now it feels like we?ll be lucky to hang on and make the play in tourney.
And I don?t want to effing hear another word about Zion. If you can?t even compete with your best player out then you aren?t a very good team. Memphis went 20-5 without Morant last year. 20-5!
What?s really killing us is we are getting next to nothing out of Griifin?s drafts. We had two top 10 picks and 2 more picks in the top 20 in ?19 and ?20. We are getting almost nothing from any of them. Zion is hurt all the time. Kira was hurt and now can?t get on the floor. Jaxon is stuck to the bench despite our desperate need for rim protection. NAW never developed into a rotation guy. For that matter none of our other Griffin picks (Trey/Herb/Dyson or DiDi) is really moving the needle for us. Obviously Dyson is hurt and DiDi is gone, but if you step back and look at it we really aren?t getting much from our draft picks. Add to that giving up a first and four seconds for 1.5 years of poor play from Devante Graham and you have arrived at the heart of our issues. We could have drafted guys like Desmond Bane, Tyler Herro, Darius Garland, Immanuel Quickly and Tyrese Maxey. We just didn?t. And that?s the biggest reason why we can?t win when our lead guy goes down and good teams can.
Last edited by new city champ; 02-25-2023 at 03:01 AM.
We simply don't develop them. There has been no continuity in our coaching and as a result, we haven't (or can't) develop them. I'm not exonerating Jax by any means, but the Pelican coaching has done nothing for him. Even Herb...he came in as a defensive juggernaut; since he got here, do you see any development?
It's not all on the selections. Part of it is the selectors.
Coaching staff is awful. I can’t remember one player they developed.
It's all gone fairly horribly since the AD trade
I just can't believe Lakers got an absolute sniper from three and a pretty tough power forward for nothing. D'Lo is a very good addition too
I've coveted Beasley for bloody years. He's a proven shooter yet we sat on our hands and offered nothing. I would have been happy spending the DG 1st on him last year
7/11 threes last game
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