How the Kings Rotation and Sub Patterns Should be...
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I don't buy it. This is the standard dogma, but I see nothing different from opposing teams guarding IT. With Tyreke, you could say that teams learned his obvious weakness and played to it after his first season. So where do teams play to IT's obvious weakness? I do see a multitude of lineups and a different offense and different times he gets in the game, and certainly less assurance that he's going to stay in the game. If anything, his shooting is better than last year. I think he's pressing because he no longer is starting, but he seemed pretty much like the old IT in the second half of the last game. He's also needs to play with some shooters out there that spread the floor and finish. There's no way he's going to be successful if he's playing with Johnson, Hayes and Robinson like he was in the first half.
I think the multitude of lineups screws with all the guys that handle the ball on this team. The assist level is putrid - for every body. How in the world can you have assist makers when you can't get comfortable with the people you play with on a regular basis? I really was hoping that IT and Robinson could develop a raport as the season progressed. I'd love to see more pick and rolls. I'd love to see some more lob passes to Robinson. Those opportunities are there; I saw some opportunities missed in the last game. But it's going to take a consistent lineup and some consistent minutes and film work to get there.
I think the multitude of lineups screws with all the guys that handle the ball on this team. The assist level is putrid - for every body. How in the world can you have assist makers when you can't get comfortable with the people you play with on a regular basis? I really was hoping that IT and Robinson could develop a raport as the season progressed. I'd love to see more pick and rolls. I'd love to see some more lob passes to Robinson. Those opportunities are there; I saw some opportunities missed in the last game. But it's going to take a consistent lineup and some consistent minutes and film work to get there.
Yup. Reke 13 pretty much summed it up - we're 14 games in, 22 including preseason, with a full training camp, and Smart still hasn't decided on a proper lineup and rotation. And the players pretty much suffer because of it - they talk about having to stay ready, and that coach doesn't even tell them until during the game itself. It's hard as a player to develop chemistry with the team (especially as a PG) and also to prepare yourself when you don't know when you're going to play. The thing is we're not talking about absolute scrubs here - we're talking about two guys who can be very good players off the bench.
http://www.cowbellkingdom.com/2012/...for-jimmer-fredette-who-vows-to-remain-ready/
See this just goes to show what a nutcase of a coach Smart is. Now, we might not be winning more games with a different coach, but we sure as hell wouldn't be losing more. You don't go out to the media and say that you're going to get more PT for a player, then continue not playing him or playing him little. It's like ... Smart has never ever been able to stick to his word. He's a smooth talker, but he doesn't walk the walk.
http://www.cowbellkingdom.com/2012/...for-jimmer-fredette-who-vows-to-remain-ready/
See this just goes to show what a nutcase of a coach Smart is. Now, we might not be winning more games with a different coach, but we sure as hell wouldn't be losing more. You don't go out to the media and say that you're going to get more PT for a player, then continue not playing him or playing him little. It's like ... Smart has never ever been able to stick to his word. He's a smooth talker, but he doesn't walk the walk.
Spurs damn near beat the Heat with Duncan, Parker, Ginobili and Green out. That is one heck of a well coached team - their "scrubs" executed far far better on offense than our team ever does. See if Smart was Pop he'd now go "oh dang, I need to get more PT for these guys!", and you'd see Tony Parker sitting an extra 6 minutes a game so that James Andersen gets to play. See that's what Smart doesn't get - your main team consists of 8-9 guys, and all the rest are there to do a good job filling in when one of your main guys is hurt or suspended or something (or in this case sent home to take the day off). It doesn't matter how good a job they do, because you're supposed to have settled on your 9 best players long ago.
If given a substantial amount of meaningful minutes, Jimmer AND the TEAM would excel. I recall the game against Portland, down 25-10, where Jimmer led the comeback and the Kings actually took the lead. After Jimmer was benched for no explainable reason, Portland blew the Kings out of the building. Then of course, Smart (and I hate calling him smart) puts Jimmer back in hoping to be saved again. Too late.
My bad. But still....Jimmer's better for the "Entire Season" so far. How bout we make a comparison at the all-star break and see what we've got. That is, provided our dumb coach decides to put Jimmer in some of the games. Your right, Tyreke is leading Jimmer in the last 5 games. Tyreke's jumper problem must be fixed. Halleluja!
