Grant calls out front office on his radio show

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Swaze

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Bricklayer said:
By modern day standards, we were absolutely smashmouth.

-- our two primary scorers both work the post heavily, our best bench scorer works the post heavily, might have led the league in post ups
-- led the league in FTs because we led the league in postups
-- led the league in rebounding, with scrappers like Omri and Reggie Evans helping the big frontline starters.
-- good defensive team, especially considering that the front office hadn't provided a lot of proven high level stoppers

Smashmouth like Riley's Knicks were smashmouth? No. Smashmouth by modern standards? Yes, especially for a young team still forming up. Post play, rebounding, defense = smashmouth. You're winning by being more physical than your opponent. Embodied by Cousins? Yep, absolutely. But he had help and even the guys not built for it were buying in and trying.
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Good points but will have to agree to disagree in verbage. To me that just sounds like team that scores a lot on the inside and rebounds well. You add 3-point shooting and suddenly you have a really well-balanced team. No mention of block shots, physical wing defenders, battering ram guards, etc. that were also previously thought of as smash-mouth traits.

When you have to quantify smash-mouth by saying "modern day standards" first then is it really the same term? Especially considering that most would probably consider Memphis a true smash-mouth team. Memphis has 3 or 4 starters that are smash-mouth players. The Kings have 1 maybe 1.5 on a good day. Rudy couldn't guard his shadow nor would even try to guard his shadow, that's not smash-mouth.

If the Kings were a modern-day smashmouth team then people can't keep calling the Warriors a run-and-gun team considering what they do in the framework of modern day basketball.
 
ParniValjak

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Bricklayer said:
By modern day standards, we were absolutely smashmouth.

-- our two primary scorers both work the post heavily, our best bench scorer works the post heavily, might have led the league in post ups
-- led the league in FTs because we led the league in postups
-- led the league in rebounding, with scrappers like Omri and Reggie Evans helping the big frontline starters.
-- good defensive team, especially considering that the front office hadn't provided a lot of proven high level stoppers

Smashmouth like Riley's Knicks were smashmouth? No. Smashmouth by modern standards? Yes, especially for a young team still forming up. Post play, rebounding, defense = smashmouth. You're winning by being more physical than your opponent. Embodied by Cousins? Yep, absolutely. But he had help and even the guys not built for it were buying in and trying.
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Spot on! And like many of us here, I freaking miss that team! We're now back to what we were during the Maloof years. A team without identity and direction. The job that Malone did with this team was outstanding. We have the proof already.
 
KingsFanGER

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Still waiting for the splashy move to get the confidence back up again - new coach or a trade? Given that they hired Corbin for the remainder of the season, it should be the latter.
 
Warhawk

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KingsFanGER said:
Cousins and Landry for Carmelo? You know, Carmelo can run.....:rolleyes:;)
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Um, no he can't.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/sto...nthony-shut-season-due-knee-derek-fisher-says

NEW YORK -- With the Knicks in the midst of a throwaway season, coach Derek Fisher has acknowledged the possibility that Carmelo Anthony might eventually sit out the remainder of the campaign due to a knee injury.

Anthony has been playing with soreness in his left knee since the second game of the season.
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