Yet somehow he still is our best defender. Go figure that out!
Sullinger has crapped on Cousins going back to Malone's days he's a nightmare match up cause Cousins can't move him and Sullinger could spread the floor going the other way. Add in the fact he's got a way higher IQ and Cousins can basically only be effective stat padding at the end of games against him.
How is it trolling Myles Turner has been ridiculously good (I Love WCS) and his upside aside from Big Kat and Zinger is unmatched in the draft and Vlade basically replaced short term trash in JT/Landry/Nik into long term overpaid trash in Marco and KK and ****ed over Darren (who's playing out of position as a spark plug scorer and sg) to bring in Rondo who plays zero D and basically is playing like Grevis Vasquez was the year before he came here. His biggest mistake was investing in a SUPERLOW CEILING core of Cuz/Gay/Rondo which made the other signings even worse we got 4 guy on the roster that are not even NBA quailty ethier.
Lol.
So we went into a season with a core thats never sniffed 500. and had no plan B and even made it impossible via a silly trade in which we replaced trash for trash and took away our ability to tank. What kind of thinking is that, that's a low reward high risk type move.
The thing with defense is that playing defense requires both trust and sacrifice (stats) and it is not only hard work, but a pace killer as well. So while we fans sit back eating nachos flummoxed that overpaid men are not hustling on defense and that is the obvious reason we are loosing, the truth is there is no point in working hard on defense if you cant trust the other guys to hold up their end. While one superstar can come out and wreck the other team all by himself, no one defender can stop pretty much anyone, the best they can do is force a pass. If the other guys are not working you get worked and tired for nothing. Every player on the team has to solidly agree to work together KNOWING that individually their stats will suffer but as a team they will have a much better chance of wining. So If my coach is pushing pace, and the team is not stressing defense why should I give up my scoring, or assist numbers by working an opponent? This is especially true if I can't trust my teammates to defend once the pass is made. I might as well just look for shots and open guys and try to outscore the other team. This is exactly why we call uber-high scoring games junk basketball, not because of all of the dunks and made 3 point shots, by INDIVIDUAL players but because of selfish nature of a bunch of guys who playing for their numbers on the offensive end and unwilling to work the other end for the TEAM.
If you want to change culture you don't start at the bottom, you start at the top. Maybe the Vlade hires was not the rightmove,but I think it was just a good start, the problem IS the last hold out of the old regime, Karl who was a PDA hire. Let Vlade bring in HIS guy and then see what THEY do. If that guy is Tibbs I can not imagine the team attitude and defensive effort NOT changing.
It has been pretty obvious that Karl has been completely ineffective and furthermore, his coaching this season has been pathetic. It might be more prudent to ask who hasn't he lost?
What can we verify our winning streak to then? Pure Luck? What has changed inbetween then and now?
Yes you were, and my point is that Vlade IS the change in culture that Vivek made. One of the big gambles Vlade made this off season was banking on stability and trusting in Karl's record,rather than removing him to bring in a coach of his choosing. I understood this call but questioned it and with 20/20 hindsight the gamble did not payoff, but before we get the tar and feathers out for Vlade let's at least wait and see what he does here and how it works out before we start demanding that we trade players to solve our problems.
You are easily one of the only people on this board that has his finger on what actually has happened with this team.
