Yeah, it's all of the starters really who looked unmotivated. I just noticed Reke looked particularly bad because I'm doing his grade for tonight so I'm watching him more closely. It's not just the missed shots, it's expending the minimum level of effort needed to actually play a basketball game. He just looked like he doesn't want to be there.
[Game] Kings @ Spurs - 4/12/13
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You know, with players publicly questioning Smart's sub patterns, what really makes Smart look incompetent is not his theory behind playing 10-12 players at the start of the year, but rather when it wasn't working and when obviously players have talked to him about the sub patterns, he's flat out ignored them. When you're not winning and your players bring up sub patterns and the detrimental effect they can have and as coach you just ignore it and continue on your losing ways, you look incompetent. Smart has shown he a) won't consider what his players say and b) has an inability to alter a broken system. Just stuck in his stupid ways. Kept losing and never altered his ways at all. If anything it just got worse.
Tough to watch. Die hard fan but this s*** is tough to watch.
Tough to watch. Die hard fan but this s*** is tough to watch.
You've got to be kidding. There is a thread about it.
http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/377734
http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/377734
I think it's pretty obvious to the players right now that their coach is a goner (and was really only there as a stopgap non-solution to begin with), the front office will be cleaned out this summer, and the new owners are probably going to be going through the roster and rethinking things from the ground up. It's pretty hard to motivate yourself to go out and compete at this point in the season when you're not only way out of the playoffs, but the entire organization is essentially in lame duck status. They're still playing hard for the home games thankfully which realistically is about as much as we can expect in this situation.
as a head coach, you must trust your impact players to do their jobs. it's a necessity, particularly for a developing young team that still needs to learn how to win (especially on the road). reviving jimmer fredette from the dead for heavier minutes tonight is, of course, a nice surprise for jimmer fans, but it does nothing for your team's continuity or chemistry. there's only a few games left. i just wish smart had enough sense to help his team finish off the season in a worthy fashion. but that's too much to ask, i guess. so... back to the waiting game...