Malone on Casspi and Williams

[TonyTouch21]

Vivek Ranadive is not the Maloofs. He picked his coach right away, a defensive coach. A lot of us fans have that "loser attitude" that the first thing we should do is sh!tcan the coach. How many coaches have we fired since Adelman? How many All-Stars have we had on our squad? We were beheading coaches left and right, and the Maloofs had their purses zipped tight. I kind of still bad for Petrie.
Stay tight fans! Our roster is not complete. Don't pull the trigger on Malone. I know Casspi deserve the minutes, but it's quite blatant that they (F.O.) are trying to unload DWill. That's getting harder to do everyday. JT is probably in the same boat. He was given the min. at the 4 and Landry showed him up. We don't even need him at the backup 5 anymore, Hollins can fill in just fine.
When the locker room is still content and our record still improves, then Malone deserves to stay here. He wants to be the next Popovich, we aren't a big market city, but we can win like San Antonio.

 

[hrdboild]

The main thing I don't understand with Malone is where he comes up with his rotations. We actually have a roster that makes sense this year -- 3 PGs, 2 SGs, 3 SFs, 3 PFs, Cousins, and a backup center. There's no reason to be playing guys out of position. We don't need to experiment with Stauskas at the point, Casspi at PF, Evans or Landry at C. I'm glad we have a coach that's interested in teaching team defense but wherever this idea of "position-less basketball" came from, it needs to die quickly. I'm pretty sure Malone didn't say anything about that until midway through last season when he suddenly had to deal with half the roster getting swapped out. It is possible to overthink these things. Just play guys at their natural positions. Find the best 9 man rotation you can and then rotate some of the other benchers through every other game or so to keep them fresh. If you ask players to cover 2 or 3 positions and put more than 3 or 4 different 5-player lineups out there during the course of a game of course the offense is going to become a total mess. It's too much for anybody to keep all these different permutations in their head and still play at NBA speed. When I watched San Antonio play yesterday I knew where every player was going to be on the court at any time and what their job was in the offense. It was still hard to stop. Simplicity leads to repeatability which leads to consistency.

 

[mcsluggo]

I have a hard time believing that so many of you think the decision of which player to insert in the #8/#9 spot in the rotation over the #9/#10 spot in teh first couple of games this season is a cause for alarm/excitement....

... or even much notice


the damned off-season is over. its time to watch basketball, not squabble over minutia