Official Whine, Moan, Complain Thread 19/20-CLOSED "WE CHAMPS!"

Well it’s hard to flourish with Lebron on this team. Both their numbers are down this year. Lebron and Rondo were the two worst players two get on this team for these two dudes. Smh

 

I wish a reporter would ask Luke during one of these post game news conferences what he plans on doing about FTs. I mean the answer is obvious, but I just want to here it.

 

I agree that it's going to be an almost impossible adjustment for Lonzo. The game has never seen a traditional PG thrive playing with such a ball-dominant player. And to make matters worse, we have a 2nd ball-dominant player developing in Ingram.

A combination of shooters and athletic wings/bigs are their calling card.

Magic - Cooper, Worthy, Kareem
Stockton - Hornacek and Malone
Early Kidd - R.Jefferson, Kmart
Late Kidd - Terry, Dirk, Chandler
Nash - J.Johnson, Marion, Stoudemire
Rondo - R.Allen, Pierce, KG

Lebron makes us better but he will undoubtedly stunt the growth of some of our kids. Rondo, Lonzo, and Lebron all have similar strengths and are redundant together. That's one of the reasons why I was rooting hard for Paulina/Julius this summer. Beggars can't be choosers though. And I'll take Lebron over nothing. Oh well, we'll just have to move on with what we have.

 

My WMC so far into this short season (it’s a short sample obviously) - it looks like 3 of our best young prospects haven’t added anything new to their games.

Lonzo is still tentative, low usage and a bad shooter.

Kuzma only plays one side of the ball.

Ingram can’t impose himself on a game and dominate on either end.

We’ve managed to snag another generational talent at the end of their prime, but it’s looking like none of our draft picks are good enough to be a running mate to get another championship. We’ve selected well, all of Randle, Clarkson, Russell, Ingram, Kuzma, Hart and Ball are good players in this league - but not a single top player among them so far. All we needed was to draft one one of Jokic, KP, Towns, Embiid, Doncic, Tatum, Simmons or Giannis.

 

Free throws.

Someone needs to call the team out about that.

 

If its well known then the team has to work on it. 500 made free throws before you can leave the gym.

If we make the playoffs, we're gonna get swept if we can't make freethrows. How many of our games have been decided by a few points? Our lives would be a lot easier if they just make a handful more freethrows.

 

I mean how hard is it for the coaching staff to impose FT drills? I get that shooting FT in the gym is different than shooting FT in games in the sense that you have fans screaming at you and your probably tired from running up and down the court, but this seriously comes down to muscle memory. You do it enough times and those outside influences become less and less relevant.

 

seeing that 2012/13 roster makes me cringe so bad

 

My WMC?

Fans are excited about what we're seeing? Really? I signed off early last night, and completely forgot about the unmemorable game going on. With signing the legend Lebron James, you'd think we'd be blowing out the powerhouse Hawks. Instead, it took a last second miracle block on a floater from Chandler to hold onto a 1 point game.

Yes, it's a victory, and we're playing better defense, but overall, this is just unwatchable basketball.

#dobetter

 

Free throws are the great identifier of pressure.

 

We should simulate in game situations at the practice facility then. Hire crowds to shout expletives at them while they are shooting free throws. Hell, I would do it for free just to vent at the piss poor performance we have to witness out there.

 

41/36/62 splits, and he's being left wide open from pretty much all spots on the floor. he's a bad shooter.

amen. lonzo needs it bad, but so does BI. and actually, maybe lebron.

another reason chandler's presence is helpful: he's a model of mental toughness.