D'Angelo Russell Discussion: Adopting A Professional Attitude

exactly how I feel trodgers.

 

I'm a little annoyed that management hasn't taken control of scott yet. it says they're on board, which I suppose is what mitch has stated publicly more than once. I really hoped that lou and kobe's absence would have proved a point to all involved about how the rest of the season needed to go, but it most certainly did not.

this season can't be flushed fast enough. and I'm fearing more and more that there's at least one more like it waiting for us...these guys are acting like clowns, top to bottom, in the management group.

 

Stu is a j****** for that ridiculous comment. We gain NOTHING by playing Lou over Russ and the young guys not finishing. It doesn't do any good. These young guys need to learn how to close and how can you do that if you ride the pine?

 

If Russ isn't playing AT LEAST 30 minutes a night from here on out, I'm calling for Byron's head after every game. There's NO excuse for him to be playing 25 minutes in a game where Kobe Bryant didn't play. NONE. This is just proof that Byron Scott is a terrible coach and the only reason Russell played big minutes when we beat the warriors nets and magic was because Lou Williams was out. Scott was FORCED to play Russell cuz there was nobody else. But had Lou been healthy? Russell woulda been riding the pine and we probably lose those 3 games that we won.

 

I agree that Russell needs to play but it's also quite obvious that Huertas/Lou have been outplaying DAR/JC lately. The youngsters need to bring more energy. They're like 19 and 23 with fresh legs every night. They're 10 years younger than Lou and Huertas. There's really no excuse.

 

Developing Huertas and Lou is so important.

Lou hasn't even been that good in his return. It's ridiculous that D-LO and Clarkson get pulled after a bad start and only finish with around 25 minutes at the end of the game. That's ridiculous. Byron clearly went with Lou and Huertas too long last night. If he had gone back to Jordan and D'Lo sooner we may have came back and beat the Queens. Wins are irrelevant at this stage anyway and yet we're playing Huertas and Lou basically the same as our two youngsters. That accomplishes nothing except not develop them. Inexcusable. Young guys get benched after a bad start and the vets have free reign. It's pathetic.

 

i--luckily--have missed the past two games. my general opinion is that there does need to be some accountability for youngsters, even when you're in aggressive development mode. box scores say the team is getting BLASTED early, so i see why a coach might go away from those players. the part that annoys me is that the vets aren't part of who we go away from. if a five-man unit is getting routinely stomped, i'm pretty sure it's not because of two of them (particularly when they're two of the more talented players).

 

Savory I "Liked" your post above

"I don't think it's obvious at all. I mean, define lately. A game and a half? That's a large enough sample size to justify pulling them? I'm glad Phil didn't yank Kobe and put in Sasha when Kobe was off for a game and a half."

but think tada has a definite point copied below. That said we all blame Scott for the funk of the vibe it must be for all these guys on this squad, cut off at the knees from the start of the season from hope of any kind of an over achieving performance this year. And in hindsight that is exactly what would have happened if Boron wasn't the worst NBA coach ever, playing negative and crappy mind games with everyone. As mentioned before, how hot does that level of wanting to run through a wall for your coach and your team, when you're smart like these guys and see what's going on, ....."burn"? .... it doesn't. They see his obvious levels of incompetence as well and read it in the Media.

"The youngsters need to bring more energy. They're like 19 and 23 with fresh legs every night. They're 10 years younger than Lou and Huertas. There's really no excuse."

 

Quite frankly, we suck . When teams decide they want to pour it on us, they tend to do it quite easily.

 

Loved the "egg timer" blast.

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