D'Angelo Russell Discussion: Adopting A Professional Attitude

No, it isn't clouding anything. None of this exists in a vacuum. We are saying its a bad move precisely because it was made by Byron.
It wasn't preceded by a series of other means, explanation, talk during games.

No, it was "man up", "soft" and "foxhole".

What is your point? That if it was done by Pop we would not be complaining? Sure. We would know, based on history, that Pop knows how to treat his players.

Byron - not so much. In fact, there was nearly a mutiny at almost all places he coached.

 

And doesn't get pulled foe idiotic reasons and his usually involved at the end of games.

 

Russell's minutes have just started to trend upwards. Byron has been screwing with Russell's minutes for awhile. There's no denying this. 95% Of people know this. Is that hard too understand?

This is like Byron arguing about Kobe's minute when he was questioned by Bill O Ram from the OC register; he questioned Kobe's minutes and Byron said 'he hasn't gone over the his average minutes.'. Despite being mismanaged. Russel has been mismanaged period .

 

When Russell plays more than 30 mins. FWIW
15.0 ppg
6.0 rpg
4.0 apg
44.2 FG%
45.0 3PT%
54.9 TS%

 

I may be the minority but I like how Byron is monitoring DAR's minutes. It's no coincidence that DAR is becoming more focused and consistent as the season is progressing.

 

Simply, I don't agree. I am not a fan of old school platitudes, man up, give more effort, pulling 19 year old kids in this 1 particular instance as you stated. I am not a fan. I admit I have a bias though, because I am a fan of Russell.

 

I don't see how we could separate this from all the other moves Byron has made.

And to be honest, I didn't really think it was a good move. I don't think a player should be benched for what I believe was a whole half based on one or two bad plays. The backcourt violation wasn't good, but we've seen worse from guys and they were left out there.

I've also been pretty consistent that I think he should be left on the floor to play through his mistakes. His minutes have gone up and that was good. I don't have the stats in front of me, but it translated into better play overall. I don't want to see us go back to pulling him every time he does something wrong when other guys on the team are left out there despite playing worse.

It's really that simple for me. Hold everyone accountable. That's what Pop and Phil would do and that's why everyone would be okay with it if they were coaching. Pop yells at Duncan the same way he would anyone else. Should be the same here.

That's really all I got on this one.

 

Yep. It's whatever. Byron is an idiot. Russell will out play Lou, and Russell will get benched? What's the excuse then? Oh, wait, he had a TO. Bench him. It's moronic. We are 2-14. Play the freaking kid.

 

The King had an 8 second violation in the Finals this past year. He had no regard for the clock. I think it was more a fluke like mistake than a careless I'm not into the game type one. I think it should have been a yank him, tell him to focus get back out there type issue, not a you will never see the court again mistake.

I also don't think he was benched solely for that. JC and Young were ballin', Kobe is Byron's pimp so Byron doesn't dare piss off people above him by benching him and regardless of what people think, Byron is trying to win games over development. There is ZERO chance we even sniff the playoffs this year. MWP/Young/Bass playing at the end of games is kind of pointless at this point. Our record shows we lose either way, I'd rather lose with the guys that will be here the next 10 years on the court getting experience than guys that might not be here past this season.

 

I would send :Scott: to the Locker Room in the 4th quarters. I think that would solve a lot of problems actually.

 

As good as Russell is looking now, just imagine how good he can be with a coach and an actual offensive system.