Russ just cant help himself with turn overs, some of em you'd think he was a rookie n making passes just for the hell of it
Don’t worry, LeBronze is back and he’s totally going to put up huge numbers every night against the good teams.
Defense is AD and a bunch of duct tape after that. Losing two great chasers and off ball defenders in KCP and AC sucks. I really hope they can get Turner and use Nunn to get a guy like Richardson to shore this team D up. They look like legit playoff team now but they need some holes to fill for the playoffs
Key to that stretch of games up to the 15th will be if we can manage some wins against teams like the Wizards, Raptors, and 76ers. Should be able to take the Pistons.
need to go .500 on the road trip. i think it's doable. i really don't think we were playing that badly to start the season, we just lost against some hot teams. then we had an ugly 5-7 game stretch that was partly influenced by injuries, and an uneven recovery featuring injuries and some fortunate scheduling. the next 8 games we should have the team we were expecting. they will have had some time to get used to the new system against real opposition.
how were teams "hot" early in the season? and the team was bad in most of those loses with 3rd qtr collapses on a consistent basis, out of these 2 spurs win they still had a bad 3rd in the last gm, do that against a better team and its a loss
they were hot because they were beating everyone, not just us. i'm not sure it's worth my time to have these conversations with you. everyone's quick to say we just beat det and SA and in the same breath disregard that the teams we lost to were beating everyone else. if we played the same we did early in the year against SA, we win. like we did. we're a .500 level team. we were then; we are now. if that's your wmc, ok, fine. but the "we're the worst team EVAR" stuff is lame and unsubstantiated.
yeah, it was bad. we were without the nba's best defender and on the second night of a back to back against the same team we beat the night before in the same building that's not ours, but sure...they scored a lot of points in their third loss to us in a week. seriously, though, our general slippage on defense after the first few games has been pretty frustrating.
Awful, just awful. They HAD this game. Ham coached us to a loss, LeBron played lazy, AD tired out trying to defend the rim literally by himself. What the f*** was that closing lineup? Russ, Schröder, Reaves, LeBron, AD? Was Walker injured or something? Where the hell was LeBron on that last shot, he left him WIDE open. Can’t lose this game, can’t do it, it will cost us just like those OKC losses did last season, can’t have a game in the bag and piss it away. I’m done with Russ again as well, him and his stupid antics, all he did was piss off the Pacers. I do not give a crap how many points he scored in the 3rd, he didn’t make the right plays when it mattered, I don’t want him here.
Can't have Russ closing games: you'd think Ham would learn by now but the spacing is all screwed up once the Pacers had their starting lineup back in. Also the lack of good TO's hurt: instead of calling a TO and getting AD into the game. Ham send him to the scorers table and the Pacers put on 5 more points before he was able to come in.
the 21-22 "blowing big leads" lakers reared their ugly heads again once again, frank vogel is somewhere laughing his a** off
didnt say we the worse team ever but those wins against spurs, det etc. didnt stop making this team a medicore to bad at times team, teams were just not hot out the gate, this team was bad out the gate in addition to having injuries
haliburton 3yrd yr guy 14 asst 0 TO in 35mins Russ former mvp, avg triple dubs 6asst 6TO in 24 mins not sure how a 3yrd guy can go whole gm w/o a TO but our former mvp consistently has 5-7 TO almost every gm
We were up by 17. Then Russ sat and LePoundTheBall took over running the “offense.” The “offense” totally stalled out and Indy quickly got back into the game. PATHETIC.
