re: Monty has to go!

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seeing the same methods not work

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But how much of that is attributable to the players? You wish you could see option B, and think this is Monty being stubborn, but option A may literally be the best option. Do you think Monty's quotes form yesterday were wrong?

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Vasquez is really only good with the ball. He has turned himself into a league-average 3-point shooter, but defenses aren’t going to respect him away from the ball. This presents a problem for Williams, especially since his other wing players — his small forwards — are non-threatening from the perimeter. “We try to mix in Eric getting the ball and giving him a lot of freedom,” Williams says. “But because we don’t have great shooting on the wings when Eric has the ball, the other team will just trap him, and that takes him right out of the pick-and-roll. He really spaces the floor for us, and that allows Greivis to penetrate with the ball. If we do things the other way around, we might not be as efficient.”

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There's also a quote in there about how the bad perimeter defense is making the front line look bad too. We already saw this when DC and MT5 were running the show as rookies and West and Okafor looked terrible on defense. Next season CP3 is mostly healthy and we trade DC for Ariza to shore up the perimeter defense and all of the sudden many Hornets fans thought Okafor was an All Star snub after the way he anchored the defense. There's only so much coaching can do if you don't have the players to execute the plays.

In an earlier thread I mentioned one of the problems with Vasquez is that he's not fast enough to give you more than a pass to the pick man or heave a shot, and you're response was "Then sit his arse on the bench in crunch time. If youre a starting PG in this league your progressions should be not limited to A then heave" So who should be the point guard at the end of games, the rookie that had to play in Europe for 4 years before making it to the NBA or the rookie that's been having the worst rookie campaign ever?