The defense is still infuriating. The players were poor across the board and it just wasn't their night, shite happens on road trips. But I'm still baffled by what they try to do.

Anderson hard hedging is still dumb.

They don't have the personnel to switch every screen, especially v a team like Denver. Yet they do it anyway,

They have to scale back when Asik is out. Have Davis be more conservative in his approach and play as a rim protecting 5. I get wanting to protect Davis, but the other bigs offer nothing there. It's open season on the rim once Davis gets outside of the paint.

And, good Lord, the next time there is an all bench unit will be too soon. Poor, poor Anderson.

I didn't see the Sacramento game, so maybe it worked then. But what I saw last night was same old, same old.

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Posted by LosLobos111

Austere

Member since Feb 2011

45385 posts

Posted on 11/22/14 at 7:22 am to corndeaux

Yeah I wasn't happy at all.

I liked how withey played though. He had some nice moments.

Ryno has been inconsistent. I'm not sure why though.

We miss asik so much it isn't funny. He would've really helped with faried.

Monty's rotations were bad too imo. We were in striking distance and next thing you know it's a 20 point hole.

Aggravating night for sure.

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Posted by ShamelessPel

Metairie

Member since Apr 2013

12723 posts

Posted on 11/22/14 at 9:29 am to corndeaux

Emptying the bench hasn't worked all year. Once. Yet for some reason as the season is progressing, we are seeing it MORE. It's literally a disaster. Rivers is being asked to do too much again, part of which he is incapable of doing / part of which is due to him being the only other person on the floor outside Anderson worth giving two craps about for the other team. So hey, key on Anderson, sag on Rivers, stay home on the wings that run 12 sec 40s with the ball in their hands, and it's game over. But surely such an inept offensive unit has defensive upside right? NO, they're even worse on that side of the ball.

HEYO the hard hedge is coming back. That early season display where we thought ourselves cured of this malady? Pfft, Monty just needed to dumb down the screens until our guys learned his super duper defensive system that's a bonafide top 28 smash hit!

Someone really, REALLY needs to develop some form of advanced metric for coaching. Please...

It's way too early in the year for #hirekarl but seriously #hirekarl. We are literally going to waste every year of ADs tenure here that Monty is at the helm. Defend him if you want with your "no credit when it's good" garbage.

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