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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Posted by brmark70816

Atlanta, GA

Member since Feb 2011

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Posted on 11/22/14 at 10:38 am to ShamelessPel

The +/- on this game are really interesting (LINK ). Its weird to see a distribution like these. Anderson played 27 minutes and had a -29. Rivers played 21 minutes and had a -24. On the Nuggets side, McGee played 19 minutes and had a +22. Normally the bench players don't have that high of a swing. But none of the starters on either team played that many minutes. Do you think there was fatigue or maybe the altitude? The Pelicans had a couple of days rest..

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Posted by corndeaux

Member since Sep 2009

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Posted on 11/22/14 at 10:50 am to ShamelessPel

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But surely such an inept offensive unit has defensive upside right?

This is what blows my mind. Lots of guys that can stand and shoot, but not much else. And of course they don't play with the teams best creators, when that one skill becomes most valuable

Starting the guards is fine, but at least one needs to come out early to stabilize the bench. At this point, I would bring Holiday back earlier for his defense. You can hide Babbitt as much as possible with Holiday/Rivers v 2nd units.

ETA: I might even pull Davis out before Asik and bring him back to help anchor the 2s.

Aminu is not good, but they really needed to sign a guy to replicate what he brought defensively (some competence) and athletically off the bench for 15 mpg if Monty doesn't want to stagger wing minutes. Instead Salmons, Babbitt, and Miller