This team is going nowhere with Van Gundy

This team ain’t going anywhere with Phil Jackson coaching them. No one gives a frick on defense.

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This team ain’t going anywhere with Phil Jackson coaching them. No one gives a frick on defense.

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at least theres humor.

I would bench bledsoe.
his offensive mistakes are so weird its demoralizing.
jaw dropping.

I just glanced at his twitter page just to see if there were any mentions of the team practicing over the break or his basketball philosophy or anything like that. Or just....any mention of basketball at all

...yikes

Why is this dude even bothering coaching basketball? Doesn't seem to have much interest in it

Go on YouTube and find yesterday’s press conference, he actually goes into pretty solid detail about what they did over the break, the limitations of what they could do, and what the schedule looks like the rest of the season(spoiler: we only have space for 11 more practices, most walkthroughs on away games will have to be held at hotels, not at the stadium because of Covid testing parameters).

They practiced, they drilled, they did work, something just isn’t working and this is now two regimes and two defensive coaches we have tried to use to get these guys to play with effort on defense.

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This team has quit on SVG.

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I think this is becoming obvious.

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Christian Clark
@cclark3000
SVG said the team didn't have energy in its practice yesterday. Called it one of the "worst practices" he's been a part of.

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Puts even more context around what I felt before the game was a bit of a “I’ve thrown my hands up” attitude during his press conference.

LINK

This is it for anyone that wants to watch. Halfway through he starts responding to a question about the break and schedule going forward. Made some comments like “we’ll have to see how the break translates.” Definitely felt his body language and tone seemed different, frustrated, and almost defeatist with those responses in particular.

I don’t want them to turn it around to be honest.

I want them to sell whatever Vets they can for whatever they can get.

Kira, NAW, Jax in heavy rotation. Play them. If they stink, at least they got to play and we know they stink.

People are gonna want to blame Gundy exclusively(and he might deserve a lot of it, we just don’t know), but it feels like the team is sort of just soft mentally.

Then you compound it with guys like Redick, Bledsoe, and Adams that instead of bringing leadership and and a positive culture, seem to be thinking and more concerned either about where they want to be next, or in Adams case, waxing poetical about the good ole days in OKC and more concerned about how his farm in New Zealand is doing than becoming a vocal leader.

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Kira, NAW, Jax in heavy rotation. Play them. If they stink, at least they got to play and we know they stink.

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I mean that’s sort of what we did today and got blown out.

Kira and NAW both got more minutes than Bledsoe.

We are sort of in damned if you do, damned if you don’t territory

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We are sort of in damned if you do, damned if you don’t territory

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Yeah as much as i've criticized SVG, I can't be too mad about what he's done with the young guys.
Jaxson started out the season as the backup C, and he tried multiple times to insert Kira and NAW into the rotation, but they've been so bad(especially NAW) that its been hard to play functional basketball with them out there, at times.

When NAWs out there throwing balls into the 10th row, its impossible to keep him out there.

Kira's the only one I still have hope for. And thats on Griff, not SVG.