ronoranina
Fundamentally Sound
This team is total mess due to the lack of cohesion brought on by the trade for Melo and Billups. To top it off on the bench we've got new moving parts as well in Sheldon Williams and Carter. Trying to mesh these four new players w our left over mainstays has proved to be more difficult and tedious to watch than any of us expected IMO. I knew there would be a transition period, but damn. I honestly didn't think it would be this rough.
Clyde, The... Clyde, made a prescient point a week ago that intrigued me ~ he said it's more difficult to /incorporate a star than it is to get role players acclimated to a new squad.. When you compare our team to Denver this has proved oh so true.
Couple the above w the fact we also have a new PG trying to learn all of our new plays, new players, while battling injury and simultaneously trying to figure out how it is exactly MDA wants him to play, and it all starts to come together re: why we've looked like a team of d-leaguers of late.
Also, I see what LJ4ptplay has been saying since the trade.. MDA has been put in an almost impossible situation here. I mean, I get we had to acquire Melo - for the good of the team long-term - or he most likely would have signed somewhere else, but this acquisition has turned our team into a total clusterF. There's no chemistry on either side of the court and even bad teams just toy w us because of it.
That's the main reason for the losses to bad teams. Even though they have losing records, they've atleast built up a certain level of battle-tested chemistry over the course of the season from playing together that's proved very difficult for our team to deal w, especially in the 4th quarter.
The one thing I did like about tnites game was after we found ourselves by down 20, instead of subbing, MDA left Amare, Fields, Melo, CB and Sheldon on the court to figure it out. I agreed w this move. They needed to summon whatever pride they had at that point, no timeout. They needed to just play thru it.
The losing is frustrating as hell, but what can we do?? You want to fire MDA? Fine I hear you, but IMHO he's not what's wrong here. There just isn't much chemistry between our players. People say this period right here is like our training camp, but it's really like baptism by fire for our guys. The look on Amare's face said it all tnite against the Bobcats. It's just real bad right now. Sadly, all we can do is sit back and hope the unholy concoction that is our team right now turns into something potent sooner rather than later.
Clyde, The... Clyde, made a prescient point a week ago that intrigued me ~ he said it's more difficult to /incorporate a star than it is to get role players acclimated to a new squad.. When you compare our team to Denver this has proved oh so true.
Couple the above w the fact we also have a new PG trying to learn all of our new plays, new players, while battling injury and simultaneously trying to figure out how it is exactly MDA wants him to play, and it all starts to come together re: why we've looked like a team of d-leaguers of late.
Also, I see what LJ4ptplay has been saying since the trade.. MDA has been put in an almost impossible situation here. I mean, I get we had to acquire Melo - for the good of the team long-term - or he most likely would have signed somewhere else, but this acquisition has turned our team into a total clusterF. There's no chemistry on either side of the court and even bad teams just toy w us because of it.
That's the main reason for the losses to bad teams. Even though they have losing records, they've atleast built up a certain level of battle-tested chemistry over the course of the season from playing together that's proved very difficult for our team to deal w, especially in the 4th quarter.
The one thing I did like about tnites game was after we found ourselves by down 20, instead of subbing, MDA left Amare, Fields, Melo, CB and Sheldon on the court to figure it out. I agreed w this move. They needed to summon whatever pride they had at that point, no timeout. They needed to just play thru it.
The losing is frustrating as hell, but what can we do?? You want to fire MDA? Fine I hear you, but IMHO he's not what's wrong here. There just isn't much chemistry between our players. People say this period right here is like our training camp, but it's really like baptism by fire for our guys. The look on Amare's face said it all tnite against the Bobcats. It's just real bad right now. Sadly, all we can do is sit back and hope the unholy concoction that is our team right now turns into something potent sooner rather than later.
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