RE: The Golden State win

[Tammo29@xxxxxxx]

>>>Oh, I don't think anyone twisted Antoine's arm or is twisting Walter's. 
Obie's just proving to be a willing accomplice. I just wish he'd look past his 
stat sheet and see the effect Walter's increased minutes are having on the 
offense. 

Mark<<<<

Offense?  How about the defense?  O'Brien can't be blind to how horribly 
Walter has played on man defense, outside of his schemes.  He looked absolutely 
foolish out there at times.

Did I say he can't be blind?  I take that back.  After his comments about 
Mihm after the Laker game, and his failure to put him in at all against Golden 
State, maybe he is blind.  Blinded by loyalty.
Baker has been almost as bad as Water on defense, yet the ultimate preacher 
of defense starts a frontcourt of Baker and McCarty?  Then we wonder why the 
Warriors shot 60% in the first half. 
It's beyond my comprehension. 
Then we see Danny Ainge once again blaming the guards for our problems on the 
boards.
Sometimes I wonder if these guys are watching the same games I am.
Once a game, it never fails, Walter will be under the boards all alone only 
to have a ball hit him in the hands and go out of bounds.  Never fails.  Of 
course, things like that never show up in the box scores.  If not for Blounts two 
offensive rebounds late in the game- which were huge,no doubt about that-he 
would have finished with 2 rebounds in 28 minutes.
Three of Bakers 4 rebounds in 18 minutes were offensive.  That means between 
them they had three defensive rebounds in 46 minutes.  We've given up 51 
offensive rebounds in the last 3 games. Yeah, the rebounding is our guards fault.  
What a bunch of bull.

I caught O'Briens post game comments the last two nights.
The first question he was asked after the Laker game was about rebounding and 
whether he thought about putting some better rebounders on the floor.  He 
answered "we aren't a good rebounding team" in one of his patented gruff, don't 
even ask me such a stupid question and don't bring it up again like responses.  
That was a couple of questions before the one about Mihm's play.
Of course, this is the same guy who railed against the teams defense a few 
weeks back only to do an about face after reviewing film of the same games 
saying the defense was pretty darn good.  Maybe he needs a few film sessions to 
figure out that Mihm deserves some playing time and McCarty isn't the answer at 
center.


TAM