Re: Chalk up another poor coaching job

[dajubo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

This one can't be blamed on Obie. The players simply didn't show 
up.

BTW, I have to agree with Max: Somebody on the Detroit team 
should have paid for all the 3s they took in the fourth when the 
game was decided. The Cs are too nice---we need a Charles 
Oakley-type on this team.

-David

On 1 Feb 2003, at 0:33, Celtic4Hire@AOL.com wrote:

> It means something when you get blown at home multiple times with this kind .
> of magnitude. Conclude what suits your agenda but conclusions must be drawn...
> 
> Just a horrible job coaching. Obie force feeds Walker or allows Walker to 
> force feed himself into the offense and you saw the result. Tommy has many 
> times brought out how you must substitute to maintain continuity and 
> momentum. The Cs had revamped the offense around PP with Walker gone and 
> Walker needed to be blended in. However, this game was all about getting 
> Walker back into the C's offense (or lack thereof). Here's where a 
> experienced point guard would have helped. Then Obie not only tries to force 
> feed an injuried Walker but also an injuried Delk. Wow. Exactly what this 
> team didn't need was non-creating point guard like Delk, especially who is 
> rusty. Really dumb coaching by Obie. He should brought Delk back on a 
> different game or maybe even bring Walker off the bench. He definitely 
> shouldn't have allowed this game to become a Walker tuneup game...
> 
> I won't even get into my Shammond diatribe. I just wish Obie had as much 
> patience with Kedrick as he does with Shammond....
> 
> Then, after watching Rip and Chauncey tear up his guards in the first half 
> and a 24 point deficit, he pulls a desperation move and starts his trade bait 
> team, PP and Walker with Shammond, Kedrick and Baker. What a combo that is 
> with Walker and Baker seemingly playing with a wooden leg, Shammond dribbling 
> in circles and a designated 3 point shooter in Kedrick. How is that going to 
> get you back in the ballgame. Why didn't you bring in Kedrick in the first 
> half if you needed a stopper? I guess he had to try every conceivable option. 
> Remember, he defers to the veterans...
> 
> The way this team is constructed and coached, there is so little margin for 
> error. If PP and Walker aren't on and playing together, the team flops by 
> both design and construction....
> 
> Yes, Sundog is worse than Dickau. He is truly pathetic. The worse thing is 
> that is knows it. What was Wallace thinking? A sarcastic person would say 
> that Wallace got Sundog as a knee jerk reaction to losing Gasol and got Woko 
> as an attempt to get some foreigner from the World Championships.....
> 
> What a Mark Jackson couldn't do for this team....
> 
> Baker seems to go down and get hurt in every game. He MUST have some kind of 
> bad knees or something. It is surprising no reporter has asked about this....
> 
> There is no way you can spin it. Wallace screwed up not having a legitimate 
> point guard for this team. Strickland, Best or Kenny or someone. Someone has 
> to take the blame for that. Obie takes the blame for having such a screwed up 
> offense, his lack of development for the rookies and for allowing Baker to 
> turn into Artimis Gilmore....
> 
> Berry, you knucklehead, how can you say that the JJ for Delk trade was a good 
> trade? I would much rather have JJ than Delk. At least we could trade JJ for 
> a point guard. No one wants Delk....
> 
> Total cop out on Wallace saying Forte needed some time over Tinsley and 
> Parker. How can that go unchallenged?
> 
> Baker can't even post up Okur. What a joke. I just don't understand. I mean, 
> he can't do anything. It is like he has advanced arthritis or something. I 
> would really like to sit down in the gym and work with him and find out if it 
> is physical, mental or just bad coaching....
> 
> Yeah, Kedrick can't hit the broadside of a barn right now but Delk couldn't 
> either last year. At least Kedrick can play the best defense on the team (or 
> after Obie has tried every other option)....
> 
> What I would do is start a Bremer, Kedrick, PP, Walker and Battie. I wouldn't 
> allow Kedrick to shoot threes and only allow him to post up. I would sub 
> EWill and Walter and pick up another point guard from anywheres. EWill would 
> be the designated offense (post up) when he is subbed in. SWill sits. Baker 
> sits until you figure out what is wrong. Long backs up Battie and Walker. 
> Trade SWill when you can plus no. 1s for starting point guard 
> (PASSING/CREATIVITY), if possible. For the people who don't like Kedrick, I 
> say that he is going to be part of the future and he needs to learn now, on 
> the job. WE DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER CHOICE, FOLKS. The cubboard is bare and we 
> are capped out. I would much rather go down getting experience for players 
> like Bremer and Kedrick for the long term than this short term, offense by 
> mirrors crap that Obie is running right now...
> 
> I feel a little better now....
> 
> DJessen33