Catching up

[Eric Albert]

Great post!  I agree with most of it, and all of it is cogent and
compelling.  Just wish the team was compelling to watch.

You know, I'd be satisfied if they *just ran*.  How many years now
have we been hearing that we're going to be a running team?  And
we never are.

With a super-young, mostly athletic group of players who have a
lot of trouble executing in the half court, how bad would it be to
make them race up the court, like, *all the time*?

I think we'd win a few more games, because we'd build up some
unblowable thirty-point leads.  In any case, it'd be fun to see.

-- Eric


>Egg wrote:
> 
>PIERCE AND WEST
>Both are on my fantasy league roster.   So while making out Monday's 
>lineup,   I assumed the loss of second-leading scorer Wally would 
>penalize Pierce with additional coverage but help West to gain 
>respectable stats.   I was wrong;   Wally's absence affected both 
>players. 
>
>Pierce's injured elbow may have played a role in his worst game 
>to date, but you can't discount Skiles no-brainer defensive plan 
>to gang up on Pierce with no other respected scorer in the lineup.   
>Nor can you discount Deng's superior defense.    
>
>As for Delonte, once again he confirmed he is simply not an 
>adequate SG.   As I have harped on, the West to SG plan has 
>been an almost shocking disaster as Delonte is proving to 
>be too short in getting off his shot as well as defending 
>against taller quicker shooting guards.
>
>In trading for Telfair and moving West to SG,   our BT now 
>realize they have essentially neutered Delonte.   Telfair is 
>street-smart, selfish poison who plays little "D."   So really 
>what has he given us that West couldn't had he remained 
>our numero uno PG?    I certainly would have preferred last 
>season's West at PG and Brandon Roy (post injury) at SG to 
>this season's Telfair at PG and West at SG.    I'm not surprised 
>that the team is contemplating moving West back to the PG 
>position.   Three (West/Telfair/Rondo) has been a crowd while 
>we have been suffering from an inadequate number of BIGS.    
>Such an almost laughable unbalanced roster. 
>
>WALLY AS SIXTH MAN
>How can we afford to move Wally to sixth man?   It's too easy 
>to defend against Pierce when he's the sole scorer on the 
>parquet floor.   And we have yet to win a game when Pierce has 
>scored less than 29 points.   Posthumously, Asterix, IMO 
>Wally's biggest asset is how quickly he shoots the ball if he 
>has a shot, or immediately passes it off if he doesn't have 
>a shot.   
>
>THE BULLS
>Chicago is looking more and more like the team I thought they 
>would be. So many wonderful, heads-on-straight young players.   
>Hinrich, Deng, Nocioni, Gordon, Duhon .... they all seem to 
>"get it."   We have plenty of good coaches, too, such as Clifford 
>Ray.   Yet few of our young players seem to "get it" even after 
>three or four seasons.   The fault of   our coaches ... I don't 
>think so.   
>
>
>PIERCE TO CHICAGO, NOT 
>Why would Chicago give up terrific young talent like Deng, etc. 
>as well as the NY '07 pick for Pierce and his lofty contract?   The 
>most likely trade for Danny right now is Telfair (who he should 
>trade) or Delonte (who he shouldn't trade) for a mediocre but 
>necessary big.    Rondo needs minutes.   If he could develop his
>shot, he'd be dynamite.
> 
>RIVERS "If they look good in practice, etc"
>Doc's statements may sound ridiculous, but I think what he is 
>really saying (but can't say) is that if the young guys can't 
>learn/follow the simplest plays/rotations in practice, how can 
>they perform well in games?   And guess what, they haven't.   
>The distribution of minutes seems to be based in Doc's abject 
>frustration over the lack of Bball IQ and slow progress among 
>our kiddie corps no matter how many hours of tutoring they 
>receive.   Is youth their major problem?   I understand Danny is
>beginning to feel it is not.
>
>SCALABRINE
>To amplify the above paragraph, I ask:   if you were the 
>coach and saw Scalabrine doing everything right in practice 
>and for instance Allen and Green not having a clue, wouldn't 
>you feel more secure in playing Scalabrine? 
>
>Eggy