Well, that was disappointing ...

[Alex Goldblatt]

I really did not find anything I actually liked, including Doc's freaky
rotation that makes no sense...  Real problems I saw:


1. Telfair is even worse than I expected. The biggest problem with this
player is that team played ONLY half-court after wasting the #7 on him to
run. Only with Rondo and West they started to push the ball.

2. Paul still bringing the ball up. I'm kind of disappointed watching him
taking 10 sec off the clock just to dribble it up the court instead of
filling up the lane.

3. I want Ratliff to start - and ASAP.... Perk is still nowhere.

4. Why the heck Powe is on the bench when he really was needed to get the
boards with Al in the foul trouble?!!!...

5. Stating 5 that should really be on the floor for now: Rondo/West, Wally,
Paul, Ryan, Al. No more Telfair at the point, ship him out ASAP before he'll
lose any value.

Overall: disappointing, very disappointing game - not the loss, but the GAME
itself. Few more like that - I'll join the crowd waiting to behead Doc and
his system.... Am I the only one expecting Danny to take over by the
mid-season?...

AG



On 11/2/06, Berry, Mark S <berrym at battelle.org> wrote:
>
> Quick thoughts:
>
>
>
> --- I think they were all too tight after the Red tributes, opening
> night and everything else. I'm giving them a pass.
>
>
>
> --- I liked Doc's starting lineup (although I'd switch Rondo and Telfair
> ... more on that in a minute).
>
>
>
> --- I liked Doc's rotation, other than Tony Allen being included. And
> maybe he won't be if Delonte plays anything other than his worst game as
> a Celtic.
>
>
>
> --- Pierce was an absolute warrior. Sure he tried to take over in the
> second half; no one else was doing ANYTHING. I can't fault his game at
> all. If he plays like that all season, this team will be fine.
>
>
>
> --- Jefferson was the only other guy to bring it last night. He was
> dealing in the post, until he missed a shot and they decided not to
> throw it to him anymore (drives me nuts every time). He had a couple of
> bad calls go against him and Doc left him hanging to pick up some others
> (more on that in a minute).
>
>
>
> --- Here's what I didn't like about Doc: It took him more than three
> quarters to adjust to that high pick-and-roll with Chris Paul. They kept
> trying to go over that pick, giving Paul a path to the basket and
> setting up the big guy - Al or Perk - to commit an unavoidable foul
> while trying to defend Paul off the dribble. I'm convinced Doc only made
> the adjustment to have the PGs go under the pick when he overheard Tommy
> finally say something early in the fourth quarter. That's TERRIBLE
> coaching. Just awful.
>
>
>
> --- My other gripe with Doc: Telfair is a scoring point guard. You put
> him out there with that starting unit and he spends all his time trying
> to do what he thinks a point guard should do - get other people
> involved. Not only is he not very good at it, it wastes the one thing he
> does pretty well - score. Have him come off the bench to give them some
> offense when Pierce/Wally/Delonte aren't in the game. This is so
> obvious.
>
>
>
> --- OK, one other gripe about Doc: Are we the only team in the league
> that doesn't practice a pick-and-roll? I thought the reason we didn't
> run any last season was because Delonte allegedly couldn't do it. So we
> went out and got a couple of point guards who allegedly can do it and
> now we never run it. And while we're on the subject of things we don't
> do ... How about not just talking about running; how about actually
> doing it? Cousy was right last night in that it didn't look like they'd
> been coached in the fundamentals of the running game. Simmons wrote it
> in his NBA preview and I completely agree - someone like Mike D'Antoni
> would win a lot of games with this team.
>
>
>
> --- On the running game ... That starting lineup (switch Telfair with
> Rondo) has to run. They can't get in a halfcourt game. They rebounded
> well enough, but they didn't take advantage of the mismatches they had
> on the offensive end and in transition. That's coaching.
>
>
>
> --- Tony Allen is an abomination.
>
>
>
> --- Delonte will never play a worse game in his life.
>
>
>
> The emotion of the night had something to do with how they played. I
> expect a much better performance Friday.
>
>
>
> Mark
>
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