Anti-Depressants...

[Tom Murphy]

>>Ryan, Patrick S Maj RES USAFR 439 MSG wrote:

>Not exactly pure scientific method, but it's the best I can do on short rest
>and with a bad day looming. I know I have no confidence in this team now,
>not one shred. Pierce or no Pierce. Any other hypotheses out there that
>might explain?
>  
>
I have one:
Doc is the root of all evil. Our win-at-all-costs ownership hired 
boy-wonder GM Danny, who has assembled an All-Star cast of players (as 
yet unrecognized as such, but only because the rest of the league has in 
it for us) from low draft picks, discards, and rise-from-the-wheelchair 
invalids.  It is only because of the sheer incompetence and singular 
determination of Doc to destroy our players' will and self-confidence 
that they are currently  unable to sweep the league. Replace the 
incredibly stupid, lazy, and evil Doc, and banner17 is a mere formality.

Oh wait, perhaps this has been suggested before. In any case, great 
minds think alike and all that.

Kestas<<

Welcome to the Dark Side Kestas!

Embrace the thrill of power as we recognize our unrecognized all-stars:

Al Jefferson - the only thing holding him back is his need for the ball - if only he'd learn that to be ignored on offence will make him that much more a secret (and deadly) weapon in crunch time!

Ryan Gomes - his only flaw is that he likes to mix it up underneath, once he fully embraces his destined role as spot up shooter and the sky is the limit.

Leon Powe - this kid may be tough, but like Kendrick Perkins he will never amount to much by knocking people's teeth loose. Both need to polish their finesse games.

Rajon Rondo - with his skills surely the next elite two guard in the league.

Sebastian 'honkey-slayer' Telfair - the mere mention of his name sends Whitey into shiver fits! Only two things can hold him back: his reckless disregard for his own stats and his brazen attempts at self-glorification by always taking the most difficult defensive assignment at the guard spot.

Gerald G-Money Green - truly our hero awaiting in the wings. The only one who can stop him is himself. If he allows himself to be distracted by attempting to actually utilize his freakish athleticism he may fail to fulfill his true calling as a the NBA's tallest three-point specialist.

Scalabrine - Mr Indispensible! Need a stop, call on him... need some dead-eye shooting, call on him... need a warm body, call on him... why waste minutes on unproven youngsters with athleticism and 'upside' when Brian 'Slow and Steady' Scalabrine will win you the race!

...and Delonte West - clearly the most underrated of the entire bunch. If only he had the ball in his hands more often we'd be soaring to 17!

Sure, perhaps Doc has pointed these folks towards the path they must tread to truly reach their full potential, but HE HAS NOT BEEN RIGID ENOUGH IN FORCING THEM TO TREAD THEIR PATH OF DESTINY. This is what reveals Doc as truly Satanic - that he would tantalize us with his B-ball wisdom by showing how each players' weakness is in reality their strength, but then failing to FULLY capitalize on that each players' weakness-that-is-strength!

A lesser coach would actually encourage the players to only play to their strengths and call that good... but we are not to be fooled by these shadow puppeteers from Plato's cave. Only a true genius would seek to focus on the weakness-that-is-strength. But only a true Satanic genius would tempt us with visions of paradise but fail to follow through consistently. Just take Al Jefferson for example. Every time he gets more than 10 shots he starts expecting that he SHOULD be getting more than 10 shots - where, I ask you, is the logic in that? 

Some might say that our players are just TOO D---ED STUPID to realize that they need to play to their weaknesses. I disagree. It is clear that they are willing to give it a shot, but that Doc, after showing them the strait and narrow way, has FAILED them by not pushing them hard enough. Is it not the case that, despite the strategy we see on the court in all so many games, that Doc deliberately confuses his players by saying contrary things to the press? 

Why, when he has made so much progress in molding Al Jeff to be the 21st century's Greg Koncak would he then praise his scoring touch? Why publicly laud Delonte's shooting when we can see clearly from on the court play strategy that his true future lay in being a red-headed John Stockton? Why erode 2/3rds of a season of practice and hand work by claiming that Powe being an instigator is a good thing? After all, if it truly were a good thing, we all know that Doc would have been playing him some steady minutes long ago. Wouldn't he? Of course he would... unless it were a deliberate Satanic scheme. Congrats to you Kestas, for piercing the veil and joining with us, those of the Dark Side who are willing to speak truth to power and not worship blindly at the altar of genius, especially when that genius has become, for whatever reason, perverted and contrary as it so clearly is in Doc.

Cheers -TomM