http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/asksam_090130.html Anyone else notice Sam has a tell when he's really full of shit? He really tends to exaggerate. "Del just doesn't believe much in it" "They've allowed Del Harris to dictate" "Best sixth man ever" "A lot of teams who believe they have a chance to do something like a guy who can make a shot, has done so in big games and will play hard and physical. So who would that be on the Bulls?" When I see that stuff, I assume he's either in "lazy NBA writer trope" mode or "parrot company line" mode and my eyes glaze over.
So I don't get what your problem with Sam is then. We've all gone on and on about how offense is simplistic and Sam gives a perfectly credible theory and he's fos? And what's wrong with the Sam Smith Embellishment (TM) for the other three? I don't get the fos part or why you're calling him out on anything. He's just calling it like he sees it.
It's not a perfectly credible theory, it's a bunch of horseshit. An assistant coach is "dictating" things? Get some fucking accountability. The head coach is responsible for this team. Earlier in the year, various articles, in fact, said Del Negro was running the show and the assistants were mainly doing player development stuff. Either way, so the fuck what. Fucking head coach is the fucking head coach. Someone throwing a thousand year old man under the bus to cover for it? Fucking lame, evasive, excuse making bullshit. And to top it off, fuck Sam Smith and his 'I don't know what Del Harris believes in' nonsense. That's not credible. Sam Smith has been covering the NBA since the fucking stone age and Del Harris has been coaching since the stone age. Smith "doesn't know" and thinks Harris might just have as a key component of his offense an explicit rule by which no more than two players are allowed to move more than six inches from a given spot at once? That isn't credible. You don't believe it. Sam Smith doesn't believe it. Nobody but a fucking moron would believe it as he put it forth. It's non-serious grist for the non-serious mill of nonsense surrounding this team.
"...but the Bulls for some reason include little weak side or opposite action to go along with it, limiting movement. I'm not sure why, whether it's because they players can't figure it out, won't do it or can't remember, or Del just doesn't believe much in it." I think you need to take a step back and relax. I think Sam's trying to be nice.
LOL, sure. He's being "nice" to one guy by heaping blame on one of his underlings. You know, guys that work for him.
The problem with this, is it's been mentioned time and time again, I believe by Sam even, that Vinny has pretty much been ignoring his assistants. Either way, this has to be blamed on Vinny, for losing control of his coaching staff.
Not so much, as I said a couple times, it's a thread about how Sam Smith has a giveaway in his writing style. Vinnie's the subject in this particular one, but I actually don't think I've devoted a whole lot of time to analyzing Vinnie. All roads don't lead back to Vinnie. He's more of a side street, if anything.
