Open Practice Recap (Oct 9, 2006)

p.s. i'm going to the exhibition against efes pilsen tomorrow. i'll try to pay better attention

 

<div class="quote_poster">AnimeFANatic Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I heard Zarko straight shitted on Dunleavy and Murphy. To the point where it was just sad.</div>

Zarko can take it to the rack, but it's not like he can create plays on his own. This doesn't bode well for the defense when your center and PF is a sieve.

 

Which is why I think making guys who play small to begin with (Dunleavy and Murphy) and trying to make them play bigger (PF and Center) is a bad, bad idea. They don't compliment Jrich and Baron as well as we'd think and the only reason they are playing those two positions is because they're too damned slow to play anything else. I bet we give up so many dunks if we try to play like the suns. Also none of our pasty forwards can shoot like Mullin did, so it won't even be 1/3 of Run TmC. Same with the other 2/3's if they can't shoot or improve dribbling as well as Hardaway and Richmond.

How perennial all-stars do we have? We lack talent, a foundation, fundamentals and everything else that we missed. We can start winning if we develop the guys that are made to play a certain position and use guys like Dun and Murphy or whoever is a danged tweener to play off the bench. It is too much of a pain to find roles for Murphy and Dunleavy when they aren't matching up right. You guys realize they have to be always on offensively because they lack the defensive side of their games to play guys quicker or stronger or against perimeter or post players. I mean Dun is a good help defender, but he's just as bad as Murphy sometimes when Murphy is actually trying to play D.

 

But we will wait and see until we can form conclusions. But IMO, I don't think this will work at all. It'll be like the Knicks. A failed experiment by a famous coach. A team that cannot play honestly against the majority of its competition.