Beans fuggin balling lol. Adrien also played well. Lin looking alright. DW some very good but some bad TOs too. Vlad just got in in the third Q after Reggie, Carney, Adrien, Lin. Looks good but Smart hasn't been consistent at all with the rotation. Oh yeah and Lee will join the team tomorrow in Minny and is day-to-day; you know hes trying like hell to get into that game but we'll see if Abdenour lets him go.
ATTN Keith Smart: Your rotations are my only complaint but they are bad enough to make me want to go to Lacob's house and play a tape of me screaming "Fire Keith Smart" on a loop. Seriously I could never imagine anything this bad. Lin, Reggie, DW, Vlad, Adrien/Biedrins for at least 3 min to end the 3rd and now about 5 minutes into the fourth. I've seen about 7 turnovers in which players had no one around and just threw the ball randomly or drop it out of nowhere. DW is isolating every trip down the court and has done nothing. Seriously just based on the last half hour I want you fucking FIRED. Ugh. Awful. I can't even express it in words. Ellis and Curry are coming back now with 6:48 all rested up- which is nice but could they have not played 9 minutes? FUCK YOU. Godamnit. UGH.
Hubie Brown is perplexed. Dude's been involved in basketball for like 130 years and hes laughing at us.
Beans with a mini-explosion here with rebounds to get him up over the 20 reb mark (pretty sure hes over 20 pts by now too). BTW Memphis is fucking awful. They should be up 40.
This zone fugging sucks too BTW. Memphis wasn't scoring in the half court so im not sure why we've switched to a zone.
Curry not playing down the stretch. Wonder what's going on there. I mean we've established Smart is a rotation-management moron but hes not brain dead. EDIT: Yes, he's brain dead. Curry checks in with 2:31 to play.
Curry doing the impossible- bringing us back from down 8 with 1:30 left. Reggie clutch 3 off Curry assist. DW trying to get FTs puts up a godawful jumpshot then fouls. Fucking moron. This guy plays virtually the whole game but Curry gets benched? Screw you Smart.
Curry drills a 3 (called a two- had his foot on the line) off the inbound. Guys a fuckin stud. Trying his best to prevent Smart and the bench crew from throwing the game.
Then steals the fucking ball. Wow. Dude's amazing. Thank god Smart rested him so that hes fresh enough to do EVERYTHING for us in the last 2:30 lol.
Wow Curry being benched for this defensive possession. Lin in. I know we're just going to foul but hes one of our best steal threats and I'm not sure what his foul situation looks like but hes only played like 20 minutes.
DW with an open 3 to tie the game- couldn't resist leaning in on the shot. Brick. Hubie can't get over how hes taken maybe one of his 7 or 8 threes in control and with balance.
Game. Looking at the box score, Curry was actually in foul trouble so some of Smart's decisions make more sense. Really terrible game though. So many inexplicable turnovers.
Lots of highlights: [video=youtube;-2q-JDofCn0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2q-JDofCn0[/video] Man what the hell got into Beans last night? He was a monster.
Yeah I think our fouls have been killing us. At least Memphis didn't get into the bonus like some of the past teams have, but they're taking out our best players. I dunno how to teach our guys to foul less?
I think it is easy for any fan to second guess any team-sport coach's substitutions. Just think about Bruce Boche. I think with each decision he made there were many fans scratching their heads. But fortunately they worked out. For Keith Smart, the rotations don't look good thanks to a less superb bench and the losing streak. But sometimes I do think he uses too many players off his bench. I hope Gadzuric never starts with Biedrins again. If Lee is not back, then I hope Adrien gets the start. Also, is it me or is Bob Fitzgerald more annoying than ever? It seems as if even Jim Barnett can't stand him. I preferred watching the ESPN broadcast (which I was surprised was not blacked out).
