That's what Feschuck thinks. The subheadline for today's article says "Frustrated Bosh slams Mitchell's plan.": Source: Toronto Star
Well I think they both got some good points across. I couldn't believe that we weren't making a more concerted effort to get the ball to Bosh. There's no doubt the Celtics were honing in on him, but that that doesn't mean you at least give it a try. There were numerous offensive possession where Bosh didn't even touch the ball once. Considering how well he's played so far, that's simply inexcusable. You play off Bosh if they try too hard to shut him down, but there's no reason to relegate him solely to being a decoy that doesn't even get the ball. On the other hand, Bosh did not do enough to get his coach to change his mind. Not saying anything and just passively allowing something to happen that you know isn't working, is not how a franchise player acts. He has to speak up and get the team's attention. You're the best player on the team, so consistently act like it. There are two comments in that article that I think point to larger problems with our offense. For one, Bosh said that the team should've run more in the 4th quarter. I've noticed the team morphing more and more into a halfcourt team ever since the "100 shawts" experiment failed, and with Colangelo making moves this offseason specifically to compliment Smitch, the transformation is complete. We're only a half-court team now. The few fast break this team has managed to run have ended badly (Chocolove and I both complained about one particularly brutal one in the GT), and its just no longer in our gameplan. Bosh's second comment, about the lack of variety in our gameplan, builds on top of that last point. When your team is completely committed to one style of offense, you better be damned good at it. And frankly, our team just lacks the creative and varied gameplan to put out a great halfcourt offense. Its an offense completely predicated on ball movement resulting out of the pick-and-roll, with very little structure beyond that. It certainly works well against the majority of the NBA, but heavy ball movement is something that can be very easily countered by elite teams with athleticism (Atlanta) or strong fundamental positioning/rotation (Detroit, Boston).
I think Mitchell is more at fault than Bosh for not getting Bosh involved last night. Sure Bosh could of said something to Mitchell about changing the gameplan but in a close contest like that for the star player to question the game plan might of been very destructive, Bosh might of known that. That wasnt the only coaching mistake last night, well Pierce was torching Kapono continously Mitchell should of sent in Jamario or Graham to change it up a bit. Oh well, I hope Mitchell learns from this game, its better to have a tough loss like this early in the season, that game really felt like a playoff type game.
