Well he couldn't very well say "We were throwing the game, but we had try to make it look like we weren't." Meyers took one for the team last night. I think that's probably got to be the hardest position to be in - he already knows everybody hates him, and then he goes out there and takes a dive, further disgusting everyone and justifying their disgust. That's a team player right there.
Agreed. Turner is an awful fit for this team. Sure, there are individual games where he played well and helped us get a win - but over the course of the season he was a net negative. Pat could probably have given us what Turner gave us over the course of the season. As it currently stands, Turner is a moderately better defender and maybe ball-handler (though the eye test says otherwise) - Pat is a much better shooter, decent defender, decent ball-handler, and has shown glimpses of good court-vision/passing. I'd be very interested to know what Pat would look like now, had he been given all of Turner's minutes.
Apparently you're the type of guy that remembers that there was a volleyball scene. I remember Kelly McGillis (think that is her name) riding on the back of a motorcycle. I think, haven't seen it in years.
When I watched those three consecutive possessions where Stotts called the play to post up Meyers at the end, I honestly thought he did it so he could sit Meyers down after the game/in the exit interview and say: See Meyers. This is what you are going to work on. All. Summer. Long. I also wondered if he did it to tank the game and secure a better draft position. I mean, why else would he play Quarterman so many minutes. Honestly, it's about damn time Stotts decided to make Meyers go back to learning to play in the block. If he is going to end up backing up Nurk, he's got to be able to run the same kinds of plays.
Usually, about this time in a player's career, you hear them say that the game has slowed down for them. In Meyers' case, it seems that the basketball processor in his brain has slowed down. He's always been mechanical in his game...like each time he gets the ball in a shooting position he's running down a mental checklist as to what he should do. About half the time he seems to panic as he realizes time is running out for him to make a decision and he ends up doing the wrong thing. Great basketball players trust their instincts and their body's muscle memory to work for them. Meyers has a basketball body, but his processor just isn't up to the job.
Crabbe is worth the money, imho. I'd keep him. Turner... ehn I'll wait to see how he does in the playoffs. Leonard? I hope he has a nice summer.
I really wish we had a bigger sample size of Connaughton because right now I'm afraid to trade Crabbe and essentially have no bench.
Yeah we have no bench. Either we draft a bench, or we trade for a bench. It's not like we'd trade Crabbe for thin air.
Yep! Back when Leonard was backing up LaMarcus, the threes seemed gimmicky but useful in a "Albino Channing Frye" sort of way. Now that our identity is set, Meyers has to learn the skills that will make him a successful backup to our starting center. At the very least, if he learns them, he can be traded for more than a sack of Funyuns and a 2027 2nd Rounder.
I hope we try to get a couple of vets; we are SO YOUNG right now (How young are we? There's a BRAZZERS logo in the corner of pictures of our starting lineup), and drafting a new bench would make us by far the youngest team in the NBA... I guess for waiting out the Golden State storm that's a good thing, but our window will open pretty soon, and I hope we have enough experience to take advantage.
If we're relying on three non lottery rookies as the core of our second unit....we are fucked. even if they were lottery picks, we'd be fucked. You don't win with rookies.
Yes; and you can also feign shock and dismay that I'd say such a thing on a family site that properly hides its fascist leanings in a sub-forum.
Man, the amount of hate in here for one of our own guys is almost disturbing. I wonder what great achievements mankind could have accomplished if so much time and energy hadn't been spent on finding new and creative ways to criticize a bench player. My heart weeps.
