I’m with you. I watch basketball rather than trying to analyze body language. Tristan played hard today. And in fairness to him, he was fouled on the vast majority of his misses and culdn’t get calls.
Yesterday didn’t happen? Those weren’t bright lights? The atmosphere was insane. And we played probably our best minutes of the season while hitting huge shots to close it out. Shots just didn’t fall when we needed them to. That Kam Johnson prayer was amazing coaching by Smart. And Hurley is an idiot for drawing up plays that got his best shooters WIDE open looks in the last 3 minutes, a raging idiot. Right?
What was worse, that or the non-contact moving screen on Clingan? The 4th foul on Andre which was a bump on a guy driving? Like we saw a million times this game?
He got a wide open corner 3 off a drive and kick early in the shot clock. What better option?
Well he got 10 so…
Luck was the Hawkins three. Their threes were mostly wide open shots that hit nothing but the bottom of the net. Hawkins was not on his man for one of those very easy threes.
Well that’s positive thinking
I did see him yell at his own guys at some points which is quite the rarity.
Nobody here is content with mediocrity. That's why I want more out of your posts. Gotta get some new material with your hate, it's always the same 5 cliches repeated over and over
I mean, did you watch Hurley absolutely lose his poop at Adama and Newton?
We had two open threes from a 44% 3pt shooter. What’s a better shot than that?
It’s not luck. Computers call a team consistently not able to pull out close games unlucky. Athletes call those teams not good enough.
Eh he drove a few times but yeah he fell back into bad habits. When he was hot it's because he was making moves in the paint
He needed to call that timeout, that’s all. The move to zone was smart and successful. Even when the clock got to 5 and Newton couldn’t get anywhere, call a timeout and draw up a play. That is the stuff that he needs to fix, he tends to be an observer sometimes.
That was my thing, for as bad as that was, we STILL had a chance to win
Noones ignoring the positives my friend. I enjoy your takes very much.
Love to hear your case
How good was the shot on the last possessions?
You’re nuts. Why was Hawk on the floor down the stretch when he was stone cold and disengaged? Why wasn’t Clingan on the floor when he made a huge difference and shut them down? Why wasn’t Allyne, who was hot, not on the floor? Why no TO? Why playing for 3 instead of 2 when 99% of coaching days drive the lane? Yes, they got 2 good looks and missed. The last was atrocious and that last look mattered. You call TO, put in Clingan, you drive or dish to Karaban or Allyne, and puns the boards. Hurley is no clutch HC. Never has been.
Calhoun himself said he had to treat different players differently. Some you could scream at and some you couldn’t. None of us has any idea how Hawkins would react to a JC type tirade.
Those are when he doesn’t have the initial 3. He doesn’t drive on hard closeouts, he settles for the 3 like 95% of the time. He needs to add to his game.
