McMillian Sending Mixed Messages?
by howl9k on Nov 21, 2009 1:21 PM PST
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PrintI am not yet on the "McMillian hating" bandwagon, but have noticed a contradiction in messages that he is sending to the team. Throughout training camp and the young season he has been stressing defense. At the same time he is taking a strong (stubborn?) stance about benching players who pick up fouls early. Exhibit A: Oden and LMA sitting out the majority of the first half against the Warriors with 2 fouls each.
Great defensive teams are aggressive. You don't stop the ball by playing soft. McMillian needs to learn to trust his bigs to play with fouls.
What do others think?
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Fouling is bad defense. A foul is a turnover or free points, which hurts your team. On this team, we don’t have too many “foulers,” but Martell and Greg really need to learn to defend without fouling.
It's bad enought that we could get out played, but we destroy or own chance to win if we limit min.'s to ourselfs
because of this 2 foul rule Nate has in place
Your bigs are gonna get fouls
when you have guards that play defense like ours
by thegreatwhitehope on Nov 21, 2009 3:19 PM PST reply actions
oden's foul rate is historically bad
i don’t think he’s the only guy to ever play on a team with bad defenders. marc gasol plays on a team with horrible defense and his foul rate isn’t in the same ballpark.
stop making excuses for greg. his foul problems are his own.
Bench Nate!!
wait!?!
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