Yeah Steph on Hermann was bizarre considering our guards were already giving up inches to their backcourt. I don't know why they'd draft 2 wings and then with TA missing games from 3 different injuries not be able to give Walker a few minutes at SF.
Maybe they just aren't as good as everyone seems to think they are. Doc sees them in games, warmups, and practices. He has watched them in game time. If he thought that they could do the job better then he would be playing them.
Its not that I think Walker is that great but he cannot be that bad to not get any playing time when the two players ahead of him are both injured and the alternative is playing Pierce 48 minutes and having a guard defending a 3.
I understand what you are saying, but first of all this Hermann guy is a scrub or at best a career backup. Sticking a faster guard on him to frustrate him with quickness shouldn't have been that tough of an assignment. Who knew he was going to have a career "stretch" there for a bit. I guess I would argue that this is exactly what Doc was thinking. He would rather play PP too long versus risking putting Walker in. I have high hopes for Walker, but he really only had one game where he played pretty good, and a couple highlight dunks. He hasn't impressed yet.
EJ, how on earth can you say "it was a good idea to stick a faster gaurd on herman to frustrate him" that's a terrible idea on a forward who's one NBA skill is spot and face up shooting. If he was a guy who drives but cant face up, you'd be correct, but thats not herman's game. that was a compeltly asinine defensive assignment, and the pistons went to it every time because it was a mismatch.
Herman is a spot/face up shooter, thats his one and only NBA level skill . It is extremely easy, as he showed, to spot up over a guy 7 inches shorter than you by backing him down when you outweigh him by 75 pounds.
he looked like an allstar today because we MADE him look like an allstar. We gave him the one matchup he's good against, a small quick gaurd he could post, and he abused it. normaly he has to get that in transition. we were nice enough to set it up for them in the half court.
It was a terrible coaching decision to put a PG on him, and the fact that he required an automatic double led to 5 easy buckets out of passing.
The guy made one three pointer, and 2 of the other shots were turn arounds fading away. I don't care who was on him, with him being hot like that he would have scored. We leave guys wide open in the corner for threes all the time because we are double teaming. If a guy is going to hit turn arounds then so be it. I would sure rather him be the one open to beat us than Sheed or Rip etc... These are NBA players. Of course they could get hot. The problem was we didn't take advantage of the mismatch on the other end.
so you want to excuse doc for putting aPG on herman because you think he could have made those shots over anyone?
thats great logic, why didn't he put eddie house on him if it didn't matter?
I like doc, but that was a terrible coaching decision, and to say otherwise is pandering. and thats why the pistons went at that matchup for 4 straight minutes, and they got more than hermans points out of it BTW, they got 2 easy threes and 2 easy trips to the rim out of the double team by moore necessitated by a foward posting up a point gaurd.
you might remember we run a play to force what rivers gave the pistons for free, for two separate 4 minute sessions , and while paul is 100 times the player herman is, and thus its much more successful, the principle remains the same.
a 6'2 guy who weighs 180 pounds is not covering a forward who is 6'9 and 225+ in the post without a double, and thus an open shooter. not today, not tomorrow, not ever.
It was a bad coaching decision, it doesn't make him a bad coach.