Grant Williams lack of size killed us in the fourth. He did not rebound well and can't guard a Jarret Allen type.
Lack of Effort across the board today. We played cute and at the end what we gave in the fourth was not enough.
We had 19 TO's and we are not the kind of team that can give those up and win.
CBS loves to put Grant at the 5. Imo, that's bad coaching.
I agree..
Grant first of all is just too short and second, he's not sunk a single three to save his life.. Meaning he ain't no threat at all.
Grant and Carsen should be demoted to the F-league and bring back Tremont..
Can't believe this team is not getting anything from its rookies...specially Langford aka J. R. Giddens but injury prone... Lol.
I disagree with both bopna and Chief. First of all, I guess you guys did not notice how poor Kanter's rotations were. That's why Brad put in Grant who at least know how to play defense (even if he's a bit short). Secondly, no one expects Kanter and RWIII to hit three's, so why ask Grant to do that?
Look, I get it: It was a very frustrating game. However, any notion that this loss is on Brad (or Ainge for roster construction) is misguided. They lost because the players did not put out the required effort and were not good enough to hit shots. They admitted as much it themselves in post-game interviews.
It's all said and good that the players took responsibility for their lack of effort and quality play, but Stevens did not put this team into the best position to win or a position to maximize the abilities of the players either.
Stevens inexplicably had Brown sitting in the corner all day and ran almost no offense for or through him. His touches and time of possession for this game were down close to 30% on his season average and down even more than that when compared to recent games.
Then there is the complete non use of Theis in the second half. He is their best overall center option. Maybe he was hurting, who knows? Stevens did say he was available but obviously Theis was benched.
And then there was the using of Semi, Williams, Williams, Edwards, Kanter and a massively struggling of late and in this game, Smart, to create offense over Brown all game and Kemba in the first half. Brown and Walker are two of your best and most efficient scorers and neither were used as such for an entire half.
Yeah, the players had a bad game but so did the coach. He has as much blame for this game, if not moreso, as the players.