The tired 2 of Ray and KG should be benched or rested to put it nicely, they look like geezers and cant hit the broad side of a barn, and boy was it funny watching KG try to actually back someone down half his size last night..now we know why he normally just goes into his predictable fade away

Yeah, don't listen to Bankshot's third suggestion. Defense wins games it's what this team was built around and Rondo and Perk are two of the better defenders at their position in the league. This team needs stops and they need better offensive efficiency.

Yeah, don't listen to Bankshot's third suggestion. Defense wins games it's what this team was built around and Rondo and Perk are two of the better defenders at their position in the league. This team needs stops and they need better offensive efficiency.

They need to run more sets, complete offensive sets, late in games and desist with the isos, one pass or no pass dribble drives, and overall ball hogging and stagnation that has been this team's offense late in games.

- Do not allow Ray or Paul to take the ball up with less than 6 minutes left in the game. They then tend to do nothing more than look for their shot. Whenever they bring up the ball late, this offense resembles last year's second team offense with Sam I Am running the show. It's bad and ineffective.

- Stop with the one pass feed in to KG who then attempts a move. Ball movement and moving without the ball is the key and this team has stopped doing that late in games. KG has also all but stopped passing the ball out of the low post late in games.

- Try quickening the pace fast breaking more late in games as slowing down Rondo late takes him completely out of the game. Give him the green light to push it fast up the court and look for an opening. Make the other team have to sprint back on defense. If nothing else comes of it maybe you'll tire the other team out a bit by having them sprint back on defense.

Quote from: nickagneta on January 08, 2009, 09:01:09 AM

Yeah, don't listen to Bankshot's third suggestion. Defense wins games it's what this team was built around and Rondo and Perk are two of the better defenders at their position in the league. This team needs stops and they need better offensive efficiency.

They need to run more sets, complete offensive sets, late in games and desist with the isos, one pass or no pass dribble drives, and overall ball hogging and stagnation that has been this team's offense late in games.

- Do not allow Ray or Paul to take the ball up with less than 6 minutes left in the game. They then tend to do nothing more than look for their shot. Whenever they bring up the ball late, this offense resembles last year's second team offense with Sam I Am running the show. It's bad and ineffective.

- Stop with the one pass feed in to KG who then attempts a move. Ball movement and moving without the ball is the key and this team has stopped doing that late in games. KG has also all but stopped passing the ball out of the low post late in games.

- Try quickening the pace fast breaking more late in games as slowing down Rondo late takes him completely out of the game. Give him the green light to push it fast up the court and look for an opening. Make the other team have to sprint back on defense. If nothing else comes of it maybe you'll tire the other team out a bit by having them sprint back on defense.

My third suggestion wasn't to make that change permanently.  I was talking about last night's game and in games where such a thing is needed.  There are games where Rondo just sucks terribly and that's when you would do such a thing.  Not on a regular basis.

This really pains me to say, but for one game only against Cleveland, I might start Eddie at the two, and bring Ray in off the bench. Still keep Ray's minutes the same, but move them around a little, don't get me wrong, Ray is one of my all time favorite players, and his place on this team is as a starter. However, for one game I might try it to throw the Cavs off a little bit.

Quote from: Bankshot on January 08, 2009, 09:00:13 AM

Quote from: TatteredOnMySleeve on January 08, 2009, 08:35:35 AM

The tired 2 of Ray and KG should be benched or rested to put it nicely, they look like geezers and cant hit the broad side of a barn, and boy was it funny watching KG try to actually back someone down half his size last night..now we know why he normally just goes into his predictable fade away

It was actually pretty sad watching KG fail to back down a smaller guy in the post.  I don't think he could back Rondo down in the paint.

I often wonder how dominant KG would have been throughout his career if he had bulked up another 30lbs or so.  He has incrdible moves down low but he's just so freaking weak!  He could have been a beast down there.