Doc's rotations

[BudweiserCeltic]

Good points.

Krstic's ineffectiveness is greatly exaggerated here - go figure - but anyone who views him as a 35 minute a night player at the 5 is kidding themselves. The guy we traded isn't a 35 minute player either, for obvious reasons.

His value to us, when we're playing with a more complete roster, is to make the Howards of the world chase him. You'd like to think he'd clear the lane for Rondo to do what he's supposed to be doing with the basketball - drive it and dish - but that appears to be wildly optimistic at this point.

Again - as I've said here before - Nads is like the situational lefty in the bullpen. You match him up against opponents and situations where he can help you and you avoid asking him to do things he cannot do, like bang on the block against the Howards of the world.

 

Which has to get you wondering, why the heck to they keep posting up Krstic? I mean, we're always shouting for players to post more, but why at this moment when we actually don't want a player posting up it's when he actually starts to post up?

I don't understand the offense they're currently running. It's clear to me that the players aren't in the right roles. And please let's not use the training camp excuse. It's one thing for the team chemistry to be out of whack, it's another to be using players the wrong way, and it being quite obvious to everyone, but the coaching staff from what I can see.

So let's start pick-and-pop with Krstic more, and start posting KG. Everything works better that way.

When Krstic is good for us is when he's the benefactor of other's people's offense, but lately they're playing through him too often for my taste.

As for Green, I really don't understand how Doc can't find him more minutes. He should be getting all of Pierce minutes, some of Ray's (instead of West getting all of them), and some of KG's/Krstic (instead of all of them going to Davis). You could play him 30 minutes easily.

Quite disappointed with Doc at the moment in how he's using his players, but this isn't the reason we're playing poorly. But it doesn't help.

[CoachBo]

There's an awful lot of trying to fit square pegs into round holes right now.

But that's definitely not the whole deal, I agree. It'll start to get better when and if we start getting better, more attacking play from the PG position.

[BballTim]

As a coach, I'm loathe to criticize another's rotations, since I'm not in their practice.

But ... the last few games have left me scratching my head, with shots going to players who aren't shooters and aren't making anything. Too many shots in Davis' hands. Not enough effort on the glass. Where's Murphy? Rebounding is largely effort, and he can rebound if he can't do anything else. A couple of minutes here and there for him are in order.

So, let's throw this out for discussion: Anyone besides me wondering about Doc's current rotation? He's got at least one scorer on the bench, Green, who frankly isn't getting enough burn. Green's defense and rebounding aren't any worse than the people Doc's playing.

  Murphy sprained his ankle. Doc's probably trying to do 3 things at once: get new players acclimated, experiment with different rotations and get the team into a rhythm before the playoffs start.