He needs to be the number one bench option. His confidence is in the toilet. Him and green can not coexist.
Im convinced Green needs to either start with pierce or be traded for a big for Terry to succeed.
I like the JET but he is missing so many open jumpers, my tv can't take any more verbal abuse. I don't think his play is a slump at this point I think his confidence is near an all time low.
I do see some of this as well. He doesn't look like the cocky and confidence chap he was in Dallas - he looks like a guy who has just been demoted from a 2nd scoring option to a 4th/5th scoring option, and I don't think he has a problem with that role...I just think he's possibly having some trouble adjusting to it.
He's always been the second guy to touch the ball in Dallas, and he's always been playing 30 minutes or so per night as the clear leader and focal point of the second unit.
Quiz Question to anybody here who wants to answer - look at this team now and tell me who, in your opinion, is the 6th man? Terry? Green? You could even make a case for Lee or Sullinger.
There is no clear definition of roles off the bench. Ome day Green comes out and has a great game, and they make him the focal point of the offense. Other days he has a bad game, and when he does we all kinda expect Terry to just recognise he's playing badly and suddenly turn on the "6th man" switch and take over for him. In the real world though it's probably not so easy to just jump back and forth into roles like that.
Maybe Doc just needs to go out there and simplify things beyond simplicity.
1. Tell Bass his job is to defend, rebound and take 15 foot jumpers - nothing else.
2. Tell Lee his job is to apply ball pressure on defense and attack the basket.
3. Tell Green that his job is to stop the opposing SF from scoring, whatever it takes.
4. Tell Collins his role is to protect the pain.
5. Tell Sullinger his job is to outmuscle his assignment and attack the boards on both ends of the floor.
6. Tell Bradley his role is to apply the most distruptive and intense full court pressure he can
7. Tell Terry and Barbosa their job is to score, score, score - nothing else. Shoot or drive every time you touch the ball.
8. Tell Wilcox that his job is to catch Rondo's lobs and finish them, and beat his assignment up and down the court.
That leves Rondo, Pierce and Garnett and those guys are flexible enough to always know what's needed of them.
So there it is. Aside from the big 3 everybody else on the team is given ONE JOB only, and all they need to do is do that one thing well. If they can't do ONE THING then trade them for someone who can.
These guys are role players, they should all be given a role.
