im glad i got my monthly **** the lakers out.
Re-addressing Brian Shaw's post- season interview.
http://www.denverpost.com/nuggets/ci...s-36-46-seasonX's and O's: "I think I did pretty good. It felt natural to me. I felt like after timeouts, for the most part we got the kind of looks that we wanted to get. In-game situations, we got what we wanted to get. It wasn't that difficult, because we were really simple in what we did. Early in the season, I wanted to see if our bigs could play with their backs to the basket, be playmakers for us. And as I found out that wasn't their strength, we put the ball more in Ty (Lawson's) hands, went to more pick-and-roll things.
"Defensively, I think the biggest mistake I made was I came in here and looked at our roster and looked at the roster we had in Indiana and felt that we could play the same kind of defense that Indiana plays. I felt that we could do it with the athleticism and length at the 'big' positions. That was a mistake on my part because it's just totally different personnel. The length that they had at the guard position is different here, and even just the mentality of the guys who are out there playing defense was different. So we were all over the place defensively. Other than zone, we tried every scheme that there is out there. So that's probably going to be the biggest work-in-progress for me as a coach this offseason."
Coach Shaw was saying the same thing that some of us had said during the season. He knows what it takes to win a championship in the NBA, but doesn't have the roster in Denver to do it. He finally had to stop trying to play the style that wins in the playoffs and go back to playing Denver's run and gun game because he doesn't have the roster to play the right way. I really wish they would blow this roster up and get some players in here that have the ability to defend and play a half court game. Quick someone tell me, how many run and gun teams are left in the playoffs right now?
thunder is a type of run n gun sometimes
Also it was 11 out of 12 years.
Let's follow along with the conversation, shall we?
Ziggy said there are no run and gun teams left in the PLAYOFFS (original conversation was about the playoffs, not the regular season, so try to keep up).
Shane said OKC.
I pointed out that when they get run and gun they lose (in the playoffs, because that's what the conversation was originally about). It's true. When Westbrook goes ball hog and run n gun with the offense, they struggle in the playoffs (again, the jist of the original conversation).
Now...about the topic?
11 of 12 not 8 of 9
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