What's new
By:

This one's on Deron

NUMBERICA

NUMBERICA

Well-Known Member
2022 Award Winner
I know this should be in the game thread, but I believe it deserves special mention. When you're as skilled, paid, and revered as he is, the fact that he seemed unfocused and almost uninterested could be pointed to as enough for a loss. However, his play down the stretch was sloppy as hell on top of all of that.

An embarrassing game. Big Al, Sap, AK I'm glad you showed heart tonight, but the Jazz can't/won't do much if Deron isn't leading the pack.

Deron also was on skates all night and had no business trying to guard Rose. I don't believe Rose is that good, but Sloan wouldn't allow Watson to continue to guard Rose well. I guess we needed Raja out there to lockdown Keith Bogans/Ronnie Brewer/Kyle Korver (and lose him somehow, leaving him wide open for a 3).
 
P.S. The edit options on this site are terrible. Sorry the cursor on my laptop sometimes flies around and causes errors to the thread title that I can't fix (unless I'm missing something).
 
This thread sucks.

bennettletsoffsteam.jpg


Thanks. If anyone wants to lock or delete this, go ahead.
 
This ain't sour grapes, cuz we lost, but I have a hard time with the old, The better team won cliche tonight. It really didn't seem like anyone on the Bulls (besides Rose of course) was better than our main guys. Oh yeah and that big white dude
 
Deron doesnt quite have it in the leadership department. Thats why he still falls well short of other franchsie players in MVP discussions. Maybe he will improve when he hits the 30s, but as of now it has been just spotty
 
There are probably less than 5 legit superstars in this league. It's no slight that Deron is one tier down. That's still really good, but he needs help more than the Kobe Dwyane Lebrons do.
 
Deron was absolutely brutal. I think the fact that he was playing his friends changed his demeanor for the night. Big Al, Paul, and Drei were great except for free throws. Rose made Deron look like he was dragging Rulon Gardner around. Pathetic. The one positive I keep taking from all these losses is the fact that Al is learning to execute the pick and roll. He still can't pass worth a %#$ out of the low post, but being the glacial learner he is, I expect him to be passing well by midseason of the next year of play (whenever that may be).
 
Another thing about Deron is his style of play that leaves him with an injured wrist or finger or something every year. And then he says that it is not going to be 100% for the rest of the season and he will anyways play through it. And then he ends up shooting a medicore% on 3-pt shots. We have seen this two or three times already. I also realize that I have been pampered by Malone/Stock too much and cannot hold everybody else to that same standard.

But considering the injury bugs that have hit us these last 2 seasons, thats another reason why this teams needs more depth than contenders if it is really interested in making a deep run.

Can anybody trust AK or Memo to play 75+ games next year?
 
Deron looked like a combination ad for Dramamine and Nyquil out there tonight; sleepwalking and sea sick.

He's looking more and more disinterested. Like he could take home this year's Odom Bong Award.

At the same time, I can understand the frustration. People will bitch at him -- and he was awful tonight, no doubt -- but his on-court effort is still better than anything management has put out.
 
....the Bull's shot less than 40%...and still won the game? We had 10 blocked shots...and lost the game? Turnovers and poor shooting, especially from the line, were our undoing!
 
NUMBERICA said:
I know this should be in the game thread, but I believe it deserves special mention. When you're as skilled, paid, and revered as he is, the fact that he seemed unfocused and almost uninterested could be pointed to as enough for a loss. However, his play down the stretch was sloppy as hell on top of all of that.

An embarrassing game. Big Al, Sap, AK I'm glad you showed heart tonight, but the Jazz can't/won't do much if Deron isn't leading the pack.

Deron also was on skates all night and had no business trying to guard Rose. I don't believe Rose is that good, but Sloan wouldn't allow Watson to continue to guard Rose well. I guess we needed Raja out there to lockdown Keith Bogans/Ronnie Brewer/Kyle Korver (and lose him somehow, leaving him wide open for a 3).
Click to expand...

I don't know if you are blind or just bias but I would like to see you play basketball with one arm. DW is out there playing with one arm because he is a competitor and he wants to play. The fact that you don't think Rose is that good only supports my opinion that you may just lack some basketball knowledge.
 
cowhide said:
I don't know if you are blind or just bias but I would like to see you play basketball with one arm. DW is out there playing with one arm because he is a competitor and he wants to play. The fact that you don't think Rose is that good only supports my opinion that you may just lack some basketball knowledge.
Click to expand...

Boozer also played. I guess he's a competitor too huh?

DWill didn't bring the urgency. Cant blame that on his wrist.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top