Celtics Knock Out Kings in Third, Win 119-95

anybody can speak Dutch.

it’s not all on the coach. Maybe a different coach would get more consistency out of the guys, but no matter how brilliant the play calling is, the players we have today would still make mistakes.

Looking at the King’s roster, theres:

• 3 rookies
• 3 1 year experience guys
• 3 2 year experience guys
• Carl Landy (3 years), Cisco (5 years), Beno (6 years), and Dally (8 years)

Of course these guys aren’t going to be playing like the spurs and being consistent, as most of our key players haven’t played together more than 6 months. At least these guys are playing hard almost all the time and keeping most games close for quite a bit of that time.

High Usage players always do. Magic Johnson was always ranked one of the top 5 in the NBA in Turnovers for the first 4 years in his career and was near the top of the league in turnovers throughout his career. So has Steve Nash. In fact, Nash has been in the top 10 in turnovers every season since he’s arrived in Phoenix.

It’s not how many turnovers you make but the style and manner in which you do them.

I think your problem is that he puts it on the players to figure out plays and make them. You prefer more structure. I understand your point, but I understand Westphal’s too. These guys need to make plays and take that responsibility and in some ways, DMC is easier to handle when he has that. He won’t always make the right play right now, but the more you put him in the fire, the better he’ll be. With that, I’ll leave 3 players stats for you to chew on (and I won’t give you the answers—I’ll let you figure them out or someone else can give you the answers):

Player A: 52.2 TS%, 49.7 eFG%, ORtg 117 DRtg 107 grabbed 6.3 boards a game (2.2 O boards) 1.8 Ast’s, 1.1 stl’s, 1.6 Blocks, 1.4 TOV 2.4 Fouls per game, scored 10.4 pts and did this all in 28 mins a game. He was 19 years old.

Player B: 57.1 TS%, eFG% 52%, ORtg 11 DRtg 104, grabbed 10 boards a game, .9 assists, .9 steals, 1.7 blocks, 2.4 Fouls per game and scored 12 pts a night in 32.6 mins a game. He was 19 years old.

Player C: 54 TS%, eFG% 50.1%, ORtg 103 DRtg 107, grabbed 3.8 boards a game, .3 assists, .2 steals, .7 blocks, 1 Turnover per game, 2.4 Fouls per game, scored 6.7 pts per night and did all this in 16 MPG.

Now, onto Mr Cousins:

47.6 TS%, eFG 43.2%, ORtg 93, DRtg 106, has grabbed 7.7 boards a game, 1.7 assists, .8 assists, .7 steals, 2.6 Turnovers, 4.2 Fouls per game, has scored 12.7 points, and did this in 26.2 MPG. DeMarcus, as we know, is 20 years old.

And one one thing: Look at the rosters of each 3 players (assuming you figure them out) when they were young players. You’ll notice, with the exception of player C, that there were more veteran established players around the first 2 players than there were with player C or DMC.

It’s not an accident that player C’s team had more youth in the rotation and suffered more. In fact, it’s pretty similar to the Kings current situation. (Although there were a lot of key difference between Player C’s team and this Kings team too.)

Player A was asked to fit in around some veteran players who could do some things, but eventually take the reigns. (I’m pretty sure that’s what happened, but you can be the judge.) Player B did have some quality veterans around him, including 2 former All-Stars, playing heavy minutes. He, too, eventually was asked to take the reigns of the team and did so. I’m not fond of player C in any way, but, he was very talented and could easily have been better if a few things happened differently for him.

Either way, have fun HT. Have a nice day mayne.

I honestly just think you guys have different points of views simply because you simply view the NBA or the game of basketball from completely different perspectives is all.

alot about the W/L record this year