I consider myself one of the bigger supporters of RC and still think he is a top level coach. Having said that my biggest issue right now is the offense, and especially the offense in the 4th quarter. Last season it was monta ball and we lived and died by how well monta could hit a 20 foot mid range pull up. Now the offense is pg1 runs off a screen and wes and CP stand in the corners. Then pg2 does the same thing. Then we sprinkle in a fatigued Dirk post up every now and then. Just seems silly that someone like Parsons, who is playing better than I personally thought he would play, can be red hot from the field and we have him standing in the corner. He had a costly TO in the 4th and then another one in OT. But Dwill, Wes and Dirk all had TO's late in the game and Dwill and Wes both missed bunny layups. Plus Dwill was awful in the 4th IIRC so I can't understand why we continue to do the same thing game after game when it's not working like it did early in the season(perhaps schedule played a big part), especially considering we have a guy who has been red hot for almost 15-20 games it seems like.
The bigger issue as we all know is lack of talent and that has contributed IMO to Dirk shooting so poorly. We have to get enough talent on the roster to allow him to play less than 30mins a game, not play him 40 mins like he seems to have done way too much this season. But just like Crowder's game took the next step when he was allowed to do more than stand in a corner in RC's system I can't help but feel the same can be applied to CP, who finally seems to be playing like we hoped he would. I think RC needs to take a hard look at his system and make a few adjustments. The system is the same system we have always ran with a few tweaks and the roster simply doesn't fit with the system. Dirk is not 2011 Dirk, the 2 man game doesn't have 2011 Jet, and we don't have 2011 TC as a threat in the screen and roll without giving up anything defensively. It's too late to change the system but I would like to think an adjustment could be made to ride the hot hand or run plays that are not so cut and dry as pg comes off screen and throws up a floater while cp and wes stand in the corners. RC preaches ball movement in every post game speech and these plays rarely end up with more than 1 pass before a shot.
The lineups still bother me but I agree the talent level is not there to offer much else, but personally would rather watch Powell and Anderson(I don't think 10-12mins a game should be so impossible to see) make some mistakes now and learn from the experience than see 6-10yr vets make similar mistakes and offer no future upside. IDK how they are contributing to the now when right now we are losing all these games and it seems to be the same story every game.
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