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Turkey · 11-19-2004, 02:11 PM

This has been the theme of nellie's whole career as a head coach---mix&match trying to find mismatches (That is the reason Booth is in the doghouse). When is he going to teach the players how to play team ball? When is his philosophy going to change from find mismatches to creating plays that will make it easy for the player to score?

Let's be honest, we had some pretty talented players last season (walker included) and he couldn't utilize any one of them correctly. Why? Because he chooses to feed the ball to Duck when instead he should have been preaching to the players on how to play team ball.
Let the game decide on who the ball should go to instead of the coach.

Now let me ask you, has anything changed from last season compared to the present. Has our ball&player movement gotten better?
Nellie's excuse in the prior seasons was that Dallas had no true center. But that is not true---we have Bradley and had Lafrenz-both were and are decent centers.

Given this, we should not expect to be going anywhere this season just like prior seasons. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out.

11-19-2004, 02:11 PM	#8
Turkey Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 158	RE:Injuries force Mavs' Nelson to mix and match This has been the theme of nellie's whole career as a head coach---mix&match trying to find mismatches (That is the reason Booth is in the doghouse). When is he going to teach the players how to play team ball? When is his philosophy going to change from find mismatches to creating plays that will make it easy for the player to score? Let's be honest, we had some pretty talented players last season (walker included) and he couldn't utilize any one of them correctly. Why? Because he chooses to feed the ball to Duck when instead he should have been preaching to the players on how to play team ball. Let the game decide on who the ball should go to instead of the coach. Now let me ask you, has anything changed from last season compared to the present. Has our ball&player movement gotten better? Nellie's excuse in the prior seasons was that Dallas had no true center. But that is not true---we have Bradley and had Lafrenz-both were and are decent centers. Given this, we should not expect to be going anywhere this season just like prior seasons. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out.