Comments on: Turns Out It WAS VC Tribute Night

By: spirow

spirow — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:58:00 +0000

For jays system to work we need a fast point guard who can fight thru the picks . . . They completely exploit our wings and pgs. . . And another thing, i really don’t like the concept of two pgs on at the same time. . . we’re not the suns and jose ain’t no nash . . . If it does come down to trading bosh which i think it might. . . We could send bosh to the knicks or NJ hoping those teams plan on signing another free agent big name . . .But for a draft pick will suffice and i mean like number 1 or 2 . . . Im already banking on the next franchise player john wall lol . . .

By: Dj milly mill

Dj milly mill — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:23:22 +0000

can we do a poll on jose +banks for monte and filler

By: eLrond

eLrond — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:20:54 +0000

i once read years ago when VC was traded to the Nets that the Grizzlies would still be in Vancouver if VC was in that team. you canadians should be grateful to VC. all you are now are just sourgraping.

how many times have you won against VC’s team so far? 1… boo hoo… losers!

By: Lucamacus

Lucamacus — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:42:16 +0000

Van Gundy head-butted Vince?

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:49 +0000

Does ANYONE think that Caldejack is a good idea? Anyone?

Yeah, thought so. Triano get your head out your ass!

By: Darien

Darien — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:28:29 +0000

When they get put out, the opposing team’s SGs and PGs start licking their chops. They can’t stop anyone, and when they stop scoring (because neither of them is particularly consistent right now) the other team builds momentum and steam rolls us in the 4th. Is there a petition we can staple to Triano’s office door?

By: cesco

cesco — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:26:49 +0000

Yertu ,
First thing is that if DD was in those stats it could not have been last year stats.

Second thing is that I was talking about DEFENSIVE rebounds for those that qualifies according to NBA.com .

The point this stat is highlighting is that the more defensive rebounds a team is making , the fewer offensive rebounds the other team make . So it would help , as you pointed out , that the guards do their share of defensive rebounding.

By: James Ballswin (Realizar)

James Ballswin (Realizar) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:33:37 +0000

ROTD!!

By: brothersteve

brothersteve — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:27:39 +0000

The idea is fine BUT why couldn’t they stick with tributes to guys who are not playing in the league currently.

You don’t honor your opponents before a game!

By: brothersteve

brothersteve — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:26:08 +0000

It’s painful to watch Jack and Calderon on the floor together.

By: brothersteve

brothersteve — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:24:56 +0000

Both Wright and Belinelli hopefully are back very soon!

Having to play Jack at the 2 provides less offense than Belinelli and less defense than Wright.

By: James Ballswin (Realizar)

James Ballswin (Realizar) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:14:03 +0000

Nice observation! :)

By: RAPMAN

RAPMAN — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:12:23 +0000

well, we had the same message for 4 years now. Yeahhhhh that part of the game pissed me off so much. I wanted to kill someone. But anyways, we were playing horribly through out the whole game. I don’t know how that game was even close. I mean we were missing all of open looks, we were forcing shots, while orlando’s scrubs were having career games again. I mean how? we deserved to lose that game, but you know sometimes a team needs to steal a game or two. We still haven’t done that this season.

By: James Ballswin (Realizar)

James Ballswin (Realizar) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:10:07 +0000

Fully agree that the Calderon/Jack backcourt (with Hedo) doesn’t seem to be as effective or efficient as the coaches think it is.

On offence, I don’t think Calderon or Jack are are able to effectively create their own shot or get to the foul line, which makes the offense no more effective than having Belli in their at SG; and both of them are consistnently missing open jump shots. Plus, it’s completely taking away from using Hedo as a ball-handler to run pick-n-roll with Bosh.

On defence, Calderon and Jack aren’t stopping bigger/quicker guards in crunch time.

Calderon and Jack aren’t playing very good together.

By: tonious35

tonious35 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:59:53 +0000

When we actually nail a team by 20+ points and keep it up and create a blowout, I start to think the other team gives up and we are just lucky that the shots are falling.

By: tonious35

tonious35 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:57:02 +0000

After head-butting Vince in 2004, I think Ron Jeremy Van Gundy is Charles Oakley in disguise, he must be the best coach that Vince Carter has ever had in his career. I still think booing Vince is funny, but I’m really sick of our team not backing up our boos with bad coaching and no consistent effort on both ends.

By: Jhigh

Jhigh — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:46:26 +0000

Orlando might be the top team in the NBA at the moment – they are extremely deep, the players they have compliment Howard very well – it seems like everyone on their roster can score.

If VC can play at a high level at play-off time they are a threat to win it all – whether he can do it, when the intesity level increases and you have to be tough remains to be seen.

By: Ragu

Ragu — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:28:58 +0000

stubbornness on a smitch-esque level (maybe)? BC’s influence (most likely)!

anyone with jose (or anyone with JJ) in the backcourt is better than this.

By: yertu damkule

yertu damkule — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:22:50 +0000

interesting #’s. a little weird, since bosh is the top rebounding PF in the league this year, and #2 overall. are you maybe looking at last year’s #’s?

bargs, btw, is currently 20th among centres…pulling down 54% as many as the top-rebounding 5 in the L (noah).

turk is 18th among SF (42% as many as the top-rebounding 3; though that’s wallace in CHA having an insance rebounding year (11.4); hedo’s at 56% of the 2nd best rebounding SF (deng)).

but your general points are correct – they do need the guards to become more active on the glass.

By: cesco

cesco — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:00:35 +0000

It would be interesting to see which one of the starters has to improve the most to be at least in the middle of the pack among their peers in term of defensive rebounding.

According to NBA.com , for those players with enough rebounds to qualify :

Guards : Jose # 63 , DD # 56 out of 97 guards.
Forwards : Bosh # 5 , Hedo # 34 out of 91 forwards
Centers : Andrea # 13 out of 35 centers.

So it would seem that the guards have the most to improve to be at least in the middle of the pack among their peers.