LTrain23 wrote:
h2thaizzo wrote:
I agree with Cleveland Buck. It was nice to get the "W", but Delonte if forced to play the point, needs to be more confident. He has some nice offensive skills that this entire season he has been afraid to use. He's a terrific outside shooter, but how many times have we seen him double clutch, or hesitate when he has a wide open shot attempt? He defense doesn't bother me, it's the fact that he has the ability to score 12-15 points on any given night, yet we are only getting about 7 per game out of him. He's only hit double figures in about 25% of our games if I had to guess.
Delonte is not a PG. Despite his size, he's always been more comfortable at the 2. Even in college he was a 2.
He hasn't played much this season and to be placed into the starting lineup against the best team we've faced, he did what he needed to do.
I know you'd rather have Mike D'Antoni as our head coach to watch the Cavs play 106-104 type games, but this team is built for grind it out defensive slugfests.. Twice we played the Lakers and twice we held them under 90 points. That's how you win championships.
Delonte didn't force anything, as there are other key attributes to a game other than points by a given player. We'll get the offense we need to win, as long as the players contribute in other ways. He played some great defense on the PG's of LA and especially on Kobe in the 4th..
I never said he was a PG. I said he isn't aggressive enough offensively. I also said he needs to be more confident when forced into the PG role, as he will be for the next month. I've watched almost every game of the last two seasons, and this isn't the same Delonte West that we saw last year.
No, I would not want D'Antoni as our coach. Our last two games we finally started to get Shaq involved early, something we have not done much of all year, and its set the tone in the game. He still, at the age of 37, is next to impossible to defend. The Toronto game we even established him well.
You're saying I want D'Antoni because I time after time mention the magical 100 point number, but it's a fact that we are nearly unbeatable (1 loss all season) when we score more than 100 points.
He took 4 shots all night, of course he didn't force anything. He had a lot more looks than 4 all night though. Last season he was one of those guys we went to when we needed to put points on the board. I'm not ready to claim that we'll be okay in close games with Delonte only scoring 3 points.
