Aren’t we getting more healthy with Duren, Livers, and Burks playing? How are we having more blowouts?
The vets of this team is Cade and Stew. There’s nobody to hold these players accountable.
Part of this is on Cade, but a lot is on Coaching. If you’re a coach and your second year guard is really struggling in the fourth maybe do something to help him out or walk him through it better
Troys and this teams problem is not the draft picks. It’s the rest of the team
I’ve never seen LCA so empty
To me Cade has been disappointing but he hasn’t been bad. I think it’s wrong to write him off because he just needs to be able to make pull up 3s reliably and draw fouls better
Did I miss why Bagley didn’t play
The only reason this team looked so good the first three days was because of Burks. Now that he’s cold the team is exposed. The quality of this team depended on a single player being able to shoot
They should change the +/- stat into a unit of measurement called “Wiseman”, where Wiseman is absolute zero and everyone else is a positive number
Cade passing up open threes is an issue
Ya his rookie year he seems clutch, he would take pull up 3s and usually made the right play. If it was just conditioning I feel he would gradually get worse, but there’s just this sharp decline that happens in the fourth. I do hope it is as you say
I’m worried that Cade “choking” in the fourth consistently is because of a losing mentality being built up and lack of confidence in himself to be able to finish games. I hope he comes out of it
Ivey is more in control and finishes around the rim better
Duren is playing better
Stewart has a better 3pt shot
Everyone got better this off season. Cade seems a little worse than the end of his rookie year but that’s probably because he has less spacing and rust
Wiseman is just bad. He has very low bbiq. Getting him was so stupid. We had Duren, Stewart, and Bagley and Troy traded a wing who could shoot and was an NBA player for another center who wasn’t
There’s losing and keeping the locker room and losing and losing the locker room
But to be honest, their young starting lineups have all positions covered. We didnt start Ivey at the 2 until recently which was dumb, Stewart at 4 is not ideal, and Duren was out most the season. It was basically just Cade and Ausar playing their position, and Cade has been given horrible shooting
Or… Here me out here … You start Ivey but if he makes a mistake you pull him. Didn’t Monty say that he was against benching for mistakes but preferred to just pull them aside? The whole 20 minutes only thing was so dumb, especially since there was nobody more talented on the floor. Freaking Killian Hayes playing over Ivey is so dumb
I legit think we might lose this one
Haliburton has such an ugly shot but it somehow goes it. Why cant Killian do it too 😭😭😭😭
The reason I feel like most these losses on Monty is because his refusal to play Cade with Ivey
This team has no direction, drive, or character. It’s a freaking clown show. It’s not hyperbolic to say this team may never win again this season