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Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

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  • Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

    Once again I have to be somewhere in the morning so we are just going to do the bulletpoint version of Odd Thoughts tonight.

    But before I go there I just want to make sure I say this here in case I don’t say it later, our bench sucks.

    • For everybody blaming Lance for missing that one free throw let me remind you of the end of the first half blown layup by Paul George. There were two points left hanging on the board that I would like to have right now wouldn’t you?
    • Our bench as a unit is just terrible, for the life of me I do not understand why Frank thinks he has to play them as a group. I understand that you have to give the starters a break but even if he has to rotate them out one at a time he is going to have to change this.
    • If I never see D.J. Augustin play again it will be too soon for me. Since this was the 20th game I think we have enough of a sampling to say that this isn’t working. I’m not kidding when I say this; he is playing himself out of the league right now.
    • Great defense or not Roy has got to stop having 30% shooting nights. On occasion I understand but this is unacceptable. Some of his misses are put back attempts so he gets a little break there but if nothing else just rebound the ball and kick it out if you can’t go up strong with it.
    • This wasn’t George Hill’s strongest shooting night either but he did outplay Lawson significantly. I’m not thrilled he didn’t know we were down three but I can’t be upset with him for shooting that shot because time was gone. He can be blamed though for being to blatant in an attempt to draw a foul, refs are probably not going to call that on most nights.
    • Speaking of which, I wonder if Danny will hear from the league office for verbal abuse of the refs. After the game was over Danny went out on the court and berated them for a good 3-4 min before finally leaving.
    • Also on the foul called on Lance going against Miller I thought Frank was going to attack someone. He jumped up yelled very loud curse words that all of us on our end the floor are now going to have to go to church for and he even accidently kicked Dan Burke in the process.
    • If you have ever wondered allowed that Faried might be as good as David West you may now never ask that question again, ever. I did not realize how small he was prior to tonight either; David West dwarfed him in both size and height.
    • Our bench totally blows
    • Gerald Green played 12:33 and I have no idea what he did.
    • However as crappy as Green was let me give you this wonderful stat line by Hansbrough. 1 rebound (that was his positive contribution) 3 fouls 1 turn over and 1 humiliating shot that was actually blocked back in time by McGee. BTW Tyler was the only person in the fieldhouse who didn’t see that block coming.
    • But not to be outdone in the race to see which bench player sucked the most was D.J. Augustin who had as many turnover (3) as he did points (1) & assists (2) combined not to mention being played like a kettle drum by Andre Miller on defense.
    • Neither Sam nor Ian had good games but at least the two of them didn’t totally embarrass Dr. James Naismith the way the other three did.
    • Our bench is just horrid
    • Lance Stephenson had good and bad moments; more good than bad IMO but I know Seth wasn’t happy with his end of the game ball handling. I wasn’t as upset but I see his point. Still though I like it when he attacks the basket, he would have only hit that one free throw.
    • Paul had a decent game, I don’t think it was as good as his final stat line shows (he hit a lot of three’s tonight so IMO that always inflates things but hey he hit them so you can’t take that away from him) but I will also say that he was being defended by an Olympic caliber defender. BTW he was wide open in the corner if only West would have seen him for a shot to end the game.
    • David West was on pace to become all world in the first half. Didn’t miss and was hitting from everywhere. But in second half slowed way down and by the 4th quarter he not only was not hitting he was actually missing some defensive assignments. The Nuggets went small and I think it threw him off.


    Sigh, back to .500% with our next game facing the Thunder.



    Basketball isn't played with computers, spreadsheets, and simulations. ChicagoJ 4/21/13

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    Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

    Good summary. If you just called for Donnie Walsh's head for squandering a huge amount of cap space on this down graded bench it would be perfect.
    Why do teams tank? Ask a Spurs fan.

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    • #3
      Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

      I hate it when we play Gold Dust



      and lose.
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        Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

        Originally posted by Peck View Post
        If I never see D.J. Augustin play again it will be too soon for me. Since this was the 20th game I think we have enough of a sampling to say that this isn’t working. I’m not kidding when I say this; he is playing himself out of the league right now.
        I was thinking the same thing after the 2nd quarter. I'm ready for Ben Hansbrough to try to be the backup, or let Lance run the point, or trade DJ with someone else for another backup. Anything but more DJ "the Troy Murphy of point guards without a shot" Augustine.

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          Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

          Originally posted by Peck View Post
          Once again I have to be somewhere in the morning so we are just going to do the bulletpoint version of Odd Thoughts tonight.

          But before I go there I just want to make sure I say this here in case I don’t say it later, our bench sucks.
          • Our bench as a unit is just terrible, for the life of me I do not understand why Frank thinks he has to play them as a group. I understand that you have to give the starters a break but even if he has to rotate them out one at a time he is going to have to change this.
          • If I never see D.J. Augustin play again it will be too soon for me. Since this was the 20th game I think we have enough of a sampling to say that this isn’t working. I’m not kidding when I say this; he is playing himself out of the league right now.
          I believe the above are the two most important topics to discuss.

          I am also baffled by the substitution patterns. I trust Ian and Tyler on the floor when they are playing with 2-3 starters. But 4-5 subs on the floor together is far more often than not going to end in disaster. I think Frank needs to always have West or Hibbert on the floor and to adjust his substitutions accordingly.

          DJ can't play in the half court for crap. He can get out on the break quickly, but big deal... so can Lance. So therefore, I don't believe there is anything that DJ adds that Lance cannot bring. He'll, at this point I would play Ben before DJ. Most of us have also surmised that the next time DJ plays good positional defense will also be the first time that we know of that he has attempted to play positional defense. I'm 60, 6-1 and 265 (I've dropped 40# thank you very much) and my still fat arse could do a better job of preventing lane penetration than DJ. Well, at least my fat butt would make someone pay a heavy physical toll with my 6 fouls when they tried to get into the lane.

          From my perspective, if Vogel is going to play his starters for 36 minutes or so, it shouldn't be all that hard to keep 3 of them, including one front court guy, on the floor at all times.

          Jeesh it will be nice to get Granger back. At least that will add one more player to the bench that can be trusted. And since that player will probably be Lance, maybe by then we will have seen the last of DJ. He just simply does not fit with our second unit.

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            Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

            As bad as DJ was tonight, (and he was AWFUL) I can still name three people on the court who did worse:

            Monty McCutchen
            Courtney Kirkland
            Derek Richardson

            NONE of these guys should be calling a high school JV game, much less a NBA contest.
            "Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel

            "And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "

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            • #7
              Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

              Honestly someone in the D-League has to be better than Augustin right now.

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                Can we please stop complaining about the refs? Getting redundant...
                There is no NBA player named Monte Ellis.

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                • #9
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                  Originally posted by boombaby1987 View Post
                  Can we please stop complaining about the refs? Getting redundant...
                  Normally I agree with you. McCutchen was OK. But Kirkland and Richardson were epic-ly [sp?] awful. Even given how bad they are normally.

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                    Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                    Originally posted by Peck View Post
                    • If I never see D.J. Augustin play again it will be too soon for me. Since this was the 20th game I think we have enough of a sampling to say that this isn’t working. I’m not kidding when I say this; he is playing himself out of the league right now.
                    I was excited to get him, but wow what a disappointment. Cant shoot, cant defend, and cant even find an open man. Ben Hansbrough please.
                    If games are won and lost on a calculator and piece of paper, then why do we bother to play them?

                    @LetsTalkPacers

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                      Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                      Koufos, McGee, and Brewer putting up big scoring numbers kept the Nuggs in the game and Dre was beastly at the end. I'm not sure I'm upset about the loss, since it gave us an example of that one-man fast break brilliance that McGee will occasionally bestow upon us mortals.
                      You Got The Tony!!!!!!

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                      • #12
                        Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                        Originally posted by PD GameBattles 2k13 View Post
                        I was excited to get him, but wow what a disappointment. Cant shoot, cant defend, and cant even find an open man. Ben Hansbrough please.
                        I don't get it. I'm so baffled and confused at how bad he's been this year. It's like space jam, someone just stole his abilities and he forgot how to play. I dunno man...maybe he just doesn't wanna be here. Let him go back to the kitties then.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Odd Thoughts: Blinded by Gold Dust

                          Where is the Augustin that we used to know?

                          That bench the Nuggets have, can I get one of those for Christmas?

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                            It's so bad about Augustin that in today's star blog Mike Wells is now advocating Ben Hansbrough.


                            Basketball isn't played with computers, spreadsheets, and simulations. ChicagoJ 4/21/13

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                            • #15
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                              it is time i think we should all start campaigning it

                              #FREEHANSBOROUGH
                              Counting down the days untill DJ Augustin's contract expires.

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