Comments on: Wednesday Bolts – 9.23.09

By: Crow

Crow — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:43:46 +0000

The lineups above were picked with some attention to the
4 Factors, Adjusted, Player Pairs, last season’s lineup results, role fulfillment, etc. It is not just picking them out of the air. Many of the hundreds of lineups used last season had flaws that could be identified in such a review that probably should have discouraged their use or at least discouraged their greater use.

By: Crow

Crow — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:38:23 +0000

If the pictures were normal pictures with faces and emotions they’d do their job probably better than without so why without? Maybe so they don’t have to replaced (but that is a weak reason) or maybe it was consciously or unconsciously to be different enough that the players would ask what’s up and who did it that way and come to learn it was the boss man. You can say Presti’s low-profile and he is in many ways but I think he wanted the players to know these photos were picked by the boss, that he cares about that modeled behavior a lot, more than most. Visitors too. It creates a story, a mystique. Maybe not nearly as blatantly as requiring your college teammates to sign written contracts to play hard and not quit instead of just having a huddle or locker room talk but it still creates a trail, advertisement of the one doing these things. Lots of leaders do these things. It is not that big a deal but there is a bit a self-promotion to it.

By: Crow

Crow — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:02:19 +0000

Here another way to go at it, instead of retrospective critique, prospective recommendation. I took an hour or so awhile ago and put together a list of a dozen lineups I think probably should be among the most used and probably many of the best lineups will come from. Out of the hundreds of possibilities and out of the hundreds than Brooks will actually use. Here is my dozen to emphasize:

Westbrook-Harden-Durant-Green-Collison
Westbrook-Harden-Durant-Green-Krstic
Westbrook-Harden-Durant-White-Collison
Westbrook-Harden-Green-White-Collison
Westbrook-Harden-Green-Collison-Krstic
Westbrook-Harden-Sefolosha-Collison=Kristic
Westbrook-Weaver-Sefolosha-White-Collison
Westbrook-Harden-Durant-Green=White
Westbrook-Weaver-Green-White-Collison
Westbrook-Weaver-Durant-Green=Kristic
Westbrook-Weaver-Durant-Green=Krstic
Harden-Weaver-Durant-Collison-Krstic

I’ll check to see how it compares to Brooks’ top dozen at some point in the season on adjusted +/- performances.

By: Crow

Crow — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:20:26 +0000

should be …”was” claiming… at end of first paragraph
and … I “didn’t” feel like mentioning… at the end of the second

But in the end it is the ideas that matter. Take what you think are reasonable and let the rest go.

By: Crow

Crow — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:15:00 +0000

Not impressed by performance in a simulation league? Fair enough that might sound hokey, but it was a decent experience doing the GM thing, what I claiming some aptitude for.

I guess I could have gone instead with mention that the Director of the ESPN Research Department invited me to apply for a joba couple years back. Didn’t get it, but still something to be asked to apply… Or that a Vegas gambler gone straight asked me to help run his research shop, til his deal with a team fell thru. But at the time I guess I ‘d feel like mentioning these near-misses.

By: Crow

Crow — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:54:46 +0000

Oh and Dylan when I mentioned a few things about what I’ve done with the topic of the NBA outside of this site I was responding to a request to do so. Answer the question, easy enough to get criticized; don’t answer it and it would be the same.

Many folks think I am trying to change their opinion about the team. Not really. Just expressing mine and if you want to change yours, do as you will.

By: Crow

Crow — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:12:13 +0000

It is substance over image. When Gelabale was down, career threatening down, the organization didn’t reach out to pick him up. They just briefly, quietly wished well and moved on. That “picture” spoke pretty loud to me and maybe some of the players too.

By: Crow

Crow — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:03:15 +0000

Dylan, you’ll think what you want but I am not really anti-Presti as much as I am just not that impressed with everything so far and am honestly amazed in a not that good way about some things (more substantially waiving an injured Gelabale and the same time they make a splash about giving a second chance to reclamation project Livingston) and think that he has skated to a huge reputation with most others way early as a GM and think it is ok to disagree.

Probably I should have passed on commenting on the pictures. Sorry for my excess. But I did talk briefly about 6 other separate things and nobody cared to comment back on them. I let a few comments out. I’ll probably go back to be quiet for awhile.

I’ll try to tone down the personal nature of the challenge of Presti and will probably refrence “the plan” instead of the man.

By: SmackDaddy

SmackDaddy — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:37:46 +0000

I’ll play – email is lgball at yahoo dot com

By: Royce

Royce — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:31:23 +0000

We need a Commish for League 2. Any volunteers?

Right now we’ve got six and can handle as much as 14 more.