Joana wrote:No, you were wrong by saying that Sessions was much better, that Ridnour should be benched, that he was an horrific player, etc. To sum it up, you were wrong by drawing too many conclusions from a very small sample of a single aspect of a player's game. Every time a player shoots badly that's bad for the team; however coaches can't just sitting every body who has bad shooting periods - as long as it's only a slump.
A year and 15-20 games is quite a long time for a slump, no? And thanks for calling only me out when half the board was going crazy over Ridnour, by the way.
One shouldn't talk about players that one doesn't even know.
I knew he was killing my team with inefficient shooting, so I have every right to criticize him for that.
As I said at that time, he was playing decently - for his standards, that aren't exactly great -, but his shooting was crappy. What was reasonable to expect was his shooting eff. to regress to the mean. That's what happened.
Talk about small sample sizes, he has been shooting well for even less time than he was shooting poorly. Let's see how he is shooting a few more games from now. He has been shooting 45-45% a lot lately, if he regresses back to his career average of 40%, that isn't going to be good, and he will deserve criticism again.
You are wrong when you implicitly don't recognize that the size of sample regarding Redd's shooting eff. is too small to allow sound conclusions, especially considering he's coming back from injury. If you believe he won't improve his numbers, alright, but that's not the reasonable thing to expect.
Nah, never said Redd won't improve upon his numbers. Bottom line is, in the meantime, if he keeps randomly shooting 2-12, 4-13, whatever for whatever, by the time his fg% gets back to the mean, this team could be buried.
Redd gets criticized because he is a max contract player who can do ONE thing well - score. When he isn't doing that, not only is he not helping his team, he is HURTING us significantly because he just keeps launching shots and missing. There are a lot of reasons I want Redd gone, and I'll continue to criticize him until he improves or is traded.
Again, to be clear, never said Redd wouldn't improve his fg%, but if you don't expect me to bitch after our "elite" scorer is officially shooting below 40% on the season, you should probably put me on ignore. When he does well, he will get praise from me.
Calling a player out for sucking over a specific period of time, and then praising them when they do well is not flip flopping or being wrong, its calling it as I see it.