4 Responses to “The Morning Report: “I’ve never seen a successful team that didn’t rebound””

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   JustPuked October 2nd, 2009 at 1:39 pm

   Damn, you’re on top of it! I should have came here first!

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   feltbot October 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 pm

   I think Brandon Wright was simply echoing what Don Nelson and the coaching staff have been in his ear about for the last two years. Now that he’s been beaten out by a 20 yr. old, maybe he’s finally gotten the wax out of his ears.

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   commish October 3rd, 2009 at 7:47 am

   I am so glad you are back blogging. I hope this year you will add your critical analysis–and i mean that in the sense of astute analysis–to your blogs. I always felt you and Adam were the two clearest thinkers when it came to the Dubs. Some time last season you just burned out and stopped sharing your insights, then completley disappeared. Hope this season is differen t in so many different ways.

   Having said that, the one thing we know for sure, at least those of us without blinders or wax in our ears, is that whatever comes from Nelson’s lips means absolutely nothing with what will actually happen at the opening bell. In fact he overly enjoys using his comments as sheer mis-direction in some pretty sick way imho.

   It is an utterly bad joke to even discuss defense or rebounding. If these are two key ingredients to a winning franchise, they would have been instilled and implemented years ago. Nelson is enthralled with small ball and misdirection offense, not fundamental basketball. At the beginning of each training camp the last three years Nelson has made meaningless proclamations about defense, rebounding, and so on and literally nothing has been implemented. In fact, when the franchise gave away a decent small forward (who had to play PF) for another no defense volume scorer, well that pretty much said everything we needed to know about Nelson’s priorities.

   Don’t get me wrong; I would love to see a new philiosphy and a head coach who actually has learned from the last few years of getting our asses kicked by bigger, stronger, and more defensive minded teams. But I am not holding my breath just yet.

   Thanks for being back online Geoff.

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   Warrior Matt October 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 am

   Dude after you dropped off the earth last season you have come back with a vengeance. You are on the verge of becoming my “home page”. Nice job!