Perfectly fine to disagree with that, it's my opinion. But I'm pretty damn sure a lot of people mistake getting drilled for lack of effort.
There's plays in every game where the play goes the right way, and it's interpreted how the person wants.
Last night DLo probed, probed, probed, on the pick and roll, got Black right to the basket, dropped it off, and Black lost it. Would have been a bunny. Shaq called it, overdribbling.
Clarkson dives to the hoop, throws up a wild prayer that misses, Nance skies in and dunks the rebound. Shaq calls that a good play by Clarkson getting it to the glass.
I mean.....
What some may claim to be effort, could also be not in the right place, or making the wrong read, or all kinds of other mistakes that get made, by young players. And people just claim it all to be effort because they don't know any better.
Luke can complain about effort and hustle and what not, and hates losing, while he rests his healthy vets, I guess no one sees an issue there.
What does resting his healthy vets gotta do with him complaining about effort and hustle??? I mean CP I normally agree with most you say. But at some point you can't just keep blowing over what these coaches are saying. They are in the trenches everyday. It's not just black and white every game
Notice the spacing issues we have on O? Think Nick bein out hurts that? (and of course us trading Lou, but we did that for a purpose of course)
We're stacking the deck, against these kids, then demanding they overcome them, in a game we aren't suited for yet. Then complain about it?
You ever seen a young team, I mean YOUNG team, play solid team defense with first and second year players at 4-5 spots?
You have kids, learning, that you just want them to run around fast in circles and have "effort" but that's not exactly how you play basketball. You also have to do your job. Your assignment. Be in the right spot, make the right read. If Clarkson is ISO'ing, and he calls for a screener, what the **** do you want the other 3 guys to do, cause traffic or run around in circles?
They become stationary objects.
You learn when to move, when not to move, etc, thru experience. Get that, they'll start bein in the right spots at the right time. Clarkson runs around, plays "hard" and he's burned over and over and over again. DLo plays "slow" and doesn't speed around the floor, and he's usually where he needs to be on defense, doin his job. He gets himself hurt when he guesses wrong and tries to help early or overplay an angle, etc.
Nobody just goes out there and hustles and efforts their way thru the NBA. So people chanting for it really doesn't do much good. You guys act like they just go out there and lay on the wood for 3 hours every night.
Steph isn't great cuz he hustles.
KAT isn't ridiculous cuz he hustles.
People just floating around looking for stuff to complain about. Eyebrows, he's slow, he doesn't hustle, he doesn't care enough, he said this or that, I mean, God damn.
I'm getting to the point I want them all traded so you guys can bring in Jimmy Butler, Paul George, 10 stiffs, and they can hustle their ***** off for you, and be swept out of the first round every year. Then the kids can play in cities that will welcome them and let them learn the game and start to apply their skills and succeed without all this bull ****.
Fanbase that openly wanted tanking, so they could destroy every lottery pick they get. ******** stupid.
