Links: Ted Leonsis Continues To Preach Patience

He’s going to preach “patience and process” and keep payroll low for as long as he can.

“we should not have to wait 2 or 3 years for these players to know how to rotate on defense, or to stop taking stupid shots early in the shot clock while you have a lead in the 4th”

then you’re automatically eliminating all 1st-and 2nd-yeat players from the team? As well as McGee and Young? Is there anyone on the team you’d keep?

even if ultimately they’ll never amount to much of team because the talent isnt there, they should still be clearly progressing within the framework of their own ceilings. If you arent seeing that, the Coach is not doing his job or the GM has picked utterly useless players

that is a great attitude and I applaud you on it

Its so awful people are flipping their lids over a strike shortened season that was inevitably going to hurt a young team with no chemistry. Instant results are not going to happen. Enjoy the ride because it will be sweet once we have a true “Core” and role players in place

I’m not saying that means we’re failing…..just that Ted came in and didnt change a thing as to who makes the basketball decisions. It’s the exact same people that led to the previous mess which for some reason gets blamed on Abe.

GM, Coach, Director of Player Development, Training staff…..all identical since Ted took over right?

Again, I am not saying that means we’re doomed

is it an error? or is the dunk-link just somewhere in the article? Im guessing its the former, because neither ‘dunk’ or ‘mcgee’ appears on the page according to ctrl+f

well said…

and I think

Mix in the wrong formula for attempting to win formulated by the coach and gm and we aren’t even on the path to building a winner.

and ted’s patience is what is worrying so many.

patience works when you are heading in the right direction at an acceptable pace…and it means squat when you are not

great illustration of how well/efficiently he’s been playing on offense. Still has a lot of improvements to make on defense (some of which we’ve been seeing already, like not being quite as trigger happy with jumping around), but should be made more of a focus on offense imo.

I knew Mcgee would always become a good player. I’m almost never wrong when evaluating a bigman.

Mcgee had a few things I knew would eventuallyu work well in the nba.

He’s one of the longest and most athletic bigs in the league . He can block shots even when he’s outta position insanely explosive and has great hand eye coordination.

He played well in his 1st year as a fulltime starter. It wasn’t too big for him he wasn’t scared he played like he belonged. When he finally got used to the minutes with his asthma and was able to regulate his emotions allowing his breathing to settle he began to play really well and be very very active.

He’s durable to this point he’s like a rubber band man he seems to be able to play through nagging things that occur doesn’t jake injuries comes back and tries to play , For as much as he leaves his feet he doesn’t get the nagging things he has good balance a good body for the game must be the genes.

and imagination for as much as people hate some of the crazy things he attempts its a necessary component to a young player becoming a very good player. When Kobe was a young player he did ridiculously crazy things took simple layups and dunks and turned them into adventures both good and bad but they taught him boundaries what works what doesn’t what he could do though to avoid defense.

so while we suffer through some of his wild shots there will come a time he will use some of the things he’s learned and honed to work prety frequently to the teams advantages.

John Thompson says and I agree you can calm a hyper guy down but you can’t put the fire in a guy.

Mcgee has that fire.

I don’t think his lapses on defense are really his fault he’s the only one defending the paint he gets NO HELP frm Blatche so he ends up trying to cover for someone else and his man escapes but its not because he is inattentive to team defense its because he is hyper attentive to it.

and how much is due to owing Flip $4mill

Red, White, and Blue!

I share Ted’s hope too! That has never been the question for me. The question is who resorts to Plan B first should Plan A falter.

Really, $5mm per season and he can’t hire the same shooting coach for six months who happens to be unemployed too?

Or maybe he could scrape the money up from the sponsorship checks he receives in anticipation of him DEVELOPING into an all-star?

He clearly worked on his game in the offseason: he is noticeably bigger and a better shooter than he started last season.

The first games I watched he regressed because he was trying to do too much, score too much. He became too much of a scoring first point guard. Of course, we he did not score it made him look worse. And he did not run the offense. I believe that is the product of a mental shift more than the inability to work with a shooting coach and iron out his mechanics.

Maybe he believed all the hype he received playing summer ball where defense means not letting someone else steal your girl in the stands? Regardless, he needs to run the offense, not try to play iso PG. I know we are lacking shooters. That is EG’s fault- squarely. He still needs to do his job and make that pass even if they miss. The offense breaks down if that doesn’t happen- as we saw. And his defense still stinks.

My point simply is that the off season is an excuse not the cause. Every player in the league lacked an off-season…including other first and second year players. He chose to play pick up ball as much as he did. Where was league MVP Derrick Rose this summer? I am optimistic he will start distributing the ball better though- and soon.

and the more I see him, the more I want Wall to be a score first PG

I misread it. He is shooting 32% this year. 41% last year.