What Has Happened?

[Chef]

Hears a old mans take on a few statments. First about Dunlaps sub patterns . Henderson returning is sending chemristy to hell . Either him or Taylor 1 needs to go. Dunlap seems to have a lot of trust in Taylor. Henderson has good value . It might be time to move my favorite player'.
As another said growing pains are expected.
Me i think we should pick up 3/4 court man for 48 mins of hell. With Dunlap playing so many guys it shouldn't be any trubble
Last whats the deal on Haywood and Diops play . Is Haywood in the dog house ? Or is possable we trying to show case Diop

agree completely about hendo and said as much in the hendo thread.

also, WELCOME BACK DAV!

[DY_nasty]

There is literally no point in blaming Henderson for this.

There's no need for a scapegoat, we were winning a lot of games that we shouldn't have and were playing some hurt teams.

[CatNation]

Taylor and Sessions have regressed

[Felton for Prez]

I'd argue that we aren't doing a good job of keeping it close either. Has anyone else noticed that we have the 3rd worst point differential in the league? Even if you remove the Thunder game, I'd bet it would be 4th worst.

[KGE]

Our defense has gone to hell.

I thought that D was supposed to be our signature this year.We gave up 38 points in a quarter last night. We only had 40 at half.
I thought I was in a time warp back to 2011!

[enigmaboy89]

I do agree that Dunlap still does not know the right mix of players that can play well together. I feel that the team is just losing hope again as they did last year, the players just do not seem angry or mad about losing they just take the lose and go home happy. The team needs to WANT TO WIN and they need to play hard and scare their opponent during the game with playing rough.

[spectre]

We seem to start really slow and try picking up the intensity in the 2nd half. It looked like that at the beginning of the season, then we went a few games where it wasn't the case and now we're back in the habit again.

Haywood seems kind of upset on the floor...minute fluctuation bothering him maybe?

The guards/wings seem overly cognizant of protecting the paint which I assume is coming from the coach. I'm at the point where I'd stay more man and let the bigs contend for themselves a little bit. P&R D obviously needs to be focused on but I'd bet they already are.

[Mustachio]

What the hell do you mean what happened? We are talking about a team that won 7 games last year including 2 losing streaks of over 15 games. We added Ben Gordon, Ramon Session and amnestied Brendan Hayward. What did you expect?

[WarioVsMooChicken]

I think Dunlap is trying to get ALL the guards their minutes which is screwing things up.

Anyway, even with the losing streak we are SOOOOOO much better than last year. Our Losses to NY, Portland, GSW would have been by 30-40 points if it was still last year. So I'm still happy to see an improvement.

[polarcat]

Agree about the substitutions, but also think Dunlap is getting a feel for what works and doesn't with his team. It's been only 20 games, and he needs to see how some mesh together and don't. Hendo was arguably our franchise player when this season started, so I think Dunlap definitely needs to see what happens when he's in and out. My biggest beef is the Diop experiment and the lack of bigs when we are cruising in the 4th. At the end of the day, we knew we would be a bottom-5 team this year regardless of the start to the year.... we were spoiled with our start. I think we are going to see some showcasing over the next few weeks of our moveable parts and the rookie honeymoon will end and they will need to step up and learn. Bottom line about this team is that we are way more entertaining to watch this year and aren't getting smoked by 40 once a week. It sucks that we aren't putting W's in the column, but our core is growing together and learning much faster than I anticipated (See Kemba and Bismack).