Comments on: Jack Trades His Ego For A Win

By: Morning Coffee – Jan 5 | Slam Dunking

Morning Coffee – Jan 5 | Slam Dunking — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:56:48 +0000

[...] Jack Trades His Ego For A Win | Hoops Addict Luckily for the Raptors their starting point guard was able to check his ego so that the team could pick up a pivotal win. [...]

By: Ryan McNeill

Ryan McNeill — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:42:32 +0000

No worries, glad I was able to clarify things a little better for you. I just feel like a tool because I wasn’t able to make my point easier to discern in my article.

By: rock

rock — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:14:02 +0000

Ryan – that makes a lot more sense! Thank you for clarifying.

By: Ryan McNeill

Ryan McNeill — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:04:19 +0000

Rock – I see you’re point, but I’d like to beg to differ. That or I worded things horribly in my post. Either way this is my attempt to better explain the point of my article.

With Parker hitting less than 20% of his shots from beyond the arc the game plan was to tempt him to shoot from the perimeter. Instead of jamming him on the perimeter – something Jack and the team had enjoyed success with of late – he had to play him loose which resulted in dribble penetration and more outside shots than Jack would have liked. It’s one of those “one step back to take two steps forward” kind of deals.

Does that explanation make a bit more sense?

By: rock

rock — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:41:35 +0000

You wrote: “When he was out on an island for the night getting lit up there must have been part of him that wanted to stray from the game plan and lock down his man.”

That doesn’t make sense. Why would he after “getting lit up” want to finally “lock down his man”. Shouldn’t that have been his game plan in the first place? And if he was keen on locking down Tony… he wouldn’t have kept getting lit up, right?