Stop digging your fox hole.

I know the thunder played extremely well and so did their bench. I think smoove was OMG’d by that dunk. maybe he planned that to rattle smoove. but I’m gonna cry everytime I see teague now(sniff) it totally sucks. but on the bright side, Atleast Orlando and Boston lost again

I am going to break my “positive guy” character for a minute.

This is straight up crap, Mike Woodson.

We have been watching this team through the thick and thin of your coaching tenure here, and you’ve proven over and over that you just don’t have any idea what to do with Point Guards.

-We watched you throw Royal Ivey into the starting lineup every night for about 6 minutes. The kid played his heart out, defended well, made some nice jumpers, etc. But no matter how well he played you never rewarded his play with a few more minutes.

-Tyronn Lue was in a bad spot. We had nobody else to play. I don’t have empirical proof of this, but I am 99% sure that on this team, Lue would be getting 10-20 minutes a game for some reason. PS: he played bad defense.

-Salim Stoudamire. You played him 23 minutes one night, would give him three games off, then throw him back out on the court. There were games where I honestly thought you forgot he was on the roster when we could have used a little spark on offense.

-Mike Bibby. Finally we traded for a player that you HAD to play consistent minutes. This one has actually worked out.

-Mario West. You don’t want to throw poor Jeff Teague to the Wolves, so we call up Mario from the minors? Even then, you blindly throw him out there for who knows how many minutes a game. I can’t bash Mario because he plays real hard.

-Jeff Teague. Is it really asking too much to give the kid 10-15 minutes a game? Perhaps even put him out there with the starters? Shift JJ to small forward and Jamal to 2 guard and let the kid grab some experience. Do you think Mike Bibby would complain that he is getting rest at his age?

Mike, all you do is flounder around on minutes with these guys. Treating Teague like he’s is in trouble 2 out of three games is eventually going to kill his confidence to the point that we’ll have to trade him. He plays tough defense on the ball, he’s lightning quick. He shows flashes of a great passer. Quit calling it “throwing him to the wolves” and just come to grips with the fact that you do not know how to create roles for players. You’re just guessing with these kids.

He’s a rookie player on a good team. Let him learn on the court, please?

then he is learning some bad habits from his elders. We don’t want teague playing like bibby or crawford, we want him ti actually want to drive the ball and kick and dunk and steal the ball

Woody is using this as a total cop out. Just how does he expect the kid to learn without playing time? He’s a rookie on a good team. I get that. But so is Ty Lawson. Denver is ranked 2 or 3 in the Western Conference and he gets a lot of minutes. Truthfully, Bibby looks like the wheels could fall off at anytime now and it has to be frustrating and disconcerting to him to see Mario get more minutes than him. If you’re not going to play him, quit drafting PG’s! Let the team slide back into Lottery Land from whence it came. Idiot! Does Sund have an email address? I have a couple of things I need to get off my chest.

I’d really like to be able to explain why this team can play some really incredible third quarters and then can’t do jack diddly in the fourth. I’m sure a lot of fans complain about how their teams change what’s happening during the 4th quarter, but we seriously, seriously do.

At any rate, Woodson’s problems go beyond Jeff Teague. Marvin Williams, for example.

If woody would actually give him a chance it would work. he is being ridiculous(woody) because the tteam needs another “true” pg.

HawksDawgs – right on on regarding the point about the forwards leading the breaks. Why are our guards not doing that, i always get nervous seeing smoove and Lion leading. But Bibby and JJ just not fast enough, and Jamal if he leads the break is more thinking about scoring. Teague can help in those areas, he is great on the break.

As for Teague, I say this much, yesterday i was there early. I saw a tall thin Thunder shooting by himself. An hour before the game, by himself, a lonely figure over and over. i think it was Durant. Over and over he shot at an empty basket as the Phillips arena was filling all around him. A lonely assistant throwing the ball back to him. Here is a great shooter and he is doing that. Now this is Teague’s home court, and may be he had other places to warm up, and may be he is a rookie and he is nervous getting in front of a crowd, but i want to hear from someone that he is working on his shot. The one thing he can do to stop the nonsense that is Woody’s substitution rotation patterns, is improve his shot. Otherwise, every time he shoots the ball, it is a turnover. While smoove can get away with not shooting, inability to have a outside shott for a point guard in NBA is the death sentence. So yes give him a few minutes a game, but let’s balance that against the rookie’s skills.

when woody isnt our coach

Meaning: should we have lost that game? Did we lose because of a untimely shooting slump? Was it a blow out. Even though this is one loss, I am getting really nervous. Charlotte and Miami now have the same record. I can’t stomach meeting Charlotte in the playoffs.

Joe Johnson is the only 20+ scorer averaging less than 4 free throw attempts a game. Josh Smith is the only hawk in the top 40 in free throw attempts

Puck Mike Woodson