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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5266392, member: 722"]
I'm starting to be of this opinion.

I turned the TV off after a terrible offensive possession.

Lampkin and Freeman are playing the two man game, with Freeman feeding Lampkin in the post. Everybody else is cleared out to the other side of the court.

Freeman's guy drops to double Lampkin, Lampkin gets the pass back to Freeman for a wide open three.

Yet, in spite of the offensive set working perfectly to get an open three, it is clear that Freeman has been instructed not to shoot threes. He almost takes it anyway, but freezes, and dribbles into traffic and gets bailed out by a foul call.

Red is clearly getting into his guys heads.
Why on earth do you run that play and tell Freeman not to shoot?  Why do you recruit a dynamic offensive player like Freeman, who is a decent three point shooter, and tell him to never shoot, even wide open?

We recruited Lampkin to do exactly what he did this possession... Force the double team on the post, identify the open man and create open shots.  He did his job, the play was perfectly executed and yet the way Freeman is being coached is preventing the success.

I turned the game off after that.  We had no chance of overcoming that lead. Our deficit expanded rapidly after that.

God bless you, who stayed watching through the end of the game.
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