The Pacers have lost five straight games and Paul George believes it could be a result of the way the roster in constructed, Nate Taylor of USA Today passes along. “Maybe it’s changing schemes up in how we guard these spread teams,” George said. “This is a new league, a new NBA. I think we might have to go a different route and work on that as oppose to trying to make changes during games where we’re kind of not really sure how to guard something.”
George added that the team may need to make some changes going forward. “I think we just build for where the league is headed and just work on that because it’s not going to get easier,” he said “We’re going to keep facing teams that give us this challenge of spreading around the perimeter. That’s really where we’re losing.”
Here’s more from the Central Division:
- Coach/executive Stan Van Gundy remains confident in Reggie Jackson, Aaron McMann of MLive writes. “It’s an adjustment period for all of us, and I don’t have any doubts he’ll come back to playing the way he was before,” Van Gundy said. The Pistons reportedly have “quietly explored” the trade market for the point guard.
- The Pistons attempted to sign Yogi Ferrell before the season when the point guard was an undrafted free agent, McMann relays in a separate piece. “He’s a guy on draft night that didn’t get drafted, and we tried to get in the race for some money to have him guaranteed,” Van Gundy said. “But Brooklyn had gobbled him up. He ended up getting cut there and has really latched on and played very, very well for Dallas.”
- Jabari Parker underwent successful surgery on his left knee and the Bucks are expected to be without the former No. 2 overall pick for 12 months, Chris Mannix of The Vertical tweets.
- Cristiano Felicio‘s development is a major plus for the Bulls’ front office, Mark Schanowski of Comcast Sportsnet writes. Felicio will be a restricted free agent in the offseason and Schanowski believes the team will have tough competition for his services.
So Paul George needs to step up defensively and be willing to play the 4 for stretches. Take more responsibility. They obviously shouldn’t have decline Solomon hills option. Also, they have too many small combo guards, and too many 5s…their rotation has changed a little for the better recently, and that’s when they started winning a bit more, but they still need to tweek a couple of things, as I’ve said most of the year…this team just has a lot of issues defensively
Doesn’t help that the coaching “change” wasn’t a good one. But PG has done almost everything he’s been asked except play the 4 give him some credit.
He whines more than any “superstar” I’ve ever seen
They all whine
Agreed. The Solomon Hill decision was just stupid.
He was 4-19 against caves…takes no responsibility for his poor performance. Big hat/no cattle.
Reading between the lines: Get rid of these bums.