Stan Van needs to take more timeouts when the game starts to get out of hand. He’s saving too much energy for his postgame rant and not being assertive enough.

Andre Drummond and Reggie Jackson cannot pout. I saw it happen with the Clippers and DeAndre Jordan and Blake Griffin: they’re so big and athletic, the refs can barely keep up. Often, like 1 of 3 calls goes against you for no reason. And there’s nothing you can do about it. By now (after like seven seasons) Jordan just moves on. Griffin is still getting there. Just keep your head up, and like MJ did, put it into eviscerating your opponent.

We have to get back to our defensive intensity. It made no sense to see Tony “old/tiny-ass” Parker beat the stronger, younger (and we didn’t play the night before like San Antonio did) Jackson and Caldwell-Pope non-stop at one point. Geesh. Where is the effort? We kept biting on pump fakes against a bunch of flat-footed fools, something van Gundy could have talked about in a timeout, perhaps?

Aron Baynes was going hard against his old team, and we let him down. If we can’t score 100 points, I don’t care, but the way we’ve been playing defense the last ten or so games is embarrassing. We started out so good, and I thought we were in that MMA-shape? Only Stanley Johnson seems to give everything he has on a nightly basis, and he’s a rookie. To me, that’s coaching…

Maybe switch up the lineup more in terms of substitution instead of staying so predictable. I don’t see James Franco enough in the 4th quarter – and where’s Steve Blake or Joel Anthony? Let some steady veterans take a quick minute or two to settle us down. Keep switching it up, too often there’s lapses with the same unit going too long.

Gundy also wants to have a defensive identity while shooting 3s. Does that translate? Or are the guys getting lulled to sleep without pounding the post and passing until someone’s actually open? And his gut doesn’t exactly inspire a body-to-the floor mentality.

I’m just saying, we can all try a little harder. It’s still not even midway through the season, but a lot of teams aren’t handling their business right now and it’s an opportunity to pick up vital games that could determine our playoff chances in April.

We can do it. I know we’re young, but that also means not many teams are as physically gifted or energetic as we are. Mine as well get after it!