BlueKnickers wrote:Earlier in the season the solution was to run Kolek with Brunson to relieve the pressure on Brunson and it worked

Hint, Hint

Mike Brown is pretty conservative. He's going to stick with his playoff rotations as long as it's close.

martin wrote:Wow

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Clutch Defense!

gradyandrew wrote:

BlueKnickers wrote:Earlier in the season the solution was to run Kolek with Brunson to relieve the pressure on Brunson and it worked

Hint, Hint

Mike Brown is pretty conservative. He's going to stick with his playoff rotations as long as it's close.

If OG is out for anytime I expect an 8 man rotation with Deuce starting at the 2, Hart and Mikal at forward and Mitch, Jose, and Shamet coming off the bench.

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martin wrote:

BlueKnickers wrote:Jose can't run an offense

Pissing me off

I know we joke about it a lot, but beginning of the 4th would have been a risk taking, genius level move by Brown that maybe Mazulla or Spoelstra would have pulled off to success for like 5+ min

My first reason was Jose is ass as an actual PG

The second reason was Brunson was choking as a ball handler and the way Brown fixed that earlier was to pair Kolek next to him. He did it to end a number of games, but stopped doing it once Jose arrived. It was an effective solution to Brunson getting swarmed late in the game.

fitzfarm wrote:

BlueKnickers wrote:

martin wrote:

BlueKnickers wrote:Jose can't run an offense

Pissing me off

I know we joke about it a lot, but beginning of the 4th would have been a risk taking, genius level move by Brown that maybe Mazulla or Spoelstra would have pulled off to success for like 5+ min

My first reason was Jose is ass as an actual PG

The second reason was Brunson was choking as a ball handler and the way Brown fixed that earlier was to pair Kolek next to him. He did it to end a number of games, but stopped doing it once Jose arrived. It was an effective solution to Brunson getting swarmed late in the game.

TYLER KOLEK why is he not getting burn with that second unit with Kat and Mikel they would cook with Kolek getting them easy looks

I could eat mystery meat all day long and give you a better guess as to what I was consuming than give you a good answer as to why Mike Brown has our best PG glued to the bench.

Last night was a trap game. Glad we pulled it out. Philly just went ice cold down the stretch. I wouldn’t even fully credit our defense, they missed a bunch of open 3s they hit all night long. But relying on that level of shooting will usually come back to bite you.

All eyes on OG … and Mo Diawara.

DLeethal wrote:Jose sucked last night but has been great these playoffs and basically was inserted right when our team flipped the script in the ATL series. Bad game yes but no reason at all to take him out of the rotation.

Last night was a trap game. Glad we pulled it out. Philly just went ice cold down the stretch. I wouldn’t even fully credit our defense, they missed a bunch of open 3s they hit all night long. But relying on that level of shooting will usually come back to bite you.

All eyes on OG … and Mo Diawara.

Jose brings energy but not results. Teams are abusing him consistently. He is the guy who lit a fire under CJs ass in atlantas wins. I see him as purely a situational player at this point, someone you can use against an opponent who is already sloppy w their ball handling

gradyandrew wrote:

martin wrote:Wow

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Yep - that is nice to see.

I think I had read that prior to the 4th quarter collapse we had vs. the Hawks in round 1 at home (can't remember the game #) our 4th quarter differential was the best in the NBA in last 40 or so years. Could be off but think I read something along those lines.

Obviously EVERYTHING hinges on OG not being out because he's basically Dave DeBusschere right now.

Speaking of DeBusschere --- this squad as it's playing right now (particularly with ball moving thru Kat) is as close to the early 70's team on both sides of the ball that I've ever seen. Contributions from everyone - don't know if it's going to be Brunson/Towns/OG/Mikal/Josh/Deuce/Mitch making the big play and unselfish offensive play all over the court.

I do think our bench is kind of shrinking in the moment a bit -- need Mitch to show up, need Deuce/Shamet to show up more and could use a signature Clarkson game off the bench. Thought Clarkson made some big buckets early when Sixers were rolling. Can't believe how small our bench rotation is w/out Mitch. Huck is kind of a hamburger to me - nice kid but a foul waiting to happen.