foosballnick wrote:All the Pro-Thibs / Anti-Brown agendas out in droves when the team is slumping and the chips seem down. Only thing that matters to me is how we fare in the playoffs. Thibs teams excelled during the regular season and fell short in the post season. I'll reserve judgement & criticism on Brown until after the season.

we literally just beat the defending NBA champs who were heavy favorites last year.

foosballnick wrote:

nycericanguy wrote:

foosballnick wrote:All the Pro-Thibs / Anti-Brown agendas out in droves when the team is slumping and the chips seem down. Only thing that matters to me is how we fare in the playoffs. Thibs teams excelled during the regular season and fell short in the post season. I'll reserve judgement & criticism on Brown until after the season.

we literally just beat the defending NBA champs who were heavy favorites last year.

Whatever floats your boat......because after that we lost to the Pacers.

yup the same Pacers who took OKC to 7 games and probably win it all if Hali doesn't get injured.

And we only lost because of a miraculously Hali bounce.

SergioNYK wrote:

We will 110% make the Finals and have a chance to win it if we continue to play this type of defense. Not sure if it's sustainable but this type of effort and communication needs to be the standard!

I agree and KAT with his dominate board play helps. We didn’t trade for KATs 60 mil salary to play defense and get rebounds. Now if we win it all, I guess it’s worth it. If we don’t, we could’ve spent that money elsewhere like resigning deuce and Mitch.

blkexec wrote:

SergioNYK wrote:

We will 110% make the Finals and have a chance to win it if we continue to play this type of defense. Not sure if it's sustainable but this type of effort and communication needs to be the standard!

I agree and KAT with his dominate board play helps. We didn’t trade for KATs 60 mil salary to play defense and get rebounds. Now if we win it all, I guess it’s worth it. If we don’t, we could’ve spent that money elsewhere like resigning deuce and Mitch.

ToddTT wrote:

ramtour420 wrote:

blkexec wrote:

SergioNYK wrote:

We will 110% make the Finals and have a chance to win it if we continue to play this type of defense. Not sure if it's sustainable but this type of effort and communication needs to be the standard!

I agree and KAT with his dominate board play helps. We didn’t trade for KATs 60 mil salary to play defense and get rebounds. Now if we win it all, I guess it’s worth it. If we don’t, we could’ve spent that money elsewhere like resigning deuce and Mitch.

One of the keys to the Championship is Towns. If Towns accepts playing the Joakim Noah role- that would set us up to win it all, as far as Towns contributions are concerned. Because we need a blue collar guy like that and IF Towns decides to pull down 30 rebounds each game while dishing 5 assists and not fouling= he can do it. He automatically becomes the best blue collar guy ( one that does all the unnoticed hard work)in the league. He will still be able to exploit matchups and get easy points. He just will not force it , like he has been. Instead he will force not fouling, getting boards and passing. It's a winning formula, I think

I would just like to say... **** Joakim Noah.

Fuck Embiid. But also **** Joakim Noah.

Noah is the inspiration behind my daily pull-up regimen.

Because of him I'm hoping someday someone will pay me $80M in guaranteed money after I show them how fit I am when I rip through a set of pull-ups.

It worked with Phil Jackson and god willing it will work for me with another sucker like Phil.

foosballnick wrote:All the Pro-Thibs / Anti-Brown agendas out in droves when the team is slumping and the chips seem down. Only thing that matters to me is how we fare in the playoffs. Thibs teams excelled during the regular season and fell short in the post season. I'll reserve judgement & criticism on Brown until after the season.

It’s a false dilemma fallacy that supporting firing Thibs automatically means pro-Mike Brown.

We maxed out with Thibs and he wasn’t getting along with the players. Guys like Thibs and the Van Gundy bros their schtick gets old and they have zero offensive creativity. Thats why Thibs is unemployed, Jeff is an assistant with the clippers and Stan is an announcer.

There were way better coaches available.

Philc1 wrote:

Panos wrote:Bump.
Last night it was obvious Shamet and OG weren't getting it done.
The team kept missing open shots and then making the same mistakes over and over and over.
Turnovers.
Letting Pistons go back door for dunks.
Why not stop the madness and put OG on the bench Who was useless out there.
Should have gone to Sochan earlier. Play more Mo
Bring in Clarkson instead of Alvarado who did nothing.

Brown was brought in for offensive creativity since Thibs basically had none. The pistons couldn’t stop KAT last night without fouling him yet every offensive possession KAT was just standing on the 3-point line. Give me a break.

KAT scored TWO points in the first half.

And btw, exactly WHAT OFFENSIVE CREATIVITY have we seen out of this team? Please enlighten me!
I'll settle for a couple of picks off the ball and players going back door to the basket like other good teams are doing to us constantly!

ramtour420 wrote:The ideas are nice. We aren't doing it. 24 assists against Detroit is not what his offensive system is supposed to be. Yes it's a good system, but we still aren't playing it like we can

Or do we even have the personnel to run browns system effectively? How much flexibility is in browns system? This roster has talent but only on certain sides of the court. So unless everyone is operating in their greatness, there will be some games where we look like a play in team.