JYD. TT brings nothing now, and I wouldn't start Ariza yet.

Posted by MaTT4281:

Posted by BRIGGS:

amazing D on dirk? dirk looked like he was sleep walking and put up 30-12 shooting 50%. It doesnt matter who we put on lebron, no one can come close to stopping him. he is bigger stronger faster than anyone who would be guarding him.

Yes, I'm sticking with "amazing defense", if you can rewatch that game, tell me how JYD (not Kurt or TT, who also had to take their turns guarding him) could have guarded him any better. He stopped Dirk from taking some good shots, he constantly got the ball out of his hands, or kept him from ever getting it. He did everything you could as of him, and more, also considering Dirk is 4 or 5 inches taller than JYD.
He fouled him in the closing minutes, but all in all, I think he did a great job.

i thought he played him pretty well, scrappy and aggresive. would stop well short of *amazing D* because he put up 30 and 12+shot 56%-i think the bottom line are his results and the D played on him was far less than amazing

remember dallas was without their

starting 7-0 260 pound C
starting 6-7 225 SF
and starting PG

we are making this out to be some kind of morale victory

we shouldve been able to win the game. God help us the crying we would hear if Marbury Thomas and Crawford were out. Although Dallas has nice depth [like we supposedly have] you have to beat a team down 3 starters.

Im sure everyone expects a win tomorrow--Clev traveling playing B-B but if you have watched James play this year and equate how open our lane is, hes going to score 50 big ones or close to it manana. i would say that we had better double him all game

You took the words right out of my mouth Bonn

It was very good defense, but not amazing. That's NY overrexxageration for you. However, you couldn't have asked JYD to do any better. Dirk DID score a lot of points at the end of the game, against anyone including JYD. What was AMAZING was how Dirk was able to score those points, despite the very good defense of Jerome Williams. What would have been amazing was if JYD kept Dirk to 20 points, on 5 of 15 shooting, 1-4 from 3 pt range.

His defense was good enough to shut down a lot of other players in the league, but if your guy scores 30 points, it's not quite amazing.

With that being said, I still don't take anything away from Jerome, b/c his D was the best it could be, so I give praise to Jerome, on that particular situation.