GDT - Afternoon Visit with Thad Young & Co.

[longstrangetrip [enjin:6600564]]

Great win. Defense once again was key to the win. Our offense has been incredibly consistent lately. Here are our last 9 games' point totals in regulation (we hat two OT games in this stretch):

103
106
114
100
101
100
102
99
100

You can almost book us for 100 pts per game. Yet we won only three of these games because we didn't defend well enough. This team isn't going to win with prolific offense, so the key for us is the defensive side of the ball.

Great information, q. Sam panicked a couple weeks ago after a couple stagnant offensive games, and inserted Kevin Martin in the starting lineup...and that led to an ugly week and a half of basketball. The offensive output didn't change much, but our defensive performance got much worse. This team has plenty of ways to score points (even if we don't score in the prettiest fashion sometimes)...the key to winning is putting the right defensive combinations out there to hold opponents under 100.

I just finished watching the game...very impressive win. Not much discussion about the game because ir ran concurrent with the Vikings game, but it deserves more discussion. I'm going to fire up another thread with some of my observations.

[worldK]

I miss the game as I usually miss Sunday games. Glad to get the win and hope wildwolf can provide his live game report.

[60WinTim]

I disagree with the "Sam panicked" comment. The rotations were struggling, especially the bench unit. Sam made a change he thought would produce better results. The new rotations were given fair stretch of games to see how the chemistry would develop. Obviously, it did not produce the results anyone wanted. Sam may have gone back the same starting lineup, but this third iteration of rotations is quite different from the first, with Dieng playing a more prominent role, and Miller getting his due as well.

[Q12543 [enjin:6621299]]

For those of you that missed the game, here are Rubio's 15 assists in a tidy little highlight package. Vintage stuff here:

http://www.nba.com/video/games/nets/2015/12/20/0021500403-min-bkn-rubio-15-ast-wsc.nba/?ls=iref:nbahpts