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crazy-canuck wrote:bench with a combined -25 in a 2 pt game. And people wonder why Thibs plays the starters so much.

Thibs the coach needs to ask for some help from Thibs the GM.

I'd bet he's tried to move Dieng and the phones have been dry.

Thibs and Jimmy lost he game tonight. Jimmy was so hellbent on going for the kill shot himself that he forgot that perhaps running the offense would be something Cleveland wouldn't expect. Even LeBron said at the end they knew Jimmy was going ISO. Let Towns get that shot. Hell, let Wiggins take that shot. It doesn't have to be Jimmy in every instance.

CoolBreeze44 wrote:One trend is we lose when we rely exclusively on Jimmy down the stretch. We have too many options and too many threats to become that transparent at the end of games.

Agreed, Jimmy once again couldn't come through. Why not set up a play to get an open shot when everyone is thinking only Jimmy? LeBron made a good play but it was predictable with the clock winding down.

LeBron is by far the superior hero baller.

WildWolf2813 wrote:Thibs and Jimmy lost he game tonight. Jimmy was so hellbent on going for the kill shot himself that he forgot that perhaps running the offense would be something Cleveland wouldn't expect. Even LeBron said at the end they knew Jimmy was going ISO. Let Towns get that shot. Hell, let Wiggins take that shot. It doesn't have to be Jimmy in every instance.

Ehhh, slow down there. We're not even in that game without Jimmy. And Thibs drives the train. We could have used better production from the bench and better defense overall, but Cleveland was one shot better than us tonight. On to the next one.

We had that 1 play where they get it to wig in ot by design. Hope we could have more variety down the stretch and have towns get the ball to score and not to screen a couple of times. Jimmy is the man for us but we can't always have him play iso the whole ot, everyone knows what is going to happen there.

Like keek said, Why bother defending the backcourt? especially when korver and lebron are alone at their court. Line up near their court to prevent those 2 from getting the ball. Maybe put someone on jr smith and just defend on their court.

Camden wrote:

crazy-canuck wrote:bench with a combined -25 in a 2 pt game. And people wonder why Thibs plays the starters so much.

Thibs the coach needs to ask for some help from Thibs the GM.

I'd bet he's tried to move Dieng and the phones have been dry.

Dieng is unmovable.

HIs plays has been bad this year and his contract is worse. Outside of his midrange, hes basically a deficit as soon as he steps on the court.

Off topic, but those uni's the Spurs are wearing tonight might be the worst I've ever seen.

Camden wrote:

WildWolf2813 wrote:Thibs and Jimmy lost he game tonight. Jimmy was so hellbent on going for the kill shot himself that he forgot that perhaps running the offense would be something Cleveland wouldn't expect. Even LeBron said at the end they knew Jimmy was going ISO. Let Towns get that shot. Hell, let Wiggins take that shot. It doesn't have to be Jimmy in every instance.

Ehhh, slow down there. We're not even in that game without Jimmy. And Thibs drives the train. We could have used better production from the bench and better defense overall, but Cleveland was one shot better than us tonight. On to the next one.

Ya, that has to be a Joke that we lost because of Jimmy. Jimmy was a huge reason we were even in the game. We need to get better on late game offense. I think we got good offense when we ran it through Teague late in the game.

We lost by one of the best of all time being special it happens. Respect his greatness.

Also I think he still gets it off in time but a little home cooking on the clock on that last shot.

I think it's better they lost this game. In the long run, they need to learn they have to play defense to win. If they win playing bad defense it just supports the bad habits.

we will never play good defense unless kat (or Dieng) wants to.

Phenomenal game offensively and he needed more touches. But his defense was tough to watch tonight. He was often stuck in no mans land covering no one or too lazy to get back.

It wouldnt be as bad if we had depth, but Dieng is actually worse than Kat defensively.

Teague isnt a good defender either, but the C position is so much more important for good defense.