bws94 wrote:SpeedyG wrote:Just want to thank Stotts for handing this game to us. Apparently he missed the memo on how we've been punished by almost every team we've played who has half-decent big man.
I think Nets won this game. Look at how they contained L&M. This time, the Nets did the job and won the game.
oh I'm not taking anything away from the players. The perimeter defense especially denial on dame and cj was great most of the night. The team defense was good for the most part and they iut hustled the blazers.
But you'd have to be hard pressed to believe that the result would have been the same if Stotts wasn't an idiot and went with the strategy that has worked all season long.
We had no answer for Nurk in the 1st half. He missed a couple of tough shots in the 3rd and never saw the floor again.
The game was tight from 4 min on. Even situational ball, which you see coaches do all the time late in the game. Offense vs defense? Nope. Nurk sat the entire time.
One basket, one tip in, one offensive rebound. That is all it takes to swing this game to their favor. And Stotts kept their biggest weapon against us glued on the bench.
Bless the man if his heart and his land are one ~ FrancisM, R.I.P. 3/6/09