
The Bad News: James Harden is out for 10 days to 2 weeks, which probably means 3 weeks to a month.
Why can't we ever get the BIG 3 on the court at the same time?

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ecuhus1981 wrote:The Pels are weird.
They seem to lose 1/2 of the games they're supposed to win, and win 1/2 of the games they're supposed to lose. They don't defend cohesively, and can struggle from long range. However, they're aggressive in passing lanes and love to make teams pay in transition.
They're awful on the road, and just got taken to the woodshed by Atlanta last night, 2 things that bode well for us. I am curious to see how we scheme for Zion. He is not your typical 1-dimensional low post scorer, although he of course does that at an extremely efficient level. He's also their primary playmaker now, so it will be interesting to see how we guard him. I would love to see a healthy dose of Claxton at the top of the key whenever Williamson runs the show. Over-utilizing Blake or Jeff for that defensive assignment would be a miscue.
Kevin returns tonight, I'm glad. I hope he's hungry. Kyrie is heating up and showing selfless leadership. All due respect to New Orleans, we don't need much from the rest of the team. Keep our defensive connectivity, box out your man when a shot is in the air and hit some open 3's, let's not make this a nail biter. Go Brooklyn!
Prokorov wrote:I expect alot of lineups like:
Kyrie | Harris | TLC (yuck) | Brown | Green
Prokorov wrote:Pumped to have KD back. But hope they dont over do it. the win is meaningless. KD should play about 18 minutes and 0 in crunch time where it gets more physical
6 minutes to start.
6 minutes to close the third
6 more to open the second half
another set back probably means missing playoff games. so need to ramp him back up slowly
Whiskey Slick wrote:Prokorov wrote:I expect alot of lineups like:
Kyrie | Harris | TLC (yuck) | Brown | Green
I can't see anyway TLC starts.
If I had to cut TLC or Alzie and those were my only two choices, I would cut TLC.
My starting lineup tonight:
Kyrie | Brown | Harris | Green | Claxton
But I suspect Nash will start LMA and bring Claxton in off the bench, his usual M.O. since LMA got here.
Claud wrote:Knowing Nash he'll play KD 35+ minutes![]()
FINALLY WE GET TO SEE CLAXTON/KD pairing which has me HYPE.
Sucks the beard got injured, but honestly he was getting run down by our coaching staff.
I'd rest him as much as possible until the playoffs. He should take 1 month off at least.
I honestly don't care if we finish with the top seed or 3rd.. makes no difference to us. We'll cook whoever is in the way.
Pels are a talented team on paper but they play **** defense and their pieces don't mesh well(BI, Zion, Lonzo, etc)
I expect another W.
Claud wrote:Knowing Nash he'll play KD 35+ minutes![]()
FINALLY WE GET TO SEE CLAXTON/KD pairing which has me HYPE.
Sucks the beard got injured, but honestly he was getting run down by our coaching staff.
I'd rest him as much as possible until the playoffs. He should take 1 month off at least.
I honestly don't care if we finish with the top seed or 3rd.. makes no difference to us. We'll cook whoever is in the way.
Pels are a talented team on paper but they play **** defense and their pieces don't mesh well(BI, Zion, Lonzo, etc)
I expect another W.
MrDollarBills wrote:Give me Kyrie/Brown/Harris/Durant/Aldridge to start with Claxton, Green, TLC, Blake, some sweet sweet Alize and 10 mins or so from Cheese.
HEAT33 wrote:Nets not even the best team in NY without Durant
Hello Brooklyn wrote:We were so bad earlier in this season with KD/Kyrie and no Harden. Hoping we have figured it out.
We need to keep winning till Harden comes back.