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[bwgood77]

Just for S's and giggles, if the finals are Phoenix/Atlanta....
What matchup issues would we have or what advantages would we have?

We'll probably stick Bridges on Trae, but it'll be a team effort guarding him in the pick and roll. DA will have to do a good job of taking away his floater without getting caught in no man's land when we're not able to keep him in front. Collins can be a problem with his size and energy, but I think we'll be fine with Crowder and Craig.

You can't underestimate them. They can shoot the hell out of the ball and Capela has been a really good rim runner, screener, and rebounder for them. They have good depth with Lou Will and Gallo off the bench. Capela is one of the best rim protectors in the league and they do a good job of hiding Trae on the least impactful offensive player. They're not a great defensive team, and I don't think they have a lot of 1 on 1 defenders to contain Booker and CP3, but they've played good team defense.

Either matchup will be a handful in my opinion.

Yeah, I agree with you and I think the Hawks are a great team with a superstar in Trae Young BUT they would be an easier matchup for us. The Bucks have so many two-way players and depth, with another superstar in Anteto.

I think Hawks have far superior depth, especially if healthy.

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Interesting choice by Carlisle

Gotta make up for the Malice in the Palace.

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We'll probably stick Bridges on Trae, but it'll be a team effort guarding him in the pick and roll. DA will have to do a good job of taking away his floater without getting caught in no man's land when we're not able to keep him in front. Collins can be a problem with his size and energy, but I think we'll be fine with Crowder and Craig.

You can't underestimate them. They can shoot the hell out of the ball and Capela has been a really good rim runner, screener, and rebounder for them. They have good depth with Lou Will and Gallo off the bench. Capela is one of the best rim protectors in the league and they do a good job of hiding Trae on the least impactful offensive player. They're not a great defensive team, and I don't think they have a lot of 1 on 1 defenders to contain Booker and CP3, but they've played good team defense.

Either matchup will be a handful in my opinion.

Yeah, I agree with you and I think the Hawks are a great team with a superstar in Trae Young BUT they would be an easier matchup for us. The Bucks have so many two-way players and depth, with another superstar in Anteto.

I think Hawks have far superior depth, especially if healthy.

and also, two mobile bigs. hopefully we would be able to exploit the Bogdanovic injury

[GoodBehavior]

I think Bucks will take the series, but Giannis will be exhausted when it is all said and done. He's going to be less effective in the finals. I don't think Bud has much of a choice but to play Giannis 20+ minutes as a small ball center, which means he's going to be taxed at both ends of the courts. Their drop coverage isn't going to to cut it.

If the Hawks make it, it think we can handle them well if both teams meet. Bridges was effective in guarding Trae this season. The Hawks have done well in the playoff playing against non-switching teams. That's not the case with the Suns. Also the Hawks haven't faced a PNR team in the playoff. Knicks, Sixers, and Bucks don't run that traditional PNR with their centers, allowing the Hawk's defense to shine, which has been their surprising source of success. With their best wing defender out, very bad weakside protection (Trae and Collins), a center that is a rim protector but has been exposed before on the roll, facing Booker and Paul, and then having to deal with Ayton ... that's a tall order for them to overcome defensively.

[starbosa10]

I'd rather play the Bucks because I think Bud is out of his depth

[bwgood77]

I'd rather play the Bucks because I think Bud is out of his depth

Plus I think he turned down us despite being his favorite team growing up because he wanted to coach a contender in the Bucks. Be funny to beat him after that.

[RunDogGun]

The Bucks took 41 threes. That seems like a lot. And they were 35-55 from inside the three.

[Mulhollanddrive]

There's 2 choices.

Preferring Atlanta or preferring Milwaukee but end up preferring Atlanta.

[RunDogGun]

There's 2 choices.

Preferring Atlanta or preferring Milwaukee but end up preferring Atlanta.

I prefer to beat LAC, after that we get who we get. Both would be tough, both are beatable.

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Interesting choice by Carlisle

good hire by the Pacers as I think he is a good solid coach

I have read that Jason Kidd is now the leader for the Mavs job. CArlisle pushing for him. As well as the rest of the Western Conference

Maybe Kidd will be a better coach with his next job but when the Suns job opened, especially when it was Igor and Gambo was the mouthpiece for Kidd as HC - that was the one guy I didn't want as head coach.

The Mavs hit on Luka, but that led to some questionable moves by this franchise like letting Curry go to put a better defender next to him in Richardson, but that experiment has failed. KP experiment appears as failed too. Now a good coach in Carlisle is gone and based on the headlines one of the reasons was the relation between Doncic and the assistant coach. No idea how good(bad) Kidd is as a coach, but people are laughing on GB about him asking a Bucks player to intentionally miss a FT. Only hope for Mavs fans appears to be this new GM, who supposedly has good relations with players, Lillard specifically.

Still remember a few here saying DA will cost the job of his coaches by underachieving. It turned out that Luka overachieving had the same effect.

[mkot]

The Bucks took 41 threes. That seems like a lot. And they were 35-55 from inside the three.

They are a very streaky shooting team.

The Hawks simply gave up the game. They got one game and gave up. Pathetic.

[suns12345]

How are these first time coaches like Billups in a position to leverage a 5 year deal? Seems crazy and ends up with teams firing a coach every year and paying 5 extra salaries haha

[bwgood77]

How are these first time coaches like Billups in a position to leverage a 5 year deal? Seems crazy and ends up with teams firing a coach every year and paying 5 extra salaries haha

Seems like Billups has been a long time top candidate. I wouldn't be surprised at all if CP3 was a super hot commodity as a head coach almost immediately when he retired...like to where he didn't even really need to be an assistant...kind of like Kidd...but I think he will be a better coach.

I'd love CP3 in Phx as an assistant and future successor to Monty, though Monty will probably be here for a long time. There is a good chance in many ways he would be better than Monty. But Monty is great for the culture and Paul has sometimes rubbed a lot of players the wrong way, but mainly other stars like Blake, Harden and even Jordan. If you give him a young team though, like ours or OKCs, he's great. Being in LA I could see the Lakers hire him...the Clippers make sense but Lue has been so impressive..I never thought much of Lue but he's been really good.

[Mulhollanddrive]

Milwaukee are tough going to be a worthy Finals.

First 2 games at home (potentially with a weeks rest) are huge for us.

Giannis seems to have a niggle or two (ankle / calf) but keeps performing.

[RayLight]

Giannis is going for 30 pts every game against us, no doubt. We need to cover Jrue and Middleton. The rest of their team is not solid and they have no bench (only Portis and Forbes). Let us first go to the Finals and then we will analyze the potential matchups!

[bwgood77]

Wow, Trae Young questionable in game 4 with bone bruise in left foot.

[starbosa10]

How are these first time coaches like Billups in a position to leverage a 5 year deal? Seems crazy and ends up with teams firing a coach every year and paying 5 extra salaries haha

Seems like Billups has been a long time top candidate. I wouldn't be surprised at all if CP3 was a super hot commodity as a head coach almost immediately when he retired...like to where he didn't even really need to be an assistant...kind of like Kidd...but I think he will be a better coach.

I'd love CP3 in Phx as an assistant and future successor to Monty, though Monty will probably be here for a long time. There is a good chance in many ways he would be better than Monty. But Monty is great for the culture and Paul has sometimes rubbed a lot of players the wrong way, but mainly other stars like Blake, Harden and even Jordan. If you give him a young team though, like ours or OKCs, he's great. Being in LA I could see the Lakers hire him...the Clippers make sense but Lue has been so impressive..I never thought much of Lue but he's been really good.

Don't want someone like Billups around this team

[bwgood77]

How are these first time coaches like Billups in a position to leverage a 5 year deal? Seems crazy and ends up with teams firing a coach every year and paying 5 extra salaries haha

Seems like Billups has been a long time top candidate. I wouldn't be surprised at all if CP3 was a super hot commodity as a head coach almost immediately when he retired...like to where he didn't even really need to be an assistant...kind of like Kidd...but I think he will be a better coach.

I'd love CP3 in Phx as an assistant and future successor to Monty, though Monty will probably be here for a long time. There is a good chance in many ways he would be better than Monty. But Monty is great for the culture and Paul has sometimes rubbed a lot of players the wrong way, but mainly other stars like Blake, Harden and even Jordan. If you give him a young team though, like ours or OKCs, he's great. Being in LA I could see the Lakers hire him...the Clippers make sense but Lue has been so impressive..I never thought much of Lue but he's been really good.

Don't want someone like Billups around this team

Me neither, but like I said, I'd love CP3 in Phx as an assistant and future successor to Monty.....and went on even further about it in the second paragraph.

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That sucks....Trae was having a helluva debut playoff run.