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Crives wrote:Ayton is going to be more important then Booker/Luka/CP3 in the upcoming series.
sunsbg wrote:Mavs are probably the most predictable team in the league. They were forcing Luka vs Gobert on almost every play in 1st round in final minutes. Won't work well against DA. I don't see what different they can offer against us. Luka PnR all day and their role players hitting 3s. Quite easy to game-plan against. So as long as we play our best game it should be an easy win being the better team overall.
RunDogGun wrote:NapoleonII wrote:Shamet and the word 'rhythm' are never gonna meet up.
Dude is shooting nearly 20% from three in this series and most of them were good looks. This is the story of his career in the playoffs and I don't know why he keeps getting contracts and chances. I'd love for him to turn things around, but we're already dragging Jae Crwoder's turrble 3 pt% around. There's no time. We have too many talented guards who thrive in the mid-range or driving (CP3/Book/Payne) and we NEED shooting from roleplayers.
Monty needs to do the hard thing and cut Shamet out entirely. Bring out Holiday who can match up vs. Brunson and probably shoot better than 22 freaking % from three.
Holiday is shoot 100% in his limited minutes. But he has the shortest leash for no reason what so ever. Crowder is a bench player. At this point I would rather start Craig than Crowder. The reason I kept suggesting CamJ is because he was our best three point shooter, and was the most productive when playing 30+ mins, and Monty just can't give CamJ that many minutes when coming off the bench for some reason. It has maybe happened once, and that is usually because of foul trouble of others or injuries. Shamet is not playable in the playoffs, he brings very little offensively, and nearly nothing defensively. Holiday has out played him. Payne is nothing like the bubble Payne we all came to love.
The Pels series exposed many weaknesses of our players and coaches. We go as CP3 goes. We relied on 3 saving games from CP3. I expect Dallas to be extra physical with him.
It will be interesting the matchup battle in the front court for both teams. Their bigs can hustle, but shouldn't be able to contain either Ayton or McGee. But the bigs they play besides Powell (who hustles a lot) are outside shooters, so Ayton and McGee will have to close out on them.
I still can't believe Crowder is a starter shooting 12% from three. Now if he was a monster on the boards or did anything stellar, it would make sense. But if he can't hit all those wide open shots, we are playing 4-5 on offense. I understand that Monty enjoys trotting out a bad shooter every game, but it doesn't change the fact that it hurts our spacing and overall offense. Because of this we need point god to play insane games to cover for this. It is just not sustainable to get to the finals.
spanishninja wrote:sunsbg wrote:Mavs are probably the most predictable team in the league. They were forcing Luka vs Gobert on almost every play in 1st round in final minutes. Won't work well against DA. I don't see what different they can offer against us. Luka PnR all day and their role players hitting 3s. Quite easy to game-plan against. So as long as we play our best game it should be an easy win being the better team overall.
this is funny because on the GB right now, some dude is insisting that Luka will easily play Ayton off the court. Keep that energy Mav fans!
bwgood77 wrote:RunDogGun wrote:NapoleonII wrote:Shamet and the word 'rhythm' are never gonna meet up.
Dude is shooting nearly 20% from three in this series and most of them were good looks. This is the story of his career in the playoffs and I don't know why he keeps getting contracts and chances. I'd love for him to turn things around, but we're already dragging Jae Crwoder's turrble 3 pt% around. There's no time. We have too many talented guards who thrive in the mid-range or driving (CP3/Book/Payne) and we NEED shooting from roleplayers.
Monty needs to do the hard thing and cut Shamet out entirely. Bring out Holiday who can match up vs. Brunson and probably shoot better than 22 freaking % from three.
Holiday is shoot 100% in his limited minutes. But he has the shortest leash for no reason what so ever. Crowder is a bench player. At this point I would rather start Craig than Crowder. The reason I kept suggesting CamJ is because he was our best three point shooter, and was the most productive when playing 30+ mins, and Monty just can't give CamJ that many minutes when coming off the bench for some reason. It has maybe happened once, and that is usually because of foul trouble of others or injuries. Shamet is not playable in the playoffs, he brings very little offensively, and nearly nothing defensively. Holiday has out played him. Payne is nothing like the bubble Payne we all came to love.
The Pels series exposed many weaknesses of our players and coaches. We go as CP3 goes. We relied on 3 saving games from CP3. I expect Dallas to be extra physical with him.
It will be interesting the matchup battle in the front court for both teams. Their bigs can hustle, but shouldn't be able to contain either Ayton or McGee. But the bigs they play besides Powell (who hustles a lot) are outside shooters, so Ayton and McGee will have to close out on them.
I still can't believe Crowder is a starter shooting 12% from three. Now if he was a monster on the boards or did anything stellar, it would make sense. But if he can't hit all those wide open shots, we are playing 4-5 on offense. I understand that Monty enjoys trotting out a bad shooter every game, but it doesn't change the fact that it hurts our spacing and overall offense. Because of this we need point god to play insane games to cover for this. It is just not sustainable to get to the finals.
You should look into buying one of those F Jae Crowder shirts.
