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Game on!

Dallas got wide open three pointers whenever they want last game against us, but didn't start making them until the fourth quarter.

Same old story. Over helping, hedging, no closing out. Horrible defense on the perimeter, Dallas making the open shots.

great offense, and solid defense to end the quarter.

It's nice to see Ibaka and Collison together again. Our best defensive front court.

James Harden!

I love James Harden.

Ibaka had the block of the year on Chandler

fallacy wrote:Ibaka had the block of the year on Chandler

dunno about that, but it was real nice. He is really having a good battle with Chandler.

On the bright side, James Harden played 16 minutes.

On the other hand, Jeff Green played 20.

;x

What is Jeff Green doing here? Why is he helping so far into the paint? Serge Ibaka is between the handler and the rim, Kevin Durant is helping off the weak side.

This is 80% of the problem with the defense this season, and the primary reason teams are shooting so well from the perimeter against us. Jeff Green and Russell Westbrook are the chief offenders, but all our players do it to some extent.

It's simple YMCA defensive fundamentals. We could have a defense as good as last year easily if the team would defend intelligently in those circumstances.

what's with the smallball lineup?

westbrook-harden-thabo-durant-green? How many other coach will go to this lineup to close a game? not like all 5 are deadly from deep..

Devilanche wrote:what's with the smallball lineup?

westbrook-harden-thabo-durant-green? How many other coach will go to this lineup to close a game? not like all 5 are deadly from deep..

Brooks is one of the worst game straegists in the league. Probably THE worst. He says in the timeout he wants the team to get a stop, they do, but because they don't even have a power forward on the court they give up the second chance point. That was the ball game there.

Yet another winnable game down the stretch where our coach doesn't put the players in a position to win.

I like Brooks as a motivator and overall as a coach but his decisions this year with the lineups have cost this team games. Chicago game, Toronto game, this one. Second rate coach.

No team is going to win a game only scoring 12 points in a q! Silly.

So Larry Brown is available.

these realgm forums are hilarious
if you go around to every team, pretty much every fanbase wants either a new coach or half their team replaced

tough loss. The Mavs are a much better team though. Tyson Chandler make them elite.

So what was with the boo's at the end of the game. I only caught the last quarter and was in and out of that. Why were the fans booing at the end of the game?

I think that was for us. Jet, Chandler, Butler and company were gloating back at the crowd for the taunts and cat-calls throughout the game.