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SichtingLives wrote:life hack:
When a man heaves a live chainsaw towards you from distance, stand still. No one has good accuracy throwing a chainsaw.
ATL Boy wrote:Keys to making this competitive:
DO NOT DOUBLE AND TRIPLE TEAM LEBRON! Don't pack the paint against him either. He'll just swing it and find a wide open 3 point shooter, like last year. It'll only get the Cavs in rhythm on their jumpers and that'll bury us. Keep Thabo on him when he's in the game, when he's not give him some different looks with Bazemore and Scott. Let Lebron get his, but don't let the 3 point shooters kill you. Use the same strategy as we did against the Magic in 2011.
Don't let Tristen Thompson kill you on the offensive glass. Last year he made all of our defense completely worthless by getting offensive rebounds. This is a series where sitting Kris Humphries won't be an option, he can bang with Thompson on the glass.
Limit the scoring droughts. We can't afford to go on a 4-5 minute scoring drought every single game. I'd be in favor of crashing the offensive glass when our shots aren't falling: you're at risk of transition buckets, but you also might break the drought by getting an easier look off of a rebound.
Teague and Schroder need to dominate when Irving is in the game. Schroder especially needs to step his game up when the bench is in the game.
I'm just afraid that Coach Bud will see how effective trapping Isaiah Thomas was in this first round series, and will try to do the same thing against Lebron, once again. The difference is that the Cavs actually have the shooters to make us pay for doing that.
Also, our best chance of stealing a game on the road is if we blitz them in game 1. We'll get the perfect amount of rest, while there's a chance of them being rusty from not playing for a full week. Any chance of us winning this series happens in game 1.
ATL Boy wrote:Keys to making this competitive:
DO NOT DOUBLE AND TRIPLE TEAM LEBRON! Don't pack the paint against him either. He'll just swing it and find a wide open 3 point shooter, like last year. It'll only get the Cavs in rhythm on their jumpers and that'll bury us. Keep Thabo on him when he's in the game, when he's not give him some different looks with Bazemore and Scott. Let Lebron get his, but don't let the 3 point shooters kill you. Use the same strategy as we did against the Magic in 2011.
SichtingLives wrote:life hack:
When a man heaves a live chainsaw towards you from distance, stand still. No one has good accuracy throwing a chainsaw.
PandaKidd wrote:Ill be the debbie downer.
Hawks have NO SHOT at beating CLE. They are a vastly superior and more talented team. They will need the bench production to just annihilate the Cavs Bench but I think that Lue plays a lot of his starters. Bud has shown me no reason to think he would shorten up his rotation.
Bud has never had any answer for how to defend Lebron. And now, he has Kevin Love to kick it to unlike last year.
Horford is going to get eaten alive.
Teague and Schroder have to have A+ Elite games.
SWEEP IT, Cavs win this 4-0
Hawkeyes wrote:Already counting on JR Smith morphing into Steph Curry against us.
Tommy Heinsohn wrote:The game is not over until they look you in the face and start crying.
SichtingLives wrote:life hack:
When a man heaves a live chainsaw towards you from distance, stand still. No one has good accuracy throwing a chainsaw.