toooskies wrote:JujitsuFlip wrote:Now for the bad and there's a lot of it.
Jb lost the Cavs this game and he's in full post season form.
If the Cavs are on a 11-2 run and regained the lead, don't take a timeout and kill the momentum. Jb did this earlier in the season too, what was it a Pacers game? Furthermore, do NOT challenge the Okoro foul, the timeout is more important, who cares if they tie up the game.
Jb played every single starter 35+ minutes, only 7 total players over 10+ minutes in this one. Also, the static not situational rotations is such an archaic mindset.
Lastly, that offense is down right ugly, gotta do something other than iso and high PnR but people have been saying that for 5 straight seasons.
Idk how people sit in front of their TV for 82 games and come away with the opinion that Jb is a good coach, absolutely mind blowning to me.
Yep, JBB pushed all your buttons on this one. I assure you he doesn't coach like this every night.
If JBB wins that challenge, and it was close (the ref didn't do a good job of explaining it), JBB keeps the timeout and we are one point closer to the win. He probably thought he'd win since the refs were calling the high hand touch consistently throughout the night, and like the TV commentators didn't notice the leg contact.
We are missing four rotation players and JBB played nine guys on the night. JBB didn't rotate his starters out in the 4th quarter, not giving Allen his typical break from roughly the 8 minute mark to the 4 minute mark. Which is how we came back from being down but also probably why we ran out of gas at the end. The timeout he took after the run was to give the starters a short rest so they maybe wouldn't be too burned out in crunch time.
JBB clearly doesn't trust CPJ, and CPJ didn't give him much reason to be trusted. -7 in 4 minutes, a couple of free throws, wasn't doing much for the offense. Remember that CPJ got destroyed in the Cavs' blowout loss to the Heat earlier in the year.
I think there's too many defensive breakdowns with Porter + Merrill out there. One thing I've been noticing is not that Merrill makes bad defensive plays, but there's just a lack of good ones-- slow to loose balls, rarely the guy to get make an off-ball steal, and he keeps losing those block/charge calls. Like Niang, his value is entirely dependent on if his shot is falling, and even a 4/9 night can seem like it isn't enough.
Niang's 3/11 with a lot of wide open misses hurt us, but his driving game continues to surprise. Niang being the third-best creator on the team on a given night is a problem. (For us.)
The Heat also stuck to defending their man most of the night, asking us to run the high pick and roll. You can't run a high ball-movement offense when the other team overplays the passing lanes. I agree that we need Okoro and anyone else off-ball to be a better cutter when the other team is guarding us so tight. But we don't get all that much practice with that!