Swish77 wrote:41Dirk41 wrote:Michaellam1987 wrote:
DJJ defense in the Q4 is actually not very good, at least below his normal standard. May be due to some more energy go to offensive end, as he tried harder offensively in G2
Yes but the situation is pretty clear, just i said he has to be more aggressive on the offensive end otherwise he can't stay on the floor.
I think even Kidd told him that.
With our role players attitude in G1 we can't win a PO game against the Clippers.
They have to play both end of the floor and it's what Luka screamed all game. They have to take their shots and watch the basket.
Some people here went mad after Kleber offensive game last night but he just made a couple of wideeeeeeee open 3s... I laughed a lot
Honestly it should be normal for a good NBA player.
I can understand that the set bar for Kleber is so low but come on, the eight 3s game against Jazz was a huge game not yesterday, where he played well for sure but it's his job.
Those two by PJ were insane because he was very contested but it's ok because we know that Kleber has a low and slow release. He needs time.
If he can't make those shots he can't stay on the floor just like DJJ and we saw it in G1, they must have confidence in their shots.
Anyway we need Lively and Gafford at the AAC and i hope the crowd help them to enter in the series... Mostly Gafford who is too short to battle Zubac but he has to find a way for be effective on the floor.
Just Like I said he can go 0-10 shooting and we wont bench him we need his Defense. He's not here to score. I dont understand how all you care about is scoring. Scoring doesn't win games or win a chip. DEFENSE wins games and chips. Playoff games isnt about scoring its about getting stops and playing really good defense. You love to bring up game 1 why did we lose game 1? we played zero defense. But to you we didn't score enough. Like all you care about is scoring which it makes no sense to me. Oh we will bench this player bc he didnt score enough. NO thats not how it works. lol
Instead it works just like that, if Kleber not makes his 3s he will sit on the bench.
And that's what happened a lot of times in this years.
Unfortunately Gafford looks like unplayable against Zubac and Lively is just a rookie otherwise in G1 Kleber wouldn't have played so much for sure.
Man no offense but you are talking like a Kleber fans and i understand that. It's good. I like Maxi too.
But you think he is a 30minutes guy whatever he does. No problem with that.
But it's totally wrong.
And the offense doesn't win chips alone but neither defense alone can't do it.
We need a mix.
It's not necessary that he shoots 0-10 for 3s, just 0-5 it's enough for bench him( same about DJJ, Green, THJ, Exum and all our players). Because we can't win with those stats, and you have seen that in G1.
That's it.
Harden and Zubac were on fire that game, no matter what kind of defense we can play but if we had make our shoots the game would have been totally different.
Harden can make those 3s against anyone. Just like Luka. He setted the tone and we not response.
Nobody can play just one half court, even Luka Doncic (i mean LUKA DONCIC) is blamed for his defense sometimes so you are a fool if you think that Kleber can pass shoots or not watch the basket and it's ok.
We won G2 with defense AND our 3s. Simple as that.
If PJ and Kleber missed those shoots we would have lost that game too.
It's not even up for debate.