Miami @ Houston - Monday - Jan 22 - 8 PM EST

[gom]

This one is on spo, he needs to understand his personel:

Whiteside= first half player, 2nd half slow wining B

Winslow = 2nd quarter defensive specialist and back up pG, late 3rd and 4th quarter space killer

Waiters = ineficient chucker that caught fire last year

If spo does not get it, the www will slow this team down..

It's also on spo that he kept us close until 88-88 3 minutes in the 4th without any stars on the team against the Rockets of Harden & Paul.

[PizzaLord305]

Dude cp3 and Harden will dominate regardless of whoever is on the floor. If Houston play big with Capela you play Whiteside. If they go small then Spo can decide to downsize as well to match.

No, specifically whiteside on switches. Bam is not too small to guard capela and he’s much quicker on his feet

It doesn't matter who's guarding them though, regardless of a switch , if they want to score they will score. That's why they're CP3 and Harden in crunch time.

That’s like saying don’t try to match a small ball lineup against let’s day gs because regardless of whose guarding kd and steph they will score. The probability of scoring on bam as a guard off of a switch is lower than scoring on Hassan to the point where it should factor into a decision

[PizzaLord305]

Lol @ all the Whiteside hate. He made some bad decisions late in the game, but no worse than the decisions the second unit as a whole were making in the third quarter. Houston wasn't playing well in the third, had we not turned the ball over 218973298 times we might've been able to build some kind of lead going into the 4th.

I think you should replace the phrase second unit with jrich and ko lol. I don’t like it when they dominate the ball in that lineup

[Sign5]

No, specifically whiteside on switches. Bam is not too small to guard capela and he’s much quicker on his feet

It doesn't matter who's guarding them though, regardless of a switch , if they want to score they will score. That's why they're CP3 and Harden in crunch time.

That’s like saying don’t try to match a small ball lineup against let’s day gs because regardless of whose guarding kd and steph they will score. The probability of scoring on bam as a guard off of a switch is lower than scoring on Hassan to the point where it should factor into a decision

Thats incorrect, I already stated that if Houston went small you should downsize. In regards to the lineup they had out there, Capela was out there. A CENTER Whiteside dominated all night, I'm not in the agreement of some of you to just bench Whiteside in clutch time automatically as if he hasn't come up with clutch defensive stops before. I wasn't too pleased with his turnovers this game but we lost the game not being able to convert buckets in the 3rd due to being undermanned. We already played great D holding them under 100 we just couldn't score enough and stupid turnovers.

Point was CP3 and Harden will make shots on anybody and that's exactly what they did, Cp3 made a contested shot over Jrich and iced the game. Having Bam or KO wouldn't have changed the fact that CP3 made a tough jumper over someone. They do it every game.

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Look at the last two possessions. Harden makes a tough shot over DJJ. CP made a shot over Jrich, had little to do with switching but more to do with stars being stars. That was my point.


A healthy Dragic or Tjand we likely win so not beat up about game we lost without two of best offensive players against the 2nd best team in the league.

[Durrrtysouth]

Whiteside was great in the 1st QT but remember D'Antoni likes to run the bigs off the court. You could see Hassan was out of gas at the end of Q1 so no matter how much more he played the rest of the game, we had already seen him at his most efficient. I just think he needs to man up and be tougher out there. Even when he is out of gas, he can plug up the paint. He was late on rotations and fell to the floor way too many times.

As far as trading him, I am not in that mindset at all. He is still one of the bright young C's in the league, but he needs to continue developing and with the guys he has helping him along (UD, Mourning) you would think he would have a bit more nasty in him than what he has.