What adjustments does Nick Nurse have to make in Game 3?

[mrdressup]

Defend the paint at all cost and allow open threes. Also foul from behind on the PnR every chance you get. That has to start working at some point, right?

[TdotRap4Lyfe]

Don't run plays in the crunch for Siakam. Leave it as a free flow, allowing for the best shot and open hot hand to take it. Watching Siakam try to force it when he has no confidence hurts to watch

[2019nbachamps]

Not sure there's much more we can do. We're 1-5 vs the Celtics this season. They are the only team to dominate Nurse.

[canz55]

No chance of making shots with Nick Thibodeau at the helm. Guys were obviously tired playing so hard on both ends. We will then miss shots. Without a bigger rotation, we are just handing Boston the series.

Yeah you could tell our guys were sucking wind and holding their shorts at the end of the third.

Fatigue really starting to set in for these guys in the bubble.

[ratul]

Playing guys 40 minutes and then not expecting them to miss shots is the epic fail of this series. And not crowding the paint for boards. We are hustling back on D when we could punish Boston on the glass with RHJ and Ibaka whilst also not wiping out our guys from playing too many minutes. It's like repeatedly running into a brick wall.

[RaptorsNorth]

I don’t need to watch a video to know what needs to be done. Are you watching the game ? Do you have any kind of common sense ? Ok then you can see the clear issues that needs to be fixed!!

[Purple Forever]

Four big things:

1. Trust the bench - the bench needs some run so Fred and Kyle have legs left in the fourth. These games are intense and our shots are short in the fourth.

2. Run plays after a Celtics 3 - too many times we are trying to go tit for tat - even when the shots aren't falling. Just because they make a 3 doesn't mean we need to take one - run a play and make a sure basket.

3. Go to the basket more - and be tough through contact. They are hitting us, we can't give in and take longer shots - we need to go inside anyway and play through the contact.

4. Don't let Smart get going - need to hit him, foul him or take timeouts to ensure he doesn't get a streak going - once he gets confidence they all go in

[Son Goku 25]

Not sure there's much more we can do. We're 1-5 vs the Celtics this season. They are the only team to dominate Nurse.

Its not entirely on nurse. Well see how series ends before understanding what adjustments were made and should have been made if anything. Coach has been doing fine, celtics are just a really bad match up for us yet we still could have won game 2.

Look at the bucks and their struggle with the heat, its not that the bucks aren't better, probably against every other team they are great but playoffs are about match ups and it shows right now. We need length with high iq who can make shots, this is why OG is perfect in his 2nd year technically.

1 game at a time, hope some guys on our team catch a rhythm, its been a collective effort all year.

[OakleyDokely]

All he has to do is write this on the board:

HIT SOME **** 3s for **** sakes.

[Vietbrah]

I don’t need to watch a video to know what needs to be done. Are you watching the game ? Do you have any kind of common sense ? Ok then you can see the clear issues that needs to be fixed!!

Tell us then genius

[visionquest]

Apparently the Celtics are not guarding Ibaka and Gasol.

And it's working to nullify our schemes...

Watch on YouTube

[arbsn]

Same adjustments I recommended for Game 2 that never happened:

Start Norm (Fred gets more minutes against Wannamaker)
Start Ibaka (Gasol is too slow for this series)
Run more of our Lineup of Death (Kyle, Fred, Norm, OG, Pascal)

I would like to add--> play more Boucher and TD as they bring the energy and one of the things we've been lacking is energy

[arbsn]

Don't run plays in the crunch for Siakam. Leave it as a free flow, allowing for the best shot and open hot hand to take it. Watching Siakam try to force it when he has no confidence hurts to watch

I agree with this.. our end of game play should be a Kyle/Ibaka pick and roll... It's been our most effective play this series... Theiss has been tracking our guards well but Ibaka has been shooting the lights out

Alternatively I'd like to see more Pascal roll man plays similar to how we starting running a lot of Kyle/Kawhi pick and rolls last year

[everdiso]

Only real strategy mistake in game 2 imo was letting the raps actually try to run the offense through ibaka for the first 5min of the 4thQ instead of using him only as a spot up shooter.

That was like 5 or 6 possessions in a row wasted.

You just cannot use Ibaka like that, imo.