Friday 3/25 Game Thread

[Tor_Raps]

I understand it's not the ideal fit but Gallo can't play 48 minutes. I feel Okongwu can use the extra minutes rather than wasting them on a scrub like TLC. It's just something to try for a team that is dreadful defensively.

Going big has helped the Raptors even when most of the guys cant shoot 3s. Okongwu is agile enough to hang with most 4s and they can just try to dominate teams in the paint.

Nate is too stubborn... amd for a supposedly defensive minded coach he refuses to play big particularly when we need defense and getting outrebounded.

I think a lot of Hawks fans are overreacting. What the Hawks did last season was a big time overachieve. No one expected them to make the ECF. Tou probably could have got 25 to 1 at the start of the season on that happening.

Now everyone is pissing and moaning about a play in possibility. Okongwu has no business taking away Gallinari's minutes right now. Capela, Collins, Gallinari is our primary big man rotation. It was last season when they overachieved. It still is this season as they fight to make the play in.

While no one expected the Hawks back in the conference finals, being 10th is an absolute failure of a season considering they finished 4/5 last year

I think the first thing I mentioned was trying this while Collins has been out, which opens up minutes at the PF spot. The Hawks have been abysmal defensively so why not put your two best defenders on the court and see how it works?

Going big has worked for some teams around the League. Trae is talented enough offensively to figure out a way to make it work.

[jayu70]

Nate is too stubborn... amd for a supposedly defensive minded coach he refuses to play big particularly when we need defense and getting outrebounded.

I think a lot of Hawks fans are overreacting. What the Hawks did last season was a big time overachieve. No one expected them to make the ECF. Tou probably could have got 25 to 1 at the start of the season on that happening.

Now everyone is pissing and moaning about a play in possibility. Okongwu has no business taking away Gallinari's minutes right now. Capela, Collins, Gallinari is our primary big man rotation. It was last season when they overachieved. It still is this season as they fight to make the play in.

While no one expected the Hawks back in the conference finals, being 10th is an absolute failure of a season considering they finished 4/5 last year

I think the first thing I mentioned was trying this while Collins has been out, which opens up minutes at the PF spot. The Hawks have been abysmal defensively so why not put your two best defenders on the court and see how it works?

Going big has worked for some teams around the League. Trae is talented enough offensively to figure out a way to make it work.

Exactly. Even with both Collins and Gallo out, you would expect Okungwu to see increased minutes, but No - instead Nate elects to go small with TLC and Knox.

[LordCovington33]

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Silly comment that has not been thought through. He is just salty because they got embarrassed on home court. Does that analysis factor in other players not having FT points (like Giannis), and what about fouls that were committed on his way to the hoop and Embiid was in a pretty good position to make it if not fouled?