How Do You Feel About Potential Matchup W/Nets?

Their frontcourt depth are Green, Jordan, Blake, and LMA... None of these guys play defense. Jordan is basically gone from the rotation cause the Nets are trying to make Blake and LMA happy... Poor Nets... Drummond would have made them unstoppable.

 

We'll see if Soften's stench of playoff suck will infect the rest of the team. In the meantime we need to secure a playoff spot, get LeBron and Ludabrow healthy and go from there. I'm not as pessimistic as I was 2 weeks ago.

 

I think they have to go with Claxton as he's a guy with size and athletic ability but that is going to be a tough haul for such a young player to play defense against a team that loves attacking the rim and has the ultimate apex predator in Lebron in terms of hunting mismatches.

Feel much more comfortable this game then the first where their small ball lineup caused Lakers havoc: this time around guys like Brown, Green, Griffin just looked small out there. They could be one of the greatest offensive teams of all times but they still need to get boards and defend, they just got swallowed by Drummond and the Lakers rim attack tonight

 

Hard to tell from this game...remember they busted our a**** in LA without KD (we were without AD but we still shouldn't have lost the way we did)...and now we busted their a**** without LeBron, AD, Kuzma, Gasol, Matthews AND Schroder got ejected. Granted they were without Harden and Kyrie got ejected and KD was on minutes restriction...they still shouldn't have lost this game this badly or at all really.

I'll say this - Drummond completely took LMA out of the game. I thought LMA was goign to be a problem for us as I thought he fit perfectly with KD/Harden/Kyrie. But I'm seeing that Drummond can shut him down on one end and then bully him on the other. THey better dust off DeAndre because otherwise it's going to be open season in the lane for us

 

Tough to get a good feel because of how different each team will look next time. BUT Nash and MDA are clueless with defensive adjustments. They don't have the size to go against us. We've shown we can fly around the court defensive and close on shooters when we're dialed in. Who's guarding our top 3 guys?

 

Schroeder, KCP, Kuzma, Harrell, THT, Caruso, McElmore... are skilled players who actually compliment each other.

The Nets role players are famous for being open, and that's it. 27th in defense. They stink. When they kept playing the little man with the big head, I was offended on a basketball level.

 

Lakers have to play physical, make them uncomfortable.You saw that tonight with Kyrie getting emotional. Lakers can play (big) physical and small ball. Nets can only play small ball.

 

What’s going on with D. Jordan? But he’s pretty washed anyway by now isn’t he?

 

Oh and put a fork in Blake and LeMarcus both against our team.

 

Thought Blake looked better than LMA. He had more mobility defensively and boxing out. I would expect a physical Technical filled series against Trezz.

LMA should offer his spot up to DJ if we meet in the finals. Cause Drummond abused him and we know AD makes LMA look unrosterable.

 

Nets not playing DJ anymore since the LMA and Griffin is a good thing for opponents :

It eliminates the lob threat , Haren and him had great chemistry on this play

 

Can't believe they're giving Claxton whatever minutes are left over. I get he's athletic and mobile. But he's 215 pounds, in the playoffs teams will feast on him.

 

Maybe I missed it but did the cameras show any closeups of ‘Antoni’s anguished mug last night? Maybe ownership will think all this money they sunk in all that offense needs him to take over from the rookie coach. “Play harder ... shoot faster.”

 

They’re not who we thought they are ... they’re worse?

 

The key to our win last night was 8 different guys scoring double figures. That’s how to beat them. Force all 5 starters to have to defend. Once Lebron and AD comes back we have to share the wealth offensively the same way. If we get into a 3 on 3 matchup with our big three (AD, AD2, Bron) vs their big three we’re in trouble because their three are cold blooded offensive assassins.