Game Thread GAME# 43: NETS @ BLAZERS - MARCH 23, 2021 - TUESDAY, 7:00 PM, NBCSNW

We have a backup C and he doesn't play. Wed rather play Melo/RoCo at C to play the useless Hood instead of using a serviceable backup C.

 

I’m glad you agree

 

Reading through this thread I can’t help but wonder if I am watching the same team as some of you.

This TEAM is truly awful. It’s one saving grace is a top 3 player bailing it out.

 

The fuck?

 

Yeah I'm dumb mb

 

Yeah this was all over Twitter.
She hit the nail on the head. There simply is no accountability on the internet and we read it every day.

 

The defense is on milk cartons.

Also I think Hood is actually our worst defender (and that says a lot !). I don't think he offered much more resistance than a chair last night on that end

 

You still got to admit that was a pretty bad effort in a game they could have and probably should have won.
I'm with ya on the "beat the teams you are supposed to beat" thing but they had this game if the effort was there on defense. It wasn't there tonight.
IMO this was a win that got away.

 

Well if he knows his coach sucks he should fire him.

 

Not really buying the "Style of Play" thing. I have watched probably more basketball this year than i have for a very long time just because my schedule is allowing it. But I'm sure not as much as you.
So many teams are doing the exact same things on the court. By style i assume you are talking about Offense. The offense is infuriating at times i agree. I watch them slow it down constantly while I'm yelling Push Push! Push the ball!
Then i run it back and watch Stotts on the sideline waving his arms obviously yelling the same thing.
Then on defense i see them double or soft trap and i yell "Get in there" "Close out on that guy" "Get those hands up" and then i run it back again and there is Stotts pulling his mask down yelling obviously the same thing I'm thinking.

Then i'll watch another team. Warriors have been my go to recently because i have family down there and we text during their games. Some of the exact same plays and styles are run the exact same way. Team after team i am watching is also running those very same plays to get those looks. They make some of the exact same mistakes and obviously they make some of the same winning style of plays. They have some different pieces though. Yes draymond is a huge asset. Obviously Curry. They have some wings that make huge shots. When the shots fall they win.
Make no mistake they have to play defense to win as well.

There was a play last night where CJ got a rebound and an opportunity with both Trent and Jones heading up court. They totally had the Nets on their heals. Harden would have exploded and pressed or found a down court pass to make. CJ dribbled through his legs and eased up allowing the defense to set. Of course he went down court and looked for a three. After running about 15 seconds off the clock he passed to Melo who in turn dribbled dribbled, Jab stepped and threw up a step back three that missed.
I'm assuming this is the Style that you hate as well. It's infuriating.

 

Dame

 

I understand that's your opinion. I don't think we'd go 12-0 with any style of play, but that's my opinion, not fact.

However, if they went 12-0 with a style of play I didn't , I would be willing to tip my cap and say that it was good enough. It seems like you don't want there to be any firm measurable to where you would have to give this team credit, there will always be a subjective opening for you to nitpick.

 

Hood get's paid to run the court up and down 20 minutes a night

 

I hear you and while I also think Giles would be a better defensive option at center over Melo, he gives up a lot on the other end.

We're also talking about a guy who's rookie option wasn't picked up. These are the types of guy who work when surrounded by 3 all-stars, but not ones you want to lean on in my opinion. Melo is in the same boat. I want a good defensive big as an option in games we must have one, not just Kanter and Giles who leave a lot to be desired on that end of the floor.

Regardless, Stotts works for Olshey. It's Olshey's job to put the best roster together. If he's giving Stotts great players who Olshey feels should be playing, then Olshey should demand they play or fire Stotts. How anyone can be so pro-Olshey and so anti-Stotts in the same breath defies all logic.

 

This is what we call “losing the team” because if you can’t get the players to do what you want you have ceased being a coach and you are now a fan on the sideline.

 

They love Stotts because they can do what they want

 

Terry is the nice grandparent that lets his grandkids do whatever they want.

Example, when I was like 12 or 13 I went on an Alaskan cruise with my grandmother. She took all her grandkids on a cruise so she could get to spend time with them. On the cruise, I would hang out with my grandma during the day and we would go ashore and sightsee and all that tourist stuff. At night she would go to bed at 8pm and I would stay up and wander around the ship by myself. The ship had a dance club so I would go in there and dance with the female crew members till midnight. Zero supervision. I loved that Grandma.