Terry isn't all that great at in-game adjustments but he rocks it in between games. Putting Harkless on Klay for Game #2 might be obvious to us but that doesn't make it any less of a great move by Stotts. With that said, what is the next adjustment you would make? There are probably a few but the one that sticks out to me the most is that I would have Dame play more off the ball and let CJ bring the ball up and initiate the offense more. Basically switch their roles. Have Dame play SG and CJ play PG (just) for this series. What do you say? A defensive adjustment perhaps? A lineup change maybe? I wouldn't go too crazy personally. I mean we probably should have won this last game but little tweaks could help.
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Sure, I would give him some run. Let Dame play with him and have Roberts handle the ball when CJ is on the bench.
Get Plumlee to take the ball to the rim with some authority, to score or get fouled. Almost every time last night he'd already know he was going to pass the ball when he left his feet, get hit with the body, then toss a bad pass.
Every time Plumlee touched the ball last night I'd say nooooo - Knowing he was going to have a turnover. None were forced. He was careless.
Seemed to me that the game plan was a real solid one. Our team is just not as talented as their team is.......Even without Curry. If you look at it honestly, if the two teams played 10 times, they'd probably win 8 or 9 times. This season shows that with Portland winning 1 time out of 5. Injuries can happen, and we could win the series like with the Clippers, and if so, then great. My advice would be to do the same thing we did in game 2. They will probably adjust though, and so playing a legal box in one, assuming Curry is still out, is probably the best defense. Honestly, the best thing to do is probably send Vonleh in the game and try to draw an ejection on Green.
I agree with MM about trying Vonleh on defending Green. We need to control the boards like we can...get more second chance buckets
Green sure does get torqued out when a call doesn't go his way. How he doesn't get T'd up is a mystery to me. And I'd like to see see how Vonleh might defend him, although that might be an if all else fails move. Which, frankly, all else will fail so why not?
It's interesting because Chris Paul or Griffin would complain, but they wouldn't charge at the ref and scream in his face. Draymond has a serious issue with his temper.
Don't pull Dame in the 4th when you have a chance for a knockout punch. If they start to trap to deny ball to Dame or CJ, we need to instantly start running Mason Plumlee to the top of the key or elbow so that he can distribute to whoever is on the baseline. We have to make them pay for trying to take the ball out of Dame's hands. Mason needs to avoid charging to the rim. You have to expect Steph is playing game 3 (but I personally would hold him out until game 4). I would personally figure Steph and Klay are going to get theirs and just keep trying to push them off their spots and would not resort to the double on them. I might try to run through the screens more though and hope the call goes our way a few times. I think that the NBA would like to see a few more games in this series, so maybe they will call some of those plays in our favor. Might need to expand the rotation to keep throwing different defenders at Green. Someone needs to step up if Harkless gets in foul trouble. Someone needs to box out Bogut. If Mase is going for the board and not boxing out his guy you kind of need someone like Davis to try to keep Bogut off the boards.
Green probably avoids saying any of the "magic words." Referees are used to complaining and barking--but cursing them out or insulting them generally draws an immediate technical. I don't get the sense that Green has "temper issues," in the way that Rasheed Wallace did. Wallace got out of control--Green seems to me like he's always in control and he does a lot of what he does for effect.
