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BtownBanner6

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  1. I don’t know if this is true or not but to me Devonte doesn’t seem toxic or a bad attitude towards Archie. Devonte is a guy who right now can’t get past a bad shooting day, happens to a lot of offensive minded guys. Shots aren’t falling and now it effects everything else going on. That’s still something he has to get past but that’s what it looks like to me. Not that he hates Archie or can’t root on the team he just gets down on himself for bad offensive performances. Might be too late but he needs to learn to get past it and help out in other ways, and if he can’t then bench him down the stretch like you did Wednesday, but don’t think he needs to be kicked off the team for it 


  2. 1 minute ago, kreigh8 said:

    Maybe I’m wrong but it really looked like Justin Smith was imitating the move of the offensive player and explaining why he got lost on defense during that exchange. I could be wrong and your surely not the first to take issue with that exchange, that is just what it appeared like to me but I honestly didn’t rewind to rewatch but I know one of the mods did. 

    Yeah was in attendance so didn’t notice that particular exchange, but before Justin went back in him and Archie were talking and it didn’t seem like 2 guys on different pages 


  3. 5 hours ago, BGleas said:

    You space the floor by being able to attack the basket with quickness. You cause the defense to scramble with quick ball and people movement to create mismatches, etc. You also play at a faster pace. And maybe, with quicker offense that produces easier shots, your guards and wings gain some confidence and start hitting a few more open jumpers. 

    Will it definitely work? I don’t know. But I do know playing Smith at the wing along with TJD and Brunk (3 guys together that don’t even attempt jumpers and none of them can dribble drive either) completely stalls out the offense. TJD, Brunk and Smith don’t have room to operate and none of our guards and wings have any room to attack the basket. 

    I agree the smaller lineup is our best for defensive purposes and good defense is our best offense. But with no shooters teams aren’t worried about mismatches and quick attacks to the basket because they can have 4 people in the paint at all times and maybe one guy to chase Green 


  4. 40 minutes ago, BGleas said:

    Yeah, no. Just doing what we’ve been doing isn’t the answer. Going smaller makes us a quicker, more athletic team. It will allow us to play faster. It will open driving lanes for our guards/wings to get to the basket, which not only helps the offense and opens things up for TJD and Smith in the paint, and Brunk when he comes in, but also can help our guards and wings gain confidence of they can get some easy buckets in transition and the half court. 

    It also can help us defensively, and preventing penetration has been a huge issue. We’d be quicker and faster defensively. 

    It’s also 100%, crystal clear that Justin Smith is not a wing. He doesn’t have the skill or shooting. He needs to be in the paint. 

    Does all of this work? Maybe, maybe not. But we do know what we’re currently doing isn’t working.  

    Only problem is by going smaller theoretically you space the floor for TJD because smaller means more shooters, we have none so the lane is still packed and no driving lanes either 


  5. 31 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:


    You wouldn’t have had that Heat team without Dwyane Wade. He decided he wasn’t going to go play in Chicago with Rose, Deng, Boozer and Noah. So then Bosh went to Miami and LeBron cake after. Mario stayed, they let go of Dorell Wright(which I hated), and filled the roster with old dudes. The NBA was incredibly close to being very different. Chicago could have had Wade at the time and a few years later, Melo almost signed but stayed with New York instead.


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    Wade was all for Chicago, it was just because bosh wanted to come as well that it didn’t happen. Chicago couldn’t afford it 

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