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MDAV28 said:
Dead on. Millsap is the guy to do it. Idk if anybody was even still tuned in but Lillard's last play, Millsap got screened and then recovered to swat Lillard's jump shot into the stands. After that Millsap got in his hip for the inbound and Lillard shoved him away before getting pulled out of the game. We needed that kind've get in your head physical intensity all game. I understand Millsap is absolutely dreadful on offense, but he can really play physical defense and take guys out of their game, which is exactly what you suggested should have happened.

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Milsap needs to stop trying to do anything on offense, just make like Bruce Bowen and be able to hit a couple 3s per game.
 
NAOS said:
The excuse of a "soph learning curve" is weak. I'll never be a coach and I saw it coming from a mile away.
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It's not an excuse at all. He messed up but he will learn. Sucks it happened but I am not to worried about it yet.
 
Moreover, this is the same death they dealt us in the preseason, which was just a few days ago.
 
That was an infuriating game. I hated how that game was coached and managed. The constant subbing in the 2nd and 3rd quarter was absolutely ridiculous. Players were playing in for one or two plays then they'd get pulled. Nobody knew who was their guy because of all the subs and nobody could get in a flow. Idiotic move by Quin

Lyles is not ready to be a rotation player. We have a chance at the playoffs and should not be giving him minutes until he's ready. If we were a lottery team then sure, toss him to the wolves and see what happens, but we have the expectations of playoffs and he's killing us. ****ing dress Jeff already. He is nothing special but at least he's solid and not a huge liability like Tyles and Tibor have been.
 
NAOS said:
The most frustrating thing for me so far this season is how both losses point right to our coaching staff. In Detroit: no defensive substitution at the end of the game. Versus Portland: letting Lillard and McC run the same two-option screen patterns all ****ing night. Ridiculous.
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Quin failed different games down the stretch. I hope he will improve to better manage close games.
 
MDAV28 said:
Millsap is the guy you put in if you want to play physical defense on a perimeter player who is lighting you up.
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I know he is a good defender and stuff, but I don't believe he is that good. He nearly cancels himself out with how bad he is offensively. If we were, as a group, a better offensive team we would probably afford to play him more, but we can't.

Also, he would foul out within 12 minutes guarding Lillard. He hand checks way too much on the perimeter to get away with guarding a PG of his caliber.

We really should have put Hayward on Lillard. I think he got switched on him once and really had a nice contest on Lillard's 3pt shot. The problem is that he switched off Harkless who posted up Burke..... I miss Dante. The advantages you get with a 6'6 defensive PG on switches can't be understated.
 
The home crowd was lame last night. No energy.

The team was lame last night. No energy.

Favors took two days off practice for "flu like symptoms" and showed up for the game. I find that pretty troubling. We've all kind of assumed this team had good chemistry, but they looked like they were all playing choose your own adventure last night.

Pretty lame home opener.

I blame this horrible game thread.
 
King Cy said:
I know he is a good defender and stuff, but I don't believe he is that good. He nearly cancels himself out with how bad he is offensively. If we were, as a group, a better offensive team we would probably afford to play him more, but we can't.

Also, he would foul out within 12 minutes guarding Lillard. He hand checks way too much on the perimeter to get away with guarding a PG of his caliber.

We really should have put Hayward on Lillard. I think he got switched on him once and really had a nice contest on Lillard's 3pt shot. The problem is that he switched off Harkless who posted up Burke..... I miss Dante. The advantages you get with a 6'6 defensive PG on switches can't be understated.
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If we aren't using Millsap in these situations then we need to move on. This is why he's here. I wonder if he's nursing an injury.

I disagree with you RE: Hayward. He can't guard Lillard.
 
NAOS said:
If we aren't using Millsap in these situations then we need to move on. This is why he's here. I wonder if he's nursing an injury.

I disagree with you RE: Hayward. He can't guard Lillard.
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But Rodney Hood can? Hayward is much better defender than Hood on any type of player.
 
KD's Framily said:
So has anybody looked at the shot chart?

The Jazz only allowed 5 corner threes, forced a ton of shots from long midrange or floater location and got killed because the Blazers shot unsustainable percentages on those.

73 percent on long mid range jumpers. Wow.
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Going into the game I had a complete lack of confidence in us. This is exactly the type of team that can give our defense fits. Hit a lot of contested shots. We should have been able to do more offensively though. They hit a lot of shots off the dribble and contested. If they shoot like that every night they will be in the playoffs.
 
King Cy said:
But Rodney Hood can? Hayward is much better defender than Hood on any type of player.
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Hayward is a better defender, but laterally Hood is more equipped to guard a guy like Lillard. Neither guy is particularly long.

One thing that is hard to understand unless you have played is that those guys who are smaller than you but are quick and strong can be tougher to guard because you can't get into their body without getting really low. Millsap should have been used and he did come in for a little bit and I thought he did okay.
 
Rudy played like hot garbage. Derrick looked hung over. If our AMAZING!!! front court plays like **** we're going to lose more often that not. Add poor shooting all around, except for Trey!!!!, and you get a loss like this.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Hayward is a better defender, but laterally Hood is more equipped to guard a guy like Lillard. Neither guy is particularly long.

One thing that is hard to understand unless you have played is that those guys who are smaller than you but are quick and strong can be tougher to guard because you can't get into their body without getting really low. Millsap should have been used and he did come in for a little bit and I thought he did okay.
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I dont believe for a second that Hood is better at guarding PGs. I think they just use him because they dont want Haywrd in foul trouble.
 
NAOS said:
I had my response prepared for you, but then I saw that MDAV beat me to it. We're playing Portland; they're a two-man wrecking crew that does all their **** on the perimeter. It seems like Q and co. did very little creative scheming to stop that type of attack. We got the peanut butter and jelly approach.
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I agree here as well as on the other end. If they play Lillard and McCollum together one of them has to guard Hayward or Hood... both guys have significant size advantages... both guys are good passers... both guys are good in the post. We need to milk that **** on the other end regardless of what type of sets we normally run. Those guys will get worn out wrestling in the post and likely get in foul trouble... and we will score more. We needed to make them bend to our advantages.

I still love Quin, but he needs to do better. He should order some more pizzas or something.
 
King Cy said:
I dont believe for a second that Hood is better at guarding PGs. I think they just use him because they dont want Haywrd in foul trouble.
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Hayward isn't particularly quick laterally. He has the girth to be a better overall defender, but Hood is quicker laterally imo.

TBH those guys were on fire. Some shots were open, but they hit a ton of contested shots off the dribble. It's a make or miss league. I'm not sure we have the answer for when they are shooting like that.
 
The reason the bigs look bad was because of the dribble penetration and they had to come help out and looked like the village idiots and it really wasn't their fault.
 
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