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Farewell, Timofey Mozgov

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Get this guy the ball against these small lineups: post him, pick and roll screens, whatever. When our offense is dying you may just want to play the guy GS has had no answer for (he'll hit that jumper they leave TT with)
 

The translation of the interview Mozgov gave in Russian after the Finals Game 2:

[Reporter]: Timo, let me start with the question you've been asked in English already, regarding you have to sit our during Q4 and OT - did this happen due to GS went small?
[TM]: Well, likely yes, but I don't have any questions about that. if i'm given some minutes to play, I play. The most important thing is that we won and that means we did everything right.
[Reporter] You came at the very end of OT for a half of second between the free throws, what was your mood at that time?
[TM] What mood.. I was very concentrated till the last second of play, because as they say in English "you never know". I came for a second or half-second, it does not matter, I came in and was ready to play. If i was told to play 5 minutes I would play five minutes.
[Reporter] It is well known that watching a game from the bench is more difficult rather than be on the floor, what's was in your mind at that time?
[TM] I had many thoughts about the game, you can see more from the bench, you can advise, you can be nervous and when you're on the floor you don't notice many things. I was cheering for the guys on the floor. There were timeouts and all guys gave their advises as you can't see everything when you're on the floor, so we tried to support them as much as we could.
[Reporter] Did you have a heartbreak during the last GS offense attempt?
[TM] As you can see I'm still alive... Overall, look how much did the score? 90..
[Reporter] 93.
[TM] Yes, including overtime, so in general we played a good defense and that's the most important.
[Reporter] Do you think 1-1 is a fair result based on 2 games you played?
[TM] What do you mean saying "fair"? That's a sports game, you can deserve either a win or a loss, all deserved. Yesterday we played good but we were not able to keep it up to the end and gave up a game. Well, that's why it is 1-1 now. What is fair? For same reason you may ask if it is fair we have injures. Probably that's not the right question. Deserve or not deserve. Even more - win or loss. You may not deserve and play an awful game but have a win. So i don't ask myself if it is fair or not, it's all the same.
[Reporter] OK, thanks, and the last question, traditionally, what can you say about your own game? Do you really have any unsatisfactory about your game today?
[TM] Of course I do, did you see my free throws today? Especially at the first half. You know the game consists of such moments... a turnover last game, missed free throws this game that I should normally score (I was awful with free trows today) - all these small moments make sense, if I did not miss them who knows maybe we could escape the overtime. So it is difficult to say what could happened, all i need to do is to come in and score.
 
Mozgov wins us the game when he's on or off the floor. On it he was just destroying Bogut inside and making nice cuts, etc to get the ball moving and for some easy points himself. Then without Bogut on, it just opens everything up for LeBron to drive. GS loves their super-small lineup but LeBron isn't worried about Green, Barnes, or Iguodala.
 
Pioneer10 said:
Moz played in the 4th! Loved the blocks.

If they go David Lee, I'm going to make him deal with healthy dose of Moz
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If GS plays Lee and Green, we're gonna pound them on the boards with Timo, TT and Lebron. Beat the shit out of them no matter what happens on the first shot. Foul that charmin softie outta the game by the first quarter.
 
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