I don’t think either of Randles fouls were in question, but yes he had our big men shook. Going to be a few confrontations this series because the Cavs will have no choice but to stand up to him and the Knicks.
Wade as 3 is decent and i think he should be playing against big lineups next to Mobley and Allen, but Wade as 4 is hardly payable. JBB pulled him and Lamar will probably be slotted back next game. This scenario has already played in the regular season, I don’t understand why JBB would try it again in such an important game, when he had given the job to Wade when Love was taken out of the rotation and played poorly thenHe doesn't get taken to town by hardly any PF's or SF's. I haven't looked at it in a long time, but last I knew he was good on field goal percentage against him and shot frequency against. And now the Love is gone he's one of our few rebounders.
It’s 100% coaching because it’s been an issue all season. If the focus isn’t boxing out but instead being focused on a specific assignment then it comes down to coaching. We’ve seen it come to play way too often for the size of our bigs. There’s clearly another priority.Do you really think something taught in grade school as a fundamental of basketball is not a concern for an NBA coach? Just a strange post. Maybe consider that the bigs need to take some pride and put a body on their opponent. The last couple offensive rebounds weren't even due to the bigs overhelping, they had one job as the shot went up and just didn't get it done today.
I thought Neto was effective guarding Brunson in the last regular season game. Rubio was awful. In his last two games against the Knicks he's a -17 in 15 minutes. Fedor wrote this:If we don’t play neto and green Jb needs to go….neto has shown gritty defense and enough playmaking to play but instead he keeps playing rubio in which he is not 100% yet
I'm just getting that out there so he can light it up next game. Need 25 min from him in this series.Agree on the second part even though i don’t think either face shot was intentional.
The 1st paragraph is hogwash .
It's even harder to say cuz their bench played 45 minutes more than our bench. And fans think they ought to outscore their bench. LMAOIt’s even harder to say cuz it’s not true