I don’t like our tone. Okoro and Garland sound whiny. Garland talking about “us laying down a little bit”. Come on, no one laid down and played softer than the guy speaking. Take responsibility for your own play, don’t bring the rest of your team into it unless you played like a warrior, be a leader. And JBB - “if we can’t rebound we can’t win”. Umm - it was you who rode a terrible rebounding lineup the whole 4th as we were getting crushed on the glass. And I thought his whole substitution pattern looked uncertain and panicked. Good Lord, we’ve played 82 games. Every other coach in the playoffs knows who he is riding with at this point. If it doesn’t work, then adjust, but you can’t decide Rubio and Wade are your guys and then yank them after 6 & 7 minutes. They’ve barely gotten the jitters out and you’ve decided in the 1st quarter of game 1 something you didn’t figure out in the previous 82 games? And LeVert is unquestionably one of the key pieces that got us this far and you don’t let him play through a rough start knowing you are going to need him to play if we are going to win. Literally no other coach is doing that kind of crap.
That said. If JBB doesn’t outthink himself and just gets us ready to play, I still think we are better than they are and we win this game and the series
That said. If JBB doesn’t outthink himself and just gets us ready to play, I still think we are better than they are and we win this game and the series
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