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Mamadi Diakite - The real Brobley

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He is not our starting three, but I would rather have him eat up Kevin Love’s minutes as a back up big.

At this stage, Kev should strictly be playing the Udonis Haslam role for our young squad.
 
He has had some success, but in the NBA you have to bring it EVERY time..
 
What did he do wrong this last game? I missed it? He didn't single handedly fix the offal offense?
 
mAo_mAo said:
He is not our starting three, but I would rather have him eat up Kevin Love’s minutes as a back up big.

At this stage, Kev should strictly be playing the Udonis Haslam role for our young squad.
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When Love gets hot, he can keep us in a game or win us a game all by himself. He is like Cedi in that way. He is also a fantastic rebounder, yes outside the one charge a game his defense is awful, but bench roles are for role players who you ride when hot. Love is also decently consistent. he broke his finger, but if that is healed like they say it is, 20-25 minutes a game is perfect for him to hoist 6 or so 3-pointers a game. He is still one of the best shooting beg men in the league and we can manipulate our defense to cover if he offense is worth it whcih on more often than not it is.
 
Lee said:
When Love gets hot, he can keep us in a game or win us a game all by himself. He is like Cedi in that way. He is also a fantastic rebounder, yes outside the one charge a game his defense is awful, but bench roles are for role players who you ride when hot. Love is also decently consistent. he broke his finger, but if that is healed like they say it is, 20-25 minutes a game is perfect for him to hoist 6 or so 3-pointers a game. He is still one of the best shooting beg men in the league and we can manipulate our defense to cover if he offense is worth it whcih on more often than not it is.
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He should also have a shorter leash than before. He can get hot but he can also shoot our team out of the game with ill advised shots coupled with his atrocious defense. The Minny game and the last game were two glaring examples of these.
 
People thinking he should be our starting wing hopefully have been seeing how ridiculous that is lately.

And I like Diakite as an 10-12th man off the bench. But it’s very clear he’s a limited player and there’s a reason why he hasn’t been able to stick to a roster. He makes you play 4 on 5 on offense and outside of being able to protect the rim a bit he’s nothing special on D and isn’t a good rebounder.
 
Active tonight. They may need him.

Lamar did a good job staying in front. Would putting a smaller strong guy like Okoro make sense ?
 
Cavatt said:
Active tonight. They may need him.

Lamar did a good job staying in front. Would putting a smaller strong guy like Okoro make sense ?
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I dont think Okoro does anything with Giannis beyond half court. What I'd *love* to see JB do is through Isaac at him anytime Giannis starts with the ball to get him to change directions before crossing halfcourt. I'm sure others have noticed, Giannis is a straight-line ball-handler. When he has to change direction or make adjustments, he can be flustered. When he can go straight, hes all but unstoppable. Maybe Ice can be the snowballs thrown in Giannis' way to get the ball out of his hands and allow Diakite to pick him up beyond half court.
 
adam81king said:
I dont think Okoro does anything with Giannis beyond half court. What I'd *love* to see JB do is through Isaac at him anytime Giannis starts with the ball to get him to change directions before crossing halfcourt. I'm sure others have noticed, Giannis is a straight-line ball-handler. When he has to change direction or make adjustments, he can be flustered. When he can go straight, hes all but unstoppable. Maybe Ice can be the snowballs thrown in Giannis' way to get the ball out of his hands and allow Diakite to pick him up beyond half court.
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Yeah sounds like a good plan. That is what Isaac is best at getting guys off their spots
 
Cavatt said:
Yeah sounds like a good plan. That is what Isaac is best at getting guys off their spots
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I just get so annoyed when Giannis gets a rebound or outlet and can go 60ft before anyone gets in front of him. By that time, who the hell is gonna stop Inspector Gadget who can start his gather from the FT line? A stationary player below the 3pt line isn't gonna stop Giannis when he's going downhill. I don't know a player in the League that could.
 
adam81king said:
I just get so annoyed when Giannis gets a rebound or outlet and can go 60ft before anyone gets in front of him. By that time, who the hell is gonna stop Inspector Gadget who can start his gather from the FT line? A stationary player below the 3pt line isn't gonna stop Giannis when he's going downhill. I don't know a player in the League that could.
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They pretty much executed this plan. Giannis looked frustrated and stymied. He got 45 pts. Lol. I never saw such good defense result in 45.

Okoro did great keeping him away from the basket and staying in front.
 
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