Hold off on sounding those alarms, Nets fans. Brooklyn won a hard-fought basketball game on Friday night, edging the pesky Raptors, 109-105, to even its record at 1-1. With a difficult road trip at Memphis and Milwaukee on tap next, a second consecutive loss at Barclays Center to open the 2022-23 campaign had the potential to lead to some uncomfortable discussions by the end of next week.
Steve, I was one of those fans looking for the alarm to pull in Barclays Center as I spent good money to watch the Pelicans BEAT US LIKE A DRUM. For a first lesson, that one will slow Cook until January 6th when we travel to New Orleans and HOPEFULLY, execute a bulletproof game plan in a satisfying victory.
Switching unnecessarily is so weak. If we had a legit rim-protector, perhaps Nash could develop a legitimate defensive scheme to incorporate some switching.
Baby Step Ben is 100% accurate. Hopefully, his offense comes sooner than later.
Clax is the 3rd Star! Who would've guessed?! Certainly not me! Here's my observation and Steve, I'll post this on Twitter as well: size matters. Since Ben and Durant play the same position (Small-Forward), the best thing for Nash to start implementing is a death lineup with Irving and Durant in the back-court, Ben, Claxton, and Day'Ron... work with me here...
Day'Ron ain't much of a shooter, therefore, Marks MUST find a Center that'll give some space to Clax and Ben. Who that Center is, I don't know. How we get him, I don't know. Marks MUST figure it out though
Yeah, I don't think having THREE non-shooters on the floor is ideal--you'd be sentencing KD & Kyrie to a season of nothing but contested perimeter jump shots. Running the offense is difficult enough with Ben/Clax (100 off rtg in small sample size of 40 minutes) or Ben/Sharpe (72.4 O rtg in 11 minutes).
My preseason prediction (wild guess) for a floor spacing 5 was Mo Bamba.
Steve, I was one of those fans looking for the alarm to pull in Barclays Center as I spent good money to watch the Pelicans BEAT US LIKE A DRUM. For a first lesson, that one will slow Cook until January 6th when we travel to New Orleans and HOPEFULLY, execute a bulletproof game plan in a satisfying victory.
Switching unnecessarily is so weak. If we had a legit rim-protector, perhaps Nash could develop a legitimate defensive scheme to incorporate some switching.
Baby Step Ben is 100% accurate. Hopefully, his offense comes sooner than later.
Clax is the 3rd Star! Who would've guessed?! Certainly not me! Here's my observation and Steve, I'll post this on Twitter as well: size matters. Since Ben and Durant play the same position (Small-Forward), the best thing for Nash to start implementing is a death lineup with Irving and Durant in the back-court, Ben, Claxton, and Day'Ron... work with me here...
Day'Ron ain't much of a shooter, therefore, Marks MUST find a Center that'll give some space to Clax and Ben. Who that Center is, I don't know. How we get him, I don't know. Marks MUST figure it out though
Yeah, I don't think having THREE non-shooters on the floor is ideal--you'd be sentencing KD & Kyrie to a season of nothing but contested perimeter jump shots. Running the offense is difficult enough with Ben/Clax (100 off rtg in small sample size of 40 minutes) or Ben/Sharpe (72.4 O rtg in 11 minutes).
My preseason prediction (wild guess) for a floor spacing 5 was Mo Bamba.