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Playoffs! Round 1, Game 3: Toronto Raptors 103 - Washington Wizards 122 (TOR 2-1)
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Truth Teller wrote: View PostFor the away game, Casey should tighten the rotation a bit. Don't want to doubt the guy after this year, but I think he won't.
Whole benefit of having depth is you can throw many looks at teams and keeps your guys fresh.
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Nilanka wrote: View PostI get the feeling that Wizards are on the verge of a complete collapse. If we come out strong early (like we did in game 2), series will be over by halftime.
If Brooks starts Scott at the 5, Jonas needs a touch every trip down the floor. Double-double in the 1st quarter.
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JimiCliff wrote: View PostToday's piece on the playoff chess match -- how one set piece rippled across 3 Game 2s for different reasons -- also includes an aside on how awesome Delon Wright is at defense b/c I could not help myself: https://t.co/cRgPENdqFP
— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) April 19, 2018
Casey has been pigeonholed as a genial culture-builder. He has had some disappointing X's-and-O's moments in the playoffs. Every coach has. He has to take some of the blame for Toronto's failure to evolve on offense until management essentially mandated it. So do lots of other people.
Casey has grown as a playoff chessmaster. He's due some credit for that.
Brad Stevens is as good as it gets, and the Boston Celtics ran a variation of that same set in their own Game 2 win over a clueless, dispirited Milwaukee Bucks team:
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JimiCliff wrote: View PostToday's piece on the playoff chess match -- how one set piece rippled across 3 Game 2s for different reasons -- also includes an aside on how awesome Delon Wright is at defense b/c I could not help myself: https://t.co/cRgPENdqFP
— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) April 19, 2018
Rajon Rondo snuffs Lillard's open look with a well-timed stunt away from Turner. (By the way: Wright undid so many Washington possessions in Game 2 with little slides like that. He was somehow everywhere without ever straying too far from the wrong player. He is the real-life embodiment of Toronto's old algorithmically perfect Ghost Defenders. He won't stunt away from a good shooter in the corner to disrupt a worse one stationed above the break, but he will stunt away from a so-so shooter on the wing toward a better one in the corner. Dude is a walking calculator. He knows time, score, personnel and playbook as well any perimeter defender in the league.)"Stop eating your sushi."
"I do actually have a pair of Uggs."
"I've had three cups of green tea tonight. I'm wired. I'm absolutely wired."
- Jack Armstrong
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DogeLover1234 wrote: View PostEh I don't mind. Even when I thought Casey was a terrible coach, I liked how he used the teams depth. He has always been pretty good at finding the effective lineups throughout a series.
Whole benefit of having depth is you can throw many looks at teams and keeps your guys fresh.
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tDotted wrote: View PostIn a desperation home game for Washington, the rotation should only be the main 10 with heavier minutes going to the starters. Bebe and Brown getting playing time last game nearly costed us
Brown made no sense whatsoever.
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Nilanka wrote: View PostBebe is somewhat understandable, because he gave us a lift in Game 1.
Brown made no sense whatsoever.
I agree that Brown made no sense. He was bad. And played into that point about playing new lineups. It's one thing when plugging Nogueira into a general situation that he's always had success with, it's another to expect good results just plugging Brown into the place of an NBA guard and hoping the result will be the same. Wrote another piece for game 2 (here) where I go into a lot of this stuff.
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Valanciunas has the right attitude about Wizards possibly going small: "Our mindset as a team, use that advantage. They're small then we pound the glass, punch inside, screen-and-roll, which is working for us."
— Blake Murphy (@BlakeMurphyODC) April 19, 2018
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