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We have to get Game 2.

I’d bring Collins off the bench to be the backup C in this series. He won’t be able to shoot properly since his finger isn’t completely healed, so playing him and OO will affect the spacing.

Prayers for Clint. That looked terrible.

This was a really good breakdown of Hunter's game yesterday: https://www.basketballnews.com/stories/deandre-hunter-and-the-value-of-playing-fast 

My only real worry about going up against them is the battle of the boards. We've got to have a collective effort to rebound the basketball against them.

Did Ball Sports South East crash or is it just me?

I hope some NBA teams give Cat Barber an opportunity next season. The guy is a bucket.

Jalen is gonna be a good player in this league. I'm glad he got minutes tonight against a depleted Indiana team. This game should help him build confidence and also build trust in Nate to play him more. 

The Torrey Craig trade (minus 1 of the 2nd round picks) makes the most sense to me. 

This team is going to be a play-in team. We dug ourselves too big of a hole to get a top 6 seed.

34 minutes ago, sturt said:

Cat Barber's been turning some heads. Not so sure that Langston is.

(EDIT: See that the writer highlighted one game. One game is one game.)

But/and that's one of the more ridiculous quotes you're ever going to read, ie, suggesting that our GM might drop Sharife. Someone at Soaring needs to be doing a better editing job to keep someone from uploading content that only amounts to embarrassing himself.

I don't really see the upside in cutting Sharife right now, even if he's been struggling lately. Allow him to work through those struggles. 

2 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

How is Cooper playing in his CP games? And how did I miss that Langston Galloway was back with our GL team?

This little nugget at then of the 'piece' caught my eye

 

Speculation. 

3 minutes ago, Atlantaholic said:

Lol, people have been on his ass waaaay before he got paid. 

Lol it'll start with Hunter too as we get closer to his contract extension negotiation. 

5 hours ago, Atlantaholic said:

The slack Hunter gets compared to John is pretty remarkable. 

Once you get paid, you're held to a higher standard.

We definitely missed Trae's playmaking tonight.  

Lol John what was that

Toronto's defensive strategy is forcing us to move the ball side to side. I'm really surprised to how well we're playing against it. 

2 hours ago, Vol4ever said:

I hope Knox gets some increased playing time.  

Unless we're trading Gallo, I'd like to keep the rotation as is. 10-man rotation.

After giving it some thought, I really hope Onyeka can be molded into a modern Serge Ibaka (think of his OKC days). He just needs to add at least a mid-range jump shot.