Atlanta Hawks v. Miami Heat Playoff Series

[terrell]

6 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

 

GIVE DIENG SOME MIN NATE!!!!

[terrell]

On 4/19/2022 at 1:28 PM, JayBirdHawk said:

OO seems to have hit the 'rookie wall' in his 2nd season even though he has played limited minutes in each of his 1st two seasons.

Yet Nate leaves Dieng glued to the bench.. Is Travis still forcing him to play OO?  smh

Edited April 22, 2022 by terrell

[shakes]

2 hours ago, terrell said:

Yet Nate leaves Dieng glued to the bench.. Is Travis still forcing him to play OO?  smh

I’d rather try and squeeze anything out of OO than put Dieng out there.  Don’t like Dieng.  he suffers from the team killing disease of believing he is better than he is.  Way too eager to hoist 3s.     that’s why I’ve come around on Delon.  He knows who he is.  Always looks to pass first when he gets the ball beyond the arc.  

[terrell]

Just now, shakes said:

I’d rather try and squeeze anything out of OO than put Dieng out there.  Don’t like Dieng.  he suffers from the team killing disease of believing he is better than he is.  Way too eager to hoist 3s.     that’s why I’ve come around on Delon.  He knows who he is.  Always looks to pass first when he gets the ball beyond the arc.  

OO is too small..We need some size with CC out.. Hopefully the 3's are reserved for garbage time.. lol

[Diesel]

16 minutes ago, terrell said:

OO is too small..We need some size with CC out.. Hopefully the 3's are reserved for garbage time.. lol

OO too small for who??  Bam?  Bam is 6'9".  

[Diesel]

The problem....

• OO can't play the pick and roll. 
• Refs won't call 3 seconds. 
• Refs let Miami just push our players with no whistle. 

https://www.nba.com/stats/events/?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&ContextMeasure=FGM&EndPeriod=0&EndRange=28800&GameID=0042100102&PlayerID=203473&RangeType=0&Season=2021-22&SeasonType=Playoffs&StartPeriod=0&StartRange=0&TeamID=1610612748&flag=3&sct=plot&section=game

[JayBirdHawk]

 

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Wright continues to make winning plays for the Hawks. He crashes the offensive glass from the perimeter and gets putbacks. He causes deflections by getting into the passing lanes. He moves the ball to the open man. It remains ludicrous that there was a point in the regular season when Nate McMillan announced Wright was out of the rotation, and it makes you wonder just how much he’d be playing in this series if Lou Williams weren’t sidelined with a back injury. What’s been readily apparent through three games of this series versus the Heat is Wright has turned into one of the most important players for the Hawks.

 

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The lineup of Young-Wright-Bogdanovic-Kevin Huerter-Okongwu worked well in the fourth quarter. It gives the Hawks four ballhandlers on the floor and puts maximum pressure on the Heat’s defense.

“There are more guys out there where if I get double-teamed, I can throw them the ball and they can … attack and drive and make plays,” Young said of the lineup. “Whenever you have multiple guys out there who can dribble and make plays, it for sure makes it a lot easier for me.”....................It was inexplicable coaching on McMillan’s part to not call a timeout during Miami’s 21-0 third-quarter run, and he’s quite lucky the Hawks ended up winning this game, because if they’d lost, the focus would have been on the horrendous output during this stretch on both ends of the floor with zero adjustments. The fact that Wright and Bogdanović were on the bench for nearly seven minutes as the season looked to be slipping away was astonishing.

It’s clear that lineup adjustments should be made, and credit to McMillan for realizing it in the fourth quarter. Whether or not that continues starting in Game 4 on Sunday is unknown.

“They’ve been solid for us all season long,” McMillan said of Wright and Bogdanović. “It really doesn’t change what we’re going to do and how we’re going to play them. That was the reason why we went to an eight-man rotation was to make sure I got Delon, Bogi and Onyeka minutes out there.”

 

[benhillboy]

Trae has played solid defensively.  I watch the heat a bit and martin and vincent get a great deal of their points through cuts, wide open threes, offensive rebound scrambles, and attacking bad close outs.  

They’re the type of players we usually complain about having great games versus Traes defense but he’s been holding up.  He’s quicker and faster than both obviously, one of the ways he can pay dividends by staying attached off the ball.  You can neutralize heat  role players if you make their catches tough (they won’t make dangerous passes to role players) and box them out.

Ive also noticed the heat are up against be clock more than we usually force teams.  Gotta give the PG credit for manning the perimeter and communication every time that occurs.

Edited April 23, 2022 by benhillboy

[JayBirdHawk]

 

 

[JayBirdHawk]

Interesting?

 

Rumor is Jimmy doesn't want to play with him though, lol

 

[Spud2nique]

1 hour ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

Ok Gabe, but you gotta realize this ain’t in spurts. Not saying dude is a bench guy but let’s see what Trae can give him if he starts. 

[marco102]

6 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Interesting?

 

Rumor is Jimmy doesn't want to play with him though, lol

 

Is this a real rumor? I've been out of NBA twitterverse during my busy season.

[Diesel]

5 minutes ago, marco102 said:

Is this a real rumor? I've been out of NBA twitterverse during my busy season.

It's real. Nobody knows what happened, but obviously something.. I think Jimmy gave an ultimatum.  Him or me.   

Nate liked Oladipo?

[JayBirdHawk]

22 minutes ago, marco102 said:

Is this a real rumor? I've been out of NBA twitterverse during my busy season.

Don't know if it's real....it's from Skip Bayless.

[marco102]

Just now, JayBirdHawk said:

Don't know if it's real....

Oh I meant if it was actually reported or if you were just joking.

[JayBirdHawk]

1 minute ago, marco102 said:

Oh I meant if it was actually reported or if you were just joking.

Reported and Skip Balyess shouldn't be in the same sentence though, 

[Atlantaholic]

6 hours ago, Spud2nique said:

Ok Gabe, but you gotta realize this ain’t in spurts. Not saying dude is a bench guy but let’s see what Trae can give him if he starts. 

He won't be guarding Trea, it will be Tucker again mostly. 

[marco102]

37 minutes ago, Atlantaholic said:

He won't be guarding Trea, it will be Tucker again mostly. 

Tucker has a calf strain.

[JayBirdHawk]

1 minute ago, marco102 said:

Tucker has a calf strain.

Tucker has been listed with the calf strain since the playoffs started.

[marco102]

2 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Tucker has been listed with the calf strain since the playoffs started.

He's been listed as questionable with it?