the thunder and the bulls situtions are nothing alike
bulls lost because yall just dont have enough talent. thunder lost because of poor coaching decisions and schemes
lebron only made 10 shots outside of the paint this series. scott brooks did a terrible job.
derrick fisher played 29 minutes, thabo played 9
he defended lebron with harden and let their best defender rot on the bench
i said literally the same thing some quotes down:
i can agree with that.
but from thibs perspective some of that was wondering how you are going to get scoring and spacing on the floor when mia was blatantly leaving brewer and bogans open making it harder for rose to make a first step on his defender and easier for the heat to send help when he did get a step
the only thing i really fault thibs for was continuing to send that high screen for rose making it easier for help to be made on rose forcing him to jump pass the ball to shooters. and he never adjusted, i never understood that.
difference is imo thunder legitimately had a better team than the heat when the bulls actually didnt, the defense rose applying so much pressure to the heat defense and the offensive rebounding kept us in those games. so from that standpoint i get your point because brooks could have played a lot of line ups on the heat to see what was working.
and its kinda inexcusable to see dallas literally zone the heat out the building last season but never come with the zone for a significant amount of time in any of these games.
to say it had nothing to do with eachother is misinformed though. your premises would suggest that the heat out talented the bulls and the only thing that would testify to that would be the heat running the bulls off the floor, which they didnt. all those games were close, bulls were immature young and couldnt close games. although i dont agree that bogans or brewer would have changed any of that.
Houston...Thabo would have had 5 fouls by half time if he was guarding LeBron exclusively.
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which is why i will never understand why brooks didnt go more zone, seeing that zone caused the heat issues all season, lebron was shooting terribly from outside the paint, wade only made about 2 3's the whole series all they would have had to do was make sure battier was covered and dared mike miller, chalmers, bosh wade and lebron to beat them from the perimeter. that part of it i agree with golden, you just saw dallas kill the heat with the same strategy yet you dont even attempt it for a long stretch?
it would have hidden guys on defense as well to make sure durant, thabo, harden or whoever didnt pick up a ton of fouls. from game 2 on the heat attacked the basket relentlessly, i dont see how you dont go zone with only 1 great perimeter defender in thabo.
but again its youth mistakes on the coach and the players so.
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@ these idiots in there not understanding why playing Thabo more would have benefited the team.
brooks.
