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I'm not looking past the Pacers. I think this will be another dog fight. I don't take any team for granted in the playoffs.

my strategy as a coach would be you want Alex in - then blow Indy out- that will get you some rest...

Enzo954 wrote:I'm not looking past the Pacers. I think this will be another dog fight. I don't take any team for granted in the playoffs.

it could be but it shouldn't be...i think the perfect illustration is Josh Hart showed us- just as Brunson and Divo that when it mattered
(game 6 in Philly) they could make big shots and not miss big free throws...
If they take every minute of Indy that seriously or give them that level of focus- we sweep them. That team is not tougher than Philly.

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ok now im starting to think this is part of the NBA policy...this isnt strategy...

Enzo954 wrote:I'm not looking past the Pacers. I think this will be another dog fight. I don't take any team for granted in the playoffs.

Smart poster. It might take Haliburton returning to the all NBA form he had before the injury to do it, but it’s not insanity to think this too can be a tough series.

Before the Siakam addition I’d say Knicks in 5. But he def brings them something they were missing.

Enzo954 wrote:I'm not looking past the Pacers. I think this will be another dog fight. I don't take any team for granted in the playoffs.

Every team is easy when someone else is playing them

OG, Achiuwa and Josh can guard Turner

Hart, Mitch and Sims on Siakam

Donte, McBride and Jalen on Halilburton

Besart19 wrote:OG, Achiuwa and Josh can guard Turner

Hart, Mitch and Sims on Siakam

Donte, McBride and Jalen on Halilburton

Precious, OG and iHart can trade duties on Turner for sure. If 2 of them are on the floor together you can switch one of them on to Siakam.

I believe our match-up options are more diverse in this series, because we have mobile defenders who are no longer worrying about a single guy bulling his way to the rim.

Clyde_Style wrote:

Besart19 wrote:OG, Achiuwa and Josh can guard Turner

Hart, Mitch and Sims on Siakam

Donte, McBride and Jalen on Halilburton

Precious, OG and iHart can trade duties on Turner for sure. If 2 of them are on the floor together you can switch one of them on to Siakam.

I believe our match-up options are more diverse in this series, because we have mobile defenders who are no longer worrying about a single guy bulling his way to the rim.

Isaiah should roam only on the two extremes... om the perimeter when he is great at icing the PnR or at the rim as a free lancer... him around the top of the key, pinch post and elbow is a disaster against the Pacers... we become vulnerable to the back door passes and also to the three point shooting...

Thibs has to push all the right buttons on defense... cuz we dont have the luxury to sit anybody...

I would prefer starting Mitch on this one and play Precious then Obi is on the floor... if we had both Randle and Bojan and Burks wasnt this washed we could have easily iHart sit on the bench to heal some of his Achilles for the eventual finals where he would perfectly match up with either team! He struggles only with scoring bigs what have also big body frames

Mitch / iHart
OG / Achiuwa
jHart / Donte
Donte / Deuce
Brunson / Burks

OG on Siakam

Hart on Haliburton

IHart will start and play Turner.


Let’s not make this too complicated.

Besart19 wrote:OG, Achiuwa and Josh can guard Turner

Hart, Mitch and Sims on Siakam

Donte, McBride and Jalen on Halilburton

OG gonna be guarding Siakam a lot

although i totally understand wanting game 1 and @MSG in the title i do respectfully ask for mods to please stop editing my GT titles because i am very deliberate about my juju in the formatting lol i always honor vs/@ to imply where the game is being played as well

HarthorneWingo wrote:OG on Siakam

Hart on Haliburton

IHart will start and play Turner.


Let’s not make this too complicated.

This. We could, at times, possibly use Precious on Siakam and OG on Hali…

We may see DDV guard Hali to start coming off his great job on Maxey in game 6….

They blitzed Dame a ton in the pnr

I am sure Brunson has seen every play atleast 3 times they’ve done it


Expect Josh hart to be taking threes again
And
Ihart to be shooting floaters

sol537 wrote:

HarthorneWingo wrote:OG on Siakam

Hart on Haliburton

IHart will start and play Turner.


Let’s not make this too complicated.

This. We could, at times, possibly use Precious on Siakam and OG on Hali…

We may see DDV guard Hali to start coming off his great job on Maxey in game 6….

OG seemed to have more of an impact defensively after he was taken off of Maxey.

We’re 24-5 with OG starting (13-2 with Randle)

aggo wrote:They blitzed Dame a ton in the pnr

I am sure Brunson has seen every play atleast 3 times they’ve done it

Expect Josh hart to be taking threes again
And
Ihart to be shooting floaters

Easy to blitz a slow and hobbled guard.

Knicks need to play solid D. In half court sets, they can and probably will get any shot they want.

I expect some big games from this guy this series: