christian wood back for game 3

Denver is a big and athletic team….

We need to play big too. We need to insert Hayes into the starting lineup.

DLO needs to be benched in this series. Denver is a well coached team and they go after DLO on defense…

Hayes on Joker
AD on Gordan but sags off and dares him to shoot. Helps with boards and on Joker
Lebron on Porter
Rui on KCP
Reaves on Murray

Denver is big and athletic. Stop with those 4 guard rotations

Hayes guarding Jokic is hilarious

It frees up AD to get boards , save energy for
Offense, play help D dummy

They are trying that with Rui already you jackass

Hayes would pick up 3 fouls in less than 5 minutes guarding Jokic. Use your brain before u post next time

Hey moron. Game 1 strategy didn’t work

So your suggestion to fix it is to have Jaxson Hayes play more minutes and guard Jokic?

Need to play big. Play AD at the 4 is the point. Hayes and Wood play the McGee / Howard role

Jokic is gonna get his regardless and hes too good of a passer to double team. We just have our starting guards (D’Lo mainly) not hitting open shots

The game was decided in the 3rd quarter when the team decided to stop running sets/plays

A stagnant offense will not work against Denver

I wish we had Harden instead of D'Lo

he really brought the physicality last night, he did so well shame we lost

Marc Stein: "Growing belief around the league that the Hawks will move Trae Young instead of Dejounte Murray."

Mentions the Lakers as a potential suitor for Trae Young.

He would be fun to have on offense but oh boy the defense will be ass

the issue is d lo playing like s***, point blank period

playing hayes isnt going to fix that

Donovan mitchell wants to be here too

Darvin Ham was placed fourth in coaches players don’t want to play for

AD speaks on never getting DPOY:

"I'll never get it," Davis told ESPN when asked about the award. "They're not giving it to me. The league doesn't like me. I'm the best defensive player in the league.

I can switch 1 through 5. I can guard the pick-and-roll the best in the league, from a big standpoint. I block shots. I rebound.

"I don't know what else to do. I'm over it. I'm just going to do what I got to do to help the team win and try to play for a championship. Accolades and individual awards, I'm done with those."

espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39992259/nba-playoffs-2024-why-anthony-davis-defense-lakers-biggest-x-factor-nuggets-series

I wanna see ad slap the s*** out of someone and get suspended. Prob the only way theyll take him serious.

Do it wemba actually lmao.

I'll take either Donovan or Trae

Especially if Trae could bring Capella or Hunter

d lo needs to play well tonight. if he doesn't darvin needs to have a short leash and play Gabe. 40+ mins was crazy given how he was struggling. If D Lo isn't giving anything offensively (doubt Spencer would either), then go all in on defense.

Rui and Reaves need to be way more aggressive offensively especially if D Lo has an off game.

AD needs to guard Jokic more, if not for the entirety of the game. Also, AD can't and shouldn't be playing 45 minutes in the altitude while having to guard Jokic and carry a heavy load offensively. He's gonna be absolutely gassed if the game comes down to crunch time. If Denver can get away with playing DeAndre Jordan for 9 minutes then so can they with Hayes/Wood.

Overall, the team needs to be more physical, they let jokic easily get into positions in the post without resistance. Also need to be more physical on ball screens with active hands and try to force some turnovers and get out in transition. can't allow denver to only have 4 turnovers.

Offensive rebounding can be improved, but that's just an area that we've been bad in all year long, it's not gonna change especially against a bigger team.

Also, am I crazy for wanting Wood to be put in the rotation and Dinwiddie benched and go with bigger lineups featuring Wood?

If Ham is gonna continue to try the tactic of guarding Jokic with Rui and using AD as the help, i think a better version would be AD guarding Jokic with Wood as the help rim protector. He's also a better rebounder than Hayes and offensively spaces the floor.

AD, Bron, Rui, Reaves, Russell, Wood, Prince, Gabe rotation.