04-14-2024, 06:09 PM
(04-14-2024, 05:52 PM)Knutsen Wrote: Don’t get me wrong, the Clippers aren’t the best team in the league and I‘m quite sure they won‘t win the championship. But they present the worst match for our biggest weakness on defense, which is the individual defense of Luka and Kyrie. Even if they both hold their own it will make them less effective in the 4th quarter when they have to defend an attacking player every minute they are on the court. And that‘s where my comparison with the Celtics was pointing at, not overall team strength, but number of players able to attack of the bounce on the guard and small forward positions.
I do hope that Luka forces them to play Mann for extended minutes, because he isn’t that strong at attacking of the bounce like the other 5 guys I mentioned and would allow Luka to rest on D. And I wouldn’t be to sad if Leonard’s knee is less than a hundred percent to be honest.
I still think we will be able to get through in 6 or 7 games, but it will be a hard fought series because of these individual match-ups.
LOL, he was talking about your comment about the Celtics vs. the Mavs.