Its Brooklyn vs Philadelphia NBA PLAYOFFS RD 1

[3pt_chucker]

Still got hope we bring Udoka in as a so called assistant coach. When he would really be a co-coach.

He's not going to be an assistant. He is going to get a HC job somewhere

[MrDollarBills]

Let's see how Vaughn adjusts here. I think his coaching this series should be heavily scrutinized by management.

[Eatgreenz]

Still got hope we bring Udoka in as a so called assistant coach. When he would really be a co-coach.

He's not going to be an assistant. He is going to get a HC job somewhere

His situation might still put some teams off. I just cant see us firing Vaughn after an extension but if Tsai and Marks dont care bring in Udoka. He was our 1st choice until kyrie had to bring extra PR with his situation.

[3pt_chucker]

This organization cares more about media PR than winning. They are probably happy that people like Bridges.

[TheNetsFan]

They were just hot imo. I can see the strategy flipping and them guarding Embiid one on one and sticking to the shooters.

That is suicide. There is no one on the team that can guard him 1 on 1.

I'd rather give Embiid contested twos instead of leaving Harden, Maxey and Harris wide open for practice threes

Not just that, make Embiid bang and work all game long.

[bubonicphoniks]

The gameplan worked but the players didnt execute. Run out on the shooters at least. If Philly misses 2 or 3 of those in the first half its a game.

Dinwiddie is looking like a loser.

Please no more Joe Harris don't want to see him out there in a Brooklyn uni again. Appreciate his time here but its over.

[Marvin Martian]

Claxton is a C trapped in the body of a PF. Not comfortable with him as a long term answer at C. He will get exposed in this series

[Claud]

Dinwiddie as your main ballhandler and decision maker limits our team potential. Average bbiq and talent.

Marks needs to find us that guy. Clax and Bridges are nice building blocks, but we need much more.

To win in the playoffs you need elite talent and all we have is a bunch of really good players.

The good news is Dinwiddie/Harris expiring can be used as trade pieces for big trade next season, and if not we clear 36m in cap and get rid of two solid yet limited role players.

[GTR11]

Claxton is a C trapped in the body of a PF. Not comfortable with him as a long term answer at C. He will get exposed in this series

Name a damn player that won't get exposed vs Biid right now?

[MrDollarBills]

I'm not concerned about Claxton. Embiid destroys everyone he plays. Not having a backup that can bang with him to gas him is Marks' fault.

[GTR11]

We bad rebounding team by design. Rodman would average 5rb on this team with all the switches we do.

Biid played on MVP level past 2 years. You live with him getting his, limiting others is what needs to be done. But since we got this moron HC pretender we getting owned.

We knew we just don't have enough playmaking and scoring. This game came to who's better player, Harden or Din. Answer is obvious and it showed.

This team and structurally flawed. All we can do is evaluate each player under spot light. Joe, Curry need to go, DFS can only play along with super star, way to limited on offense to get more Tham 15 min. Royce being asked to do too much. CamJ had ok game, Bridges showing he is legit all star level and 2nd wheel guy. Din needs to be a 6th man, asking him to do anything else is a push. At 15 per he is luxury guy to have. Nic held his own, did ok.

[bubonicphoniks]

We bad rebounding team by design. Rodman would average 5rb on this team with all the switches we do.

Biid played on MVP level past 2 years. You live with him getting his, limiting others is what needs to be done. But since we got this moron HC pretender we getting owned.

We knew we just don't have enough playmaking and scoring. This game came to who's better player, Harden or Din. Answer is obvious and it showed.

This team and structurally flawed. All we can do is evaluate each player under spot light. Joe, Curry need to go, DFS can only play along with super star, way to limited on offense to get more Tham 15 min. Royce being asked to do too much. CamJ had ok game, Bridges showing he is legit all star level and 2nd wheel guy. Din needs to be a 6th man, asking him to do anything else is a push. At 15 per he is luxury guy to have. Nic held his own, did ok.

Good post

[gigantes]

Wow, Joel getting hit in the face and going down like a sack of potatoes looked pretty horrible at first glance:
https://streamable.com/lkaonv

And then Lillard tweets the below and... haha, I see it now!

Read on Twitter

I just hope Academy voters remember Joel's performance come Oscar time.

[Karate Diop]

They were just hot imo. I can see the strategy flipping and them guarding Embiid one on one and sticking to the shooters.

That is suicide. There is no one on the team that can guard him 1 on 1.

I'd rather give Embiid contested twos instead of leaving Harden, Maxey and Harris wide open for practice threes

Same. We're at a talent disadvantage but I'm 100% fine forcing Harden to put the ball on the deck and try to score that way... He's not that player anymore. Wide open threes is just a recipe for disaster in today's NBA.

[CalamityX12]

I wonder what Vaughn would do now?

[MrDollarBills]

That is suicide. There is no one on the team that can guard him 1 on 1.

I'd rather give Embiid contested twos instead of leaving Harden, Maxey and Harris wide open for practice threes

Same. We're at a talent disadvantage but I'm 100% fine forcing Harden to put the ball on the deck and try to score that way... He's not that player anymore. Wide open threes is just a recipe for disaster in today's NBA.

Exactly. Philly had the most made 3s this season in the league and Vaughn decides to leave guys wide open.

Malpractice.

[sashaturiaf]

Disheartening to see the lack of effort and fire by the Nets today. I don't blame a team for getting outtalented since there's nothing you can do about that, but you cant also get outworked.

It's pretty clear that this team doesn't have the camaraderie and self belief to win this series. They're showing us that they are what we all knew, a collection of assets that were salvaged after our plan A and plan B went up in flames midseason.

[Born_Ready]

This may have already been discussed, but has there ever been a NBA coach extended and fired in the same season?

My take away from game 1 is JV is trying match wits with Doc but Doc can simply sit back and expose the Nets and can counter Vaughn’s defense schemes with very little difficulty.

This team is not physically capable of playing Embiid 1 on 1 or doubling him. Why try it? Not to mention Embiid is finally going to get his MVP so let him get his dunks, free throws, and screaming antics out the way because the team can’t stop him.

However, the team is capable of defending the perimeter a little better than the paint, so make fat man scoop and the other 6ers beat you. The team defense would be better served just trying to man up every man, in my opinion. Double teaming and zoning doesn’t make sense because guys are always late in rotation and simply cannot rebound in a zone, or any defensive set.

They let Paul Reed look like Embiid out there. That cannot and should not happen. BK has to play better in game 2 because it’s the most meaningful game of the series.

[Decipher]

Didn't watch the game live but not surprised with the outcome as we:

1. live and die by the 3 on both sides of the ball

2. have no starting quality playmaker

3. can't rebound to save ourselves

Also, the Cam Thomas situation is a fundamental failure of coaching/management & bordering upon the absurd

[Minnamaker]

Our defense was absurd. They hit 21 threes, 15 of them were wide open according to ESPN stats.

They will continue to shoot like that if we don't contest. Doubling embiid cannot mean that we don't contest shooters. That's just poor effort