HNIC973
R.I.P Bandana P
NOAH SHOOTING 38% FROM THE FIELD
AND 0% FROM THE FT LINE.
GIVING US 4.5 PTS
PLAYING 36 MINUTES A GAME.
but he was defensive player of the year last year 1st team all NBA last year right?
he deserves 10 mins at mostNOAH SHOOTING 38% FROM THE FIELD
AND 0% FROM THE FT LINE.
GIVING US 4.5 PTS
PLAYING 36 MINUTES A GAME.
but he was defensive player of the year last year 1st team all NBA last year right?
he deserves 10 mins at mostThibs needs to bench him, thats absurdNOAH SHOOTING 38% FROM THE FIELD
AND 0% FROM THE FT LINE.
GIVING US 4.5 PTS
PLAYING 36 MINUTES A GAME.
at 1.125 pts/qtr for Noah
He's waiting for Noah to play his way out of it. The problem with that is this is the playoffs, not a January regular season game. There is no time to play yourself out of a funk with your regular minutes. Restrict his time, then if he shows some sort of improvement gradually give him more minutesI just dont get what Thibs is waiting for.

I don't think you bench Noah (might break up the team internally) but you scale his minutes back.
I don't think thibbs trust Niko so much since this is his first playoffs.
But he should consider matching the bucks small ball by moving gasol to 5 and playing snell at the 4 to match dudley
Gasol
Snell
Niko (guard their worse offensive player)
Butler
Rose
This will give gasol more spacing as well, you can swap snell for dunleavy and move niko to PF to get even more shooting on the floor. It also helps rose as there isn't 2 big men clogging the paint
Against cleveland with love being out we're probably going to have to go small because lebron will play PF a lot especially late in games when they want another shooter on the court with him and kyrie is jr swish is suspended.
Why list Snell as a 4 & Niko as a 3 in the same lineup?![]()
I get your overall point, but that makes no sense

only silver lining ... this is probably the toughest defense we will see from here on out
i was there live Saturday brehs ... that Bucks D is suffocating, very impressive