Lesson in a song for Scott Brooks: " Too much Derek Fisher will kill you everytime!"

The Mavs, Lakers and Spurs are completely different teams than what the Heat are presenting. Playing two bigs (one being Perkins) is a losing formula. If they play two bigs together (except for maybe the beginning of the game), it should be Ibaka and Collison. Perkins can only guard Haslem but Spoelstra (very smartly) has rarely played him this series.

 

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D-Fish Maaaynnee!!!!

 

The reason why I'm cheering for The Heatles? derek "douchebag" fisher.....

 

Really shocked that Collison didnt get more PT...after a stellar job of the bench...IMO...Perkins is absolutely right...when Miami's defense is stretched and poorly rotated...leaving a PG trying to guard a center, it becomes the PG responsibility to note that and get the ball inside...Perkins is extremely hard to move around in the post and can rebound...and Im sure that he atleast has a jumphook in his arsenal when he has a PG on him...

 

Brooks appears to be outcoached here... though I wouldn't say it makes him a bad coach necessarily.

For one, he outcoached a number of very accomplished and smart coaches on the way to the Finals. The way they flipped that San Antonio series still boggles the mind. The Spurs game 2 performance was as well orchestrated a team performance as I'd seen in years.

For two, it's convenient to only look at certain stats. Let's not forget that the same starting lineup for the Thunder came out in the 2nd half and were -7. Moreover, Fisher was +4 in the fourth quarter, and I believe the Thunder were up when he was taken out of the game and replaced by Thabo, who was -6 in his stint.

Point being that it isn't all about Fisher, or all about the starting lineup always being great.

But that Brooks is still being outcoached.

The obvious seems to be that the Heat need to score in the paint to be successful. They don't have great bigs. Seems like a no-brainer that Brooks should be playing his frontcourt guys a little more.

 

Reggie Jackson played pretty well from what I remember. I know hes a rookie, but didnt he fill in for Maynor when he got injured?

 

if we had fisher, we would have made the playoffs.

 

It is interesting that both teams are playing smaller ball in this year's finals: PF, SF, SF, G, G. I think this will be the first year in a while that the winning team will have such a closing lineup. Generally, it's been a PF and C, or at least 2 legit bigs.
2011 - Dirk Chandler
2010 - Gasol Bynum/Odom
2009 - Gasol Odom/Bynum
2008 - KG Perkins
2007 - Duncan Horry/Oberto/Elson
2006 - Shaq Hasleem/Walker/Zo
2005 - Duncan Horry/Nazr
2004 - Ben Wallace Sheed
2003 - Duncan Rose/Robinson
2002 - Shaq Horry
2001 - Shaq Ho Grant/Horry
2000 - Shaq Horry/AC Green
1999 - Robinson Duncan
1998 - Finally
Jordan and Jackson's Bulls played G, G, SF, F, PF. Rodman was definitely not a center, but guarded centers and Kukoc is more of a SF than PF...was a slasher/shooter/scorer, not rebounder.

So not since the Jordan era has an NBA team won a championship without a legit C-PF combo closing lineup in the finals. Dallas crushed Miami on the boards last year, which imo helped them take control of the series. We see a lot of these 50/50 balls going Miami's way...I just think Brooks could be making a mistake choosing matchups and floor spacing over a Ibaka/Collison or Ibaka/Perk front line. Rebounding/interior D over max floor spacing imo. Especially an Ibaka/Col/Dur/West/Harden or Thabo lineup...that's easily spaced imo.

 

I could win too, if i played with a prime Shaq, and Kobe Bryant

 

You have a very bad memory.

 

Blaming the coach is usually a simpleton approach to analyzing an NBA game.

 

So he didn't adjust to the Spurs, and that was why they won?

This series isn't won/lost on coaching. Both of these coaches are mediocre.