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

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  1. pacmania

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    Derek Fisher: 22 minutes, 0 pts , 0 rebs., 0 assists.

    What is Scott Brooks thinking ?

    Miami should thank Houston for sending Fisher to OKC, he single-handedly killed OKC's momentum tonight and took away playing time for nick collison and serge ibaka.
     
    #1 pacmania, Jun 19, 2012
  2. BigMaloe

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    i concur!!!!!!!!!!!
     
    #2 BigMaloe, Jun 19, 2012
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    Who else is he going to plug in, to give WB or Sefolosha, a breather?
     
    #3 Juxtaposed Jolt, Jun 19, 2012
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    Anybody but Fisher at this stage of his career. He really did not help tonight.
     
    #4 ElPigto, Jun 19, 2012
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    He doesn't really have a choice.

    I didn't expect much from Fisher anyway he surprised me up into this series.

    James Harden has been the bigger disappointment.
     
    #5 Shaud, Jun 19, 2012
  6. pacmania

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    James Harden.

    He was playing a lineup of Westbrooke , Durant , Harden , Collison and fisher.

    he was benching his frontcourt players, ibaka , collison, perkins in favor of fisher.
     
    #6 pacmania, Jun 19, 2012
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    So glad we dumped his ass.
     
    #7 CantBeRight, Jun 19, 2012
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    But Fisher is a veteran! He knows how to win!
     
    #8 JimRaynor55, Jun 19, 2012
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    It blows my mind that Collison and Ibaka aren't getting minutes together. They would improve the interior defense with their complimentary styles (charges vs. blocks) and both are good offensive rebounders.

    What's killing OKC is their inability to take advantage of Bosh being the only big guy on the court for Miami. On offense, Miami has the luxury of putting 4 shooters around a dominant low post game with Lebron. On defense, Miami is able to rebound well because OKC has either been going small to match up OR playing the biggest POS on the floor, Kendrick Perkins.
     
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  10. pacmania

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    I completely and absolutely agree. Its scandalous how scott brooks is benching his frontcourt players to accommodate fisher.
     
    #10 pacmania, Jun 19, 2012
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    Playing time for OKC's frontline: Perkins 17 mins., Collison 17 mins, Ibaka 27 mins.

    something fishy here....
     
    #11 pacmania, Jun 19, 2012
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    This is because Brooks is loathe to try something he hasn't done repetitively in the regular season. He has a comfort zone that is more sacred than winning. I've seen him blow many games because he can't see (or doesn't want to see) things that are obvious to OKC followers. It's been this way for 3 years.

    It's why he hasn't signed a contract extension yet. He turned down Sam Presti's offer. I hope Presti sticks to his guns.
     
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  13. pacmania

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    He tried something new in this game. He benched his frontcourt players in favor of an old aging pointguard who is a "two way" player (liability on offense and defense).
    The Scott Brooks "small ball" philosophy cost them tonight.
     
    #13 pacmania, Jun 20, 2012
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    He has 1 assist in the entire Finals series and he plays 25 mins a game LMAO
     
    #14 GreatOne1978, Jun 20, 2012
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    thabo played 27, he could have easily played more either in place of Fisher or the corpse of James Harden
     
    #15 SmeggySmeg, Jun 20, 2012
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    Cook played in the regular season and some of the other series. He can play a few minutes. Some games he was a spark plug. I'm not sure why he has been so completely abandoned - especially with the team collectively struggling with their wide open 3's.
     
    #16 BigBenito, Jun 20, 2012
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    It isn't really new because after acquiring Fisher, Brooks focused more on giving him playing time than winning games. It was awful. Fisher had no pulse in the regular season at all yet played plenty of minutes in 4th quarters, just like the Finals.

    Speaking of Cook, Fisher is just as one-dimensional. When his shot isn't falling, he's worthless. But unlike Cook, Scott Brooks trusts him.
     
    #17 A_3PO, Jun 20, 2012
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    I hate to say this... But Brooks is actually getting out coached.

    He's adjusting to Miami instead of having them adjust to them.

    T_Man
     
    #18 T_Man, Jun 20, 2012
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    I guess its not new in this series. But in their series with Dallas , Lakers and San Antonio, they would have been destroyed playing a small ball lineup.

    Fisher is not eating up minutes from the backcourt positions he is actually eating up minutes from the power forward position and the center position.

    Oklahoma would not have reached the finals playing a lineup of westbrook, durant, harden, fisher and collison against dallas, the lakers, and san antonio.
    Scott Brooks is underestimating the value of his frontcourt: ibaka, perkins and collison. Also it puts a strain on westbrook , durant and harden because they have to do more on the defensive end.

    It is baffling how the league's leading shotblocker serge ibaka, 23 years old, plays only 27 minutes tonight. No coach has ever won an NBA championship playing small ball i'm surprised scott brooks would risk a season's worth of hard work to experiment with small ball lineups.
     
    #19 pacmania, Jun 20, 2012
  20. BigBenito

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    Miami is one game from winning with small ball. :confused:

    OKC played major minutes with small ball all year. :confused:

    :confused::confused::confused:
     
    #20 BigBenito, Jun 20, 2012
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