Y'all that aren't worried should be.....now I know we'll beat the Cavs, but remember it's 'ship or die. This team can not beat Dallas or Miami right now. Both have deeper and more productive benches that allow their starters to have fresher legs down the stretch, and both have coaches that can draw up sets to get pts in the paint....remember those guys....we used to do that until we became a pass once jump-shooting team, that loves to hoist triples. Now we got a coach that can't figure out a 2nd half rotation that won't blow a lead. The name of the game is playing YOUR HAND, not ending the game with players on the court unfamiliar with that experience.

In the end of a playoff game you need to get ft's or pts in the paint if you want to be a champion, now granted there will be the option to kick it out for a J on the play, but you can design a play that is set up to get a jumper....wtf. And low and behold here we are in the 4th qtr playing a team where our biggest advantage is suppossed to be inside and Flip puts 4 perimeter players on the floor with Ben and we get man handled on the boards.......Lord Help Us. We are at the bottom of the league in rebs and pip's, not a formula for a 'ship.

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Ben has always had the look of the lion when he's getting low post touches. JUST touches. They ran NO plays in his direction and I know for a fact that Z-Ill is not qwik enuf to guard him for at least 12 pts. We must spread the floor and give Ben and Tay room to work. Ben is also a good passer out the post. I think I'll send Joe D an email tonight and tell him its "light a fire in Flip's behind" time..or else ..

Yeah unless the bench is holding back something, our worst fear may be realized, that the starters would be burned out by playoff time because Flip did not trust the bench during the season. As Micro posted, they have scored 22 pts and pulled down 21 boards combined in games 2-4. Their bench of Donyell and Varejo are out playing our guys..nuff said

Tony Delk looked like a steal 6 weeks ago, now he can barely get off the bench. Dice got over missing the setup plays from Arroyo and solidified what we thought were the best starters and 1 in the NBA. now he has disappeared. Hunter gets off in game 1 shooting 4-5 Three balls and probably has scored no more than three points since then. We all may hate to say it, but Mo is the only one showing any inspiration out there and he is the player with the least amount of playoff experience. We still have issues scoring when he is in there though????

Second guess time?? How did Joe or any other GM in the vicinity let Tim Thomas sit at home for half of the season and then let the Suns grab him? I know we had Evans, but based on Thomas' contributions and our lack of offense, he could have been our x factor now more so than Delk. Right now, maybe Delfino is the x-factor that you bring in to throw off the Cavs as Varejeo has done to throw off our guys...

Tomorrow night, play your game, score 90 points and put a muzzle on Sheeds mouth before they goback to Cleveland. Once there, quietly take care of business and play smart ball and congratulate the Cavs for a nice test and go home and get ready for the Heat on Sunday.

Dre, I think the bench looks worse than it is due to Flip's over dependence on the starters. The 2nd unit needs to get into game flow too.

This board needs a "W"... can only imagine what the DetNews sounds like now.

It's not as bad as you would think....(relatively speaking). Most people aren't jumping off the roofs of buildings (although some should be thrown off).


Yeah, Lee is over there telling people how he predicted everything that happened (after it happens, of course), a couple of trolls, a handful of doomsayers, the usual imbeciles, a few muppets, and even...well...there's a...uhmmm...a kitty cat... posting over there (although it does seem somewhat brighter than many of the other posters).

You guys do know that if Darko was on the roster we would have had W's in Games 3&4, right?

I Been Too Pissed for Words.

I wonder if Joe is wondering about Flip right about now. Might be time for a come to Jesus meeting before things get any more out of hand.

This ties our longest loosing streak of the year, which didn’t happen till the last two games.

Somebody recover our shooting touch. It was last seen in Frostbite Falls.

Speaking of falls, isn’t it about time we find out if Mister James bounces.

AWWWW DAMNIT, YEA IT'S TIME FOR THAT COME TO JESUS MEETING. FLIP NEEDS TO BE REMINDED JUST WHAT IT IS THAT MAKES US THE BIG DOGS. AND IT AIN'T A SUNS SIZE LINEUP GETTING SERVED BY SIDESHOW BOB.

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Naw Merc I need more than a W, I need to see a team that wins the board war, wins the pts in the pt, moves the ball on offense, and just flexes it's muscle with a SYSTEM!!!!
All that X-factor stuff is BS, champions don't have X-factors they have players that know their role and excel in it. Champions play their game and make you stop it, when you can stop it..... you're the new champ. Dude I'm so frikkin pissed off at Flip right now I don't know what to do. How and the HELL do you put a lineup on the floor that has never played together before in a playoff game.....what plays can they run that they've practiced and perfected....that's why the execution was so off in the end.

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lemon I think rick carlise was sitting behind our bench as we reverted back to the scoring droughts we use to suffer when he was at the helm.

The problem is we spent the whole season living by the jumpshot and our only low post presence was the offensively challenged Ben. Right now Varejo is outplaying anybody we have in the post and jumpers are not falling. How can we go six minutes into the 4th qtr with only scoring 1 point!!!!!

We had a 10 pt lead in the 3rd qtr of game 3 and 6 pt lead going into the 4th of game 4 and blew both leads......This could have been a sweep if we had played the 4th quarters the way champions play it.