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Tim Smith's avatar

Notice how Josh Hart seems to have chemistry with EVERYONE? Especially seems to have helped IHart and Obie,plus the obvious synergy with Brunson, IQ, Grimes and McBride. Quick decisions on offense and never stop working on defense. Maximizes his talent.

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Randle single handedly lost the Clipper game for us. He’s been a horse for us, so I’ll let it slide, but the message has got to be received.

The games now have an elevated level of intensity, and they are going to even be more intense in the playoffs, and there just is no margin for error. The Clipper game is a perfect example of such, Randle was having an atrocious shooting game, and at the end of the 3rd, with a second left, for no reason he just shoves Plumlee because he could.

If he just does nothing, let’s Plumlee have the rebound, the clock runs out before he can shoot it, and we have a 1 point lead going into the 4th. Instead, there are the technicals, then the foul shots, and we are down by 3 to end the quarter, as part of a 11-0 run, and that was it.

Randle knows that his stupid technical turned the game and that’s why we lost, and it’s also why he came out like a house on fire against the Lakers, but still, there is no margin for error in the playoffs, one mistake can end your season.

So hopefully Randle gets the message, and if he doesn’t get any technicals in the playoffs, if the cost of that is the Clippers game, then it was worth it.

The Blazers are 3-7 in their last 10. Sure looks like they have committed to just playing out the schedule, so we should be able to take this one even without Brunson.

With 3 days off before Denver, and 5 days off before the T Wolves, I would hold Brunson out until Minnesota. The one thing you don’t want to do is rush him back and then have him play at 80% with a sore foot, and then still lose to Denver anyway. I’d rather hold him out the 2 extra days, and know you have him at 100% going forward.

At this point you have to assume the only thing your playing for is that you are competing with the Nets to see who gets the 5 seed, and with them having a tough schedule over the next 6 games, I’d wait until Minnesota on the 20th to bring back Brunson, because I feel we do that we can still get to April with either a 1 or 2 game cushion on the Nets, with the tiebreaker in our favor.

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