Towns stepped it up in the 2nd half, so I can buy that.

OG… he still looked better on Cade then our other defenders, which doesn’t say much. He got destroyed by him in the 4th.

Sochan was good on Cade in iso but kept losing him when they’d re-screen.

Don’t think that was Detroit’s defense that caused him to miss

d-mar, if my math is right and it’s late and I’m bad at math, if both teams shot 37% from three we would have won like 125-120, if everything else was equal

Forget the math because it’s not that relevant. They match up well against us defensively, have a solid strategy and play high level defense. We have no coherent strategy against them on either side. So even if we have the better shooters (and we do), the shot quality differential will tend to more than compensate. Something has to change or they are going to beat us in the playoffs too.

But that would support the idea of not firing Brown now when there isn’t some obvious choice to replace him, right?

They don’t have a hotshit assistant coach in the wings.

I don’t think they will fire him. We are not a total disaster, after all! And definitely they should not dublicate the horrible mistake they made last summer and fire Brown without having someone better to take over.

And yes until the Pistons win a playoff series, I still think they’re just a repeat of last year’s Cavs team. Great and often intimidating regular season team – still needs to prove it can win when it truly matters

Brian, the Knicks had literally nobody when they fired Thibs last summer.

But that would support the idea of not firing Brown now when there isn’t some obvious choice to replace him, right?

They don’t have a hotshit assistant coach in the wings.

For instance, I don’t think Denver fires Malone if it didn’t have Adelman waiting to take over. The Nuggets players were all REALLY high on Adelman.

It will be funny when the Knicks shoot 40% from deep across the series and beat them in the playoffs.

We didn’t shoot well as a team and OG was clearly not 100%. But a lot of it was Detroit’s defense. Even on the rare occasions we moved the ball well they were so quick to recover that even what looked like a high quality 3 was actually often rushed. IMO the gap between the teams is not as large as it looks based on the 3 games we’ve played, but they have a good defensive plan and good defenders. They make it tough for our very good offense. We have no plan on defense and they exploit all our weaknesses. IMO Brown is being badly out coached….like very badly.