Holiday off the bench brings this team to a different level

Jrue off the bench has been frickin awesome. He also takes the tough assignment on D in the 2nd half.

Wat

Do you even Norris Cole, bro? HE was the reason we jumped out early and protected a big lead.


Jrue is looking a little pudgy, he still needs a few more games to get in to playing shape. He can still be effective vs 2nd unit but he's not where we need him to be physically.

Cole didn't come in until the 2nd and that's when he destroyed

Holiday came in around the 5 minute mark when it was 16-14 us I think

The biggest difference in having this team fully healthy is being able to have a fully rested Cole or Holiday the entire game. They both bring a ton of intensity on both sides of the ball and a lot of teams can't matchup well with it. This also allows other things to open up for us that you didn't see as much most of the season. A lot of the reason the Spurs turned the ball over so much tonight.

Did we watch the same game?

Parker WORKED holiday. Bad.

holiday is not in game shape and it showed, to me at least. Kudos for coming back but we are in trouble come Saturday with no one to check curry

Certainly didn't look like that court side. And everyone I talked to at the game was talking about his D.

If Jrue is ready for 30+ minutes Saturday. .. I want our lineup to be;

1) Jrue
2) Gordon
3) Pondexter
4) AD
5) Asik

1) Cole
2) Evans
3) Cunningham
4) Anderson
5) Ajinca/ AD

My gut feeling: I feel a serious Bogut injury coming soon

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Certainly didn't look like that court side. And everyone I talked to at the game was talking about his D.

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I thought he forced Parker into mid range shots, which isn't a bad strategy imo.

parker school him on b2b possessions before they put tyreke on him, who then got torched another 3-4 possessions by Parker

Holiday was more mobile than I expected though. He was moving pretty well when he had the ball. But I think the fact that they let reke run the PG whole holiday was in and that holiday couldn't keep up w Parker (he usually plays him tough) tell me he probably isn't ready for a curry assignment. Which may not be too and seeing we just beat them without Holiday.

The defensive strategy was genius. Don't double, give up "advantageous" two's but nothing easy. That's what we did. Holiday and cole were great at that. Let Parker try and win the game with only floaters and long 2's, And it worked. He couldn't.

SA wins with open threes. Holiday helped take those away