Willie out tonight, Borrego coaching

Even our coach is missing games lol

I think sub patterns stay the same. Timeouts and challenges might differ.

Per my source Willie Green is sick of this shite.

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Lol is this a plus or minus. I dont know.

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He was a terrible coach in Charlotte. It was my biggest issue with bringing him on staff in what could be a lame duck year for Willie.

If we continue to spiral and Willie gets fired midseason, I can see a scenario where the team plays somewhat decent like a lot of teams do when an interim coach comes in and that leads to Gayle being cheap and taking the interim tag off JB.

Bring it back this season #Pelslife!!!

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He was a terrible coach in Charlotte.

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With some of the worst rosters in the league?

After this game, Gayle is going to tell Willie to stay home for a while as a precaution. We don't want him to re-sicken himself by returning too soon.

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It just occurred to me that Willie may have caught his sickness from Zion. Zion sounded like shite after the last post game press conference. If so, that's a good sign of Zion powering through not being 100%.

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10000%

Zion in his press conference today was literally nothing like his press conference game 1 against the mavs and he got taken out of the game at similar points in both. He was definitely sick as frick for the Mavs game and he still sounded sick tonights

Also side note on press conferences:
Borrego’s press conference tonight was actually exceptional and I suggest for anyone to watch it that hasn’t.

Man he’s got some serious ball knowledge I’m really confident he will get our offense right after that

I felt tonight was our best coached game by far this season. I am not saying that is because Willie wasn't there and JB was in first chair. I just really liked some of the things we did schematically.

First, the pin down screen with BI coming off more as a curl than to the arc. He knocked down two short mid range jumpshots on this action and hit Jonas for an easy two on another. AD did a great job of highlighting the lack of dribbling for BI on these plays.

Second, the lob pass to Zion. I am not talking about just alley oops for dunks as much as throwing it over the defense to Zion in a position to score. We hadn't seen that since game 1 against Memphis.

Third, our identification of what they were doing and countering it. This was at it's best in the third qtr when we exposed them doubling Jonas. We put BI on Jonas' side and he would make an entry pass. Jonas would let the double come and kick back out to BI who would quickly reverse it to Herb who instantly looked to Zion on the block. Because of the quick reversal, Herb's man had to be the one to double Zion and Zion got a quick bucket then hit Herb for a wide open three another time. It was the first time I can remember all season that we identified what a defense was doing and punished it repeatedly.

Of course the effort was much better last night, but I was hard on the coaching staff following Sunday. I wanted to make sure to give them credit for what I thought were fantastic schematic adjustments last night.