Alright guys just making shots, you know, we're getting good matchups, really? I thought we had great matchups. No, I mean, listen, it's the playoffs. And it's like I said the other day, we're also in the motion on one game, you know, and then the next game, so it's just James man, James, he
played great. We loved I said it before the game, I felt like he was gonna have a big game tonight, you know, and I didn't know 31 points and didn't know all the other stuff. But you can just sense it. You know, and again, the points are great. But he, if he has 20 points and 14 as either way he does it. They're all points for us. And we're good with that.
More aggressive tonight, it
seemed like, you know, I just thought we kept getting the right matchups. Joelle, you could see was low gas at the time and James sense that, and I thought that was huge. I thought the biggest part of the game too was the beginning of the fourth quarter, you know, Jewelle needed RAS. That group came on the floor. We created files we got, we increasingly and when Joe came back in the game that seven admins were already in penalty. That's huge. Now, every time they judge you, you file you go to the line, you make free throws. That's a big thing to do. Your composure. Yeah. You know, listen, I thought, Game Two, our composure was good. We just couldn't make shots. Right. From that point on now we're making shots, you know, defensively with in much better. You know, first half, the offensive rebounds and turnovers literally kept him in the game. Second half, we didn't turn it over as much. I think they have one offensive rebound, maybe and that changed the game for us. Take this out and carry it with you to Miami. Withdrawals gonna be on the play. I'm just saying. But yeah, the shooting is gonna be key. You know, it's long been said that the real players play shoot better at home. Right. And, you know, you can make a case, both teams. They're looking at their threes that they didn't make tonight, and they had some looks. It almost feels like I felt that the two games in Miami. So game five is gonna be a lot of fun. Talking about that since the start the fourth look like Paul, that might have been his most like discipline defensive. Yes, yes. Stay at home, no gambling. But, you know, we want him to stay aggressive, though. Like, he can do a couple of things that fives can't do. It's a four really, but you know that fives can't do and so we we tell him to do that. And I told him he put in 10 to 12 minutes. I'm not that concerned with five files. You know, if game one and two. Those were a major concern because we didn't have enough bigs. But now with Joelle your neck, actually, in some ways, we're telling you to be more aggressive, you know, go for it was amazing. The night I was. I moved him to second all time in market. Yeah. I really did. It was it was way. And then of course, and then Jimmy now Jimmy's ahead of me for sure. So I gave that up tonight. I'm joking. He was tough. It was tough. Listen, I gotta watch film. But he frustrated me tonight. You know, Dan Burke was off the cliff almost. I mean, he made everything. You know what he did tonight, he wouldn't laugh a lot. That's something that in the past, he's really not done. So we're gonna have to figure that one out because he was tough and he scored and everyone he didn't. He didn't care who it was. He was scoring. And so he's tough. In the first half, maybe. So I thought our spacing was bad, honestly. And I thought that's why James got free in the second half. Because that's all we talked about at halftime. I thought our flashes were bad in the first half and we kind of correct that on the front with Joelle. But once we get to the right space, then when they reach you can see them you can make passes when we're not space, right when you drive they have a lot of heads and they dig them out. Dawkins switches Yeah. Yeah, I think so. And I thought we could have done a better job. Honestly, I didn't think we did a great job of feeding Joelle in his spots tonight. That will be something we'll watch film on and work on. Because he's so important to us. And we get you know, he creates matchup problems Get them the ball is a good thing every time. Miami shot
games here how much of that is negative areas versus
negative variance? What are we? Are we in chemistry? What are we? Yeah. Now you're talking my language lesson, I think a lot of it was defense. And then it also is they missed some shots to like, the humble side of me says we gotta be better defensively when we go to Miami. We do like I thought hero would miss two or three looks that he will not miss right. Vinson missed some shots, you know, and so, but I also thought we got out and ran them off the line a lot tonight and made them take the second pass and rush shots. And so it was a little bit of both guys and James. Just kind of control the pace. Yeah. I mean, how big is this huge, they're gonna speed me up, you know, we know that. You're not gonna see James up and they know that, you know, so. You know, I thought we did a better job with with maps and getting them in the right spots, especially early. I still think we can do a better job there. Offensively, I think we do a better job getting the job on the spot. He's fighting too much to get open and get the ball and we have to do a better job there.
We can games three and four. Just another another reason why Joellen beat and MVP?
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, really, it is. And just as defenses presents, scoring everything, it does everything for us. And we haven't seen the best of Joelle in this series yet. He's still trying to figure out how to play with that massive sliding all over his face and his hand so I think the best is yet to come for you on this series. Which is down there for 1416 beats having to record that's it, you know, but yeah, it is it is not as simple as that. But it's almost as simple as that. Because when Joel rose, even if he doesn't get the ball, he takes the entire team with him. And the key for us is to move the ball. That's all we talked about was hockey assist tonight. It's not going to be the first pass it's gonna be the second pass that's gonna find the shooter and I thought we did that tonight
not avoiding the emotional rollercoaster of a series besides your well what was your thinking sort of staying force about
making it is everybody doing their role and everybody you know, being a star in their role each guy you know, each guy understanding we didn't need more we need what you do best. That's all we need. And I thought we did that. I thought this was this was a I don't know this is a murky game to me. Like it was really hard for either team to find rhythm. Easy for either team to get frustrated tonight. And we didn't we just we just stayed the course. That's a good sign moving forward. Thanks, guys.