Not sure what to say.
1) LBJ and AD really can’t do much else. One could accuse LBJ of kinda loafing through the Miami game. Not last night. When these guys both score 30+ we really should win those games.
2) I thought we needed Vando’s D on Ja more than whatever the coaching staff seems to think TP brings. JV could help his own case by being a factor of some kind on offense, too.
3) Why are we unable to make a meaningful in-game adjustment. I get it: the game plan was to give up threes and takeaway the paint. When that’s not working you have to switch it up. Vogel was brilliant at knowing when to do that. Ham is not. Seems like it takes him a week to figure things out and we’re burning games.
4) Less and less of a fan of the “switch everything” scheme as the de facto defense. I think we need to be more versatile based on the players we have on the roster. One scheme does not fit all and we watched Ja abuse the slower defender to basically win the game in the last 5 minutes with nothing done about it.
5) What can turn this around? Getting Rui and DLo back might help…depending on how the coach uses them. Honestly this feels more like a rookie head coach season than last year did. It’s weird. It’s as if every success last season emboldened a bewildering self confidence in whatever the current choice du jour is without consideration for other tactics. Ham talking about support from Jeannie et al is almost a worse look than blaming injuries.
Should have been stop the 3 and make them face both AD and perhaps Wood under.