Aloha,
I believe home court is more important in basketball than any other sport. In this series you can feel the home crowd feeding energy to the players. We have managed to win twice in the playoffs on the road. Both 1st games when we were pumped coming out to start the series. We have not matched the home court energy in our 4 losses. Fortunately no one has matched our energy at home with the exception of game 4 against the Warriors. We need to continue to feed off that energy, especially in the first quarter. We can’t allow the Warriors to find a groove early.
I totally agree, Michael. We also have to play with a sense of urgency. The earlier we put a hammer on them the better. We just can’t let the series drag on to game 7.
I think the time has come to replace Vanderbilt in the starting lineup. Zero points and -16 plus/minus last game. He’s totally lost confidence in his shot and has become Ben Simmons near the rim. Ham needs to make a change. Warriors are playing 5 on 4 on defense. Now we can’t even hide him on Poole. Ham needs to make a change: Schoder, Hachimura, or Walker.