Biggest Game of the Year

Aloha,

We won the biggest game of the year yesterday. Today’s game is now the biggest game of the year. Every remaining game will be the biggest. The TWolves on a back to back is probably our biggest remaining challenge.

I think the thing that has been fueling our recent winning ways is defense. It’s been pretty good recently. Yesterday was a good example. Mobley and Struss didn’t hurt us which is a result of good D from LeBron and Rui. And the backcourt D was good as well. Mitchell only scored 10 points. Garland had 26 but on 25 shots which for me is acceptable. Of course having the best defender in the game patrolling the paint goes a long way on that side of the ball. AD’s 6 blocks doesn’t even come close to explaining how dominant he was inside.

Our Transition D has been excellent and the effort that Dlo and Austin have been giving has really helped. Actually Dlo has played harder on defense all year. He has slow feet so he will never be great. But he has made up for it with quick hands and quality defensive reads. Rui has also came a long way defensively over the last couple of months. With our ability to score. having even an average defense can lead to a deep playoff run. It would be great to get Vando back but it would take some time for him to get back to where he was.

The 6th seed is still a possibility but one loss likely ends that. Both the Pels and the Kings are hurt and we possibly could pass both with one loss. But I would prefer not to have to find out.

Let’s win this, biggest game of the year.