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Re: Al Horford has been mediocre. He doesnt deserve his salary
« Reply #345 on: May 11, 2018, 05:25:53 PM »

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Generally speaking, Love has usually dominated Horford when CLE plays against him (from his Atlanta days to now). Thompson to an extent as well in terms of grabbing boards.

Hopefully Horford shuts up the critics this time around!  ;D

This falls in the sad-but-true category. Come on, playoff Al!!
to be fair to Al, he hasn't had the likes of Baynes, Morris or Monroe to share the front court with him.  KO didn't exactly offer up tough, physical defense or rebounding.  I suspect a different result on the boards for the C's this time around.
I don't think we'll see a lot of Monroe  this series. Perhaps to match with Thompson, in spurts.

I'm curious whether we'll start Morris on LeBron, or put Baynes on Love and try Horford on LeBron. The latter is a bit of a longshot, but I'm not sure that Morris is the LBJ stopper that everyone makes him out to be.

I think we're going to start Morris and matchup like this:

Morris - James
Tatum - Smith
Horford - Love
Rozier - Hill
Brown - Korver

I think Semi will get some run against on James, Smart will get his usual allocation of minutes, and Baynes will mirror Thompson's minutes in order to keep him off the offensive glass.

Re: Al Horford has been mediocre. He doesnt deserve his salary
« Reply #346 on: May 13, 2018, 05:54:07 PM »

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Re: Al Horford has been mediocre. He doesnt deserve his salary
« Reply #347 on: May 13, 2018, 06:05:08 PM »

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Re: Al Horford has been mediocre. He doesnt deserve his salary
« Reply #348 on: May 13, 2018, 06:05:36 PM »

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Re: Al Horford has been mediocre. He doesnt deserve his salary
« Reply #349 on: May 13, 2018, 06:15:04 PM »

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Re: Al Horford has been mediocre. He doesnt deserve his salary
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Re: Al Horford has been mediocre. He doesnt deserve his salary
« Reply #351 on: May 13, 2018, 07:07:53 PM »

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Re: Al Horford has been mediocre. He doesnt deserve his salary
« Reply #352 on: May 13, 2018, 07:22:19 PM »

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Re: Al Horford has been mediocre. He doesnt deserve his salary
« Reply #354 on: May 13, 2018, 07:41:54 PM »

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« Reply #355 on: May 13, 2018, 07:44:12 PM »

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Re: Al Horford has been mediocre. He doesnt deserve his salary
« Reply #356 on: May 13, 2018, 07:52:25 PM »

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Along with your "Trading Rondo would be a mistake like thread" or "No other prospects are at Fultz level thread"  ???


Al making me eat my words. I'm glad, he is playing exceptional

Playoff Al is the guy I like watching


Re: Al Horford has been mediocre. He doesnt deserve his salary
« Reply #357 on: May 13, 2018, 07:55:09 PM »

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Al making me eat my words. I'm glad, he is playing exceptional

Playoff Al is the guy I like watching

Happy you are willing to admit your mistake, but Dedmon? Yikes.

Re: Al Horford has been mediocre. He doesnt deserve his salary
« Reply #358 on: May 13, 2018, 08:02:15 PM »

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Al making me eat my words. I'm glad, he is playing exceptional

Playoff Al is the guy I like watching

Happy you are willing to admit your mistake, but Dedmon? Yikes.

You think Dedmon is horrid ?  He is actually a pretty good center

I guess you don't remember him playing well against the Celts this season

But Al is playing very well right now.  And without Kyrie.  Knowing that he will be the "point" forward and getting calls underneath the basket to make important buckets etc.  (instead of Kyrie getting most of the calls)  ... has energized his game

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