ADJ: Start KO and Rozier on Schroder

[RockinRyA]

Last game Stevens started Thomas, Bradley, Smart, Crowder and Amir in the 2nd half. That lineup played great but then at the end of the game the guards seemed worn down.

While I don't think Rozier should play over Smart, I do think our best chance against Atlanta is going small, so I think playing Rozier extended minutes in the 2nd unit in order to play small more often makes sense.

I would like to see Amir and Olynyk get some time together I think they are the big man combo best suited to guard Millsap and Horford (besides Amir and Crowder)

The problem started when Amir got his 4th foul (or was it 5th)and Sullinger had to come in.

Sully has to avoid those bad passes at the top of they Key, because he is very slow at getting back on D and it always end up as n uncontested fast break. This is a series where we miss Brandon Bass a lot. He can cover Millsap and still play a kind of small ball style.

[billysan]

Sully vs Millsap =  A key reason why we will lose this series

Also Rozier better equipped to guard Schroder from the 2nd unit

Which is why I'd put the more athletic and mobile Amir on Millsap, and the.slower but more physical Sully on Horford.

Thats what happened part of last game. It's still bad news.  You got amir trying to go through pnr and defend Millsap out to the 3 pt line. Or have will drive past him

Horford has size/reached adv over sully. Is quicker also. Who do you think will win that matchup like everytime

Amir on Horford, KO on Millsap is much better imo

And it doesn't matter what KO can do against the 2nd unit, bc sully can prob do a equally decent job.  The key thing is, we need to slow down Millsap and also Schroder

Why do ppl say why start Rozier?? Schroder comes off the bench

I have no problem with Amir defending P&R or defending Millsap's quickness.  He's the best big we have in terms of both P&R D and in terms of lateral quickness, so if anybody on this team can defend Millsap it's going to be Amir...followed by maybe Jerebko.  Sure as hell won't be Sully, who is probably the worst perimeter/ P&R defender we have.

I also completely disagree with what you say about Horford.  Sully is 6'9" with a 7'1" wingspan and Horford is 6'10" with a 7'1" wingspan.  They are as close as you can possibly get to having identical height and length.  After the last game i all struggle to believe Horford is any qicker, since he looked god-awful in the last game and moved like a 70 year old pensioner with arthritis in his knees.  Sully looked at least as mobile (if not more mobile) all night.   And none of this matters if Horford plays like he did during that matchup, where his entire offensive game was chucking up threes and midrange jumpers and he showed zero interest in scoring ( or even just getting) anywhere near the basket.

Im pretty ok with using a rotation of Amir/Jerebko/Crowdet on Millsap, and Sully/Olynyk/Zeller on Horford.

Im also happy with Thomas/Bradley/Rozier covering Teague/Scroeder and Smart/Crowder/Turner covering Korver.

We really have no problems matching up with Atlanta.  At the end of the day the team that wants it more (and plays like it) is gping to be the one who wins the series.

Actually the team with minimal turnovers, best rebounding and hitting 3pt shots will win in most cases lol.

I do agree we have nice matchups if we take advantage. Like nick said, play our game and execute.

Make them ADJ to us.