Why Not?

[billysan]

A few things I think need to happen for this Orlando Series include:

Activate Scal and de-activate Daniels. If he is hurt, we need that 5-10 minutes of Scal ball to give the starters a break. We know Scal will give us 110% of relatively mistake free effort.

Play Shelden Williams and use his 6 fouls to hack on Dwight Howard. Split them up at 3 per half and have Williams take him to the hoop as well. If Williams can draw even one foul from Howard and give us 10 quality minutes while playing a little D then it will be well worth it.

Put Nate in the game for about 3 minutes each half and push the tempo to the max. Have him and Tony Allen attack the rim and drive nearly every possession during those few minutes. Again, if they can draw a foul or two then it will be worth while.

Attack the rim. Rondo, Paul and Ray especially need to attack the rim. All we need do is get Howard in foul trouble and the game is ours. The earlier we do this the better. At worst, the Magic will start collapsing their defense to help protect Howard and this is when we kick the ball out to a jump shooter. Have KG waiting and he will have an open shot.

I think the team effort is there. I think we just need to stick to a game plan that takes away their strength and that is primarily Howard. Weaken him and they become very vulnerable, he was largely ineffective in games 2 and 3 because we took him out of the game. We can and should do that again.

[mmbaby]

Good post. We need a repeat of games 2 and 3. Don't forget about Jameer, though. That kid knows how to really play basketball. Howard doesn't really play well; he just plays dirty. TP