Adjustments for Game 2

[PhoSita]

Start Thomas and Olynyk, go down shooting.

Thought about this for fun factor alone. 140 to 120 point games would be nuts.

Starting lineup:

Thomas-Bradley-Datome-Jerebko-Olynyk

Run and shoot, run and shoot.

Defensively speaking, that would be our funeral.

It's our funeral anyway.  You want to lower the casket with a dirge, or Freebird?

[CelticGuardian]

Get Bradley going and restore his confidence (he looked like a rookie in game 1, and had like 3 airballs... it's mind-boggling). And if you see he doesn't get it, pull him out immediately instead of keeping him in the game, I thought Stevens went too long with Bradley even when he was obviously killing us, instead of replacing him with Thomas (I like the Smart/Thomas backcourt).

Yeah, Bradley didn't show up like at all. He definitely should start game 2 though, Brad should run the first couple of plays for him and see how that goes. If he is still playing with the jitters, just have him stick Kyrie like a madman possessed. I'm talking about Full court pressure on that dude!

[dwoumn]

For adjustments
1. Target match ups and force contact to get fouls. Hopefully get more space from defenders to allow easier passing.

2. Give AB his normal plays at 2nd stint in. If hot ride him if not stay away please. Don't do early till spacing talked about above happens.

3. Move the ball more and avoid less resets. Make the Cavs stay in a rotation till they break down.

4. Try to attack Love and Irving (not LeBron). This means things can't go through Turner so much.

5. I like what IT and Smart were able to do on offense. Lets see them paired more minutes.

6. Let's see AB play PG spot while Turner is SG more in a rotation.

7. Need more Sully vs Love the match up can be at least a wash if Sully gets going.

8. Crowder, Gigi, and Crash all need time on LeBron not Smart or Turner. LeBron needs to be bodied all game with a fresh man. Make LeBron's 40 minutes feel like 60.

9. Big man rotation should be Bass/KO at PF and Sully/Zeller at C when Moz is in. When Moz is out get Jerekbo max minutes with KO moving to Center; this is to create excellent space for attacking the paint with no shot blocker.

Well that is what I got. Do like a lot of people's suggestions too. So much suggestions probably means we need a lot of luck and special play to pull out wins.

AB lacks ball handling skills. He can't play the point. Watch his offense, all of his shoots comes of of curls and him working off ball.

[GzUP617]

  Bradley needs to call I.T up and speak for a couple hours to create the Kyrie Rules.

[PhoSita]

So long as he's got Shump on him, Bradley's going to have a tough time.  Will be interesting to see if they switch Shump onto IT and let Irving take Bradley.

Would like to see Turner in the second unit.  Might do better when LeBron, Shump, and Mozgov aren't out there.  Too much length and strength for him to deal with.

[dwoumn]

  Bradley needs to call I.T up and speak for a couple hours to create the Kyrie Rules.

Definitely! He needs to improve his ball handling skills. Once that improves, he will be able to attack the rim more. He could be a much better player with his improved jumper and ability to drive the lane. The last part of his game that he will have to figure out is his ability to finish at the rim through contact.

[Csfan1984]

For adjustments
1. Target match ups and force contact to get fouls. Hopefully get more space from defenders to allow easier passing.

2. Give AB his normal plays at 2nd stint in. If hot ride him if not stay away please. Don't do early till spacing talked about above happens.

3. Move the ball more and avoid less resets. Make the Cavs stay in a rotation till they break down.

4. Try to attack Love and Irving (not LeBron). This means things can't go through Turner so much.

5. I like what IT and Smart were able to do on offense. Lets see them paired more minutes.

6. Let's see AB play PG spot while Turner is SG more in a rotation.

7. Need more Sully vs Love the match up can be at least a wash if Sully gets going.

8. Crowder, Gigi, and Crash all need time on LeBron not Smart or Turner. LeBron needs to be bodied all game with a fresh man. Make LeBron's 40 minutes feel like 60.

9. Big man rotation should be Bass/KO at PF and Sully/Zeller at C when Moz is in. When Moz is out get Jerekbo max minutes with KO moving to Center; this is to create excellent space for attacking the paint with no shot blocker.

Well that is what I got. Do like a lot of people's suggestions too. So much suggestions probably means we need a lot of luck and special play to pull out wins.

AB lacks ball handling skills. He can't play the point. Watch his offense, all of his shoots comes of of curls and him working off ball.

I dont see AB handling the ball at the point just guarding the PG spot. Turner brings the ball up and is better doing that assignment at sg and not at sf against LeBron. Which is what they have been doing when AB, Smart and Turner are in. Don't think of regular PG duties just matchups.

[Kuberski33]

To all calling for changing the starting lineup....the game got lost in the 3Q.  Who starts doesn't matter.  I'd play Sully more figuring you're not going to shoot as well from outside the arc so you need to be able to go inside.  Plus he'll at least get physical with Cleveland's bigs.

Other than that there isn't a lot to change. They played LeBron reasonably well.  Irving went off.  Hopefully Kyrie doesn't shoot it as well in Game 2 because if he goes off as in Game 1, there isn't much you can do.

[Yoki_IsTheName]

Stop double teaming LeBron.

If he's going to kill us, so be it. But lets not allow anyone else kill us because were putting two guys on James and he's finding open guys.

[mef730]

Hope that the Cleveland bus gets lost on the way to the game.

More seriously, drive to the basket more and draw fouls.  Hopefully, the refs will be better in this game than they were in the first half of the last.  Gt a few stars in foul trouble and hope for the best.

Mike

[GC003332]

1.Don't panic, with the exception of Sullinger being reintroduced into the rotation the last 2 weeks, this group of guys has been playing very well over the second half of the season.Don't need to reinvent the wheel .
2.Still have to make Lebron work on the defensive end, whether it is Turner again or some more minutes for crowder, still got to go at him from time to time.
3.Get Kelly O away from Thompson on the defensive glass, Comedy Central watching him fight for position.
4.Stay at home when Love posts up, no need for any quick double teams.
5.Whether he is ready or not , need to run some more post plays for Sullinger to slow the tempo down at various stages.
6.If it is getting out of hand go for the old hack a shaq routine and have Ainge throwing that towel as a distraction

[djbilly33]

Doesn't matter what adjustments are made, we are done in 4 or maybe 5 if we can pull one out in Boston.

[Celtics4ever]

START JARED SULLINGER FOR REBOUNDING

  You must be a Kevin Love fan and want him to score 40?

[WeMadeIt17]

Some adjustments i would like to see.

1.Get Crash some PT. He is a body to throw at Lebron and he rebounds and cuts to the rim pretty decent still.

2. Lets Gigi also get some minutes against the cavs bench. He could help with his shooting.

3. Limit Turnovers

4. Box out and draw some fouls on them trying to get over the back.

I saw a quote from Stevens today on twitter saying that he needs to use the depth on this team to his advantage. I think we'll see some Gigi and crash tomorrow night, and i think that is the right thing to do. Hopefully with some of those adjustments we can steal one and head back to Boston 1-1.

[LooseCannon]

I saw a quote from Stevens today on twitter saying that he needs to use the depth on this team to his advantage.

Use all those forwards on the roster to give 30 hard fouls on Lebron that come as close as possible to flagrant without actually being flagrant.