Not sure why Thibs took out the sledgehammer and ran iso Brunson over and over. But thank you. Not taking away from the nice defensive effort by Detroit, but its much easier to defend a team running the same play for the same player over and over.
Letting us hide Duren on Hart is quite the gift. It's letting Duren come off of Hart and help a bit since Hart isn't a 3PT threat. He can get to the rim a bit though and is a good passer, averaging 6 APG. They should be running PnR with Hart as the ball handler and KAT screening. Harris and Duren defending the PnR together is something a team should want to exploit. Can anyone remember a single time it was run last night?
Where were the doubles and traps on Cade? Cade will kill you if you can't speed him up and make him uncomfortable.
The Knock on JB is he doesn't adjust well. Not a real X's and O's type of coach. He was smart last night letting Cade go one on one without screens. It helped keep the doubles away from Cade a bit. In game 1 when Cade came off of a screen he had one or two defenders waiting for him. That never happened last night. That with the hiding Duren on Hart has JB winning the coaching game so far.