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Time: Tonight, 7
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Arena: Contential Airlines Arena
Game CH: TNT
The Nets are coming off two straight railroad blowouts at the hands of the Heat in the Amercia Airlines Arena. But the scene now shiftes to the garden state and the Contential Airlines Arena. The scene change may give the Nets a chance to gain some footing in this series. The Nets need to turn home cooking into a chance to do what they do best. And that is get out in the open court and create some tempo in their favor. The slow down half-court offense of the Nets so far in this series has basically taken Jason Kidd out of the series. Tonight is his chance to dictate the play a bit in his matchup against Dwayne Wade, who has totally dominated him so far in this series. If Kidd can get the Nets off to a strong start in the early going unlike games 1 &2 then it may force Van Gundy & the Heat on their heels. And looking to make adjustments.
Speaking of adjustments Coach Lawerence Franks may need to make some adjustments as welll, like finding away to involve Richard Jefferson into the flow of the game quicker. Brian Scalibrine at the 3 spot just hasnt work against Miami. Inserting Jefferson into the game earler whether it be putting him in the starting lineup or moving him up to the 1st guy off the bench in a 6th man type role, will prevent more of a problem to the Heats defense. Jefferson adds another break down off the dribble guy that the Heat would have to do with to go along with Carter. So far in this series Jefferson has struggled somewhat in making the return from wrist injury. But seems to be taking some of the rust off his game by the play he displayed in the 4th quarter of game 2. Jefferson getting into the game early & contribiting can be productive on the scoreboard as well as giving New Jersey some much needed confidence. Just the feeling of knowing that have another weapon who is capable of giving them 15-20pts if close to 100%, may do wonders.
Vince Carter needs to also break out of the funk Miami's defense has put him in. Eddie Jones has done an excellent job of being phsyical with VC. And you can see the Heat's team defense starting to get in the head of Carter, he got a tech in game 2 for going back & forth with Keyon Dooling & Alonzo Mourning. And picked up two silly offensive fouls for trying to fource the action. Carter needs to calm down, continue to try & get in the lanes of the Heat defense. But dont just look to be a score every time he gets in the paint, mix it up with his ablity to be a playmaker in attempts to keep the Heat's defense off balance.
New Jersey also needs to continue to expose Shaq in the screen & roll game. The Nets in both games 1 & 2 made it an emphasis to make Shaq defend. But as both games wore on the Nets seem to abandon the concept. The Nets need to make it a 4 quarter effort to attack Shaq, & make him guard guys, particularilly when he is trying to cover Nenad Krstic.
On the other end of the floor, Nets have to fight hard to recover out to perimeter jump shooters. They did a solid job at the start of game 2 trying to take away the good looks Damon Jones has been getting. But in the second half, their rotations out to shooters became slow and guys like Damon Jones & Eddie Jones were able to get going. New Jersey has to work harder on defense.
Also work harder on the boards, New Jerseys frontcourt cant hang with Maimi on the boards that means that everyone in a Nets uniform as to make a conserted effort to help out on the boards. Vince Carter is the most athetic guy on the court, he needs to be doing more on the defensive boards.
Please Keep all game 3 talk in this thread.
opmArena: Contential Airlines Arena
Game CH: TNT
The Nets are coming off two straight railroad blowouts at the hands of the Heat in the Amercia Airlines Arena. But the scene now shiftes to the garden state and the Contential Airlines Arena. The scene change may give the Nets a chance to gain some footing in this series. The Nets need to turn home cooking into a chance to do what they do best. And that is get out in the open court and create some tempo in their favor. The slow down half-court offense of the Nets so far in this series has basically taken Jason Kidd out of the series. Tonight is his chance to dictate the play a bit in his matchup against Dwayne Wade, who has totally dominated him so far in this series. If Kidd can get the Nets off to a strong start in the early going unlike games 1 &2 then it may force Van Gundy & the Heat on their heels. And looking to make adjustments.
Speaking of adjustments Coach Lawerence Franks may need to make some adjustments as welll, like finding away to involve Richard Jefferson into the flow of the game quicker. Brian Scalibrine at the 3 spot just hasnt work against Miami. Inserting Jefferson into the game earler whether it be putting him in the starting lineup or moving him up to the 1st guy off the bench in a 6th man type role, will prevent more of a problem to the Heats defense. Jefferson adds another break down off the dribble guy that the Heat would have to do with to go along with Carter. So far in this series Jefferson has struggled somewhat in making the return from wrist injury. But seems to be taking some of the rust off his game by the play he displayed in the 4th quarter of game 2. Jefferson getting into the game early & contribiting can be productive on the scoreboard as well as giving New Jersey some much needed confidence. Just the feeling of knowing that have another weapon who is capable of giving them 15-20pts if close to 100%, may do wonders.
Vince Carter needs to also break out of the funk Miami's defense has put him in. Eddie Jones has done an excellent job of being phsyical with VC. And you can see the Heat's team defense starting to get in the head of Carter, he got a tech in game 2 for going back & forth with Keyon Dooling & Alonzo Mourning. And picked up two silly offensive fouls for trying to fource the action. Carter needs to calm down, continue to try & get in the lanes of the Heat defense. But dont just look to be a score every time he gets in the paint, mix it up with his ablity to be a playmaker in attempts to keep the Heat's defense off balance.
New Jersey also needs to continue to expose Shaq in the screen & roll game. The Nets in both games 1 & 2 made it an emphasis to make Shaq defend. But as both games wore on the Nets seem to abandon the concept. The Nets need to make it a 4 quarter effort to attack Shaq, & make him guard guys, particularilly when he is trying to cover Nenad Krstic.
On the other end of the floor, Nets have to fight hard to recover out to perimeter jump shooters. They did a solid job at the start of game 2 trying to take away the good looks Damon Jones has been getting. But in the second half, their rotations out to shooters became slow and guys like Damon Jones & Eddie Jones were able to get going. New Jersey has to work harder on defense.
Also work harder on the boards, New Jerseys frontcourt cant hang with Maimi on the boards that means that everyone in a Nets uniform as to make a conserted effort to help out on the boards. Vince Carter is the most athetic guy on the court, he needs to be doing more on the defensive boards.
Please Keep all game 3 talk in this thread.
