The Suns are so fun to watch. Would love to see them win it. Joker is amazing but he can’t do it all himself. He needs Murray to compete in this round.
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Man Suns defense is active. Monty has them boys playing hard As ****.
Glad Aaron Gordon decided to suck one a mule couldn’t drag the night I pick him on fanduel
Him and Porzingis been on my fantasy team for 2 season now.. maybe even 3. They both helped get me to 1st place in the regular season.. only to meltdown at the end.
But I swear.. every GD year those two guys fall to me, and I have to take them.
Somebody needs to sit down with Giannis and tell him any time he shoots a 3 he is killing his team because it's essentially a turnover. Combine that with his free throw escapades and that's a lot to overcome when you're playing a great team like the Nets.
Cringe worthy. With that said, as a 76ers fan, would love for Simmons to take 1 or 2 a game. Definitely don't wanna see 7 attempts but 1 or 2 not gonna hurt. Mix in 2 or 3 mid-range jumpers as well. Both can get to the rim the majority of the time, with some semblance of a shot, Simmons could elevate to superstar status.
They went away from KD on 4 plays late in the game and the guy missed all 4 shots lol. It’s not hard, get KD the ball
First Luka and now Donovan . Not much you can do defensively when guys hitting 3s like that
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Cousins is toast. Too slow and has no lift. Gobert abused him. He’ll be out of the league soon.
Cousins struggled to get his shot off in gobert I wouldn’t say Cousins was abused though .
You’ve got a lot to learn about playing time in the NHL. Players play about a minute at a time normally. All teams have 3 lines that play all the time and they all have a 4th line that plays but not as much. 20 minutes for a player is a lot. Keep learning the game.
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He blocked Cousins’ shot twice and caused Cousins to violate the shot clock once.
first off that shot clock violation was caused mostly by cousins. he always needs a posts move he can’t jump over you. his mistake was choosing to start over with 1 second left just to get two feet closer to the basket. gobert only needed to stand there. he didn’t go for a pump fake and that is good work, but cousins had the ball 8 feet from the basket in a bail out situation and could have shot it anytime along that route and chose to drive to the post. he worked himself into that turnover thinking he could get an easy shot at the rim in time and he was wrong. solid work by gobert but more of a risky move by cousins.
looking at the blocks. he got one clean block. it forced a miss by about two inches. the other “block” ended with gobert wincing under the basket support and cousins securing what would have been a put back dunk. it’s hard to even see a block on the play to begin with. cousins shot it over him just long. in any event it’s hardly abuse. the most abusive play between the two was cousins robbing the ball in game one. you get my point. he’s being played sparingly but he’s more than held his own.
imo abuse were the refs calling cousins for anything every time he was about to do something. he gets called for things other players don’t. the whole game people were clearing space with their off hand and traveling. i don’t remember a travel or clear-out called on anyone else except him. he also got called for two other offensive foul/turnovers and i am trying to understand why the box score has him with only 1 turnover. point is if they let him be halfway physical he’s on his way to a way more efficient game. he got microscope eyes from the refs.
If the Bucks are going to have any chance to win this series, it needs to get even uglier.
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I like Boogie as much as anyone and root for him but for whatever the reason be it injury or diminishing skillset, he isn’t very effective and was clearly outmatched against Gobert. He was getting frustrated. Chauncey Billups had to pull him to the side and jump his case for being immature.
If 20 minutes a game is a lot for a player.. Then what's 35 to 40 minutes?
That was my point. I get that those 20 hockey minutes are a lot, likely due to the physical nature of the game. But running on the hardwood for 35 minutes a night is a heck of a lot more damaging to the lower body than skating on ice for 20 min.
Don't think basketball players would have as many injuries or need as many rest games if they had a 3rd line that was in play.
The Clippers need Kawhi to play better than he has this series . That last series might have taken some energy out of him .
It also doesn’t help that Utah hit 20 3s and a lot of those were contested shots .
It also doesn’t help that Utah hit 20 3s and a lot of those were contested shots .
Boogie looks in much better shape and maybe is why he's finally getting some PT.
Pretty sure if Kawhi Leonard can't stop Donovan Mitchell then nobody can.
Pretty sure if Kawhi Leonard can't stop Donovan Mitchell then nobody can.
Nets might not be able to stop Mitchell.. but not sure it matters when no one can really stop their big3.
Kawhi is such an interesting player to me. Seems to be that really smart kid who refuses to fully apply himself, but can still get a 98 on the test. IDK what to make of him. At one point, we all thought he might be replace Lebron.. then during this year/last year, he kinda regressed back to being that guy who didn't seem to care.. and now he's realizing the NBA playoffs started and he's back to his Toronto-days.. very odd persona to see in professional sports.
I'm seeing them both in the Top 5-10 NBA this year. Donovan being the newcomer and fresh coming back from injury. Kawhi back to his old ways.
If the Nets get consistent max effort from guys like Brown and Griffin, I agree that losing Harden doesn't matter.
Tyrese Maxey appears to be completely out of the rotation now even with players like Danny Green injured and out for the game. Just wow.