Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Lol wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingintheNorth4 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Jae Crowder deserves some love for that pass also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Hell Yeah !!! Pistons on the road to recovery. PG- Killian Hayes SG- Cade Cunningham C- Isiah Stewart PF- Jerami Grant SF- Sadiq Bey That's the young core we were hoping for and landing the Number One Pick has us hyped for next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Racers represent!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maithanet Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 The end of that Clippers-Suns game was absolutely Bonkers. Suns lead by 6 with 2 minutes left. Clippers come back to take the lead by 1 with 30 seconds. Booker hits a jumper to retake lead with 25 seconds George hits jumper to retake lead by 1 with 20 seconds Clippers force a Booker turnover with 9 seconds. George misses both free throws. Clippers knock ball out with 0.8 seconds left. Clippers give up an Ayton dunk on the inbounds pass to lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 In other words we got the full Playoff P experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maithanet Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 A 1 point lead with less than a second left...you gotta cover the basket. I mean, the Hawks ran a good play and Ayton coulda been called for an offensive foul, but even still, that is the one thing you simply cannot give up. If Booker made an incredible catch and shoot, you can just tip your hat to him, but make him do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarGalley Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 So... is Booker's nose not broken? I don't see any news on it anywhere. He looked like a rhino at the end there. I was surprised they let him play... he must have absolutely insisted on coming back in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 2 hours ago, Maithanet said: A 1 point lead with less than a second left...you gotta cover the basket. I mean, the Hawks ran a good play and Ayton coulda been called for an offensive foul, but even still, that is the one thing you simply cannot give up. If Booker made an incredible catch and shoot, you can just tip your hat to him, but make him do it. I heard an interesting breakdown earlier about the power of the decoy. A few years back the Warriors were in a similar situation with Iggy inbounding the ball. Curry and Green were running a pick and roll, and this caused three defenders eyes to gravitate to Steph leaving an easy layup for Draymond. On the play last night, multiple defenders were paying attention to Booker. Worse, on the inbound Boogie was shading his positioning to make it harder to get the ball to him. This, however, left a fairly open passing lane to the rim and the rest is history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Welcome to the Trae Young show tonight.... Also, this is kind of funny: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingintheNorth4 Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Lol, that shimmy was straight disrespectful by Trae. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 3 hours ago, KingintheNorth4 said: Lol, that shimmy was straight disrespectful by Trae. Yeah. He’s great, but I can’t like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Bucks fail to defend their HC. Disappointing but I feel they will bounce back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maithanet Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 9 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said: Bucks fail to defend their HC. Disappointing but I feel they will bounce back. I think so too. It was an odd game, where Atlanta shot poorly from 3 (25%) and Milwaukee shot even worse (22%). Both teams shot well from 2 point range though, and as a result the score was still pretty high. Towards the end there when Young was just chucking up long 3s there instead of playing real offense, I thought the Bucks were going to take it for sure. But he stopped after two straight wasted possessions, and the Bucks went cold in the final two minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 For such a close game that could've ended either way, it was grindingly irritating to see some of the bonehead plays like Giannis fouling Trae on a wild, deep missed 3 attempt. Or seeing Middleton over think several easy shots and pass up makeable midrangers only to turn them into more missed 3's. I feel the Bucks would've won easily if they would've just stuck to executing the attempts inside the arc and kicked it out way less. Oh well we'll see the adjustments for game 2 and see how this develops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maithanet Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 18 minutes ago, DireWolfSpirit said: For such a close that could've ended either way, it was grindingly irritating to see some of the bonehead plays like Giannis fouling Trae on a wild, deep missed 3 attempt. Or seeing Middleton over think several easy shots and pass up makeable midrangers only to turn them into more missed 3's. I feel the Bucks would've won easily if they would've just stuck to executing the attempts inside the arc and kicked it out way less. Oh well we'll see the adjustments for game 2 and see how this develops. That call on Trae was pillow soft anyway, I'm not actually sure that Giannis even touched him. But I agree that the Bucks seem like they have taken the letter of modern NBA analytics (3pointers, layups and foul shots are the most efficient) without understanding the spirit behind it. A contested 3 pointer is not as good as an open 15 footer. Particularly when (for whatever reason) most of the Bucks have been struggling from deep all playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Is it possible to even have a top 10 list anymore, given that there are possibly more than 15 players who are deserving of having that label associated with their names? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarGalley Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 On 6/23/2021 at 12:18 PM, WarGalley said: So... is Booker's nose not broken? I don't see any news on it anywhere. He looked like a rhino at the end there. I was surprised they let him play... he must have absolutely insisted on coming back in. Broken in 3 places apparently, had it reset and is playing with the mask. So there we go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proudfeet Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 8 hours ago, Maithanet said: Towards the end there when Young was just chucking up long 3s there instead of playing real offense, I thought the Bucks were going to take it for sure. But he stopped after two straight wasted possessions, and the Bucks went cold in the final two minutes. 7 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said: Or seeing Middleton over think several easy shots and pass up makeable midrangers only to turn them into more missed 3's. I haven't watched much of Trae or Middleton, but those are the shots that Mitchell, Doncic, Lillard take. Its a bad shot, but it's because they make them that they are stars. I think that in their minds, its not about whether its contested, but whether they can make the space to fire it off. And they make them often enough to justify it. Other players do it too. Its just that these are the primary ball handlers so they leave more of an impression. The box score only gives us shot percentages, but I wonder how differently we'd look at players if other factors such as shot location, time to gather and release, distance of nearest defender, distance gained against nearest defender are considered. 7 hours ago, Maithanet said: That call on Trae was pillow soft anyway, I'm not actually sure that Giannis even touched him. Might have brushed him with a finger after he landed. There was a report that the Board of Governors were looking into shooting fouls. Hope scenarios like this are considered and changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 This game is both tight and compelling and loaded with a ton of fouls that are ruining the aesthetic of the game. And just like that, Booker picked up his 4th literally halfway through the 3rd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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