Around the NBA - 2018 PLAYOFFS - Round 1

I wondered the same thing. In fact, when I did a fast forward and saw the 78 I thought I was losing my mind. Had to go back and double check that score. It was reassuring to see that I was right that it used to be 79 but was now 78. Was it ever explained?

 

I would say Westbrook and melo belong on the same team. You have melo who was great in his prime but was and is a volume shooter, all iso. Then you have Westbrook. Great talent but bad team mate and leader. It’s why I don’t understand the Kevin Durant hate. Don’t you see why he left the team? It’s quite obvious. It’s not a lamarcus situation where it doesn’t make a ton of sense. Westbrook’s character showed me even more that last game of the season chasing for those 16 rebounds to average another’s triple double for the season. He will never win a title, best rely on being the guy that got a bunch of triple doubles. A meaningless stat line. Put up 19 threes as a 29 percent three point shooter. Yup...

 

Kevin Durant is hated because he left OKC for the team that beat them, not because he left Westbrook. And yeah, he's pathetic cunt who creates fake accounts to speak great about himself. Just saying.

 

The best team to surround Westbrook with would be four other players like Adams who are willing to sacrifice themselves for him and see much less of a ball and do the small things that help Westbrook get the numbers. Anthony is not that guy and PG isn’t either.

 

Nice article about Manu:
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/...ure-san-antonio-spurs-nba-playoffs-retirement

 

I remember as a kid playing round ball at the park and no one liked playing with a guy that thought he's was a super star, and dominated the ball and scoring effort. Didn't matter win or lose it wasn't fun for the others to just watch someone play give me the ball.
I bet George and others on the Thunder are thinking the same way now.

 

It’s hard for others to get into rhythm too

 

There was one kid I played with after work who almost never missed a three. He shot 80 percent. I told him to shoot every time.

 

Poor Russ. This had to be a hugely disappointing series for him. All those shots, but not a single triple double in the series. He let his teammates down, but more importantly, he let himself and his fanbois down.

BNM

 

Edited for puke green font

 

Seattle Emerald Green doesn't age well in Oklahoma.....it becomes stockyard, meat packing plant green

 

Maker with the clean block on Horford, refs call a goal tend, and can't review.

 

Great block, then 3 by Tatum!

 

Bucks have a real interesting decision to make with Parker. Someone’s probably going to offer him 15-20 mil a year and I’m not sure Milwaukee will match. He doesn’t look to have lost any of that explosiveness or athleticism and his defense has been much better in the playoffs.

Would love him in Portland but I think our chance to make that happen was at the deadline.

 

Celtics advance. The Bucks have such a good team on paper, and the Celtics (with the injury to Kyrie) an average one. But the game is not won on paper, the Celtics are such a good team.

Can anyone explain to me what's wrong with the Bucks? Because I feel like they should be better than they are, and I don't watch enough Bucks games to have an informed opinion as to why they aren't. Am I expecting too much from them, or are they under performing? And if so why?

 

Great bench game by Baynes - 15 min, 8 pts @ 80%, 7 reb (5 oreb), 2 ast, 1 stl (I swear had had 2 stl earlier, and they've taken one off of him.)

 

They can't defend and they just go one on one. Celtics are better than average on paper if the paper is right. Rozier is for real. Better than Kyrie possibly. Is Hayward better than Brown in the long run?

 

Rozier isn't better than Kyrie. The stats disagree with that, the eye test disagrees with that, and everything else does too. He had a great series but that doesn't automatically mean he's better.