OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA THREAD - June 2021

Loved the "overrated" chants from the fans to George. That was great.

 

PG might legitimately have psychological performance issues. he shuts down when there is pressure and knows it, and knows basketball fans are just waiting for it to happen.

 

Man Donovan Mitchell is having so much playoff success so fast in his career. This was the trajectory Dame was suppose to have. Fucking shame

 

I might rather have Zubac than Nurk. He’s an Ironman.

 

Say what you want Leonard should have passed it to him instead of Morris.

 

Oh wow no Conley for Utah as well?! Jesus Christ blow up the blazers man we are so far behind

 

The new Dame

 

Learned from the best.

 

I stopped watching but when I left PG was I think 2-13 so I can see why someone wouldn’t pass him the ball

 

There is absolutely no "might" about it. Paul George has serious performance anxiety issues. You don't have the type of fall off the guy does without a reason. He misses too many shots that he makes in the regular season whenever he plays in the playoffs. Cliff Robinson albeit not as big of a star, really failed to show up for us in the playoffs and it got a lot worse when he became our number one guy.

So I'm hoping that PG is seeing someone but it was mentioned in here before... who has the guy played with that would lift him up? Right now he's got the quietest guy in the league as his running mate, he's had Russ and was kind of on his own before that. None of that is what Dame would bring him. I'm sure his coaches are good but if you're taking a pass from a guy who is a huge, vocal supporter of yours... it's just different.

I hope the Clippers continue to implode and I hope we can get PG13 for CJ, DJ and future draft considerations. Dame, Norm, PG, RoCo and Nurk would be legit as a starting lineup. Hopefully Zach will be healthy, we'll use the MLE on a backup point and we'll see Ant and Nas continue to grow. That would be a helluva team. Especially if coached by the right person.

 

I was curious about all the 'Paul George sucks in playoffs' stuff:

PER: regular season 19.4....playoffs 17.7
TS%: regular season .568....playoffs .560
FT Rate: regular season .300....playoffs .383
Reb Rate: regular season 10.5%....playoffs 10.7%
assist rate: regular season 17.6%....playoffs 18.3%
winshares/48: regular season .153....playoffs .135
BPM: regular season 4.1....playoffs 3.7

I'm seeing some fall-off, but I don't see the drastic fall-off like being talked about here. There's always more defensive resistance in the playoffs so a drop in efficiency and shooting percentages is pretty normal. Happens to Dame and CJ too. In the playoffs, PG increases his FT's, rebounding and assists.

I've always thought the narrative of him choking in the playoffs was kind of exaggerated. The numbers tend to confirm that

 

Look at his three point shooting and just jump shooting in general. He's a smart player and he tries to make up for it by getting to the line and hoop more but his jump shot just isn't the same (and it's even more apparent watching the games and seeing how far off a lot of his misses are in the playoffs).

It's not a false narrative unless it's people saying that he's completely useless in the playoffs because he's not, his jumper just isn't there for him.

 

Or you could say Seth had played well enough that he commanded too large a contract. Dallas had the money. Of course he isn't playing there any longer either. I'm betting Luka right now wishes he had Seth as well.

 

Exactly!

 

Were you even around 8 years ago? Were you watching and following this team 10 years ago?
Does the Name Wesley Mathews ring a bell?
Lamarcus Aldridge?
How about Nic batum?
Have you ever heard of Robin Lopez?
Did you ever hear of a guy named Brandon Roy?
Here is a real history maker. Greg Oden?

 

Some of these people don't have know clue what's he brings to the table.

 

Could that be because he's always eating takeout?

 

Dude, Aldo isn’t even half way through high school. He wasn’t old enough to really watch them play……

 

I think it was: Ben Anderson: Bojan Bogdanovic on having 18K @Utah Jazz fans back in Vivint Arena: “It’s probably the loudest crowd that I played in front of here in NBA even when we were down.”