NBA Playoffs Thread - 2nd round edition

Why was he taking those stupid shots? And how do Green and Curry throw the ball away? Warriors have been back from 1-3 before though.

 

GS shot selection to end the game was pathetic. Contested 30 footers for the last 2 minutes.

 

Don't forget Danny Ainge

 

Has LeBron ever had a random teammate play well where he doesn't instantly claim he knew it was coming before it happend?

Either this guy has an unbelievable knack of predicting the future (after the fact) or he's full of shit.

 

Klay did not help his brother out there

 

Could you imagine the meltdown of epic proportions on this board if Ant put up these numbers?

 

Poole has not been great recently. I forgot he was even on the team for a while there tonight.

 

Or if the Blazers let Lonnie Walker IV torch them in the 4th? "Why are we the only team to let randoms have career nights against us?"
Or if the Dame jacked up and missed multiple contested shots in the last minute of a close game?

 

Ant @ 100/4 >> Fool @ 128/4

But, Shae should be the starting 2 ASAP. Ant is odd man out

 

Here is another way to look at this. Jordan Poole is playing a sixth man role. Some might say 7th with DiVincenzo also coming in around the same rotation. Many here are saying the Blazers can't or shouldn't pay a sixth man over $20 million a year? I personally can't see how they shouldn't? Anfernee Simons is the perfect 6th man. Not sure trading him is the best bet? Holding onto a player like him on a contract that by NBA standards isn't outrageous seems to be the better move? He's also a veteran at this point. He adds depth for times when Dame might be hurt.
I sure am reading a bunch of comments pretty much expecting him to be gone this summer.

 

Because in order to acquire needle movers, we need to give something up, and his salary is top candidate in a trade.

- Promote Sharpe to starting 2.

- Move Grant to 3, don't overpay.

- If we can Upgrade 4 while keeping Ant to be 6th man ala Brogdon, why not? But how? Ant/Matisse backup backcourt isn't bad.

- If we get Wemby, does he start? If not, how to upgrade the 5? Nurk is a median center, can we get better at 5? How?

In a week, we get a little bit more clarity.

 

My mistake. I should not have posted that previous post in this thread. Don't want to turn this into a trade thread.
Was just agreeing with your idea that Simons is a better or at least every bit as good as Poole for his contract.

 

Poole got a premium for getting punched by Green, I think.

What the Lakers have done is an example for turning around a team so quickly. The players they got for Russ and Beverly made them a team bound to the lottery to potentially the WCF. I still want the Warriors to make this a series

 

1000%

 

Truly clutch players like Dame are rare.

 

Thats shocking. I wonder what a list of those 12 shots situations and games are.

I know players usually shoot very low percentage on those final shots, much less than you'd expect. Kobe might have been above average but was around 20% I believe. Still you'd think Curry would have at least a few makes every 10 shots.

 

You probably heard this from Van Gundy if you watched the game. This writer can't understand why Warriors don't run pick and roll every play with the guy who Davis is guarding being the screener.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/...es-brunt-of-blame-for-golden-states-3-1-hole/

 

I don't understand why when the Warriors do that, the Lakers don't just immediately switch. Like everyone else can play man to man but AD is playing a zone. The Warriors don't have the shooters IMO to take AD as far away from the paint as he was on those P&Rs. They don't need to switch everything, just switch AD when his guy tries to lure him that far away from the hoop. I doubt they'll do it though because LeBron was so pumped that AD could defend Steph out there... meanwhile back at the hoop, the Warriors were getting whatever they wanted because even though for the most part AD was doing a fine job limiting Steph's shooting out there and he wasn't getting constantly blown by, Steph was picking the Lakers apart with passes.

None of that really matters if the Lakers keep AD involved on offense though but I think the two are connected. I think even though AD is a good perimeter defender that all of that movement makes him content with resting on offense.

 

I don't understand what your suggesting; if the Warriors have AD's man screen with Steph, and the Lakers switch, then AD is guarding Steph way out at the 3point line and the Warriors can attack the hoop uncontested?