NBA playoffs 2018
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LBJ vintage game, Oladipo playing way less than usual, and Pacers in a 2-possession game on the road.
36 seconds left... Pacers can get the 2 for 1 if they run a quick set play... hard to believe they could actually win after that start...
Cavs led by 20 in the first and have had an amazing LeBron game at home in a game they need to win far more than Indiana. And they will barely hang on to the win. This team just isn't a real threat for the East.
yeah, that was a horrible sneak-attack question. Ali LaForce---not much of a sense of timing.
They said that? Really? Even the Mayor of Munchkinland phrased it more delicately.
Hahahaha, Harden tries his patented throwing of his arms into the defenders arms looking for the call, and he just fumbles the ball instead.
Let's see if Thibs makes any changes from Game One, like you know, remembering that KAT is on your team and getting him the ball. So far, the answer to that specific question is no.
Minnesota has passed the ball down low twice. Once to Wiggins, and once to Gibson. Meanwhile, KAT is just hanging around at the three point line on the off side twiddling his thumbs.
It's LeBron so one never knows, but it can't be good for their fortunes if he goes for 46 and they struggle to beat Indiana in a game on their home floor that they needed way more than the Pacers did.
Ooooh, Harden gets called for the offensive. Butler is getting in his head so far, he's like 1/5 or so from the floor. Of course, the one shot he did make, he got fouled and got a 3 point play on it.
Visually, they just lack any offensive flow. Minimal ball movement, minimal off-the-ball movement, tons of isos.
I can't believe this game went from, what, 22-13 Minnesota, to 37-53 Houston. You kinda suspected they couldn't put up 4 quarters like the first, but this is embarrassing.
you know what, maybe you are what your record says you are.
Yeah, their lack of ball movement is just befuddling in the this modern NBA. This has to be on Thibs. Plus the defense is terrible.
While I'll be eternally grateful to Melo for Cuse's lone Natl Championship, he should have lost that star label 3 seasons ago. Not even sure he qualifies as an average NBA starter at this point.
Harden is 2/18 from the field, and has 12 points (he has his requisite 7 points from the foul line), and as a team, Houston is shooting 36% from the floor, and 31% from 3.
Houston is up by 24 points with 5 minutes to go, and the TWolves have 71 points.
Kat has 5 points on 2/9 shooting. Butler has 11 points and has only taken 6 shots. Wiggins has 13 on 6/14 shooting.
Thibs should be fired before leaving the court, and forced to walk back to Minnesota. This is fucking embarrassing. Defensively, they've done more than enough to win this game against an offense like the Rockets, but they literally have no ability to score points, and yet, they have a number of offensive weapons on the team. It's so fucking hard to watch.
Houston is up by 24 points with 5 minutes to go, and the TWolves have 71 points.
Kat has 5 points on 2/9 shooting. Butler has 11 points and has only taken 6 shots. Wiggins has 13 on 6/14 shooting.
Thibs should be fired before leaving the court, and forced to walk back to Minnesota. This is fucking embarrassing. Defensively, they've done more than enough to win this game against an offense like the Rockets, but they literally have no ability to score points, and yet, they have a number of offensive weapons on the team. It's so fucking hard to watch.
Just an absolute mess. You have Towns, Wiggins, Butler, and Teague and you can’t score points? Thibs is a joke and agree he should be canned before Towns says F this and leaves.
This is Thibs offense.....I saw it every game last year when I watched Dunn playing the 2 and 3 off the ball while Wiggins and KAT took turns in iso. Now he added Butler so it's literally all iso all the time. Get as many iso's for your best scorers as you can, penetrate and get to the line while not running any motion or passing to limit turnovers. Win the FT and TO battle at the expense of 3's......it's like he's coaching back in the Anthony Mason days.
It works well in the regular season when defenses are playing regular season defense but the game is played much differently on the defensive end in the playoffs.
Putting this news in the game thread. Embiid will start tonight. How much he plays depends on how he fares in first eight minutes.
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/sixers/nba-playoffs-76ers-sixers-miami-heat-joel-embiid-status-game-3-20180419.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/sixers/nba-playoffs-76ers-sixers-miami-heat-joel-embiid-status-game-3-20180419.html
I find myself irrationally rooting for Dwyane Wade and I can't snap out of it. Someone kill me.
Because it's the playoffs and we like to see certain players take over games? I never disliked Wade. He won me a lot of money one day in Vegas back in 2003 during the NCAA Tournament.
