I'd say that skill-wise Kawhi and Tatum are pretty close. The thing that stood out about that Kawhi run was his terminator-like confidence in himself and his ability to drone out all the noise and just kill it every night that I think Tatum still needs to get to (and perhaps he does that this series). Tatum can still get psyched out by bad refereeing and physical defense, on occasion.
Good pluck.
Kawhi's D at that point was not that good but the commentary hadn't caught up due to his reputation. Tatum has an advantage on that side of the ball.
Huh what? I'm not disagree with you at all. I'm saying that Jaylen MAY HAVE 100% DESERVED whatever Curry did and that Jaylen may still be upset about it because that's how people are.
Good one. Indeed, there’s an amazing number of all-stars and HOFers on that list.
That was a really shocking result at the time; as you mention the Lakers were good in the regular season and had won 57 games.
Ticket prices are starting to normalize a little bit. I'm seeing the cheapest down about $100-150 from where they were yesterday. Still completely ridiculous though, and I wonder if we get some tamer crowds than we had in rounds 1 and 2 given how expensive it is to attend. I didn't think the ECF crowds were as good as the Bucks and Nets crowds.
Miami hadn't lost at home through the first two rounds, then proceeded to drop 3 of 4 to the Celtics in South Beach - including a Game 7 in which they got a ton of help from the refs but still lost wire-to-wire.
Yeah, that rang true to me when I read it. You know all of your best friend's moves like the back of your hand.
Eh, that list is mostly "who plays pg on a good defense". I don't think it is telling you much about one on one matchups.
Given that the Warriors destroyed the leg of Toronto’s best player (he was a Spur when it happened, true, but the man responsible for Leonard’s injury was the NBA’s answer to Tie Domi) it seems only fair.
His quad was ruined by then, and it was, sadly, his last hurrah. I’m glad he got his second ring. He was one of my favorites.
I think Curry might see a lot of Mr. White. White's got some of that same perpetual motion energy that Curry has.
I expect that we’ll do a ton of switching rather than chasing everyone around the perimeter and baseline with our heads cut off. I hate this matchup from Curry’s side. He’s going to see a combination of length (Tatum/Jaylen) and strength (Smart) in his jersey with the shot clock winding down as well as from White who is familiar with his work.
Agree there's a lot of SSS in there, and can't be sure without getting into the raw data, but I think I may see a bit of signal that Jaylen struggles a bit more against bigger guys and Jayson a bit more against smaller guys. Which would be interesting matchup-wise if so....the general assumption is Wiggins would start on Tatum and Klay on Brown but that may be backwards.
yeah I was going to say, team stats like that are really just telling you what teams play good D. Like there are 3 LACs guards of the past few years on that list high because.... the Clippers also have Kawhi and PG13 and are a top defensive team, hence why no matter which PG is in they look good on that stat.
I was going to surprise my son, who has had a tough couple of months, with tickets to game 3 or 4. As of yesterday, decent seats are at least $1,500 per ticket. I won't be surprising him with tickets.
I mean, it would definitely be a surprise if you got the tickets then had to sell the house to pay for them.
Somewhere Bill Belichick is rolling in his grave at the thought of one of his players going on a podcast for 15 minutes before a series started. That said, he didn't offer too much, aside from stopping the flow of the Warriors offense is key.
