The 2nd Season - 2019 Playoff Thread
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Westbrook is pure garbage. I'd put him below john wall. At least wall is out and not hurting his team on the court.
I know the Dame blowjobs, well deserved, will overshadow this but this is a historic choke. A league average point guard could have guided his team to a W in the 4th. Russ just kept with the garbage possessions. He's pure garbage. PG should ask for a trade
I know the Dame blowjobs, well deserved, will overshadow this but this is a historic choke. A league average point guard could have guided his team to a W in the 4th. Russ just kept with the garbage possessions. He's pure garbage. PG should ask for a trade
I mean, your going to have to get over George passing on the Clippers eventually, right?
OKC led by 15 points with under 7 minutes left.
PG13: 36 points on 14-20 fga
Russ: 29 points on 11-31 fga
Sigh.
Bravo, Dame.
PG13: 36 points on 14-20 fga
Russ: 29 points on 11-31 fga
Sigh.
Bravo, Dame.
George hits a clutch foul line jumper to go up two with 39 second left. After a TO, Dame speed dribbles up the court and makes a reverse layup in 6.2 seconds to tie the game and get the two for one. After Westbrook missed a tough layup, (great defense by Aminu) Dame squares up against George, one of the best defenders in the league, mano a mano, and measures him and bangs a buzzer-beating threeball from 37 FEET, for his 50 point and the series clincher. What a classic moment.
this is just like basic basketball. If they bench russ in the 4th, they probably win this game by 15-20. He was that stupid guiding the team.
Feel bad for pg stuck with his trash ass for the 3 years.
Thunder up 6, 2:47 left
RW misses jumper at 2:47
RW charging foul at 1:55
RW loose ball foul at 1:22, down 4, letting the Blazers cut the lead to two at the line
RW misses driving layup with 18 seconds left, with the game tied.
EDIT Westbrook 11-31 shooting. 4-11 from three, 2-7 mid range, and crazily, only 5-13, 38% at the rim. 5 TOs.
RW shot 36.4% from three, and only 35% from two.
RW misses jumper at 2:47
RW charging foul at 1:55
RW loose ball foul at 1:22, down 4, letting the Blazers cut the lead to two at the line
RW misses driving layup with 18 seconds left, with the game tied.
EDIT Westbrook 11-31 shooting. 4-11 from three, 2-7 mid range, and crazily, only 5-13, 38% at the rim. 5 TOs.
RW shot 36.4% from three, and only 35% from two.
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What a memorable game. I can’t believe how cool Lillard was on that final possession. Damn. I thought I woke up the wife and kids when he drained that.
Eh, to George's (dis)credit, he also missed two free throws and had a bad turnover that led to an easy bucket at the other end for Portland.
I'm not going to sit here and say it's not Westbrook's fault they lost, he deserves a lot of the blame. But to say a Darren Collinson type would have just won the game for OKC is ignorant of the broader problems that have been an issue for OKC for years. Ferguson/Schroder/Grant were doing nothing on offense; no real pick and roll action, no catch-and-shoot opportunities, nothing. They benched Adams to go small at the end and that actually took away their best half-court offensive set, which is the Westbrook/Adams pick and roll. OKC was extremely predictable at the end of the game on offense, all they needed to do was pack the paint (because they aren't afraid of any non-George shooter) and protect the rim on Westbrook drives. There was no plan B. A lot of that is Westbrook's fault, but Donovan, Presti and the other players have to take some blame too because this is a reoccurring problem for OKC in the playoffs. It's easy for the media to say this is exclusively a WESTBROOK problem, but I don't think Westbrook had a lot of better options down the stretch either.
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The shot, the wave and this. Its a huge night in sports but he wins it by a landslide.
I literally said to myself when RW got his 5th foul that if that was his 6th the Thunder would be in good shape. What an overrated player -- good to see him completely shown up, hopefully he'll stop getting bjs from the media for a change.
As for PG, i feel bad for him because he's both a stud and a class guy. But man what a loser choice he made in re-signing with OKC.
And damn is Dame the boss. That was beautiful.
I forgot about those. WTF? Dude's a career 84.4% FT shooter who shot 90% for a season a couple years ago. Bricking both there really helped set up the comeback.
Getting in from the game. Was there for the Lillard shot against Houston and was there tonight. This is my favorite Blazers team since the Drexler 92' team. My god!
You are talking in more global, team building terms. I'm saying this game, with all their warts, at one point up 13 or 15 in the 4th, hell up 10 with about 7 to go, any decent point guard with paul george on the wing could have closed this game out. Instead, we get another mental spazzed out choke job. He has one maybe two half way decent possessions down the stretch and they win it easily.
We can agree to disagree but I would have taken darren collison in a heart beat the last 8 minutes than Russ. That was just gross.
The wave at the end to the vastly overrated Russell Westbrook is the perfect little cherry on top of that Sundae.
You also gotta love PG calling out Dame for taking a bad shot ... while sitting beside Russell Westbrook.
At the same time, I can forgive a measure of saltiness following a super painful and humbling defeat. In time, I'm sure he'll become more philosophical and appreciate the majesty of what Damian wrought in this series. And: eventually plot his escape from Westbrook, like that Durant guy before him.
Too late -- he wasted the best year of his career and won't be getting out of OKC until he's on the down side.
If this tweet doesn't show, it's not text -- it's Nurk's "got bricks? next question" t-shirt. Jeezus, normally I'd say too much of a pile-on, but in this case the master of self-involved self-love deserves the backlash.
If this tweet doesn't show, it's not text -- it's Nurk's "got bricks? next question" t-shirt. Jeezus, normally I'd say too much of a pile-on, but in this case the master of self-involved self-love deserves the backlash.
I'm not going to pile on Westbrook here. While he could have done things differently down the stretch if Darren Collison were their PG for the first 42 minutes they are never in that position to begin with. Instead, I'll preserve 100% of the accolades/blame game on the shoulders of The Great Dame! He just carried a Blazers team who's (arguably) 3rd best player is Maurice Harkless to a 5-game series win over a really good OKC team. What we witnessed this series is LeBron-level/Iverson-level stuff of putting a team on your back and refusing to lose.
It's great to see underrated superstars like Lillard control a series and an underappreciated Enes Kanter play such a critical role. Special shout out goes to Seth Curry who isn't only overlooked as a key contributor to this team but overlooked in his own family!
It's great to see underrated superstars like Lillard control a series and an underappreciated Enes Kanter play such a critical role. Special shout out goes to Seth Curry who isn't only overlooked as a key contributor to this team but overlooked in his own family!
I mean, it’s a disadvantage matchup for Portland for sure, but I don’t know that Jokic’s strengths specifically hit Kanter’s biggest weakness (footspeed/defending in space). And Dame and CJ are going to put Jokic in the blender on the other end—this is a really bad matchup for him imo.
My main gripe with Westbrook is that OKC was getting the switch on George whenever they wanted, and any PG midranger or 3 against a switch is a better shot than what Westbrook generates. Obviously you can’t do that all game, but the 4th quarter of an elimination game is as good a time as any.
Incidentally, Kyrie does a good job of this when the Celtics have 10+ point leads in the 4th—he really grinds down the clock and goes to isos, because that’s when you’re fine de-diversifying the offense and just going for pure clock rundown+expected value.
Back to Westbrook: I think it’s pretty clear at this point that, for all his talent, he gets too caught up in mano a mano headgames to the detriment of his team. Durant was right to flee.
All this talk about a Lillard/CJ vs Jokic talk makes me think Pop is sitting in his office reading this thread like, “If you want to crown em then crown their ass!” The Spurs ain’t dead yet fellas.