I mentioned this before the first round, but I remember Tatum saying after the Bubble playoffs that the physical 7 game series versus the Raptors took a lot out of them, they weren’t as fresh as the Heat in the ECF (who had just a 5 game series in the semis versus the Bucks). Could just be excuse making, could be legitimate. Heat have 3 more days of rest heading into the finals, and the ECF is entirely every other day - seems like a lot. Horford hasn’t seemed quite so spry the last two games. Smart left the game in a boot.
Jaylen Brown’s a good on-ball defender but he falls asleep/loses focus off ball. Miami’s smart with movement.
Wonder if Robert Williams or Kyle Lowry will be worth a damn physically. Could come down to that - which team’s injured guy is able to bring anything. Williams seems important versus Bam. Bam was incredible in that series - shot 60% with a 21/11/5. They had no answer for him in the P&R, a lot of that was Kemba being useless but Theis wasn’t helpful.
With Gordon Hayward out, Kemba, Tatum, Brown, and Smart were playing 40 minutes a game and they had to give minutes to Brad Wanamaker and Semi Ojeleye.
He’s not 0-5 when up 2-0. Not sure what he is overall, but he was on the Rockets when they went up 2-0 on the Jazz in 2019 and then won the series 4-1. He does make up a shocking amount of that 15% though.
Damn I’ve been seeing that everywhere. Guess I should know better than to trust stuff on the internet.
Bev is polarizing for me. He’s had some reckless and even dirty plays but I absolutely love his pettiness. Talking shit as one of the best players in the league I’d whatever to me. Talking the most shit of anyone in the league when you’ve never cracked the top 50 Is amazing. I respect that way more than great players Talking shit.
Dude really got up super early and been on ESPN for like 6 hours just Talking mad shit about cp3. Dude is absolutely hilarious
Suns swept Denver last year, too, and were 2-0 on Clips in the WCF before winning 4-1. Then one of the 2-0 losses in the finals. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s above .500 on his career in playoff games when he’s had a 2-0 lead, but there probably aren’t enough of them to get to 85%.
I’m going to need all of your basketball tots and pears tomorrow night. Pacers anti tanking goodwill deserves a top 4 pick. They made the playoffs 25 of the last 31 years and haven’t had a top 10 pick in like 30.
When you haven’t had a top 10 pick in 30 years does it matter? Also I thought that this class was lacking a potential superstar but had plenty of potentially valuable nba players.
Bucks big 3 were picked at 15, 17, and 39. Warriors were built around 7, 11, and 39. Heat top 2 are #30 and 14. I think we’ve seen in the modern nba that talent evaluation and development is more important than high draft picks.