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On June 09 2014 19:19 Scarecrow wrote:Kawhi fouling out sucks, several shitty calls on him in the first half. Makes it even harder to guard lebron when he's in foul trouble. Hope Chalmers gets suspended, that elbow was bullshit. Show nested quote +On June 09 2014 11:49 usedtocare wrote:
Game felt underwhelming. James scored at will, didn't even need beastmode. You must've missed the third quarter.
No, I watched it all. Him and Wade started off slow, very likely trying to get everyone else involved. Gradually Lebron starts stepping in every time Miami fell behind, taking it upon himself to carry. He did seem to score at will, you can rewatch the highlights of course but it never felt like much of a struggle for him. It felt like Miami could definitely play better yet they comfortably cruised to a win at the end.
What could Spurs do different? Maybe get Green involved. Maybe hit more layups. But overall what we saw from them is what we are going to get, I don't see any surprises there.
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Kawhi could get in less foul trouble for one hit their free throws as well
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On June 10 2014 11:39 usedtocare wrote:Show nested quote +On June 09 2014 19:19 Scarecrow wrote:Kawhi fouling out sucks, several shitty calls on him in the first half. Makes it even harder to guard lebron when he's in foul trouble. Hope Chalmers gets suspended, that elbow was bullshit. On June 09 2014 11:49 usedtocare wrote:
Game felt underwhelming. James scored at will, didn't even need beastmode. You must've missed the third quarter. No, I watched it all. Him and Wade started off slow, very likely trying to get everyone else involved. Gradually Lebron starts stepping in every time Miami fell behind, taking it upon himself to carry. He did seem to score at will, you can rewatch the highlights of course but it never felt like much of a struggle for him. It felt like Miami could definitely play better yet they comfortably cruised to a win at the end. What could Spurs do different? Maybe get Green involved. Maybe hit more layups. But overall what we saw from them is what we are going to get, I don't see any surprises there.
Are you high? Miami won by TWO pts and the Spurs missed 4 consecutive ft's. Bosh hit a huge corner 3. If that's comfortably cruising I can't wait for your analysis of a 5 point Miami blowout. Also Lebron hit so many contested jumpers in the third and carried them the entire quarter (still dead even with him in HoF mode). Just because it didn't look hard doesn't mean he wasn't giving 100%.
Spurs can definitely play better (they shot well under their usual %) with several key players in foul trouble early. It's not like Miami has an intimidating home court either.
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I'd expect Miami's team shooting numbers to get a noticeable boost at the very least.
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On June 10 2014 11:39 usedtocare wrote:Show nested quote +On June 09 2014 19:19 Scarecrow wrote:Kawhi fouling out sucks, several shitty calls on him in the first half. Makes it even harder to guard lebron when he's in foul trouble. Hope Chalmers gets suspended, that elbow was bullshit. On June 09 2014 11:49 usedtocare wrote:
Game felt underwhelming. James scored at will, didn't even need beastmode. You must've missed the third quarter. No, I watched it all. Him and Wade started off slow, very likely trying to get everyone else involved. Gradually Lebron starts stepping in every time Miami fell behind, taking it upon himself to carry. He did seem to score at will, you can rewatch the highlights of course but it never felt like much of a struggle for him. It felt like Miami could definitely play better yet they comfortably cruised to a win at the end. What could Spurs do different? Maybe get Green involved. Maybe hit more layups. But overall what we saw from them is what we are going to get, I don't see any surprises there.
Yea, no one has any idea what game you watched. LeBron went beast in the 3Q and the Spurs still outscored the Heat by one.
Your analysis skills... leave much to be desired.
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On June 10 2014 11:10 SwARmZzz wrote:
Did Donald Sterling really sacrifice 2 billion dollars just to prove a point? Wow, this guy...
He's old, what's he gonna do with his money when he's dead? Not that it seems like he has an iota of a chance to 'win' anything other than a sum of money from his own trust-fund.
Also with the NYK's that job was obviously Fisher's to take after Kerr decided he didn't want to spend umpteen seasons capped out with no picks. There's no reason to think Fisher will be any better/worse than Kidd or Mark Jackson were at this point. (I think I'd probably rather have Fisher than F.Saunders from a long-term perspective). That team is going to be awful no matter who coaches it. It's the same situation as with the Lakers this past year; a shitty roster isn't going to impress even if zombie Auerbach rises from the dead to coach. The angst will be glorious. Their potential is mediocre and capped-out with Melo, or terrible and capped-out without him, it should be high comedy.
E: Ty for the No-Defense blog link.
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After reading NDPOY blog, I was perusing through DRPM stats, and found out that Derek Fisher (+1.94) tied Chris Paul (+1.95) this season...
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Not sure how ESPN is adjusting for bench competition but: Fisher not being horrible on defense + low minutes per game + largely replacing injured Westbrook/Jackson in lineups could lead to a high DRPM.
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Yeah Rapm numbers are still subject to noise. Lee is still horrible on D but he plays a lot of his minutes with Bogut, Igoooodala, and Klay.
On the flip side, Thad young is better than his numbers on D said this year. It's a good guide but requires context.
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And Donald Duck is straight trolling the Nba now. Just go. =/
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On June 10 2014 11:39 usedtocare wrote:Show nested quote +On June 09 2014 19:19 Scarecrow wrote:Kawhi fouling out sucks, several shitty calls on him in the first half. Makes it even harder to guard lebron when he's in foul trouble. Hope Chalmers gets suspended, that elbow was bullshit. On June 09 2014 11:49 usedtocare wrote:
Game felt underwhelming. James scored at will, didn't even need beastmode. You must've missed the third quarter. [...] What could Spurs do different? Maybe get Green involved. Maybe hit more layups. But overall what we saw from them is what we are going to get, I don't see any surprises there.
Kawhiet Leonard fouled out (and was in foul trouble the whole game), the spurs were 12 of 20 from the stripe, and they seemed to lose a bunch of momentum after TP was elbowed in the gut by Wario Chalmers. All of this on its own could numerically account for the late two point loss.
I'm not gonna argue about LBJ monster performance, the point has been made already, and the numbers are there to back it up.
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On June 10 2014 16:50 FakePseudo wrote:
Wario Chalmers.
nice one, definitely gonna steal this at some point
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"Another stat: The Pelicans were +6.2 points on defense per 100 poss’s when Gordon was OFF the floor vs. when he was ON, which was the second-largest bad-D deficit I could find for any individual player in the league.
Last stat: New Orleans out-scored its opponents when Gordon was OUT; New Orleans was out-scored by 7.1 points per 100 poss’s when he was IN the game."
It hurts my soul that the Pelicans are paying Gordon so much to be so very bad.
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Knee injury wrecked his career, and he wanted OUT of New Orleans and they still wouldn't let him go. Thank god the Dell Demps/Jeff Bowers era is over. The team is still probably fucked though.
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New Orleans thought he was still gonna be a good player. Talk about horribly wrong!
phoenix pls take him back
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Big game tonight. I'm sure the Heat will bring it; interested to see if DGreen is going to go game6/7 2013 tonight.
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Spurs have a HUGE chance to beat the Heat, but i have a HUGE feeling they'll choke and lose to the Heat
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What does "ethered" mean?
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EPT
