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BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10574 Posts
April 26 2018 05:03 GMT
#181
Game-tying/Go Ahead FGs in final 10 seconds of 4th QTR/OT game in the post-season:

Michael Jordan - 7/15 - 47%
LeBron James - 8/20 - 40%
Kobe Bryant - 5/22 - 23%

Never an easy shot to make. For comparison's sake - this last regular season the league as a whole shot 93/408 - 23% on these shots.
ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
April 26 2018 12:05 GMT
#182
On April 26 2018 13:27 cLutZ wrote:
Watching this TNT segment remindse.of how many wierdo 3s LeBron has hit. Now, no one is ever happy when a great player has the ball at the end, but I feel like he is somehow more dangerous taking shitty threes on a turnaround fadeaway than just spot up.

For some reason he's way better at these long range off-the-dribble 1-2 step jumpshots than regular catch&shoot right at the line (which he actually almost never shoots). Probably has to get some sort of rhythm he doesn't have when he just catches it.
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
April 26 2018 13:07 GMT
#183
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17178 Posts
April 26 2018 16:47 GMT
#184
the way Butler was talking after games i bet he was hurt for most of the series.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23320787/minnesota-timberwolves-coach-tom-thibodeau-says-jimmy-butler-sat-4th-quarter-due-sore-knee
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
April 26 2018 17:10 GMT
#185
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17178 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-04-26 18:55:18
April 26 2018 18:38 GMT
#186
For this kind of surgery a baseball and basketball player is back in approximately 6 weeks. Recovery from this surgery varies quite a bit with a few players returning in as little as 2 weeks. That is rare though. He had surgery ~ Feb. 25 and played a part time role April 6. so 40 days rather than 42. given the variance in recovery from this surgery i'd say only the medical team knows whether or not he returned "early".

People are calling for Thibs head and focusing on his coaching decisions. The bigger and more important question... if the Timberwolves are serious about winning a championship is... how good of a Prez of BBall Ops is he? what kind of state is their G-League team in? how is their scouting? how do they plan on developing players if the coach of the NBA club gives the bench players very limited minutes?

Casey is awesome.
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Jerubaal
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States7684 Posts
April 27 2018 03:09 GMT
#187
I mean, he may not be exactly wrong, but I think he phrased it in a way that could be easily interpreted to mean the wrong thing. So basically he's the Pope Francis of the NBA.
I'm not stupid, a marauder just shot my brain.
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17178 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-04-27 21:03:13
April 27 2018 21:00 GMT
#188
a few Wizards fans claimed Porter was doing a very badly on defense and moving slowly because he was playing hurt.
welp, looks like they were prolly right about Porter playing hurt. he is out the rest of the series after undergoing some kind of procedure on his left leg.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/basketball/nba/wizards-otto-porter-jr-series-vs-raptors/

this is a big break for the Raptors.
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JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-04-27 22:23:49
April 27 2018 22:13 GMT
#189
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JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
April 28 2018 01:25 GMT
#190
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cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
April 28 2018 04:35 GMT
#191
Today the refs are again breaking me with their allowing illegal screens. Defenders getting tripped trying to go over are getting called for tripping into the ballhandler.

Its like when people get shoved out of bounds!
Freeeeeeedom
BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10574 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-04-28 07:08:31
April 28 2018 07:02 GMT
#192
Pretty sure the MVP that Westbrook stole will be the peak of his career. I think it's all downhill from here. He's never going to be able to lead a team anywhere. He's been shooting 40%~ from the field in the playoffs for the last 3 years in a row, and he jacks up shots non-stop. Literally all of his teammates convert their shots at a higher rate, but for some reason he has to keep jacking up 27 ft airballs.
zev318
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada4306 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-04-28 18:03:01
April 28 2018 17:57 GMT
#193
On April 28 2018 16:02 BlackJack wrote:
Pretty sure the MVP that Westbrook stole will be the peak of his career. I think it's all downhill from here. He's never going to be able to lead a team anywhere. He's been shooting 40%~ from the field in the playoffs for the last 3 years in a row, and he jacks up shots non-stop. Literally all of his teammates convert their shots at a higher rate, but for some reason he has to keep jacking up 27 ft airballs.


while shooting 27 footers is not good, his teammates didnt show up (PG went 2-16, they didnt trust melo to do anything at all and was a game worst -19 plus minus), or maybe westbrook took them out of the game by shooting so much? adams the only one who did anything offensively

so is westbrook the problem or his teammates. kinda like wall in washington, great individual players, but their teams just dont go anywhere.
BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10574 Posts
April 28 2018 20:36 GMT
#194
On April 29 2018 02:57 zev318 wrote:
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On April 28 2018 16:02 BlackJack wrote:
Pretty sure the MVP that Westbrook stole will be the peak of his career. I think it's all downhill from here. He's never going to be able to lead a team anywhere. He's been shooting 40%~ from the field in the playoffs for the last 3 years in a row, and he jacks up shots non-stop. Literally all of his teammates convert their shots at a higher rate, but for some reason he has to keep jacking up 27 ft airballs.


while shooting 27 footers is not good, his teammates didnt show up (PG went 2-16, they didnt trust melo to do anything at all and was a game worst -19 plus minus), or maybe westbrook took them out of the game by shooting so much? adams the only one who did anything offensively

so is westbrook the problem or his teammates. kinda like wall in washington, great individual players, but their teams just dont go anywhere.


You bring up a good point, as the finger seems to be getting pointed at Westbrook's teammates, again. Just like last year when he had trash teammates that are somehow now on the verge of dethroning the King in the East.

Let's look at the facts, though. It was a 6 game series. In the first 5 games, Westbrook had a lower FG% than the rest of his team. In game 1 he shot 40%, the rest of his team shot 52%. Game 2 - 37% vs 41%. Game 3 29% vs 52%!! Game 4 and 5 were pretty close but he shot slightly worse.

So in a 6 game series, the first 5 games your teammates are knocking down their shots better than you are, and in game 6 you go out and take 43 shots. PG had a bad game, no doubt. But I still don't see why we should be blaming the guy that shot poorly for one game instead of the guy that has been shooting poorly for 3 years.
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17178 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-04-29 00:20:44
April 29 2018 00:19 GMT
#195
On April 28 2018 13:35 cLutZ wrote:
Today the refs are again breaking me with their allowing illegal screens. Defenders getting tripped trying to go over are getting called for tripping into the ballhandler.
Its like when people get shoved out of bounds!

just to add to this ... in the first 2 weeks of the season i posted this
if an NFL team is looking for an offensive lineman they should consider Gortat.
a couple of drives by Wall i thought the Wizards were running a sweep.

Casey complained about Gortat's screens the entire series. He has been doing it all year long and continued in the playoffs. I guess if they'll let him get away with it he is being a smart player by taking every advantage the officials give him.
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
April 29 2018 17:19 GMT
#196
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JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
April 29 2018 19:51 GMT
#197
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BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10574 Posts
April 29 2018 20:05 GMT
#198
LeBron 16/25 - 45 points
Rest of Cavs 16/49 - 60 points

We'll see how much longer LeBron can keep this up playing 40+ MPG
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
April 29 2018 20:52 GMT
#199
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darthfoley
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States8004 Posts
April 29 2018 23:29 GMT
#200
On April 30 2018 05:05 BlackJack wrote:
LeBron 16/25 - 45 points
Rest of Cavs 16/49 - 60 points

We'll see how much longer LeBron can keep this up playing 40+ MPG


And this season will somehow be used against him in the legacy discussion by some people lmao
watch the wall collide with my fist, mostly over problems that i know i should fix
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