cjw
03-13-2015, 12:38 AM
Team has been complacent all year and given up too many games like that down the stretch (almost happened in that NO game too if not for Asik). They were just on a nice little streak playing some good ball, but against middling to bad teams.
Getting punched in the gut like that in Game 64 is a heck of a lot better than in Game 6 in June when you don't have a chance to regroup. After four relatively cake games, the schedule is brutal for the next ten. Need to use this stretch to ramp up and be playing at tonight's intensity while executing on the little things that failed them tonight - free throws, a couple of missed gimmes and for Pop, adjustments down the stretch.
We'll run into performances like Irving's throughout the playoffs. The team playing at the level it has over the past two weeks can overcome it. Just give me less Beli except against scrubs, hide Parker on the worst perimeter guy while letting him attack now that his offensive game is back, and keep trusting Danny + Kawhi.
Now let's hope they play pissed off ball the rest of the way as opposed to going into a nosedive.
Getting punched in the gut like that in Game 64 is a heck of a lot better than in Game 6 in June when you don't have a chance to regroup. After four relatively cake games, the schedule is brutal for the next ten. Need to use this stretch to ramp up and be playing at tonight's intensity while executing on the little things that failed them tonight - free throws, a couple of missed gimmes and for Pop, adjustments down the stretch.
We'll run into performances like Irving's throughout the playoffs. The team playing at the level it has over the past two weeks can overcome it. Just give me less Beli except against scrubs, hide Parker on the worst perimeter guy while letting him attack now that his offensive game is back, and keep trusting Danny + Kawhi.
Now let's hope they play pissed off ball the rest of the way as opposed to going into a nosedive.