was Monta Ellis the hardest player for us to guard all post season?
Best SG in the league, and its not even close.
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was Monta Ellis the hardest player for us to guard all post season?
Best SG in the league, and its not even close.
:wakeup
He was pretty good vs us. But he is too small for his position and he gets beat on defense a lot. Double edge sword if you ask me.
I'm a big fan of Monta, but I was never as scared of him as I was of Durant or Lebron.
Wait westbrook was the best guard we played in the playoffs.
You're crazy.
He shot 40% from the field against us. :lol
Ellis wasn't even particularly good against the Spurs, he just had a few big moments that created the perception that he killed the Spurs, tbh..
He's one of the most overrated players in the league..
Pop made it look that way by putting Kawhi on him and letting Duncan sink on the PnR. Green and Splitter wrecked him.
yeah, took pop a while to finally get it right. Can't remember how many times I yelled at my tv "telling" pop to put green on him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chinook
Once Pop stopped experimenting with Leonard on Ellis, he was nothing special.
LeBron was the hardest player to guard, obviously.
He's good, and has a synergy with Dirk, but I've never seen him as any kind of real threat.Quote:
Originally Posted by testies
True! He shot like Messi shoots penalty shots in pressure situations! Good times.Quote:
Originally Posted by DAF86
Bigger question is how do you get a Mont-ay out of something spelled Monta as in Mon-tah?
Dallas was good collectively as a team, but Ellis was pretty superb. It's amazing how well they did considering Dirk has a sub-par series, all things considered.
Out of all players, though, I feel like Westbrook was the player that burned us most. He had some outstanding games and was unstoppable at times. You can definitely see the difference in the OKC team when he is on the floor.
That being said...his trying to take over the series undeniably takes opportunities away from the reigning MVP, and he eventually melted down to his chucking ways in Game 6, so I'm still not sold that Westbrook is a net positive for the Thunder tbh.
Westbrook and Durant are the hardest to guard.
He seemed better than he was cause he scored in bunches and he was their go-to guy down the stretch not named Dirk, but overall his numbers even out and his shooting % wasn't that great tbh.
"Favre" will blow your fucking mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by PÒÓCH
LeBron put up 28.2 ppg, 7.8 rpg, 4 apg on 57.1% shooting against us and you're really asking this?
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Originally Posted by littlecoyotecoin
If Westbrook didn't get the calls he gets, it would severely hamper his ability to score.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dex
The problem is...he does get those calls.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cry Havoc
Would have had 8-10 assists per if anyone else on the Heat could hit a shot. LeBron was a monster.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimbo
The best player against the Spurs in the playoffs, all things considered, was easily Dejuan Blair, in all honesty:lol..
DAMN RIGHT, not even close. Those two are superstars.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpurSwag
This he was unstoppable tbh, actually stopped himself by getting suspended...Quote:
Originally Posted by Malik Hairston
Durant was the hardest player, followed by Westbrook and then lebron
lebron scored a whole bunch of points in garbage time.
Ellis played superbly against us and almost put us down 3-1 IIRC... or was it another game where he barely missed the layup to win the game?
I hate to say it, but that idiot Harden is probably the best SG in the league. Monta's in the top 5 though.
may have something to do with who was guarding him.
Yes you are crazy
The way LeBron took over the game at the beginning of game 5 (was it five when they went 22-6 or six?). That kind of dominance, which he was unable to sustain, was what I feared in the entire series. If he wasn't so tired from carrying the team during the regular series, I hate to think what might have happened.
Unlike Westbrook, LeBron actually does get fouled on virtually every possession. Kawhi is better at guarding him than anyone I have seen maybe ever, but LeBron is still the best player in the league.
Even when we were winning and I was thrilled that we were winning, I kept thinking that LeBron looked surprisingly fatigued and/or disengaged, and even at that he put up the best numbers of any player on either team. I was simply thrilled that he looked that way. No doubt Kawhi had something to do with how he looked, plus the fact that he was trying to guard whoever was the dominant player on the Spurs at any given time... but regardless of the reason, he was the most difficult to guard, imo.
Westbrook in Game 6 was a monster. In game 5 he was Jordan. Easily the chimp.
If you're talking about the group of players that the Spurs SUCCESSFULLY defended against, then yes Ellis was decent, as were Dirk, Durant or Westbrook.
Now of course there's also a group of players that the spurs barely managed to contain, and that's a group of one: Lebron. He actually showed how much better he was and will ever be than the 2014 pseudo-MVP.
Being hard to guard doesn't really translate into winning basketball. Monta is good at getting his own shot. Whether it's the best shot for the team doesn't seem to matter to him.
That and Ellis is a bad defender, so focusing only on his individual scoring ability ignores over half the game. He seems like a poor man's Harden to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Obstructed_View
Yeah, he's somebody Mavs fans would love, but not really a difference maker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seventyniner
Mavs series...
carter, calderon, harris and monta played so damn welll...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A&sns=emQuote:
Originally Posted by testies
Westbrook was borderline unstoppable & largely outplayed Beta and LBJ tbh.
27, 7, 6, and 3 while shooting 20 more FTA than Durant at a 90% clip in the WCF. He was probably the best player in any series of the playoffs those 6 games, and people still think soon-to-be-Wizard Acne is the heart and soul of that team.