This he was unstoppable tbh, actually stopped himself by getting suspended...Quote:
Originally Posted by Malik Hairston
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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.