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Are you serious right now? The Magic would foul if the Raps had designed any other inbound play.Down 3 with 3 secs?
The inbound worked perfectly,the screen was great,nephew had his second free to shoot it and he airballed it.
Kawhi doesn't have much range, tbh. He's a good 3pt Shooter when he's set or has time to set the shot with the dribble, but he's an awful option from 3 coming off a screen in a catch and shoot. His shooting mechanic is just too robotic to pull that kind of shot off.
Are you serious right now? The Magic would foul if the Raps had designed any other inbound play.Down 3 with 3 secs?
The inbound worked perfectly,the screen was great,nephew had his second free to shoot it and he airballed it.
Gordon has his moments defensively against Kawhi. Played solid ‘don’t foul’ defense. He’s got the length and quickness to bother him. Kawhi has the fade-away though.
DeRozan isn't there anymore, tbh...
I won't lie and say it didn't feel good seeing him miss the game winner. Still, I think we should move on.
A REAL max player wouldn't have let his team lose to the ing Magic in Game 1, tbh.
Love Danny, one of my favorite Spurs players of all time...
But as long as he's in Toronto or playing with that autistic , I hope he does terribly and they lose every single playoff game. him tbh
Nephew doesn't play defense much anymore, tbh, but he usually turns it up in the fourth quarter. That didn't really happen in Game 1. His defense on that three at the end was pretty bad -- ineffective, late switch that hung Gasol out to dry.
And that three-pointer ... he has never figured out that you don't need to take a shot right away when you have 3, 4, 5 seconds left. He could have easily gotten a dribble or a headfake or at least avoided a fadeaway from 28, tbh. That's the same bad shot he attempted over Batum a few days ago.
Good news for Toronto is Siakam is a beast. Factoring in injury concerns, he holds more future value than Nephew ... and Nephew is a max player.
But Lowry was always going to be the lead anchor against Toronto making it far in the playoffs. He's simply not a big game player in the postseason. DeRozan got a lot of blame for the playoff failures but Lowry was always as big or a bigger problem.
Great defense from nephew on that last possession. Who's Augustin? Strange none of nephew's cucked minions are here with empty "stats". Bet the excuses will arrive shortly.
Spot on.
Very difficult shot to make though so i won't fault Kawhi for that even though i hate his guts(his guts = his uncle).
Teams never foul in that situation. I know Jeff Van Gundy talks about fouling there but in actuality it never happens. The risk of a four-point play is way too high, especially when you're up three.
Kawhi can shoot three's but he's not really a three point shooter. The ball should have gone to green or VanVleet in a catch and shoot situation.
This what I was trying ton keep my focus on in this game. If Kawhi is no longer the two-way terror we saw from 2015-17, his efficient offense alone is nothing to write home about compared to the likes of Harden/Curry/KD. Those guys can affect the game far more than he does with the ball in their hands.
They had a foul to give though,it wasn't free throws automatically.
It was basically a catch and shoot.Yes,a head fake would work cause the defender got stuck in the screen and was already in motion,but other than that,Nephew had a golden opportunity to tie it.
If they had made an inbound post up or step pass throu Gasol for a corner 3 with a back screen,Magic fouls,and then you have to inbound down 3 with 1 sec left.
Kawhi only played 33 minutes
Leonard is nowhere near as spry as he used to be on defense, but man, the Raps coaching is hopeless. A total crapshow. All that talent, and they could get swept. They look as clueless on offense as a bunch of rookies.
Siakam with 24 shots, Leonard with 18. Typical beta bull .
He could've easily done a power dribble forward and then a mini step-back to get a better shot.
That Nurse re comes off like he thinks he's some kind of genius coach
Eh, Toronto can still sleepwalk to the ECF. The Sixers have looked bad for a while now and looked even worse today. Anything short of an ECF appearance would be a massive failure for a team with that much of a talent advantage.
But the Bucks, with halfway decent health, should beat them and they'd have no shot against the Warriors, IMO.
At not even attempting to fight over the screen with the game on the line (against a plus 3-point shooter no less) and forcing the immobile Gasol to contest late.
In a situation like this when you have so little time you shoot right away or you may end up with the ball in your hands and no time. Orlando had a foul to give, its not like they didn't have a foul to give and it was an automatic two FTs in which case i agree that NBA teams usually never foul there.
Absolutely,and i think if #2 had not hit his previous 2 shots in the clutch-a 2 and a 3-they use him as bait and go for Vanvleet or LDN.He obviously wanted the ball.But the inbound play was great either way.
(They did actually use nephew as bait in these type of situations during the regular season,should've gone with something like that again)
Ridiculous, tbh..That's a game where he should be doing 40-42 minutes at his age.Kawhi only played 33 minutes
You have to assume that Kawhi's people have a minutes restriction order IMO..
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