huh?
- Kyrie like everyone else thought Smart was going to shoot it
- KD is the one who was ball watching and he let Tatum cut to the basket
So who is he guarding? Watch from the 3 second mark on down.
Staning in the key flat footed with no one withing 10 feet of him. Nets already had players coving the ball.
Watch Tatum prance down from the arc completely unguarded.
Again, exactly who is Irving guarding?
KD also standing flat footed.
And ditto, who exactly was he guarding?
Good game by Smart honestly. I've always liked him, he's crafty as .
I'm rooting for the Celtics. Hope they knock out the bad guy team of divas
It wasn't great defense, but it was also a defensive scramble that kind of got out of whack when BOTH Brown and I think it was Claxton went to challenge Smart on the shot fake. Claxton left Horford and Dragic had to rotate. That left Durant to cover for Dragic on Jaylen Brown at the top of the key. Kyrie was playing safety as his guy was in the far corner.
If Durant slides to cover Tatum on the cut, Brown has a wide open jumper top of the key. If Kyrie does a better job denying the pass to Tatum, Derrick White has an open corner three. That probably would have been the better option. But I don't even think Kyrie knew Tatum cut.
Not great defense. But I credit Smart on the pass and Tatum on the cut more than I blame the Nets defense. 2 guys going after Smart caused the numbers advantage. It was basically 5-on-3 because Brown and Claxton were out of the play once they both jumped at the shot fake.
Fun game. Great finish.
Add KAT to the list of old fartd i guess.New age?
Magic Johnson celebrated winning THE FIRST GAME OF A ING REGULAR SEASON like he just won game 7 of the Finals
But old fartd are shifting on people celebrating a playoff berth?
Double standards
"I'm happy with the performance I had tonight," Towns said. "I just really feel like that's what I'm supposed to do. It shouldn't be something we should be celebrating, like, 'Oh, you got a chance to play a really good game on a national stage. You should be really proud and excited.' I'm supposed to do that."
He played that whole game like an old washed up guy living off his reputation i thought. Maybe he's gassed from the regular season? And i'm a KD fan....
Perhaps the achillies surgery and all the games that have followed have added.
And i was an extreme KD hater (OKC giveaway already knew he was going to Golden State for the media *Championships)....and still am to a lesser extent.
But have to give him his due after leading the Nets to the near miss vs Milwaukee and one of the mainstays of bailing out Crater Face in the World Commercialism Games for the gold.
Feels like is gonna go down in this TOR/PHI game. These teams hate each other.
I miss LDN
Donkey and Joker going at it pretty good.
Denver is horrible at getting Joker the ball at the right time.
Donkey with his usual fouling bull but is also being a pest in a good way.
Jeff Green really sucks, Denver is missing it's injured players.
Its funny to see Embiid get the biggest pussy calls there are, while Jokic is getting murdered by Green and nothing. The refs in the NBA are probably the worst refs ive ever seen in any sport.
Always funny seeing black players trying to punk white guys from the Balkans, not knowing they grew up in 100x tougher conditions.
Green and Looney just hacking and hugging Jokic all game. Draymond with his usual feces slinging yelling and screaming when he’s got the splash brothers putting up 60 between them.
Jokic literally has a 20 win team supporting cast without Murray and MPJ. They have no chance against the top teams and GS is a bad matchup as it is with all the action they run on the perimeter. Gordon is shrinking big time, not that he’s that good anyway. Imagine having Aaron Gordon and Will Barton as your second and third best players in a playoff series.
Having said that Warriors with Draymond and Steph healthy are good. Probably the biggest challenge to Suns in the West especially with Memphis being a fake 2 seed. Dallas with a healthy Doncic would have been a dark horse with their defense + shooting + Luka going playoff mode but doesn’t look like Luka will get healthy enough to beat the Jazz but we’ll see.
They're my only hope in the West.
We had a thread, or at least a subject going on how tough Donkey was -or not.
Incredible how many sheltered lives posters thought Donkey antics make him a real tough guy.
Ya he'd get his ass handed to him if he tried that with some real street ballers.
And yes Jokic would knock Donkey tf out.
Sad to have to watch the pathetic reffing.
Curry, got to give the lil twinky credit.
Besides shooting some of his driving layups are 10/10.
Easy win
Did Scott Foster on CP again or not lol
Btw possible harmstring injury for double tesmed
If Booker is out with the hamstring then it gives the Warriors an easy path to get out of the west which will suck ass.
If booker is injured it sucks that Luka is injured, cause i actualy think the Mavs could beat the Warriors.
Truth. Man all of those Warriors championship teams had some of the most incredible opponent injury luck in history. Literally every main contender had one of their top 2 or 3 players out in the playoffs.
Tbh 2019 was karma for the Warriors for 2015-2018. But looks like they’re getting all the breaks again
There are currently 2 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 2 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
