GS Better without Cousins. Boy Cousins stock is falling really fast now.
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GS Better without Cousins. Boy Cousins stock is falling really fast now.
3 games is obviously such a small sample size, but:
Jayson Tatum 2019 Playoff Stats So Far
19.7ppg
4.7rpg
1.3apg
1.3spg
0.3bpg
53.2% FG
58.3% 3pt (4 attempts per game)
+10 Net Rating (93 DRTG... jeez)
Jaylen Brown was outstanding last night on both ends. He can score; he's just getting a lot less attempts on this roster. Nine players took more shots than him last night, but he was the game's high scorer. Plus he really took Bogdanovic out of his comfort zone.
What y’all thought of the Sixers fight today?
What I wouldn’t give to have Snyder coaching here.
Austin Rivers is going to Austin Rivers.
What a putz.
Not super impressed. It's the Nets.
The Nets have done a fantastic job by being a playoff team, and some of their guys have overperformed by a lot. But there's a reason a lot of people were surprised by how well they did in the regular season: they're not that well constructed. They're a pretty young team (Russell is 22, Allen is 20, Dinwiddie is 25, Hollis-Jefferson is 24, LeVert is 24) and this is their first time in the playoffs. They have vets in Demarre Carroll and Jared Dudley, but they both play the same position, and they have no vets outside of that. They only have 2 centres, and as much as I like Ed Davis, he's not exactly versatile. Allen is too young to contend with Embiid.
I like the Nets, they're fun to watch, I'm happy for their fans that they finally had another winning season, and the FO there has done a great job of rebuilding with zero assets. They're just overmatched, that's all.
If anything, the Sixers have already disappointed by not getting a sweep here.
The 76ers are hella cocky for a team that is going to get swept in the 2nd round.
Yea he was a flat out beast on both ends last night. Adding a developing Brown and Tatum next to Holiday could be something very special. I think Tatum and Brown both will have everything start to click next season and take their games to another level. Tatum here will be a 22-25 ppg scorer with Brown around 17-20 ppg and both playing very good defense. All of our focus could then go to our bigs finding the right group of guys. Tatum comparison Melo/Butler/PG13.. Brown comparison Derozan/Iggy.. Make it happen Griff!!
Miles Turner just put Gordon Hayward in a bodybag, jeeeeeeezus
Sean Marks took one for the team
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ee-locker-room
He's a great player, and during his Bulls days I wouldn't have said anything. But in his time with Minnesota and his subsequent time in Philly, he seems like a really unpleasant dude. Obviously I could be wrong, I've never met him, it's just the image he projects right now that didn't seem so bad a few years ago.
Great player, this has nothing to do with his play. Just his current public persona.
Fish has been reading your posts
He's not athletic enough for the NBA though? How can this be? https://t.co/T81tXi0nSK
— David Fisher (@Fish_TBW) April 21, 2019
Shout out to Aminu! R.I.P. YHT
I’m really excited to see the Raptors vs Bucks. It’s going to happen.
Really like that CJ is using last year’s sweep as motivation.
Cause in last year's playoffs, Dame averaged 18.5 points per game on 35% from the floor and 30% from three, and got swept. This year, he's averaging 28.8ppg, on 44% from the floor and 44% from three, and is going to put OKC away in 5.
That brings up the obvious question: why can you do this this year against Westbrook, but you couldn't do it last year against Jrue Holiday? Westbrook is supposed to be a decent defender, so what gives? Is he that bad at guarding you? And if not, why are you so good now, when you choked it up last year? Surely then, that says something about Jrue.
Kind of like how in boxing, sometimes people's resume gets a retroactive boost when someone they beat goes on to beat some big name. Jrue's name is getting a boost because of how god-awful OKC is handling this.
It might say more about Dame than it does about Jrue seeing as how Dame is still in the playoffs, and this isn’t last year.
Then if it's about Dame, it still begs the question: why could you, Lillard, not find any of this against Jrue Holiday? What made you fail against him? Did you choke? Which is, of course, related to Jrue again.
Obviously you think it's a dumb connection and that's fine, but that's the connection anyway.
I mean Westbrook is a good defender but mostly steals and blocks jrue on the other hand is tenacious he just comes at and just comes at you which throws a lot of ppl off their game also think he's the opposite of a lot of players where most will take plays off on the defense but him hell take plays off on the offense to save energy for defense. probably has zero to do with what you guys are talking about but I love me some jrue and still think he's underrated lol
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People develop. If people are going to trumpet that Jrue has developed into a great defender, they should also credit Dame for developing his game. They are obviously not the same people as last year.
Heck, they played twice this year and Dame went for 25/7/6. People grow, games change.
Gotta love the Utah Fans “Flopper” chants at Harden and CP3
Minty with the good hair beat CPME and Da Beard.
Jrue has been a strong defender for years, and has gone from relatively ignored and obscure NBA player that most people forgot existed to a legitimate force on the court on both ends during a highlight reel of a playoff run that saw him shut down an All Star and all NBA calibre dynamo. His profile got boosted.
Lillard hasn't improved, or at least, not much. He's doing this year what he did in the playoffs two years ago. He's not improved, he was already an all-star, already all NBA talent, already a top 20 player on everyone's list, already an elite scorer. This isn't odd for him. This isn't out of the ordinary.
That isn't to say Lillard can't improve. It's to say that Holiday is a much more notable improvement, and it came from nowhere, whereas all Lillard has done is gone back to being good, like he already was, before Jrue made him look like a scrub.
If someone averages 29ppg now, and 28ppg in the playoffs two years ago, but only 18ppg in the year that comes in the middle, you ask the question: okay, what went wrong then? And the answer is Jrue Holiday. What happened? Jrue happened. So people talk about it.
Even the teams that should have been the happiest this year fell into bouts of infighting and finger-pointing, while the Blazers, who had every reason to splinter, stayed connected. Here's how it's paying off, big-time: pic.twitter.com/svoV9j2HCp
— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) April 22, 2019
Nets are done
The Jamal Murray haters are awfully silent tonight :)
What a bust Aldridge has become in the NBA.
Blazers/ Bucks final would be pretty great.
Lillard vs giannis. I would make offerings to the basketball gods for a 7 game series.
Let it fly!
— Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) April 24, 2019
Jamal has knocked down 4 threes so far! pic.twitter.com/29hxx2yNH6
Kanter is the Turkish rocky. Dude is playing hurt.