Both of his techs were weak tbh
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Mark Jackson saying "people don't give Paul George credit for how good he is" is code for Mark Jackson saying that he forgot how good Paul George is
— Spike Smeagol (Classic Mode) (@Cosmis) August 18, 2020
Porzingis would have gotten 3 techs for Kawhi’s complaints on that out of bounds call
— Anchorage Man (@SethPartnow) August 18, 2020
That ejection is super soft...
— Dirk Nowitzki (@swish41) August 18, 2020
I see Lebron basically throw temper tantrums routinely much worse than Porzingis, and he never gets a tech.
Pat Bev just fumbled the ball out of bounds with not a single Mav within 15 feet of him
That was very funny. PG put his defender in jail and dribbled up to the FT line before realising that
A) His big was blocking his path entirely and
B) He doesn't know what to do to run a set out of jail
SO he just passes it to Montrezl behind the three point line, and it eventually gets to Pat Bev who airballs a 3
:hihi:
Luka Doncic in his first NBA playoff game so far:
34 points, 5 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 steals on 9/16 shooting (56.2%) and 2/6 from 3 (33.3%).
Yes he's turned it over a ton but come on. First ever playoff game, 21 years old, being guarded by a Kawhi PG13 team.
And his team is competitive.
Love when Doncic and Kleber run a flip. Great little action, and Kleber can be subbed out for Porzingis when he's in without interrupting anything.
Fantastic heady play from Curry
Clippers hold on to win Game 1.
Doncic finishes with 42 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assist, 3 steals. 13/21 shooting (61.9%).
The Mavericks run an all Euro team, and I’m here for it.
As much as Budenholzers minutes management is helpful in the regular season, it really puts the squeeze in his team's in the post season.
Giannis is wrecking shop, the Magic have no answer, but Bud just won't let Giannis play those extra few minutes to take them into safe territory. It happened last year as well.
Bucks are gonna drop game one to the Magic because Bud is allergic to playing Giannis 35 minutes and that is just a tragedy
this orlando-bucks game is good plus the refs are letting them play...
I guess in Bud's defense, his refusal to play Giannis for real superstar minutes isn't the only thing making them lose this game.
Middleton and Lopez have been massively off all night, on both ends, and Orlando is shooting lights out from 3.
When you add all that up, the Buck's struggle in this game makes complete sense.
However, given how close the game's been, especially when Giannis was still getting play, you have to interpret this as a bad sign for Orlando despite overall controlling the matchup. How often are they going to shoot 50+% from 3, have Middleton and Brook Lopez both fail to show up, and have Giannis getting tugged back and forth to the bench? If they need all three of those things to win one game by not-even-that-much, that's not a great indicator.
Bucks are really missing Brogdon.
All because they didn't want to go into the tax. Woah...
I mean, I think that's rushing to a conclusion a bit.
They haven't had Brogdon all year and not only has Brogdon regressed significantly, but the Bucks have been better overall this year than last. They lost one playoff game where Orlando played out of their skins good and two of the Bucks best players really had an awful night.
Orlando took a game from Toronto last year too. Let's not be prisoners of the moment
Excited to watch the Thunder/Rockets game.
Well, partially excited. I can't stand having to watch James Harden in general, he's the closest to unwatchable any player in the NBA gets imo, but I really wanna see how CP3 reacts because not onlly is he going up against his old team, but he's doing so and they don't really use drop coverage so I wanna see how he reacts to not really having the same room to operate in the midrange as he gets most of the time.
OKC v. HOU, game of the night!
It's such a basic and clever scheme that OKC employ with Adams.
Get him involved early so the defense have to go to him and then the wings can get theirs later.
Helps that they have CP3 also.
They're pplaying a surprising amount of CP3 off-ball so far. Not liking some of the results at times
Harden yelling because he messed up the pass is kinda funny
''Quite honestly I'm not sure where he got fouled there.'' - Stan Van Gundy on James Harden's entire career*
*he didn't say it was his whole career but it fits
Houston getting every single whistle possible at this point.
Harden's passing has been all over the shop
Gallinari is a flawed player, we all know it
But the dude is just so good as a scorer. He's been like 19ppg efficiently for a decade or something now :hihi:
SGA gets legitimately fouled on a last minute shot attempt, gets free throws, and Harden of all people has the gall to run over to the ref both hands flapping to complain
Stan Van Gundy is so good at this. Just a pro's pro. Makes his brother look like a chump.
The world's worst rotation and latest closeout by Schroder
Harden and Westbrook can go deep if they don't go FULL Harden and Westbrook against top teams.
OKC with some extremely deft defense
Houston has just been absurdly hot from 3. We all knew they can do this; this is their whole thing. They shoot a metric ton of 3s, and when they're on there's nothing you can do about it, when they're off they look awful.
Tonight so far: 18/39 from 3, good for 46.2%, with a full quarter left to go. They're probably gonna finish with 23, 24 made threes.
Okay Portland vs Lakers let's go
Oh for God's sakes Chris Webber
They won't stop talking about how great Melo has been for Portland and it just reminds me that for some people only points matter
''They don't feel like an eighth seed!'' you're right they feel worse.
I don't know if it's just the camera angle or the relative size of the other players who are on the floor but man, Lebron looks massive
''These teams, we talk about their defensive prowess, even though it may seem like Portland doesn't defend, anytime you have a guy with 3 blocks a game...'' - Chris Webber
The Blazers had the 27th ranked defense in the NBA this year. It was so bad that they had a negative net rating on the season despite them having the 3rd best Offensive Rating. Their defense blows.
Whiteside is actually part of why. Don't get fooled by counting blocks
''If I were Portland... I would try and make Lebron a scorer...'' - Chris Webber
Yes sir, great plan, turn the number 3 all time scorer, and a guy who has averaged at least 25ppg for 16 straight seasons, into a scorer. Who knows if he can do that, it's a real mystery. What will happen when we ask Lebron to score.
I swear Laker jerseys didn't used to be quite this shade of banana yellow. It's hideous.
AD doing his best playoff Towns impression so far. Never thought I see a bad AD shooting game in the playoffs.
Lebron just made a stunning no-look backwards bounce pass through traffic to the dunker spot and Morris just completely fumbled it out of bounds. Waste of genius.
If Lonzo Ball was a team. They be the Lakers.
Watching Blazers/Lakers. Curious- at what point did you have no choice but to mute the game?
— JJ Redick (@jj_redick) August 19, 2020
''I know this is quote unquote the first night of the playoffs''
No, Webber, it's not.
Lebron with the quietest 21/12/15 I've ever seen him drop
No matter how much I've sabotaged myself in life, at least I can rest easy knowing I've not sabotaged myself as much as AD has by refusing to play the 5. H
I can't believe the Lakers are still approaching Damian Lillard ballhandling possessions with a drop. You have to get out on that, they set the pick so high he has 15 feet to make a shot happen if you drop. If you're not going to blitz at least come out to the arc to prevent all that operation room.