ROUND 1, GAME #4 SUNS @ Clippers—12:30PM TNT/Bally

[clipperlover]

RoCo and Batum were worse--0-3, 0 points, 1 reb, 2 assists, 4 fouls and minus-11 in 14 minutes. Obviously the I-know-better-than-Ty crowd has no better answer either.

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At the HALF, Morris was 1-7 from the field and 1-5 from three while being a -14. Morris put up 13 shots in the game and 8 3s. He hasn't put up that many shots since before the All-Star break and he has only shot 8 or more 3s twice this calendar year.

Ty's comments here after game 4 are so laughable because they only apply to one player: https://youtu.be/eKjxix8cRXs?t=287

Have to give you credit for trying to tie RoCo and Batum together. RoCo helped speed things up and the 2 assists he had led to buckets that cut the lead down to 2 both times. When he first came in in the 3rd, he perfectly positioned himself between the passer and his responsibility. He intercepted a pass and should have had a dunk to tie the game, but Mann was whistled for a foul.

We had opportunities to win both home game as well as Game 2 in Phoenix. In those home games, it was difficult when playing 5 on 8 most of the game.

I think Ty is done after this season. he has been in a power struggle with the front office regarding Morris. He decided that with Kawhi out he was going down his way and flipped off the front office (https://youtu.be/eKjxix8cRXs?t=179). He thought the team needs to play faster, but thought starting Morris was a good thing. Starting Morris doesn't speed things up. With all the minutes they played and the short turnaround to the matinees, we should have been running the Suns up and down the court.

[esqtvd]

Ty gave Marcus one more shot. He started and when he left the game, we were up or down by 2--no big deal. We avoided falling into our usual black hole at the beginning of a game [a matinee] and without Kawhi, that was an accomplishment. Our starters WITH Kawhi have been losing the battle against theirs. Check our +/-.

After that, admittedly it didn't work. Not everything works. Ty stuck with Westbrook and it's paid off in spades. Remember everybody was calling for Russ's head in Game 1 and Westbrook came back and turned the game around? And he's been even better since.

Ty has kept giving Mann minutes--even though the production is low, the plus/minus is good. Made Bones a rotation player. Getting useful minutes out of Gordon with 35-70 minutes a game missing in PG and now Kawhi.

Batum has been terrible. RoCo, admittedly I don't know. You can only roll the dice with so many "wild card" minutes and Bones makes stuff happen. RoCo has shown nothing. I think Ty made the right choice.

Besides Morris, you know who has the worst plus/minus in the playoffs? Zubac. You know who the top two are? Bones and Plumlee. But that doesn't fit the narrative so it's not even a topic of conversation. Just Marcus Morris and RoCo, over and over. They both stink, and so does Batum too. There IS no answer there. Frankly, Batum falling off a cliff is the real problem. That came out of nowhere.

https://www.nba.com/stats/players/traditional?TeamID=1610612746&dir=A&sort=PLUS_MINUS