neshy wrote:nickhx2 wrote:Roscoe Sheed wrote:I don't know that is was really a sense of urgency (although that was part of it)- just a lack of timely shooting and the Nuggets being red hot- including Westbrook (stomach turning). Also, every time a possible steal was about to happen, Denver somehow regained possession and then got a dunk or 3.
They better come ready to play on Thursday or they will get embarrassed. The Nuggets are champions and smell blood.
i agree, urgency may have played a role, but that's not an overriding factor as to why we lost. i'd say there was a lack of shooting overall (at least from the right players).
i do think the nuggets got red hot, and i think everyone on the planet who knows basketball knew jamal murray was going for 40 tonight before the game even started. but i think the thing you're saying about possible steals turning into missed chances is more than that (at least to me).
because i feel you're really talking about not just steals alone, but also those 50/50 boards we lost. and to the bigger point, the inability to gain any traction or generate runs when they were right within our grasp. and to me the biggest on-court culprit was bogi by miles and miles - which lue should have seen and known, but didn't, and we got punished for it. i mean, all the games up to this point have been very close and bogi has been an absolute wretch in every game thus far in limited minutes. but tonight he gets the most minutes all series AND is in a featured role? it should be no surprise to anyone at all that we got smacked.
like, what's this dude doing out there? is he trying to foul out for this game and the next one all at the same time? maybe he'll try to rack up 12 fouls next game so he can be DQ'd for next season's opener? and what's ty lue doing letting him play this much while giants who are 50 pounds heavier than him take him to task every chance they get to iso him? someone needs to ask lue what the hell he's thinking.
Man you're aiming at the wrong guy here. In the last 2 loses Bogi scored more points than the entire bench together while shooting 50% from 3. He scored the same amount of points as Harden while playing 36 minutes less. He scored 50% more points than Dunn while playing less. He scored only 8 points less than Norm while playing 25 minutes less. Only Zu and Kawai scored more than Bogi. Before this game he was part of the best Clippers defensive lineup. What do you want from a guy that just joined the team and has the shortest leash among all players (Simmons excluded). 5 fouls last night were part of the plan to play hard as the refs were supposed to swallow some whistles but they didn't. Gordon grabs his jersey (clean foul) and he pushed him off and scored a 3 and they called offensive foul on him deleting the 3. What can you do about it. He's been +18 in the last 2 loses. Harden -20, Kawai -9, Zu-14, Norm -20, Dunn -18, DJJ -8 Batum -13.
If you look at Nuggets and their 2 losses MPJ scored total of 22 points being -29 in those 2 losses. Max player. In game 4 after being down by 22, in the last minute Bogi literally grabbed a rebound over Jokic and scored giving us the first lead in that game. Huge play. It wasn't his fault that Kawai and Harden lost us that game. Before the series started I said that if Bogi's playing around 15mins he'd give you very little and if he plays 22-25 mins he'd give you a lot
The man brought his facts and stats. Great post.
Bogi has the best +/- at plus+8.8 per 100 possessions. BTW, Dunn is last, the only Clipper in the minus, at -6.3. Ty's gonna have to improvise. Scoreboard don't lie.'
https://www.nba.com/stats/players/traditional?PerMode=Per100Possessions&TeamID=1610612746&dir=A&sort=PLUS_MINUS
