Ron Swanson wrote:GHOSTofSIKMA wrote:Ron Swanson wrote:Fun fact. We have the highest assist rate in clutch minutes (63.7%) this year unless you wanna count the Spurs (-13.5 net-rating in the clutch). Way too many people defaulting to comfortable agendas no matter what actually happens in these losses. This team has pretty much flipped the script from previous years (we used to suck offensively in the half court and clutch situations and now we're awesome), but we've always been a good passing team.
fun fact. our regular season stats the last 5 years dont mean **** in the playoffs once we hit teams that have figured out our really simple recipe for those numbers
personally im done looking at numbers as anything to predict success. in fact thats about all ive learned with this squad the past 5 years. even the one we won made no sense other than what... pj tucker made us dogs?
If you actually believed this then why you out here literally comparing this to last year's playoff losses? Or is regular season "failure" somehow more predictive than success?
our epic even historic regular season success hasnt translated to playoff success. there are many factors for this and some have been out of our control like injuries of course.... i was simply making a point that our loss to the lakers was very similar to the way weve lost in the playoffs. being up big and choking. both in series and in games we havent closed when it mattered and in some cases its been epic failures like last year.
the year we won of course it was the opposite. we played better under the gun. i guess we were dogs that year or something like has been proposed.
were still durants big toe from being one of the worst playoff teams in history tho. theres no doubt about that. glad we won that sucker but it doesnt change our teams historic identity. my point is that it would be cool considering we have giannis that he was the dog... he was the closer. finals mvp giannis was playoffs giannis. he did so much more that year.
i get he does great in the regular season. after all these years thats meaningless to me tho. like others its all about the playoffs at this point and the lakers game seemed to show that some things never change. there was alot of deja vu for me on HOW we lost.
this is an old battle hardened team of vets......winning and closing needs to be a habit at this point. not something we beat our chests about when it happens vs games like the other night. 19 points in 6 minutes at home is insane. it cant be covered up with regular season stats...like at all.