2020-21 NBA Season Discussion

eminence · Post #4961 » by **eminence** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:37 am

Great great block from Giannis. Glad it's 2-2.

TheGOATRises007 · Post #4962 » by **TheGOATRises007** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:37 am

Can't wait to read MTV's thoughts on CP3's performance tonight

Dupp · Post #4963 » by **Dupp** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:38 am

Giannis booker and Middleton have been great

Dupp · Post #4964 » by **Dupp** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:41 am

Booker didn’t hit a single 3...

So if bucks win they’ll be the second team ever to come back from 0-2 twice, along with 21 clips.

Odinn21 · Post #4965 » by **Odinn21** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:43 am

I don't have a reason but I was rooting for the Suns in this game but glad that they didn't win. Booker should've fouled out. Paul was horrendous with his turnovers. They simply didn't deserve to win.
On the Bucks side, Holiday didn't deserve to win either but at least Antetokounmpo and Middleton were decent and came clutch.

NinjaSheppard · Post #4966 » by **NinjaSheppard** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:45 am

That was the worst playoff game I've seen from Chris Paul and unfortunately there is a good chance it ends up being the reason he doesn't win a title.

Dupp · Post #4967 » by **Dupp** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:48 am

More than his shooting pays turnover number and sloppiness over the last few games is a poor reflection on him.

Dupp · Post #4968 » by **Dupp** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:51 am

Odinn21 wrote:I don't have a reason but I was rooting for the Suns in this game but glad that they didn't win. Booker should've fouled out. Paul was horrendous with his turnovers. They simply didn't deserve to win.
On the Bucks side, Holiday didn't deserve to win either but at least Antetokounmpo and Middleton were decent and came clutch.

I am exactly the same.

I will say holidays impact this post season has been severely underrated. His scoring has been an issue a bit but his playmaking and defense have been great. His playmaking also allows for Giannis to do what he’s doing. Otherwise we’d be seeing him trying to do to much again and work outside his skill set and it’d be another Giannis/bucks failure

MO12msu · Post #4969 » by **MO12msu** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:52 am

His decision making has been atrocious. He’s tried to drive past Giannis multiple times the last few games and has predictably gotten blocked.

MartinToVaught · Post #4970 » by **MartinToVaught** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:58 am

Eddy_JukeZ wrote:Can't wait to read MTV's thoughts on CP3's performance tonight

I knew he was bad tonight, but when I saw that statline, I started wondering how Pablo Prigioni and Jason Terry managed to sneak onto the court in Bucks jerseys without anyone noticing. :lol:

Regardless of how the rest of this series plays out, it's time for people to tone down the "Point God" hero worship. CP3 has still only had one great series this playoffs and it was against a Campazzo-Rivers backcourt. The Suns are Booker and Ayton's team.

kayess · Post #4971 » by **kayess** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:12 am

kayess wrote:Booker's on absolute fire tonight. I kind of think the Bucks overreacted by doubling him since he's making everything through some extremely tough contests. Is he really going to keep shooting 65% until deep into the game?

I guess you vary up his looks now and again, but if he's not creating anything else for his teammates he's gonna get gassed eventually

Called it. Sitting that long may have had something to do with his rhythm being off but he'd created just like 1-2 more open looks in a half. I don't really think you can win in the modern NBA with that kind of creation from your best player unless the rest of the team is ultra stacked.

GSP · Post #4972 » by **GSP** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:13 am

Cp3 playing pick and roll bumhunting ball on mismatches has extended his career but when he can't expose a bad defender on switches he's looked bad over the past few years

Cp3 when he can hunt Brook, Portis, Teague looks like a completely different player compared to when he has Jrue or Giannis on him

NinjaSheppard · Post #4973 » by **NinjaSheppard** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:33 am

He was cooking the Bucks in game 3. I don't think its anything more than him just having a terrible basketball game.

falcolombardi · Post #4974 » by **falcolombardi** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:38 am

middleton and jrue have had 3 good to acceptable shooting night between both out of 8

if they finally clean up i like bucks chances to seal the series

GSP · Post #4975 » by **GSP** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:40 am

NinjaSheppard wrote:He was cooking the Bucks in game 3. I don't think its anything more than him just having a terrible basketball game.

He had a 20.7% turnover rate in game 3. He scored efficiency but wasn't really impactful.

He was terrific in game 1 but the last 3 games he's leveled off hard.

falcolombardi · Post #4976 » by **falcolombardi** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:44 am

chris paul and the suns turnovers are a underated part of this finals

bucks forcing a big possesion advantage against a chris paul team out of turnovers is low key crazy. combine that with stromger rebounding and they have survivrd through their bad shooting

GSP · Post #4977 » by **GSP** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:56 am

Watching these playoffs is there anyone that still believes Rudy is the best defender in the league?

In the Rs sure but the playoffs are a different game entirely. Hes just so clearly not on the level of Draymond, Ad, Giannis, Ayton, Bam, Ben and prolly a few others.

GSP · Post #4978 » by **GSP** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:28 am

Read on Twitter

Dupp · Post #4979 » by **Dupp** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:33 am

Yeah Paula turnovers and sloppy play sure feed into the choker narrative. He is the goat ball handler/protector ever.

HeartBreakKid · Post #4980 » by **HeartBreakKid** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:51 am

MartinToVaught wrote:
Eddy_JukeZ wrote:Can't wait to read MTV's thoughts on CP3's performance tonight

I knew he was bad tonight, but when I saw that statline, I started wondering how Pablo Prigioni and Jason Terry managed to sneak onto the court in Bucks jerseys without anyone noticing.

Regardless of how the rest of this series plays out, it's time for people to tone down the "Point God" hero worship. CP3 has still only had one great series this playoffs and it was against a Campazzo-Rivers backcourt. The Suns are Booker and Ayton's team.

Well, Chris Paul has been better than Devin Booker in this series and that's with Jrue Holiday guarding him. So, there's that.

Before this game Booker was scoring less than 40% from the field, 33 % from 3 point land and scoring less points than CP3. Been miserable on defense as well.

Can't say this series has shown it is "Devin Booker's team".