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eminence wrote:I don't get having Lopez in against the small lineups if you never use him on offense. No early 3's Giannis!

Energy good in Milwaukee though, Nets look a bit out of sorts.

HeartBreakKid wrote:Giannis taking 3s with so much time on the shot clock is driving me nuts.

HeartBreakKid wrote:Giannis taking 3s with so much time on the shot clock is driving me nuts.

falcolombardi wrote:

HeartBreakKid wrote:

Outside wrote:
Chris Paul is obviously really good at minimizing turnovers, but I think people are making too big of a deal of the zero turnovers thing. In game 2, the announcers were talking about him not having any turnovers during some particular stretch, and literally right then, someone poked the ball out away from him from behind, and it pinballed around between multiple players and bounced back to him in the paint, and he made one of his midrange shots. It was a total fluke that he got it back and it wasn't a turnover.

For a guy who handles the ball as much as he does, I'm not sure that zero turnovers on the regular is a good thing. Is he only making safe passes? Is he not willing to take chances because he doesn't want turnovers? It's all good as long as they're winning, but Denver has looked as soft as a marshmallow so far, and it will get tougher in future rounds.

Just an observation and speculation.

I mean yes - but by that notion any big time scoring game is also a fluke. Damian Lillard doesn't normally score 55 points, but it's still impressive.

At the end of the day, if what you said counted as a turnover he would have had 15 assist on 1 turn over. So is it really worth mentioning?




for your second paragraph, it's very much a good thing to not have turnovers. The team he is on has the 2nd best record in the league and they're on path for the WCF, so I'd say he's not playing it too safe. They're a good offensive team.



I think the idea that Chris Paul plays too safe kind of undermines his playstyle. This is a player who regularly dribbles in the paint, and hits passes in between opposing defenders. He's also a player who scores a high amount of his shots on mid range jumpers which are supposed to be the unsafest shot in basketball. CP3 hitting a bounce pass into the paint is considered safe play, but someone like Harden who regularly gets assist by kicking it out to wide open corner 3s is a risk taker.

It would seem like to me that instead of seeing a highly efficient player with low PPG, high APG on low turnovers - people will conclude he must be playing it safe instead of concluding that perhaps he's just very good.

people judge cp3 on style rather than results for some reason since his results dont show the limited offense people talk about with him

Texas Chuck wrote:I can't help but thinking how had they just kept their mouth shut this Bucks team would have Bogdan out there and their offense would flow so, so much better. That mistake probably costs Bud his job and might have cost the Bucks the title.

And the Hawks certainly aren't playing in the 2nd round because they wouldn't have drawn the Knicks without him.

What an absolute disaster. They had a perfect plan and completely mucked it up in the stupidest possible way.

GSP wrote:Im starting to wonder if Giannis shot selection and lack of minutes played has to do with conditioning issues. Hes put on A TON of muscle over the past few years. I remember in the Toronto series he was gassing hard midway specially after the Ot game 3. I think he has too much muscle right now and cant play a full drive game a whole game and go for 40+ minutes when needed