BRUNiNHO91 wrote:31to6 wrote:Ranking the players by their performances last night:
Top 2: the Jays
3 through at least 8: all Heat.
That’s not a winning formula.
If you gave Jaylen and Jayson 6 of the 20 something shots Jrue and KP got, we would have probably won the game. Heat had nothing for either one but we insisted on giving Pritchard the ball so he could dribble baseline and back for 15 seconds or KP in the post so he could fumble the ball off his knee with Duncan Robinson guarding him.
Jrue is mostly getting what he wants in the paint this series, though he missed several bunnies in G1. Porzingis has to produce more than 1-9 with several turnovers. They tried to get him going the first couple possessions of the 3rd and of course it (somewhat surprisingly?) didn’t work. We spent all season saying he’d make the difference against MIA and that wasn’t what we meant!
As for Pritch, he was trying to make things happen, but the Heat aren’t going to give him baseline drive-layups like the April Wiz and Hornets were. He only burned a couple of possessions doing that and I’m not mad about it.
Yes, each Jay going for 40 in a close win would have been better than the outcome we got. But they’ve been an ensemble team all season and this was the first playoff game where it didn’t work. Recharge and try it again in G3.
Paul Pierce appreciation society.