pingpongrac wrote:HumbleRen wrote:pingpongrac wrote:
I wouldn't consider that to be a good example of poise lol. They completely crumbled under pressure and allowed a 30-0 run to Luka, Seth Curry and a bunch of rookies. Give them credit for making a late push to steal the game back, but that collapse midway through the 4th was the exact thing a team with no poise would allow to happen to them.
But they didn’t lose. That’s the key.
Last year’s OKC would have crumbled under that 30-0 run. That builds character and the type of battles you need to go through if you want some success in the playoffs.
It builds character because it's the kind of thing that should absolutely not happen and it's going to weigh heavy in their minds when they're in similar situations in the future, but no one on that OKC team is going to be happy with how they played in the 4th regardless of the fact that they actually won. I would imagine Daigneault is giving the players credit for getting it together and eventually getting the W, but I highly doubt he is using what happened tonight as anything but a negative in the future. He's probably more worried that it took an historic run by the Mavs and multiple timeouts by himself for his team to do anything positive in the 4th. You'd be hard-pressed to see a team look so rattled for 10-15 possessions in a row in the 4th quarter. Like that was worse than peak LeBronto days lol.
Put it this way. If the Raptors (with Siakam and Poeltl both not playing) were winning by ~25 then allowed a 30-0 run over 5 minutes in the 4th before coming back to win, everyone would be going on about how terrible the future of the team looks because of their inability to easily close out a game with such a massive lead. You wouldn't say "they showed great poise" because they didn't entirely blow that massive lead.
Completely disagree. I’d be wildly impressed if we pulled out that W without Siakam and Poeltl.
Also laughable to even say it was worse than the peak lebronto, you gotta be on drugs or secretly hate OKC’s come up rn.
don’t ever compare a regular season game to DD/Lowry constantly melting down in the playoffs.
These guys are 20-25 year olds man, it’s never an issue in the long run to face adversity and to actually overcome it. They’re going to look at the tape, see what went wrong but ultimately be proud that they didn’t fully succumb to the pressure.
