TroubleS0me wrote:
That defensive effort is beautiful.
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LookToShoot wrote:Melo is the only player that makes the Rockets watchable for the basketball purists. Otherwise it would just be three point shots and pick n roll.
ardee wrote:If they lose in round 1 have to imagine one of Booker or Durant is traded in the offseason. Who would be takers?
TroubleS0me wrote:well now...THey are down 0-3. I thought they would go far.
AEnigma wrote:TroubleS0me wrote:well now...THey are down 0-3. I thought they would go far.
Why?
If anything this season went better than I expected, with credit due to Vogel for putting together a reasonably competent regular season defence.
capfan33 wrote:AEnigma wrote:TroubleS0me wrote:well now...THey are down 0-3. I thought they would go far.
Why?
If anything this season went better than I expected, with credit due to Vogel for putting together a reasonably competent regular season defence.
I don't do sports betting, but betting the Suns wouldn't get past the second round would have been the freest bet of my life.
This team has no pg, rim protection/defense, bench or really anything outside of 3 scorers. They're cannon fodder at best, always have been.
TroubleS0me wrote:
KD & Booker showed up. Beal was average. I think Beal will be traded...
Mickey8 wrote:Durant have stopped to be an impact player ever since his last season with Golden State. He's similar to Lebron in that sense. The numbers are still good on the paper but they don't translate to winning basketball. At least Leroid made the conference finals last season. Durant is the total failure season after season.
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E-Balla wrote:LeBron is Jeff George.
G35 wrote:Lebron is not that far off from WB in trade value.
tsherkin wrote:Mickey8 wrote:Durant have stopped to be an impact player ever since his last season with Golden State. He's similar to Lebron in that sense. The numbers are still good on the paper but they don't translate to winning basketball. At least Leroid made the conference finals last season. Durant is the total failure season after season.
This isn't actually true.
KD has been basically the same level of impact since 2017, until this year, leastwise in the RS. He tailed off starting in 2022 during the playoffs. He rocked the hell out of Boston in 2021 and beat the crap out of Milwaukee in a 7-game loss. Dude dropped 35/10.5/5.5 on like 59% TS against them in 2022. And in Game 7, he went out like a boss with 48/9/6. But Harden was an oxygen thief, the bench did nothing and Joe Harris sucked. But the Bucks brutalized them on the offensive glass and Giannis went HAM as well.
So yeah, it's worth remembering that he's actually been pretty awesome until very, very recently, and that even in the RS he was high-impact until this season.
EmpireFalls wrote:Metrics shmetrics. He’s gotten sonned 3 playoffs in a row at this point,
he still gets his efficiency and high 20s but a high impact Durant is not getting swept by two teams in 3 years.
Colbinii wrote:
The suns were built solely for offensive purposes and to outscore teams 125-120. The fact their offense could only muster up a 111 Ortg means the offense didn't live up to its hype. We all knew the Suns couldn't defend anyone and we all knew their defense would give up points.
At the end of the day, you aren't winning a playoff series when you are getting outshot from 3 by 8 3PA/G.