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tontoz wrote:Over his last 5 games Waiters is shooting 30%. He might be glued to the pine by playoff time.
LyricalRico wrote:tontoz wrote:Over his last 5 games Waiters is shooting 30%. He might be glued to the pine by playoff time.
And once they move Reggie Jackson for a lesser player before losing him for nothing, they'll pretty much have no bench. They really might not make the playoffs this year.
dckingsfan wrote:What - Whiteside with more rebounds than minutes at half-time.
nate33 wrote:dckingsfan wrote:What - Whiteside with more rebounds than minutes at half-time.
He had 14 rebounds in the first 8 minutes, including 8 offensive rebounds. I assumed that there was some mistake with the stat keeper. It doesn't seem possible.
Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:Whiteside gathered those 24 rebounds (10 offensive!) in just 28 minutes.
At one point Spoelstra benched him and the Heat were leading 60-51, By the time Spoelstra reinserted Whiteside, the Heat trailed 60-72. They gave up 21 straight points with him inexplicably on the bench. Whiteside only had 3 fouls.
Spoelstra after the loss claimed Whiteside was fatigued, which the player said was not the case.
If Whiteside is smart, he will take the highest bid from a contending team (not Miami). Hopefully, he's a UFA.
nate33 wrote:The Thunder lose again; this time with Westbrook and Durant both playing. Dion Waiters goes 3-14 with 1 assist and 4 turnovers in 30 minutes. The Thunder are 4 games out of 8th place with just 35 games to go in the season. OKC has lost 4 of their last 5 and now look like a longshot to make the playoffs.
In the last 6 games, Waiters is jacking up an average of 11 shots a game and shooting 29%. He's averaging just 1.4 assists in 27 minutes a game.
BOSTON (AP) Hassan Whiteside was hardly shocked when Miami coach Erik Spoelstra designed a play for him late in the third quarter of a tight game.
He was surprised when Spoelstra kept doing it, though.
Whiteside scored half of his 20 points during a dominant stretch spanning the third and fourth quarters and Miami Heat held off the Boston Celtics 83-73 on Sunday to snap a two-game slide.
"He drew up a play and I scored on it, he just kept drawing them up," said Whiteside, who went 10-for-17 from the field. "I really think he started believing I can make plays down there."