TheNewEra wrote:esqtvd wrote:
The 4th started tied 69-69. Shai was getting a blow, and we were within 1-3 points for the first 4 minutes of the 4th with him out. We lost it within a 1-minute span in the 4th before he came in at the 7-minute mark--as scheduled. He still played 29 minutes.
There was no reason to hit the panic button--we were in the game.
We lost this game in one minute and 10 seconds. 8:51-7:41. It's that's fragile a deal. This is also the problem putting Bobi in--we forget that when it doesn't work, it doesn't work and we can go minus-6 or 8 in a flash. The Gizmo is a 2-edged sword and that's why Doc is hesitant to give him burn unless it's a WTF situation.
It also didn't help that every core Clipper came up small in the final 3 minutes with misses and turnovers. In fact, Avery was the only one who hit a shot!
SGA had been resting since the near 4 min marker in the 3rd quarter up until 7:41 in the 4th. That’s not a blow that mismanagement of minutes in the most important quarter in which the players couldn’t run anything successfully.
I see how you just disregard how from the start of the fourth outside of Boban free throw and Harrell bucket the offense looked like crap. Needless turnovers that we have seen before and a team that looked like it had no idea how to play. Gilgeous came in was able to get the lead down to 6 even got Harris two buckets who played horrible again in the 4th. Bradley and Harris missed shots later during a sequence we could of used Boban to punish the mismatch with Gasol having a off game.
There was no “when it doesn’t work” in last nights game with Boban. He had nothing to do with playing with two guards who can’t run plays consistently and Lou who was just plain sloppy and careless with the ball.
Maybe the gizmo is the over reliance in Lou Williams when it doesn’t ha
That's true--Lou is a gizmo too, but a proven one--a two-time 6MOY. Big difference. Bobi is still a 2-edged sword, and we showed what can happen in the blink of an eye--we lost the game in a key one minute and 10 seconds. So I understand Doc's reticence to play the Bobi card too often. [We tend to forget the nights it doesn't work.]
Shai still played 29 minutes and would have played 32 if we hadn't needed to put Beverley in at 3:17 mark to try to get some stops. 32 minutes is about right for Shai, who was having a pretty good night. And while Shai was sitting/resting in the 3rd, we completed our comeback and even took the lead 69-67 with him on the bench. And it's rather traditional to rest your closers until 6-7 minutes left in the 4th so they can close it out the rest of the way.
There's simply no solid ground for a should-coulda here except hindsight. He was getting his scheduled blow and the team was holding its own without him.
