2019-20 NBA Season Discussion

Peregrine01 · Post #2741 » by **Peregrine01** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 4:03 am

Loss is on Donovan for playing Steven Adams so many minutes.

HeartBreakKid · Post #2742 » by **HeartBreakKid** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 4:03 am

The Lakers will butcher the Rockets

SideshowBob · Post #2743 » by **SideshowBob** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 4:04 am

Senior wrote:
SideshowBob wrote::lol:

Was that block & dodge the #1 highlight of Harden's career?

i have NEVER seen someone dodge the ball when someone tries to throw it off them for possession

That was insane - can't believe he had the instinct for that after the block in that moment.

MisterHibachi · Post #2744 » by **MisterHibachi** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 4:04 am

yoyoboy wrote:Winning this series would’ve been big for CP3’s legacy. I’m really bummed they couldn’t pull it off. Screw Donovan for insisting on playing Adams down the stretch man.

Adams wasn't even setting good screens tonight. Donovan had like 3 chances to draw up a good play and couldn't do it.

MO12msu · Post #2745 » by **MO12msu** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 4:05 am

Yeah I just think Donovan is a bad coach.

Way too many Adams minutes, they should've called a timeout after SGA fumbled the ball before the Harden block on Dort, and he called 2 plays where an inexperienced SGA had to pass the ball to Adams going away from the basket.

Really bad.

HeartBreakKid · Post #2746 » by **HeartBreakKid** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 4:07 am

MO12msu wrote:Yeah I just think Donovan is a bad coach.

Way too many Adams minutes, they should've called a timeout after SGA fumbled the ball before the Harden block on Dort, and he called 2 plays where an inexperienced SGA had to pass the ball to Adams going away from the basket.

Really bad.

Yup, have no idea how you put SGA in that position.

Also, playing Adams over Gallinari down the stretch when Adams wasn't even able to grab offensive rebounds? Huh?

Peregrine01 · Post #2747 » by **Peregrine01** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 4:15 am

To play Adams that many minutes during this series was inexcusable. He was a non-factor on both ends of the court...at times he was just running baseline to baseline.

eminence · Post #2748 » by **eminence** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 4:17 am

In this one at least, Gallo was absolute booty. Might've liked some more Bazely, his energy was good.

yoyoboy · Post #2749 » by **yoyoboy** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 4:34 am

Adams is absolutely useless. Didn't even notice how bad his screen attempt was to get Paul free.

Read on Twitter

The High Cyde · Post #2750 » by **The High Cyde** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 4:34 am

Disappointed in how Adams performed, is he just this slow now? I know he had an injury a while back where he fell on his back, but man, he looked a couple steps late in everything.

therealbig3 · Post #2751 » by **therealbig3** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 5:20 am

CP3 was extremely disappointing. Made some really bad plays down the stretch, and was actively avoiding shooting.

Kind of the story of his playoff career though I guess.

GSP · Post #2752 » by **GSP** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 5:23 am

HeartBreakKid wrote:The Lakers will butcher the Rockets

Houston will win a game but hard to see anything else

Okc have a better perimeter defense, clutch factor late in games and at least have 2 bigs in Adams/Noel to throw at Ad. Houston just has wings

Dupp · Post #2753 » by **Dupp** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 6:05 am

People actually think Paul was bad :roll:

Dupp · Post #2754 » by **Dupp** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 6:38 am

yoyoboy wrote:Adams is absolutely useless. Didn't even notice how bad his screen attempt was to get Paul free.

Read on Twitter

At 3 seconds harden darts to the 3 point line and tucker slides across to cut off cp3. If Adams darts to the rim there is literally 0 resistance to him getting there and hes got an open dunk with no one close.

GSP · Post #2755 » by **GSP** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 6:44 am

Dupp wrote:
yoyoboy wrote:Adams is absolutely useless. Didn't even notice how bad his screen attempt was to get Paul free.

Read on Twitter

At 3 seconds harden darts to the 3 point line and tucker slides across to cut off cp3. If Adams darts to the rim there is literally 0 resistance to him getting there and hes got an open dunk with no one close.

Tucker was still reasonably close to Adams TBH couldve jumped up and at least hit the ball out

Plus with ur season on the line are u really trusting Steven Adams to make that play?

MyUniBroDavis · Post #2756 » by **MyUniBroDavis** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 7:53 am

GSP wrote:
Dupp wrote:
yoyoboy wrote:Adams is absolutely useless. Didn't even notice how bad his screen attempt was to get Paul free.

Read on Twitter

At 3 seconds harden darts to the 3 point line and tucker slides across to cut off cp3. If Adams darts to the rim there is literally 0 resistance to him getting there and hes got an open dunk with no one close.

Tucker was still reasonably close to Adams TBH couldve jumped up and at least hit the ball out

Plus with ur season on the line are u really trusting Steven Adams to make that play?

The first one where he had the entire court to himself for the lob was worse

70sFan · Post #2757 » by **70sFan** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 9:07 am

This loss hurt me so much. I haven't been so engaged emotionally in one team since Timmy retirement.

Adams was useless for the whole series and I don't understand why.
Denis was great for all series, but he wasn't good yesterday.
Paul had very good 4th quarter only to play disappoiting in final possessions.

On positive side - Dort was amazing and it's not only about hot shooting - he's just very smart young basketball player. I hope he'll get even better in future.

70sFan · Post #2758 » by **70sFan** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 9:08 am

Dupp wrote:People actually think Paul was bad

He wasn't bad, but he couldn't deliver in last minute, which is extremely frustrating because I believed in him. This loss is not on him, but he should have played better.

Dupp · Post #2759 » by **Dupp** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 9:59 am

70sFan wrote:
Dupp wrote:People actually think Paul was bad

He wasn't bad, but he couldn't deliver in last minute, which is extremely frustrating because I believed in him. This loss is not on him, but he should have played better.

Yeah he had some bad handles and passes which is extremely bad for a guy with his passing ability and the goat handles

Dupp · Post #2760 » by **Dupp** » Thu Sep 3, 2020 10:00 am

And I just saw the end of the Miami game. Turned it off with 30 seconds left. Wtf happened.

Bogus last foul call too.