NBA season 2019/20
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@ACT-Crusader I'm not sure the zone will remain effective. The Lakers got a stack of interior dunks running Lebron and AD low, and they missed a ton of open 3's (Green
) that you wouldn't want to bank on them missing again.It feels like a cop out to me, a makeshift D that just hopes that the Lakers go cold from outside and stay cold.
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@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:
@ACT-Crusader I'm not sure the zone will remain effective. The Lakers got a stack of interior dunks running Lebron and AD low, and they missed a ton of open 3's (Green
) that you wouldn't want to bank on them missing again.It feels like a cop out to me, a makeshift D that just hopes that the Lakers go cold from outside and stay cold.
Yeah Kelly O isnāt going to cut it. I thought starting Leonard to go with Dwight early was a good move. But once the Lakers go with āsmallā with AD at the 5 and LBJ and either Morris or Kuzma plus two guards, they are still bigger than the Heat and the zone isnāt going to win out. Switching Lebron and AD between the middle and baseline was excellent by Vogel.
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@ACT-Crusader Yeah that switch was genius. They totally ruled down low in the very place Spoelstra was trying to hide his weakest defenders. The 3 pointers are great, but they should continue to batter away inside
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@TeWaio said in NBA season 2019/20:
probably accurate - if Bam and Goran are out, it'd be embarrassing if it wasn't
Pretty weak performance today from them
Edit - I should add, it was an extraordinary effort from Butler. Just amazing. I'm not his biggest fan, but credit where it's due, that was awesome.
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you know what i fucking hate about basketball? players leaving the court without even a handshake.
LBJ leaving before the game even finished though? fucking hell. I know it's not him, but i just hate this look.
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@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:
you know what i fucking hate about basketball? players leaving the court without even a handshake.
LBJ leaving before the game even finished though? fucking hell. I know it's not him, but i just hate this look.
Funny, what I always hated about playing basketball was the excessive fucking handshakes! I am happy to tap a few hands at tip off and after the game, but fuck off with your handshake at HT or the start of each quarter. And if any fluffybunny tried to give me a tap just for attempting a Free Throw, they're going to be left hanging (other than a bum tap, thats always ok)
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@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:
@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:
you know what i fucking hate about basketball? players leaving the court without even a handshake.
LBJ leaving before the game even finished though? fucking hell. I know it's not him, but i just hate this look.
Funny, what I always hated about playing basketball was the excessive fucking handshakes! I am happy to tap a few hands at tip off and after the game, but fuck off with your handshake at HT or the start of each quarter. And if any fluffybunny tried to give me a tap just for attempting a Free Throw, they're going to be left hanging (other than a bum tap, thats always ok)
Thatās cold bro.
I donāt mind too much them leaving the court in a playoff series if the clock is just going to run out. What I didnāt like is that Lebron and one other left the court and there was a shot clock violation. It forced two subs - Green and Dudley - to come on so the ref could restart play for a few points of a second.
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2019/20:
@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:
@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:
you know what i fucking hate about basketball? players leaving the court without even a handshake.
LBJ leaving before the game even finished though? fucking hell. I know it's not him, but i just hate this look.
Funny, what I always hated about playing basketball was the excessive fucking handshakes! I am happy to tap a few hands at tip off and after the game, but fuck off with your handshake at HT or the start of each quarter. And if any fluffybunny tried to give me a tap just for attempting a Free Throw, they're going to be left hanging (other than a bum tap, thats always ok)
Thatās cold bro.
I donāt mind too much them leaving the court in a playoff series if the clock is just going to run out. What I didnāt like is that Lebron and one other left the court and there was a shot clock violation. It forced two subs - Green and Dudley - to come on so the ref could restart play for a few points of a second.
Ahh, I didn't even see that. My feed on delay from nba.tv was terrible, and a mate basically gave the result away to me earlier. So I really only saw Q1 and patches of Q4. No flow. Skipped the last minute even.
My comment was much more general, not at all specific to this game.
But I can see how anyone would be offended by Green and especially Dudley coming onto the court!
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@voodoo it was just a bit amateurish with the ref trying to restart play and players and coaches on the Lakers bench looking at each other like they didnāt know what was going on. All cool Bron, youāre halfway down the tunnel...
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@TeWaio said in NBA season 2019/20:
Butler was more mouthing back to AD for some of his comments about Heat being in trouble. Jimmy after a bucket, Lakers call timeout and he says ātheyāre in trouble, theyāre in troubleā
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Game 4 was great and could've gone either way. KCP and offensive boards in the 4th quarter the difference. Neither Lebron or AD played particularly great but they did enough to get it done. They get an extra day off now before game 5, will be interesting to see if Dragic tries to do a Willis Reed.
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Offensive rebounds and 3s were the problem for the Heat. Lakers as a team played well down the stretch.
Real shame we arenāt seeing Dragic out there instead of the rubbish play Nunn is putting in.
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2019/20:
Offensive rebounds and 3s were the problem for the Heat. Lakers as a team played well down the stretch.
Real shame we arenāt seeing Dragic out there instead of the rubbish play Nunn is putting in.
Lakers had 10 offensive rebounds to Heats 7, defensive rebounds were even. Dont think that was a deciding factor. And 3's were pretty much even also, 36% vs 34%?
To me the Heat just don't have the offensive weapons to challenge a really good Lakers defence. Jimmy is everyone's darling right now, but the truth is that he is limited. We saw that when he knew he had to shoot the 3, and couldn't hit it.
They definitely missed GD. While I like Herro and Duncan, there is almost zero history of rookies and 2nd year guys lighting up the finals from the outside.
