Oh I think he's an amazing player and given the right situation, a good leader.
I'm just drawing parallels about how players are painted in the media.
Oh I think he's an amazing player and given the right situation, a good leader.
I'm just drawing parallels about how players are painted in the media.
Game 2 redux parte dois?
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
Plumlee definitely blew the assignment by trying to go under the screen. Not saying that AD wouldn't have made the 3 or some other shot to win the game, but MP2 did not do what he should have done. Crispy.
The big problem is that it wasn't even a screen. Lebron was just standing there and Plumlee ran to him rather than following AD. In fact, I suspect the play was for AD to clear Mason out of the middle giving more room for Lebron to operate when the pass was thrown to him. Mason succeeded in forcing the Lakers to pass to someone not on the NBA Mt. Rushmore but he gave AD a pretty wide open look as a result.
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
Was Mason expecting Lebron's man to switch?
I don't think Butler is ever painted as a locker room problem in the media. Usually it is presented as "Butler is such a hard worker and fierce competitor in practice, sometimes the more easy going guys who don't like to work as hard don't get along with him." (Which paints the other guys as the problem for not wanting to work hard enough).
I was following the Twitter debate on the play last night with some people breaking down the clip like it was the Zapruder film. I saw one clip where Mason and Grant were briefly talking and hand signaling in the second before the ball was inbounded. Grant was totally pinned behind Lebron on the low side so there was absolutely no way he was getting around him on a switch.
I agree. The thing that makes the defensive blunder so egregious is that Davis had just nailed a 3 from the same side of the arc with 3:03 left in the game and was having a very good offensive 4th quarter. Still, though, Jokic made a heck of a close out and Davis made a tough shot. An equally bad play was the Nuggets, after Jokic's Battier-01-finals-tip-in, just letting Davis drive in for a fairly uncontested lay-up to regain the lead. That was really poor defensive communication between Dozier and Jokic.
Of course if Denver had managed to get an occasional defensive rebound, we aren't having this discussion.
Sounds like if Kanye's daughter starred in a 007 picture:
"I didn't catch your name..."
"West, North West."
Agree about the Denver rebounds. The Lakers made their own luck, but they made an awful lot of late shot clock chucked 3s in that final stanza and seemed to get every bounce.
Justice for Plumlee!!!
https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/sta...68969169301506
Joker was right in his face and with an outstretched hand about 11 feet above the playing surface. I highly doubt Plumlee's presence would have altered the outcome of the play.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust