2020 NBA Bubble Ball Finals: Lakers vs Heat - Who You Got?

putting AD on jimmy was a nice move by vogel, i think it had jimmy psyched out. he can get to the rim/line consistently vs everyone else on the lakers (including lebron) but AD forces him to shoot which he doesn't really want to do. in game 3 they were putting davis on olynyk/leonard and the heat were just murdering them. but still jimmy wasn't really looking for his shot even into the fourth which was weird... he could've picked spots in the midrange and pulled up confidently if he wanted to but he just... didn't. prob should've got bam more involved in the offense if AD was on jimmy but it's a lot to fold into the gameplan on the fly. dragic was the heat's offensive closer all year, even into the bucks series, and it was really felt in this one

jimmy hitting another marker of star status tho in that watching it live it felt like he was weirdly passive and absent all night in a very crucial game and then you look at the stat line and he put up 22-10-9 w/ 3 steals and a block on 8-17 shooting. a truly vintage lebron-esque performance in its own way

yah but he started like 5-5 so he was pretty bad from that point on. it was aesthetics tho, like he was happy to pass to nunn and watch him dribble around a shoot a contested shot on too many occasions in the 2nd half. i love jimmy but he needed to be the player he was in game 3 for them to win. sometimes you just gotta hoist.. or at least shoot when your open which he was a lot tonight.

Miami not rolling over

Oh fuck! AD down

looks like a non-contact back of leg injury

Immediately thought achilles but he’s walking now

could be just one of those weird tweaks he always gets

re-aggregation of his heel bruise. yeah, he's always nicked up.

it’s like the 20th most important thing happening in this series but danny green’s minutes have been appalling

he’s been a dumpster fire the whole playoffs!

aside from dragic being out two other things hurting the heat this series are crowded turning into a pumpkin on offense and bam playing like C-grade games. everyone else has mostly played at expectation i think

crowder*

have to think bam is being impacted by the mysterious neck/shoulder injury

yeah... and also facing prob the best big in the NBA. but he hasn’t really been a focal point of the offense even as a distributor like he normally is and tonight is missing stuff at the rim, he just looks off

his offensive skills have been overhyped imo

it’s like the 20th most important thing happening in this series but danny green’s minutes have been appalling

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 9, 2020 9:56 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he’s been a dumpster fire the whole playoffs!

― k3vin k., Friday, October 9, 2020 9:57 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

classic weirdly over rated role player who just happened to be hanging around multiple contenders

gotta admire miami's moxy

Heat could use Robinson hitting 3s at his reg season pace. Everyone of his misses is points the other way. Lakers D on him has been v good.

playoffs is like that

robinson has been good to me considering ppl thought he might be run off the floor in the playoffs... he’s gonna be at a physical disadvantage vs grown ass teams but has mostly held up

bam might be the second best passing big in the league and does stuff in transition i feel like i only otherwise see out of giannis. he’s lacking the outside shooting you see from jokic and AD but is a very good free throw shooter and has gotten good from the mid range. just hasn’t been able to lock into this series really

dwight a bitch

how was he not ejected for that with one tech already on him

heat may wanna consider not letting lebron shoot wide open threes

Crowder physically incapable of making a 3

saw some ppl on twitter complaining abt danny green again and....he's 2-4 for 5 pts and he's +4 in 16 minutes.

5 points is that good

i think that’s a circumstance of green starting halves when bron and AD are both on the floor. his misses have been really awful

robinson has been good to me considering ppl thought he might be run off the floor in the playoffs... he’s gonna be at a physical disadvantage vs grown ass teams but has mostly held up

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 9, 2020 10:37 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he's been really, really impressive considering what a lot of us expected. he was never going to be able to play his regular season game but he's hung around, played insanely hard, and found ways to be useful. like he'll drive in a straight line and it won't be pretty but the willingness to do it matters.

5 points is that good

― lag∞n, Friday, October 9, 2020 9:52 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

on 4 shots? not bad.

it’s kinda crazy how much the heat’s offense is based on robinson sprinting back and forth around the three point line, even when he doesn’t shoot

the shooting is why he's in the nba but to use my favorite cliche he's just a basketball player.

i’m sorry to m bison and the box score but danny green has been terrible tonight & there’s a reason we’re prob not going to see him step on the floor for the rest of the game

Robinson has impressed me with his poise.

Well Robinson heard that halftime pep talk.

and he immediately sprints off a screen and gets a 4 point play

Duncan Robinson scored more points on hand offs this season than the Lakers, Rockets, and Raptors.

— Synergy Basketball (@SynergySST) October 10, 2020

at this point duncan has prob been the heat’s second best player in the series

fact

Duncan Robinson clearly the best player named Duncan or Robinson to ever play in an NBA Finals.

— Russ Bengtson (@russbengtson) October 10, 2020

why did vogel challenge that lol

bron prob told him to

they also had one of those use it or lose it timeouts i think

as a guy who saw every duncan robinson game in college, i must say that i did not see this coming even one bit lol

to be fair, i didn’t watch his games at williams, maybe that’s where the answer lies

imagine how good he mustve good in d3 my god

theres pick up games better than d3

yeah, we're at the duncan robinson needs to get back on the floor stage of the game

the heat’s offense suddenly has gotten incredibly desperate

he shot 56/45/88 at williams. the shooting was always there but i think he's a very rare case of the nba late bloomer.