dort really just looks like when a football player plays basketball
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
he prob wouldve been a football player except hes from montreal
imo bucks problem remains that they don't really have a guy they trust to keep the ball out of giannis' hands all game long i.e. they still need a pg
― Clay, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
they list him at 6'3" 215 it's really ideal OLB size
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
the bucks choosing to make brogdon the odd man out might end up as a harden-trade level butterfly effect front office decision
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
yeah that turned out not great, also in retrospect the way they used him while he was there was also not great, as soon as he went to indy he was getting to the basket all the time, bucks mightve not realized what they had
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
the initial bad decision in that case was giving bledsoe a big extension in the middle of the regular season before he had a chance to suck in a second consecutive playoffs
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
i'm sure there were medical concerns on brogdon and they were able to trade him for picks so it wasn't like he walked for nothing. i can easily see how they talked themselves into believing it was a good idea to let him go. but it was very obvious watching the raptors series last year that he was vitally important to them in the playoffs as someone who was willing and able to put the ball on the floor in the fourth quarter. subsequently, they are down 2-0 in a series where the thing they need more than anything is a guard who can handle the ball and score. they probably should have stepped back and realized they needed to win now and not worry so much if brogdon is hurt in year 4 of the deal.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
they made a brook lopez choice too and that contract seemed entirely fair but right now every team wants guys who can score from the perimeter be it shooting or driving and the bucks let their one guy who can do that go. brook has been nice but he's not counteracting the minutes going to wes matthews, connaughton, divencenzo etc
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
yeah you cant have enough creators these days
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
i just think if they knew they were only going to pay one of bledsoe/brogdon you have to let that postseason play out and if they did there's absolutely no way they're picking bledsoe, even noting brogdon's injury history.
brook to me was an independent decision and they need him for their defense.
honestly irrespective of all that they play connaughton, divencenzo, etc. more minutes than those guys deserve which gives them an illusion of depth.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
it's crazy to me! like you have this huge playoff run coming up and have to make all these critical roster decisions and you say hey it's march 4th, let's extend eric bledsoe for 3 more years at market value.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
not a great decision but also he could be effective in this series, needs to be effective in this series, and was effective in this game at the end of the first half. and then in the second half he totally disappeared. i think there may be a personality issue among the players but also bud doesn't seem to react to what is happening in front of him? like how do you scout the heat's playoff series against the pacers, watch bledsoe take dragic and herro to the hole repeatedly in the final three minutes of the first half and then not, like, call any clear outs or anything in the second half where you could exploit the heat's one blatantly obvious defensive weakness
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link
I did not understand the decision to extend Bledsoe either. when it happened most fans thought it was okay since he was on fire for like 5 games up to that point but the memory of the last playoffs still stung and he still kinda felt like the odd man out on that team
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
like even if they'd done it at the end of the season I guess I'd understand but doing it midseason was just strange
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
the reductive reading is that they did it so he would feel secure going into the playoffs but that's not how this shit should work
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
re: coach bud's passivity, i agree with this tweet
*clears throat*Mike Budenholzer is just Diet D'Antoni— Seerat Sohi (@seeratsohi) September 2, 2020
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
at this point a rockets loss would be pretty catastrophic for harden, he's been awful
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:59 (three years ago) link
dort has him in a sleeper hold
good noel minutes in this game too, his athleticism plays in this series
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
i was listening to a simmons pod earlier today and he wasdoing hypotheticals like "if harden scores 47 and they win this series....." and my reaction was that i do not consider that to be a realistic scenario. we have the track record. he can't do it.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:04 (three years ago) link
one wonders if after these playoffs they seriously consider the idea that you need to be able to score from the mid range to win in the playoffs... speaking of track records that we have
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
i think that's a great point. you can structure defense at the 3-point line and the rim, but the midrange will always be a little wild.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:14 (three years ago) link
bucks and rockets both push regular season efficiency math to the extreme and now look kind of helpless
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:24 (three years ago) link
several xposts - cad otm about the bledsoe extension being a show of faith in him precisely so that his playoff dud of the year before wouldn't be repeated. but any player who needs that, rather than raising their level of play to earn the contract, seems like the key red flag they should've paid attention to.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:25 (three years ago) link
harden doesn't want to shoot....
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
steven adams looks like a dead guy. can't do any valuable center things.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
i prob wouldn't play nerlens noel either right now but he's been noticeably better
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:29 (three years ago) link
don't you just go to cp-shai-schroeder-gallo-dort tho.....
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
that would....make sense
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
or play bazley as a big who can do a little bit of everything
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:31 (three years ago) link
Lu Dort joins LeBron James and Kobe Bryant as the only players 21 or younger in NBA history to score 25+ in a Game 7 per @Stathead https://t.co/WZJUf0O023— Mike Lynch (@SportInfo247) September 3, 2020
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:32 (three years ago) link
you'd think the lesson from the game directly before this one would be to save your challenge til the very end
― Clay, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
win or lose it's an incredible game for dort
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
schroder really can't miss that
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
literally screaming cmon ya little bastard at my tv
― Clay, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
lol
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
cp3 and harden flop contest it had to end this way
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link
harden and cp3 acting like they're in an olympic diving final
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link
that cp3 flop at half court going for the steal... it's just too deep in his blood
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:39 (three years ago) link
it's like a bunch of people who have never skated getting thrown out on the ice
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:39 (three years ago) link
man the thunder have blown three point blank looks
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:39 (three years ago) link
lewd ort
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
oops
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
as well as he’s played today, you don’t want him with the ball in his hands as time expires
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
omg
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
deeply regrettable possession for chris paul
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
well, i look forward to the rockets getting destroyed in the next round
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
cp3 with more than one regrettable decision in the 60-90 seconds of game time since they were waxing about how he lives for the moment
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link