JaVele is clear to play - but you gotta wonder if the Lakers are just content to stick with what was working and play the Rockets without a center
> @ChrisBHaynes
Yahoo Sources: MRI on the left ankle of Los Angeles Lakers center JaVale McGee came back negative and he will play tonight against the Houston Rockets.
I am starting to get the impression that this Clippers team is exactly the sum of its parts. They don't have that beautiful symphony of a team where all the parts fit together just right, but they're also not the chaotic spectacle of a train going off the rails (see: last year's internally-combusting Boston Celtics). They're just a bunch of good players who can play their roles consistently in a system that asks them to do exactly that. That means their series with Denver comes down to whether the Nuggets can find their own next level to overcome. I think they have it in them, but I'm not sure they'll find it.
LAL vs. HOU is a painful but gratifying series because on any given night it's a lottery for which player I dislike is going to sink their team's chances. The only downside is that one of these teams has to make it to the conference finals.
It would be a hell of a story if the Bucks without Giannis rallied to save the series. Even pushing it to game 6 or so would be an accomplishment. But I think the conventional wisdom, that the Bucks are done done donezo, is right.
Fingers crossed that TOR forces a game 7. I'm not especially invested in who wins or loses this series, but I want it to keep going!
The Clippers/Nugget series is closer than any of the pundits expected and it took a very sub par game from Murray to keep the Nuggets from blowing this open. Sure, Harrell and Williams haven't been very good for LA but this series is far from the blowout people expected.
Also, can someone please choke Reggie Miller the next time he breathlessly talks about the Clippers "turning up the defense"? Other than Kawhi's middle finger, Denver just missed a ton of open 3s in the 4th quarter.
I was not expecting "the Houston Rockets have no answer for Rajon Rondo" to be a turning point in this series
Conference Finals are going to be dope!
JaVele is clear to play - but you gotta wonder if the Lakers are just content to stick with what was working and play the Rockets without a center
> @ChrisBHaynes
Yahoo Sources: MRI on the left ankle of Los Angeles Lakers center JaVale McGee came back negative and he will play tonight against the Houston Rockets.
I am starting to get the impression that this Clippers team is exactly the sum of its parts. They don't have that beautiful symphony of a team where all the parts fit together just right, but they're also not the chaotic spectacle of a train going off the rails (see: last year's internally-combusting Boston Celtics). They're just a bunch of good players who can play their roles consistently in a system that asks them to do exactly that. That means their series with Denver comes down to whether the Nuggets can find their own next level to overcome. I think they have it in them, but I'm not sure they'll find it.
LAL vs. HOU is a painful but gratifying series because on any given night it's a lottery for which player I dislike is going to sink their team's chances. The only downside is that one of these teams has to make it to the conference finals.
It would be a hell of a story if the Bucks without Giannis rallied to save the series. Even pushing it to game 6 or so would be an accomplishment. But I think the conventional wisdom, that the Bucks are done done donezo, is right.
Fingers crossed that TOR forces a game 7. I'm not especially invested in who wins or loses this series, but I want it to keep going!
The Clippers/Nugget series is closer than any of the pundits expected and it took a very sub par game from Murray to keep the Nuggets from blowing this open. Sure, Harrell and Williams haven't been very good for LA but this series is far from the blowout people expected.
Also, can someone please choke Reggie Miller the next time he breathlessly talks about the Clippers "turning up the defense"? Other than Kawhi's middle finger, Denver just missed a ton of open 3s in the 4th quarter.