Bigger and more physical than the Warriors, the Lakers lead the NBA in free throw attempts. The Warriors are last. The differential gave the Lakers a chance to amass easy points, slowed down the Warriors and has proven to be a significant factor.
C’mon man. If you’re gonna come here trolling, all full of beans, at least have some better material than “oooh, FTs sure bailed us out. Yay, thank you ref daddies!”
Come back when your team can win without welfare, kiddo 😉
“We didn’t lose the game because of the officials so there’s no point in whining about anything. There were definitely calls we didn’t like but every game every coach can say that. This is not about anything other than our performance.” - Steve Kerr
I can see both sides. Doc calling out the refs about being inconsistent in a win may help improve how their games are called going forward. I do think if anyone has to speak up on the Dubs side, it's Steve, but I also understand him wanting to just focus on the team's performance. Maybe he speaks up if the Dubs played better and it was close...or maybe not.
Steve's right though. If the refs had given us every break yesterday we still would have been blown out. Complaining about the refs is pointless when you stink the place up.
If his team hadn’t completely lost their composure and we’re able to compete, he could say something credible in the media… but they lost their composure and got blown out…
Agree that Steve is right, but disagree about the blowout. There is no way the second quarter features a 30-7 or whatever run by the Lakers if the game had been called evenly.
Call Lebron's travels like they did Klay's. Call AD's chicken wing like you called Klay's, or call neither. Call the contact on Moody drive and shot just before the flagrant. Call Reaves blatant moving screen and pushoff on Dray and wipe those AD 2 points off the board.
Curry and the starter crew play in the 4th quarter if it's a 12-point game, LeBron and AD slow down, suddenly we're one run away.
We would not have been blown out, at worst a random ending ensues.
I thought Marcus Smart had grifted another late game sealing pair of FTs! But again, his opponent made real basketball plays to score points to tie/take the lead!
Speaking of playing minutes, I've looked at the Nuggets-Suns series and the rotations both teams use. Nuggets have been playing strictly with an 8-man rotation. Their starters play heavy minutes with Brown as their 6th man and Jeff Green and Braun getting some minutes. Suns, however, have been inconsistent with their rotation and minutes distribution, except for CP3 (before the injury), Booker, Durant, and Ayton. Here's how many minutes the rest of the Suns players have played in the 2nd round of the series so far:
8 deep seems like the rotation for just about every team. The Lakers went 8 deep yesterday until it became a blow. Dubs still going 10 deep. If people are truly upset about their minutes, can you imagine the reaction if Steve cut it down to 8?
It’s pretty sad that the NBAs finals advertisement is based off of the Lakers and Celtics being tied in chips.
Also if this end up being a “last dance” situation someone is gonna make a lot of money telling the locker room and front office drama from this season
I think it would be funny as hell if the Lakers/Celtics was the Finals matchup and LeBron took an inferior squad and punked Brown, Tatum and Brown again for the Title.
Poole/Donte/Kuminga/Green/Moody/Wiseman all are apparently frustrated about their role/minutes on this team. Whatever your thoughts on whether their gripes are legitimate, its an unmitigated failure on our coaching staff/player leadership that there is such a divide in our squad. We’ve got absolutely zero chemistry on this team lmao.
Who is reporting this? I've heard the stuff about Kuminga, but that's it. And it frankly seems like mostly a non-story to me.
These guys have been stars most of their lives and are among the best 500 guys in the world at basketball. They work hard in practice, lift, eat, and sleep in the hopes of playing meaningful minutes. If they don't get many, that's got to be frustrating.
This is why I think not just OPJ and Bjeli are missed but also JTA and DLee. Their superpower was to be ready and not complain. That's an underrated skill.
I sympathize with Wiseman being frustrated with his current minutes on this team. Poor guy hasn't played a minute in the playoffs. 😉
I wonder how much of this is unfounded rumors. The player with real reason to gripe is Kuminga. Poole, maybe, because his minutes are up and down but so is his play. Moody is playing more now than he did for much of the regular season. He played 20 minutes last night and 26 the night before. I doubt he's frustrated. Donte played 22 last night and 28 the night before, even though he wasn't impressive, so is he really frustrated with his playing time? JMG's minutes are down but he averaged 14 minutes in the regular season, and playoff rotations are usually shorter, so no big surprise.
"Reported on" could mean there's something to it and then again maybe not — UNLESS the player actually said it on the record, as JK did. A whole lot of BS gets "reported" in sports. If JMG said it publicly, that's surprising because he ought to know better. Poole is the last guy who should be bitching. But hey if he wants a trade in the off season, I'm cool with that.
It operates under this old school mindset that players should the fuck up and let coaches make decisions which they believe hamper their development/bottom line (aka lack of minutes). No, if players think that the coaches are treating them unfairly, then they should leverage the media just as coaches/front offices leverage the media in interviews/responding to media questions.
If you agree with the coaching staff on the decision to limit minutes, thats fine (I agreed with that regarding Green/Moody/Wiseman throughout the year). But lets not do this BS about judging players who choose to make it public when they feel like they're getting unfairly dragged by the media/public whose positions on these issues are being shaped by narratives emerging from statements by coaching staff.
I think marginal veterans like JMG ought to realize they are marginal veterans on minimum salaries who were not signed anywhere until just before camp and are lucky to even be in the NBA, and they should not expect a lot of playoff minutes.
JMG said he was in his feelings on the record, and MT2 said that Steph’s Game 7 speech, according to insiders, was hinted at Poole and Kuminga. Poole has also hinted at how it’s hard to establish a rhythm with everything he’s asked to do
Moody frustrated? He said he chose to develop in the league instead of college. He just stays ready and when given the opportunity he shows out. You can blame the coaches and vets if you want, but the individual players have to take responsibility as well. Play better and you will get more playing time. In the case of DDV and JP, they don't even have to play well to be gifted minutes. They are still playing more than Moody and GP2, who have been better. The vets had to go through ups and downs early in their careers as well.
LeBron with another hop travel on his spin move. You’re simply not allowed to gather the ball (end the dribble with both hands on it) with a foot on the floor and then hop on that same foot. The fans behind the bench clearly follow this account
Did it on moody in transition too… just gets a ton of length to that step… but given the slow motion assessment of Giannis traveling all the time, I don’t expect it to be called, just gonna have to play through
I did not understand the attack when trying to score on AD. Steph can do it more efficiently if he takes the floater, instead of going underhanded. I really hope after his dunk on AD, Wiggs starts going strong when finishing as well. Dunk on him everytime or make him foul you. Don't allow him to just swat stuff.
I'm hoping the calls will be close to equal tomorrow.
Lakers 30-8 run in the second quarter, yea you guessed it
CURRY HAD THE BALL ABOUT 2-3 TIMES THAT ENTIRE STRETCH
One pnr resulted in a looney turnover, the other was a steph layup.
It was a bunch of poole n klay bullshit, quick shots n bullshit by DDV, some wiggins jumpers. But none of the shit that won us game 2, which was heavy curry PnR. FOH
It irks me that a unit with Klay, Wiggs, JP and Donte can't get any consistent offense. Steve has to go to just running sets for them. Some featuring Wiggs, Some featuring Klay, some featuring JP, then a smartly aggressive DDV in the midst.
The Lakers were switching the pnr now, but the Dubs were still doing well offensively, until the momentum shift. The Dubs were able to come back within what 10ish, and then more foul calls came.
What happened to “no call” on drives to the basket. How can the refs be sure it was either a block or a charge when it’s not obvious to anyone else? I guess the best answer is that the refs can go F themselves.
The Lakers are generally forcing the refs make a call. Reaves really followed through on his rip through till the ball dislodged. Davis drives so hard into Dray that they both fall over and it’s a travel if no foul called… it’s horrible basketball. Watching the Celtics/Sixers game made my eyes bleed… flopping all over, dribbling out the clock, isolation after isolation… I’m not watching those games anymore
I mean Kawhi was mowing Warriors down like 🎳 in the 2019 Finals but those were almost all no calls, except for the one where he fractured Looney’s clavicle. I think that was a foul on Looney.
This is my prediction. I really feel like the only way we lose against this iteration of a LeBron team is because we didn’t execute. We lose a close game 4. We blow them out game 5 back at Chase. We win game 6 going away in the 4th in LA and win game 7 going away in the 2nd half at Chase.
Curry gets his 3-1 comeback vs LeBron and the rest, as they say, is history.
I just want the Dubs to go ahead and win in 6. First need them to bounce back from the awful Game 3 they had and win tomorrow. Not trying to see them have to do back to back Game 7s in a series, unless they just have to, to get to the WCF.
Lakers baby! 😍
Bigger and more physical than the Warriors, the Lakers lead the NBA in free throw attempts. The Warriors are last. The differential gave the Lakers a chance to amass easy points, slowed down the Warriors and has proven to be a significant factor.
C’mon man. If you’re gonna come here trolling, all full of beans, at least have some better material than “oooh, FTs sure bailed us out. Yay, thank you ref daddies!”
Come back when your team can win without welfare, kiddo 😉
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Doc Rivers is angry about Jayson Tatum’s push off 😳
https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1655343232388153345
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“We didn’t lose the game because of the officials so there’s no point in whining about anything. There were definitely calls we didn’t like but every game every coach can say that. This is not about anything other than our performance.” - Steve Kerr
https://twitter.com/957thegame/status/1655342397981851648
Hate to say it but I wish Kerr was more like Doc in this case
I can see both sides. Doc calling out the refs about being inconsistent in a win may help improve how their games are called going forward. I do think if anyone has to speak up on the Dubs side, it's Steve, but I also understand him wanting to just focus on the team's performance. Maybe he speaks up if the Dubs played better and it was close...or maybe not.
Steve's right though. If the refs had given us every break yesterday we still would have been blown out. Complaining about the refs is pointless when you stink the place up.
If his team hadn’t completely lost their composure and we’re able to compete, he could say something credible in the media… but they lost their composure and got blown out…
Agree that Steve is right, but disagree about the blowout. There is no way the second quarter features a 30-7 or whatever run by the Lakers if the game had been called evenly.
Call Lebron's travels like they did Klay's. Call AD's chicken wing like you called Klay's, or call neither. Call the contact on Moody drive and shot just before the flagrant. Call Reaves blatant moving screen and pushoff on Dray and wipe those AD 2 points off the board.
Curry and the starter crew play in the 4th quarter if it's a 12-point game, LeBron and AD slow down, suddenly we're one run away.
We would not have been blown out, at worst a random ending ensues.
Yep, Steve like no way I'm getting up here and talking about the refs after getting smacked by 30.
Harden to the rescue! 76ers beat the Celtics 116-115 in overtime. Series tied 2-2.
Joe didn't call a timeout on the final play in regulation or OT. Didn't even get a shot off in time in OT.
Missed the game. At least the beard decided to show up I guess.
Big shot… never should have been needed though
76ers-Celtics game heading to overtime
I thought Marcus Smart had grifted another late game sealing pair of FTs! But again, his opponent made real basketball plays to score points to tie/take the lead!
76ers up 92-83 after 3 quarters.
Sixers are going to lose this game.
Speaking of playing minutes, I've looked at the Nuggets-Suns series and the rotations both teams use. Nuggets have been playing strictly with an 8-man rotation. Their starters play heavy minutes with Brown as their 6th man and Jeff Green and Braun getting some minutes. Suns, however, have been inconsistent with their rotation and minutes distribution, except for CP3 (before the injury), Booker, Durant, and Ayton. Here's how many minutes the rest of the Suns players have played in the 2nd round of the series so far:
Lee: 12 minutes (game 1), 26 (game 2), 0 (game 3)
Okogie: 19, 22, 10
Craig: 24, 10, 3
Payne: 5, 17, 30 (started due to CP3 injury)
Warren: 0, 0, 26
Shamet: 14, 0, 25
Ross: 5, 0, 14
Landale: 10, 5, 22
Biyombo: 6, 10, 0
8 deep seems like the rotation for just about every team. The Lakers went 8 deep yesterday until it became a blow. Dubs still going 10 deep. If people are truly upset about their minutes, can you imagine the reaction if Steve cut it down to 8?
The Sun's are not a very deep team post KD trade. I am sure a lot of us here will not be clamoring for DLee to get more minutes. Haha
People would be calling for Kerr's head in social media.
76ers up 59-50 at halftime
It’s pretty sad that the NBAs finals advertisement is based off of the Lakers and Celtics being tied in chips.
Also if this end up being a “last dance” situation someone is gonna make a lot of money telling the locker room and front office drama from this season
I think it would be funny as hell if the Lakers/Celtics was the Finals matchup and LeBron took an inferior squad and punked Brown, Tatum and Brown again for the Title.
Poole/Donte/Kuminga/Green/Moody/Wiseman all are apparently frustrated about their role/minutes on this team. Whatever your thoughts on whether their gripes are legitimate, its an unmitigated failure on our coaching staff/player leadership that there is such a divide in our squad. We’ve got absolutely zero chemistry on this team lmao.
Who is reporting this? I've heard the stuff about Kuminga, but that's it. And it frankly seems like mostly a non-story to me.
These guys have been stars most of their lives and are among the best 500 guys in the world at basketball. They work hard in practice, lift, eat, and sleep in the hopes of playing meaningful minutes. If they don't get many, that's got to be frustrating.
This is why I think not just OPJ and Bjeli are missed but also JTA and DLee. Their superpower was to be ready and not complain. That's an underrated skill.
Look down, I'm a bit lazy so I don't want to personally drag up all the reporting but some others bring it up in lower comments.
I sympathize with Wiseman being frustrated with his current minutes on this team. Poor guy hasn't played a minute in the playoffs. 😉
I wonder how much of this is unfounded rumors. The player with real reason to gripe is Kuminga. Poole, maybe, because his minutes are up and down but so is his play. Moody is playing more now than he did for much of the regular season. He played 20 minutes last night and 26 the night before. I doubt he's frustrated. Donte played 22 last night and 28 the night before, even though he wasn't impressive, so is he really frustrated with his playing time? JMG's minutes are down but he averaged 14 minutes in the regular season, and playoff rotations are usually shorter, so no big surprise.
I think “apparently” means “I made half of this up”.
Poole, Kuminga and JMG all were reported on. Donte not sure I’ve heard anything about, writing was on the wall for Wiseman
"Reported on" could mean there's something to it and then again maybe not — UNLESS the player actually said it on the record, as JK did. A whole lot of BS gets "reported" in sports. If JMG said it publicly, that's surprising because he ought to know better. Poole is the last guy who should be bitching. But hey if he wants a trade in the off season, I'm cool with that.
I hate this whole "he ought to know better".
It operates under this old school mindset that players should the fuck up and let coaches make decisions which they believe hamper their development/bottom line (aka lack of minutes). No, if players think that the coaches are treating them unfairly, then they should leverage the media just as coaches/front offices leverage the media in interviews/responding to media questions.
If you agree with the coaching staff on the decision to limit minutes, thats fine (I agreed with that regarding Green/Moody/Wiseman throughout the year). But lets not do this BS about judging players who choose to make it public when they feel like they're getting unfairly dragged by the media/public whose positions on these issues are being shaped by narratives emerging from statements by coaching staff.
I think marginal veterans like JMG ought to realize they are marginal veterans on minimum salaries who were not signed anywhere until just before camp and are lucky to even be in the NBA, and they should not expect a lot of playoff minutes.
JMG said he was in his feelings on the record, and MT2 said that Steph’s Game 7 speech, according to insiders, was hinted at Poole and Kuminga. Poole has also hinted at how it’s hard to establish a rhythm with everything he’s asked to do
Sounds like the OGs need to have a serious talk with those guys.
Moody frustrated? He said he chose to develop in the league instead of college. He just stays ready and when given the opportunity he shows out. You can blame the coaches and vets if you want, but the individual players have to take responsibility as well. Play better and you will get more playing time. In the case of DDV and JP, they don't even have to play well to be gifted minutes. They are still playing more than Moody and GP2, who have been better. The vets had to go through ups and downs early in their careers as well.
LeBron with another hop travel on his spin move. You’re simply not allowed to gather the ball (end the dribble with both hands on it) with a foot on the floor and then hop on that same foot. The fans behind the bench clearly follow this account
https://twitter.com/bballbreakdown/status/1655023851183685633
And if you look at the comments section, you can see a bunch of people defending Lebron and people thinking that Coach Nick is a Warriors fan.
Did it on moody in transition too… just gets a ton of length to that step… but given the slow motion assessment of Giannis traveling all the time, I don’t expect it to be called, just gonna have to play through
Game 3 reminded me of game 1.
- Klay starting off hot then being trash
- Players continuously trying to score on AD in the paint
- The fouls of course
I did not understand the attack when trying to score on AD. Steph can do it more efficiently if he takes the floater, instead of going underhanded. I really hope after his dunk on AD, Wiggs starts going strong when finishing as well. Dunk on him everytime or make him foul you. Don't allow him to just swat stuff.
I'm hoping the calls will be close to equal tomorrow.
Then you start jmg again in the third and next thing you know we down 16, just complete insanity, give curry the fucking ball
Lakers 30-8 run in the second quarter, yea you guessed it
CURRY HAD THE BALL ABOUT 2-3 TIMES THAT ENTIRE STRETCH
One pnr resulted in a looney turnover, the other was a steph layup.
It was a bunch of poole n klay bullshit, quick shots n bullshit by DDV, some wiggins jumpers. But none of the shit that won us game 2, which was heavy curry PnR. FOH
It irks me that a unit with Klay, Wiggs, JP and Donte can't get any consistent offense. Steve has to go to just running sets for them. Some featuring Wiggs, Some featuring Klay, some featuring JP, then a smartly aggressive DDV in the midst.
The Lakers were switching the pnr now, but the Dubs were still doing well offensively, until the momentum shift. The Dubs were able to come back within what 10ish, and then more foul calls came.
What happened to “no call” on drives to the basket. How can the refs be sure it was either a block or a charge when it’s not obvious to anyone else? I guess the best answer is that the refs can go F themselves.
The Lakers are generally forcing the refs make a call. Reaves really followed through on his rip through till the ball dislodged. Davis drives so hard into Dray that they both fall over and it’s a travel if no foul called… it’s horrible basketball. Watching the Celtics/Sixers game made my eyes bleed… flopping all over, dribbling out the clock, isolation after isolation… I’m not watching those games anymore
I mean Kawhi was mowing Warriors down like 🎳 in the 2019 Finals but those were almost all no calls, except for the one where he fractured Looney’s clavicle. I think that was a foul on Looney.
It was a foul on Loon..I was sick he did that to him.
Apparently, it's what Looney gets for ramming his chest into Kawhi...
This is my prediction. I really feel like the only way we lose against this iteration of a LeBron team is because we didn’t execute. We lose a close game 4. We blow them out game 5 back at Chase. We win game 6 going away in the 4th in LA and win game 7 going away in the 2nd half at Chase.
Curry gets his 3-1 comeback vs LeBron and the rest, as they say, is history.
I just want the Dubs to go ahead and win in 6. First need them to bounce back from the awful Game 3 they had and win tomorrow. Not trying to see them have to do back to back Game 7s in a series, unless they just have to, to get to the WCF.