I know, and you make a good point. I just happened to catch the end of the game and saw the Bulls blow a three point lead with 45 seconds left by fouling Will Barton on a three, then on a layup, then giving him a pretty much uncontested layup to lose by 1. I enjoyed their creativity.
Me too. Love the Joker.
If he stays healthy, I think Bell will be the second-round steal of this year's draft (i.e., the "Malcolm Brogdon" award). Golden State appears to be one of those teams that just drafts smarter than everyone else (look at where Draymond was picked up). Kudos to the front office there. Also -- and it pretty much goes without saying -- after Mitchell's 41 point performance, last year's draft looks like it was insanely stacked. Could be the best since ...? An incredible amount of NBA-ready talent.
One of the great tragedies of the recent Celtics is that we'll never know what Stevens could have made of Rondo, our most enigmatic pile of unrealized potential.
Very true. Probably should have looked that up. 24+Lyles to move up to 13 isn't exactly giving up on him.
Maybe, but that's because of depth, not because of Cousins. If Damien Miller continues to be lights out, they'll be ok but they desperately need another wing or two.
I made that comment when they were comfortably in the lead last night...not sure if you watched any of the Pels game last night, but Boogie stood in the lane like a statue numerous times and stopped boxing out in the 2nd half. Once AD went down it was over.
Curry rolls his ankle good at the end there. Will be shocked if he doesn't get a vacation for that plus his other maladies.
Yep, GS wins by 10. But maybe if Davis played, they would have beaten them by 30. Don't stop my new rumor. I'm running the "NOLA is better without the Brow" theory so far into the ground, it's going to pop back out in Australia. Anthony Davis sucks and they should trade him to Boston for a 2025 2nd rounder while they can get something for him.
Every BKN win marginally decreases not only the likely spot of the pick, but also the chances that Cleveland goes balls-to-the-wall and is able to flip the pick and some salary ballast for a star this season (like, I dunno, Boogie Cousins?) Let's go Nets!!!
Yeap, the guy who defends himself online with fake Twitter accounts really wants a piece of Boogie. We all believe you KD. 100%.
Yeah, that game-winning KD putback in the opener that was ruled on his fingertips in replay looms pretty large now. Ws would be up a half-game now (with the inside track on the tiebreak) if that had left his hand 0.1 seconds earlier.
Boogie Cousins is probably not the guy I’d want to start something with if I’m a scrawny dude like Durant.
Yeah, me neither.
The day the worst player on the team goes for 19/11/7/5/3 in just 32 minutes despite the TO's is the day I will stop being a basketball fan. I'm no Boogie guy (I prefer soothing melodies in my old age), but to blame him for being on the floor each time the Warriors drained a barrage of 3's is disingenuous.
I said "looked like," not "is." Obviously he's a very good player most of the time, and often totally dominant. That wasn't the case last night. There's always a ton of flukiness in single-game plus-minus, but when you're talking +22 in the 16 minutes he sat and a -32 in the 32 minutes he played (net -54), I think it's an extreme enough result to look for possible causes. Anecdotally, the Pelicans offense flowed beautifully with Holiday and Rondo initiating and flying around, the ball whipping around to open cutters and shooters, and Asik in there just to rebound, play D, and clean up garbage. When Boogie was in, it was a whole lot more dribble-dribble-dribble while everyone stands around, then force a shot (7-15 fg) or cough the ball up (7 turnovers).
