I think a high percentage have been late blown leads, and those seem to go at a high rate for the team who came back.
It’s a legitimate tough call. Like 85 or 80% Tatum is going to create still gravity for his teammates and then you have to consider who would be in there for the Celtics in his stead.
I know.. who knows at this point..and I know it's been talked to death, but if you see your team not go to the basket for a full quarter, maybe it makes sense to get a timeout and set up a play that is intended to get someone going to the basket? Jaylen did take it twice in a row..
Yeah, but you have to factor in the risk he makes the injury worse or hurts something else compensating.
I disagree. If he legitimately sprained his ankle or he’s at 80% then you take him out of the game. It’s not even a question. This team is playing for the playoffs. There’s 0 reason to risk further injury during some meaningless game in December.
hey im with you on the they should sub guys in overtime games. I think thats still a league wide inefficiency, but I think its a cultural thing at this point. most starters would be pissed to get taken out of a game in overtime for a sub and the in game improvement to performance by getting fresh legs isnt worth the upset.
If they can stay healthy and grab the 1-seed you might as well start gassing up the duck boats. They are a complete and total juggernaut at home with a full squad. I agree with everything you said, but I do think they can absolutely front run their way to a banner if they meet those two conditions.
I know SoSH won’t like this response but small sample size in these coin flip games and I’m not convinced it’s a problem yet. Fwiw the Washington post did a story on me a few years ago about why I seem to always win close coin flip games especially those that go to overtime. And that night we lost our first one in two years. And the reporter was like oh you almost predicted this would occur. Yeah. Unless the other team or coach is bad these are going to go through the wash and come out close to 50-50. Tonight, draymond was missing. But KP missing and Tatum as maybe 85% and on the road the game could flip the other way in this situation especially when you miss lay ups and open threes. It sucks.
I'd have been asleep for at least a half hour by now if that was the case tonight. West coast nutpunches are the mother of all nutpunches.
Joe was just asked about not calling timeout on the post game, and he said something along the lines of "Jayson did a good job of going and getting the ball, I liked the spacing..."
how dare you remind the game thread that things like "sample size" and "variance" are words with actual meanings
I mean neither one of us know how bad it was but I was answering a different question than you. You raise a fair point regardless.
KP is clearly the one major difference maker compared to years past.
he could barely move, so you play him 41 minutes? and give him ISOs at the end of halves & games?
Jaylen has been playing awesome this month but that said I agree that with the way the team is constructed without KP they’re not winning a title. I think we all know that.
I’d really just say I’m not Joe and live 3000 miles away from the game so idk what all went into their thinking. I was just responding to that and saying there can be a legit reason for playing him. Not saying Joe was right or wrong.
Right. I guess it’s 50/50 for Tatum and Joe. I don’t think you can excuse one completely
It’s a fair point. I was focused on what Tatum can still bring to the game even if he’s lesser as a guy.
Like Bill says and most coaches today have learned from him it’s a players game but when we lose I the coach will take the blame.
If a guy can't play his normal game then just take the game off. Why risk it?
Your first two points can be valid we just don’t know enough. With the last one, idk. Would you leave him open? From what I saw the warriors still defended him like he was a top-7 guy.
Especilly infuraiting because it;s like the 1 "skill" he learned from Kobe. Not the clutch stuff, the inefficient pull up step back 3. Ugggggh.
Beating a dead horse here but completely agree. The most damning thing for me is that none of those pull-up 3's were even close. He barely got any separation on them in the first place and they just didn't have a prayer of going in.
I think when he first started the side-step 3 it was a new trick, he was hitting the shots and getting clean looks. He's just not getting the same quality looks now that everyone knows he's hunting that shot.
As I said in the moment, that felt like a desperation "we need a 3 to tie it at the buzzer and don't have time to run a true play" shot. I'm not hung up on the timeouts, but they need to come up with something better there - ideally to the basket.
