I'm just happy on a national stage they got to show their effort. It's been A+ all year with no quit.
If Cousins is back by the next round, the Warriors should be investigated for BALCO 2.0 type stuff.
I'm loving watching some of these second units inject energy and talent into their teams. Harrell and Lou in LA, Caris and Dinwiddie in Brooklyn, Rozier and Morris in Boston...…...
Seriously though, Morris was a savior in game one coming off the bench with 12 points on only four shots in 6:20 in first quarter, jump starting a moribund offense that put up only six points in 5:40. And Rozier made one miracle buzzer beating three to end a quarter. Too bad that was his only made basket the entire game.
Rozier/Morris injecting energy/talent would be very helpful. A welcomed change from the 2nd half of the season.
FWIW, they both played with a lot more energy on D on Sunday. I’m not sure why Terry thought that playing to 50% of his defensive potential during the regular season was going to get him minutes or get him paid.
I basically did this, turned it off and went to bed when they were still up about 20 late in the third quarter. Yikes.
I hope you put $50 on LAC to win the series. If you did, you probably already got more than $50 worth of entertainment from last night's game.
This is actually a smart and fairly common defensive scheme to take the ball out of the scorers hands for the final shot forcing the Clippers into freelancing and definitely done by design. The other benefit aside from creating chaos is it doesn’t allow the offense to run the clock down to 6-7 seconds on the game clock. Credit to the two rookies for executing in a difficult spot that they aren’t accustomed to seeing.
There's a third game at 10:30 (OKC-POR), so it would be fully overlapping other action either way. Whenever they have a three game playoff slate on a weekday night, they do it this way, TNT does a doubleheader and the third game is on NBA-TV.
What contender will be bargain shopping with the MLE this summer and will be willing to deal with Cousins and his health and other issues? Or will someone be desperate enough to give him a multi year deal?
The Warriors, almost certainly, since they have the advantage of being able to re-sign him for $6.4M (not far off the full MLE) while also getting a new taxpayer MLE to play with.
The full MLE will be almost 50% more than that. Doesn't mean that he won't sign for the 6.4, but it isn't all that close to the full MLE
Not that close, but — conjecture alert — close enough where his stated affection for Steph, Klay, Kerr and the Warriors culture (after years wandering the NBA wilderness) would easily close the difference. Basically, I don't think he leaves the Warriors unless he feels fully respected by another team with a max or near-max deal. Heck, if he wanted to take $8-20M from a bad organization over the Warriors' MLE, he could have done that this season, as the Pelicans reportedly offered him something in the top end of that range.The full MLE will be almost 50% more than that. Doesn't mean that he won't sign for the 6.4, but it isn't all that close to the full MLE
The Twitter poster clearly doesn't know Klay. The guy never changes his expression, ever. Well, apparently he does change his expressions but its never been confirmed because only Rocco has seen it.
In a copy cat league, it’s kind of fun to see San Antonio just mid-range teams to death.
Makes you think of another old coach with plenty of championship rings, putting an emphasis on a running game when everyone else is going pass happy.
This take didn't age well. Though I agree that Pop is amazing because the team he is competing with would almost certainly fail to make the playoffs under lesser leadership.
As someone who had Denver -7 there will be no regrets whatsoever. Looking at OKC for the hat trick!
Nor should you and to be fair, they did look like garbage early until Jamal Murray decided to start playing. Nokic finally showed up too though you were correct in that he looked horrible out of the block.As someone who had Denver -7 there will be no regrets whatsoever. Looking at OKC for the hat trick!
They might have that guy in Michael Porter, if he can ever get healthy. A bad back in someone so young is a tricky thing, but he has all the tools to be a superstar.
