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was rodney hood just zapped of his confidence by lebron or what?

This was my thought last night as the OTs moved along, too:

In situations like this it puzzles me why coaches don't go for fresh legs more often, but keep their exhausted starters in forever.

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, May 3, 2019 10:37 PM (yesterday)

And yes, Hood proved this theory out. (Note: I don't think this theory really applies to Joker, Dame, CJ, maybe Murray/Millsap ... although Joker was gassed at the end and it cost the Nuggs.)

Stotts said after the game he really only put Hood in because Harkless was cramping. So he doesn't get any credit for Hood's heroics.

He should've put Collins back in, too. That kid was playing out of his mind in regulation.

also that Will Barton performance, imo, was more of a "wtf" than Hood! The Thrill was terrific.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMK5q-gUEAAOEi1.jpg

Slim reaper is on fire

Eric Gordon is the best rocket

Curry is drunk wtf

hes missed a bunch of switches

And just bad on offense moving around like 70% speed

i thought jumping like paul did before the tip was a delay of game or just a straight tech or something? should be something!

Overtime baby. I don’t know the rules of a jumpball but those Chris Paul shenanigans didn’t seem normal/legal

Exactly xp

Worst game of Stephen Lawrence career by a mile

pretty messy endgame here

0-6 on layups and dunks

sadly the steph decline seems very real

*puts money on Portland winning the west*

Uh he just dislocated his finger idk about all that. He looked like a head case out there tonight tho.

he's kinda been like that since the middle of the clips series seems like

What If Steph Is Bad is a development i did not anticipate

Had one bad game in the clips series. Rolled his ankle game 1 rox series, klay too.

No excuse for his game tonight tho man alive what a nightmare

*puts money on Portland winning the west*

sweet. unless you're talking real money.

how was that not a charge on harden at the end

i couldn't figure out any of the officiating in the game but ultimately the result seemed fair.

Agree it felt even just that play m/l sealed the game so it stood out

these raps jerseys are FIYA

this kawhi game is special

Woah! That 3

Just have a hard time cheering on kawhi

as good as embiid has looked kawhi is the only player in the series who can do this

Why embiid only shoot 7 times?

he looked surprisingly passive in this game

Kawhi is interesting to me, I wonder what he's thinking

"I can't wait to move back to Los Angeles."

Embiid a moody weirdo in this one.

Embiid was sick. He had to get an IV at 6 am after staying up all night.

— Keith Pompey (@PompeyOnSixers) May 5, 2019

ffs embiid

Dude needs to get a nutritionist and take this seriously

Shirley Temple od

nice to know what extenuating circumstance has occurred every time embiid has a bad game

Proud to be a nuggets fan

RT @matt armstrong: Proud to be a nuggets fan

a bunch of good series huh

worst series is rockets and dubs lol

Rockets and Dubs is a disgusting psychodrama between two teams that should be relegated

lol

if the other two series get tied up 2-2 thats whats known as "crazy twos"

this also means "immense good fortune", but only for hoops fans

btw, I agree that dubs-rockets is bad hoops for the purposes of enjoyment through watching the games.