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A definite upgrade but not inspiring at all

Nuggets are a good team

Donavan hire is a Bulls move very much in character

really enjoying jerami grant as a 4th or 5th starter type of guy

yeah grant has really grown on me. he can do a lot of stuff and he’s a competitor

denver getting a little tight

if i understand the rule right that was a bizarre non-challenge

Alley oops are goaltending against the lakers

absolute nightmare start to the 4th starting with that BS call on the davis 3

Obv want the lakers to win the series but I’m hoping Denver can withstand this run. I just want more hoops tbh

meltdown in progress

wow Rondo

jamal murray just willed them to victory

Yeah I never saw this Denver team going down by 0-3

fun game! glad the Lakers made it interesting

Nuggets are one game away from being close to contending!

some very big plays by murray down the stretch kudos to him

was it here or on Twitter where someone said Jamal Murray is the Canadian baller Andrew Wiggins was supposed to be?

There’s some stat that has Jerami Grant as the worst player in the playoffs and I’m pretty sure it’s a broken stat. His defense vs Kawhi was really important. Maybe it’s a function of guarding the other team’s best players?

Yeah, that doesn't make much sense intuitively

catch all stats are always a bit shit mate

On a recent episode of the Lowe Post they were talking about how the Nuggets were really hurt by Grant's poor rebounding (zeroing in on him, an ostensible power forward, having 0 boards in Game 2 vs the Lakers). ime a lot of catch all stats tend to over-account for rebounds as much as they under-account for defense. So that could explain it.

yeah, that’s an excellent point.

Yeah and his lack of rebounding is accentuated by guarding Kawhi and lebron

can the players hear the crowd noise?

it seems so?

The Thunder requested the piped-in crowd noise turned up to replicate the volume at Chesapeake Energy Arena in OKC.

https://www.nba.com/article/2020/08/10/virtual-fans-help-restart-atmosphere

Yeah supposedly it’s loud as hell

it's weird because i've also heard some journalists saying it's much easier to like mentally check out even during great games. maybe the noise is artificial enough in person that you can just ignore it.

id be happy to never see or hear mark jackson ever again

i know, i want him to get some backwater coaching job so bad

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jayson tatum has entered the game

it's probably time to recognize that miami's only good offensive player tonight is herro and adjust accordingly

Tyler Herro is quite good

celtics still look awful vs the zone, have there been any adjustments

i think they've been finding plenty of shots against the zone. turnovers and fouls have hurt them.

that travel... oof

forcing 1 miami turnover in the second half combined with a generally desultory first half isn't going to do it. first playoff game where i've been really disappointed with the celtics.

c's making some brutal mistakes

what a cut by herro, im conditioned to watching dudes stand around during isos late in games

Heat future looking bright with Herro and Bam

The Guys Were TALKING CRAZY

bummer i was hoping this would go 2-2. i like both teams tho.

i've been posting this like once a week per playoffs basically but everyone knew going into the 2019 draft that it was shit after the top 2 and like a dozen GMs still let one of the 5 most elite shooters in the NBA almost slip out of the lottery. idk how you could have watched herro shoot and take step backs and be like, give me coby white. it's unconscionable. the hawks took two players who are worse. the t wolves traded up for a shooting guard who might not make it to his second contract. the cavs drafted a shooting guard who is demonstrably worse than herro. this is how bad franchises stay terrible.

how much better is trae young than tyler herro serious question

i feel like if you put herro on the hawks and gave him trae young's role he would average 29-10-5 w/ better efficiency

need to see more, his reg season numbers aren't more efficient than trae despite way less usage

oh nvm i misread the number he's a few % better from 3. still not convinced yet though

heat are so good at player development i dont understand how more teams arent on the same wave

herro showed up to the bubble almost as a new player, he wasn't doing any of this pick and roll stuff or finishing at the rim during the regular season. the heat didn't run offense thru him until the playoffs. he's doing all of it w/in a very structured system and on a finals-level team too, if next season he was just gunning for numbers on a shitty team like trae he would put some crazy stat lines