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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

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

― Spottie, Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:14 AM (eight minutes ago)

they're development is amazing but so is their evaluation. they sought out duncan robinson and valued him pretty highly (two way contract) before even developing him. le batard said on zach lowe's podcast that the heat put herro thru a pre draft shooting drill they give to everyone and he did better than anyone they had ever evaluated. they flagged bam as an elite defender even if the offense didn't develop. obv they have grown these guys games in very noticeable ways and are great about putting their players in positions to succeed, but also they're seeing things on an evaluation level that other teams for whatever reason aren't.

yeah clearly they're doing it right. they havent even needed jimmy to be great in this series.

he has actually been kind of terrible after game 1

herro really saved them tonight, i thought spo coached a weird game. he over relied on igoudala and didn't get out of the zone even after the celtics scored on like 15 straight possessions in the fourth quarter.

the game was pretty weird overall. not a lot of punch to it.

Felt like there were long stretches of terrible ball from both teams tonight. If Boston didn't shoot themselves in the foot so often they'd be up 3-1. For Miami, they have to give huge thanks to Herro otherwise they would have struggled to break 80 points. They look ruff when the 3 ball doesn't drop. Boston has shut down Robinson and Crowder regressed a bit this game.

gotta be rough for hayward, misses the birth of his son but might still be bounced out of the bubble two games later

how funny would it be if lebron lost to the heat in the finals

the game was pretty weird overall. not a lot of punch to it.

― Spottie, Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:55 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

poor game, D+

feel like we were seeing the results of exhaustion due to compressed sched followed by a small layoff, body goes into recovery mode and its hard to get out

celtics are scoring like .5 points a possession in crunch time this series, i just saw in a tweet

too much dribbling. you can't dribble the ball into the hoop

if someone could invent dribbling the ball into the hoop they would make a million dollars

what if the hoop was a hole in the ground instead of up on a stick

Jord NBA gms are just doing their best and sometimes the draft is really hard

baskethole xp

important bubble innovation

During timeouts allow them to see viral tweets that are trashing players.

— JustTIM (@ReignCoates) September 24, 2020

yeah i think we can credit the team for evaluating players well while also acknowledging that there's a major element of luck in how guys turn out. there's plenty of other supposed sharpshooters whose shooting vanished when they started playing nba games or who didn't have enough other nba skills to stick

or even just the ability to get good looks

You take Herro out of this series and Celtics might well be 3-1, that guy is balling

celtics hit a few more wide open corner 3s and itd be 3-1

the series is tied 441-441, pretty amazing

going into the series i thought the heat's best chance was to have jimmy steal a few games down the stretch like he did vs the bucks... i think the celtics are more talented but the heat have shown an ability to seize the moment at the end of games that usually wins out in the playoffs (while also doing a bunch of stupid shit at the end of every game and almost blowing big leads)

Heat 4th Q Net Rating

Regular Season: -5.8 (Rank 28)
Playoffs: +19.3 (Rank 1)

We can pontificate on why that's happened. As @johnhollinger has noted there's probably a bubble conditioning factor at play. But it's still a wild swing from their reg season profile.

— Couper Moorhead (@CoupNBA) September 24, 2020

Whoa

Super deep analysis: if Denver is going to miss wide open 3s and Jokic isn't going to score, then Denver will get a chance to come back from a 3-1 deficit yet again

interesting if true

murray has made some crazy shots

Jamal Murray, WUT! HOW!? pic.twitter.com/YbI9PYJZCR

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) September 25, 2020

it's steph, dame, jammgod, thats the list

He’s an exciting player!

ooo Denver comin back

wait was that back to back behind the back shots

Evergreen post: Pulmlee suboptimal

the fix is in

Evergreen post: Pulmlee suboptimal

― that's not my post, Thursday, September 24, 2020 10:57 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that three-shot foul before halftime was horrible

absolutely horseshit call on millsap, wow

I mean it’s very clear at this point I think

I think malone needs to challenge that

these refs are coooked af

if the ball is in the air when the shot clock expires, the defending team should be able to grab it and go - reward good defense

yeah been arguing that for a while

I just realized that I have no clue who the coach of the Lakers is

fucking comical no-call on bron on that murray drive

these calls remind me of kobes last game

LeBron always gets favorable calls against likeable teams

yeah been arguing that for a while

― k3vin k., Friday, 25 September 2020 1:17 PM

it would improve the flow of the game, thered be more fast breaks, the league should be all over it

I'm not the guy to harp on or care about the NBA's supposed ratings dilemma, but the Lakers of all teams having the nerve to file a bogus report to the league office over officiating (after Dwight spent all last game hacking opponents and then almost getting tossed for abusive language at a ref no less) and getting shamelessly rewarded for it like this is in a critical playoff game is why viewership is down. Hard if not impossible to be seriously invested in these playoffs unless you're Snoop Dogg or one of the bandwagon of 14 year old Laker fans on social media when stuff like this happens.