I would also like to point out that Reggie fucking Miller called him “Randy FOE” during last night’s broadcast.

And the dude in the front row whose first instinct was to take up-close photos of the fall rather than help him up. Like, WTF?

Just stop.

Yep. He’s still unplayable against the Death Lineup — Donovan was very careful to make sure that he played the Adams/Ibaka combo in crunch time over the Adams/Kanter combo.

I agree — and I’d say that Donovan either lost many of those games due to poor in-game adjustments, not getting his team to buy into his offensive/defensive sets, or both. But after Game 1 of the Spurs series, he’s been doing a solid job coaching that team.

His defensive prowess was always a bit overrated — he’s a solid shot-blocker, one of the best in the league, but he’s never been disciplined enough to be a solo rim protector — he gets lost ball-watching occasionally, jumps around a bit too much, and isn’t terribly good at anticipating/cutting off driving lanes or…

Thank you. This is what I’ve been trying to stress. GSW turned the ball over 14 times in the second half, and reverted to Mark Jackson-style isolation plays for everyone except Steph Curry. It boggles my mind that people will remember this game for the missed travel call (which, I might add, also seems to have been…

They were likely trying to preserve timeouts, and Westbrook thought he could take advantage of the chaos to drive down to the rim. He only called timeout after it was clear he was trapped and had nowhere to go.

Thank you. I’ve got no stake in this series even though I’m from the Bay Area, but I’ve had to explain this exact thing to many of my friends: If your team coughs up a double-digit halftime lead, turns the ball over 14 times in the second half, and reverts to shitty isolation plays for players not named Steph Curry,…

I don’t know if there are more of those this season, or if the NBA’s just better about admitting them, but it’s got to be getting frustrating, especially for the Thunder’s opponents.

Right? I don’t think Kerr mismanaged the game, per say, but he should definitely have reeled in Draymond after he took many, many stupid hero-ball shots. He found that he could get by Durant or Kanter about 50% of the time, and continued to try milking that play.....even when he’d clank shots off the backboard and…

I agree with all but your first point. He’s moved from “awful” territory to “barely passable” in the playoffs. He held his own in the Spurs series against Aldridge and Co, and while he looked overmatched in the first half last night, he was just fine in the second half.

I mean, if you want to say that the Thunder had no effect on the Warriors’ second half turnover spree or forcing them to revert back to the Mark Jackson-style isolation offense, then sure.

Yeah, no, the post mentioned nothing of the fact that the Warriors reverted to Mark Jackson-style isolation plays and coughed up the ball 14 times in the second half alone.

Yeah, and the Warriors lost this game because of one missed no-call, not the fact that they coughed up a big first-half lead with lazy turnovers and bad iso-plays for players not named Steph Curry.

While that’s obviously a big deal, Durant’s got a sure thing in OKC, a team that just mowed through the West and looks to make this an interesting series vs. the 73-9 Warriors. Why break that up for the suspect Miami roster?

I get that you’re having fun, but I doubt Durant heads to Miami. Whiteside’s still overrated on the defensive end, Dragic still doesn’t fit with Miami’s slow, iso-heavy offense and was largely a no-show in the playoffs, and their best player was a 34-year-old Dwyane Wade. I love the mini-Wade resurgence, but we’re…

I dunno. I think the Spurs sign Mike Conley this offseason and pick up their replacement for Tony Parker in the process. Plus, I don’t really see Westbrook fitting in with the Spurs — as overblown as the ball-hogging narrative is, he certainly plays a bit too much iso-ball to exist in the Spurs’ eco-system. I think…

What you mean is, they looked like a completely different team while on an unsustainable hot streak for 2 games. Whiteside was available for the rest of the Charlotte series, and he certainly looked overmatched in more than a few of those remaining 5 games.

Well, at least we can’t fault this movie for whitewashing!