in fairness, swaggy p is terrible

the beautiful game

I think you mean the 3-pointer that Harden only took after Klay fouled him in hopes of drawing a continuation or 3 free throws.

too soon

There is such a metric, and I believe it’s called exactly that. And a lot of those shots were pretty open, so at least a few of them should have gone in.

extremely same

Ah yes, the good old “numbers aren’t important, it’s how the numbers feel that’s important” argument. Hmm, how about two completely bullshit fouls in the first minute on Klay? Seems like that would have an impact!

There were plenty of bad non-calls on the Warriors too. Rockets still shot almost twice the number of free throws.

When questioned about who was a good boy, the Fenerbahce players were forced to admit that it was, in fact, Doncic.

Yeah, as pointed out elsewhere, I’m sure this is correct and my original interpretation was wrong.

I think you’re right. Love absolutely hung Smith out to dry there, but Smith also didn’t do himself any favors by trying to fight through Baynes for some reason. Bad communication all around on that play by the Cavs.

A lot of people said that trade was a steal for the Cavs at the time, due to the inclusion of the Nets pick. Now that pick is #8, which is fine but almost certainly doesn’t make up for losing Kyrie in any way. But that’s hindsight, although I think the Celtics’ FO must have had good reason to believe that the Nets…

Yeah, it’s the proximity of the ref that made me think that he might be complaining to him.

The remora attached to LeBron’s underbelly, if you will.

Sure, Love was a contributor in that game, but he was fairly putrid in the series overall. Again, if the Pacers have a slightly better offensive series away from home, we’re probably looking at a Raptors-Celtics ECF right now.

Maybe that’s right. It’s hard to tell who he’s mad at, but whoever it is, it’s not himself, so the anger is obviously misplaced.

They would almost certainly be in the finals.

“Aaron Baynes, useful playoff contributor” is definitely a novel phrase I didn’t think I’d be writing or reading maybe ever.

I mean, it’s the sort of not-screen-screen that’s never called because there’s plausible deniability, but I think we all know what Baynes’ function was on that play, and it wasn’t running to the corner to spot up for a three (his bizarrely good shooting percentage from range notwithstanding).

That’s LeBron, not Thompson, who is close to the action. It’s hard to tell who fucked up there, Green or LeBron; I wonder if Green was supposed to help and then LeBron would switch onto Tatum, since he (James) isn’t actually guarding anyone. But yeah, leaving Korver on an island against Brown and doing nothing at all…