**sigh** The basketball gods were handing Portland chance after chance. They zapped KD's calf and said here ya go. They still couldn't win. Zapped Iggy's calf, still couldn't win. This was their best chance with a hot handed Meyers Leonard. I wanted a Portland/Bucks finals for something different and I didn't want the Warriors to 3peat.
i've been saying this about portland for years, and i keep being dead wrong. they have a good coach, general roster continuity, and a very good, durable #1 option. that's a formula for the playoffs.
Same for me Jazzy. Can't believe that Dame and McCullum came up totally empty when it mattered. That was beyond a weak showing. You can't win one friggin' game? Not even on your home court? They completely and utterly blew it. They have a lot of growing up to do. Now they see that you have to really deliver to beat the champs, even if they are hobbled. They lacked some heart, they lacked a lot of smarts, and most of all they just hadn't been here before. It showed. Ah well, go Bucks!!!
The decision making last night by Lillard when it really mattered was pretty poor. Despite the OKC series heroics, I view him as fools gold, at least as a #1 option. McCollum is actually a more attractive player to me, for a bunch of reasons. Portland has some tough choices to make this offseason. The core, including a healthy Nurkic, just isnt good enough to make a deep PO run (this year is an anomaly). The FO needs to decide whether they want to move on from Lillard/ McCollum or try to get another quality player.
I like the fight Toronto is showing. Hope they win this game and send it back to Milwaukee 2-2 Want to see if they can do this on the road.
Anyone know what exactly he tweaked? Been searching and the articles I've seen just say he injured his left leg coming down from awkward layup.
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2019/...land-trail-blazers-supermax-extension-reports These supermax extensions are dangerous. $50m+ to Lillard at age 34 anyone?
Supermax is dumb. It was created to keep the homegrown stars but it destroys the team's cap space... leading to trade demands. Och well, not our problem
Man, GSW is really going to benefit from the rest they are going to get. Bucks need to finish this series quickly.
Sounds about right. It puts a FO in a very difficult spot- how do you tell your long time superstar that you wont pay him the (super)max? And no player is gonna turn it down. I am not sure who all has one, but the Wall contract is exhibit A for why they are a bad idea. When one guys is chewing up 40% of the team cap and then gets hurt, its hard to work around that and stay competitive. Sure hope the owners push hard to eliminate this when the next CBA comes up.
