These two coaches realize it's round 1, right? Kawhi-39 minutes KD-44 minutes Book-45 minutes CP3-38 minutes Please let this thing go 7. Already an issue with CP
I guess they just perceive (maybe rightfully so) their current opponent the biggest hurdle in the PO and believe if they can only get through round 1, they will be able to rest their guys some more. The Suns are extremely top heavy though and it seems they do not really have another choice haha. This is the main reason why I'm not as scared of them as most people seem to be. The Clips on the other hand really don't have any choice but to play Kawhi almost the entire game with PG out. Also, maybe, just maybe, those two coaches are not as great as they are made out to be .
Gotta love this weak a** suspension being announced by Joe Dumars of the Good Boy Pistons, a team that always played with the highest sportsmanship and would never do something awful like that terrible no good Draymond Green fellow. And flowers to Delightful Domantas who has never done a thing wrong in his life and was merely trying to massage the leg of Ungrateful Green and improve his blood circulation. May he rest in peace after the Extremely Necessary X-Rays he required showed a collapsed sternum that caused his demise due to UltraSoftitis, a totally real thing.
No, I have been assured that Tyronn Jamar Lue is the best coach in the game and has unparalleled basketball Intelligence Quotient as shown by his commitment to playing players who lose your team the game instead of players who win your team the game. And how dare you sully the name of Tavares Montgomery Williams, an award winning Coach of the Year who is so perceptive and fast thinking that it only took him a mere 6 quarters to realize that this Kawhi Anthony Leonard fellow is rather good at scoring the basketball and might need to be double teamed. Such a novel idea, what ingenuity!
C'mon, the only person at fault is Draymond. After costing them a title, he does this c*** again. They're down 2 and have huge pressure on this game 3, he can't put himself in a position to get suspended. Not only he made the game 2 easier to Sac, he also misses a key game. Regardless of any other factors, Draymond is the main person at fault here
For sure, I have been saying from the beginning that it was Extremely Stupid of Draymond to react the way he did, that he got baited, and that he needs to be smarter than this. (He's not.) It can also be true that this is an Extremely Stupid suspension handed down by someone who played on one of the dirtiest teams ever, who is now supporting the dirty play of the player who initiated the entire incident. Both things can be true.
Well, the Foster angle didn't work out today, but I learned something for the next time Foster is assigned to one of our games: apparently LeBron does well in them.
I understand the logic but I think your approach softens it to Draymond and kinda gives him a pass. I don't agree.
Yeah a loss is likely coming because of a weak effort , careless TO's ect .. We'll win the series though
Rewatched yesterday the Kings-Warriors. Kings looked like they were playing the best basketball, always with the flashiest moves and all the hype, yet Warriors were low-key always closing the gap, despite looking to be playing awfully. Draymond's absence can really hurt the Warriors, because I had them winning the next 2, one of them by a blowout and getting all the momentum they needed to steal one in Sacramento. I still think the Warriors win, but they really need to bring that championship quality basketball to beat these Kings. Gonna be a great game to watch
Joe Good Boy Dumars further admitting that this wasn't suspension-worthy and he only got it bc he's Dray: "Repeat offender weighs as heavy as anything.”
I have no sympathy for Draymond: he gets away with so much barking and underhanded s***. The moving screens he sets and doesn't get called for. And the Sabonis thing wasn't like it came from out of the blue. Draymond sat on Sabonis in the 4th quarter of game 1. It's like wink wink what else could he do if his foot was grabbed or if he happens to fall. But he's the only guy in who league who consistently kicks dudes in the nuts: oopsie, can't seem to get off of other players quickly: oopsie, curbs stomps other plays when grabbed: oopsie. It's not like as Lakers fan we see AD go down, Lebron get hits in the face no call, and they don't do stuff like this
Cool..now that he's been suspended already, he has to be on his best behavior in the next round if they make it.
I'm kind of the opposite here. I am not afraid of the Kings but they are the team I want us to play the least. They have that youthful energy and confidence. Brown has them playing well. They are just on a roll that is hard to deal with. As far as the Draymond thing, I think that was a bunch of crap. His leg was being held. He pulled free and it had to come down somewhere. Then Sabonis cries and acts like he is dying. Then he is over on the bench celebrating and bragging about his acting. Draymond got that on reputation which he has earned. I didn't watch it from a bunch of different angles but just my take.
I agree with this - I don't like Draymond and I most definitely do not want him anywhere near the Lakers. Which is why I believe I am coming at it rationally in this case, because in this situation it wasn't his fault, but he overreacted and he has a history so the league screwed him and the Warriors, while rewarding the Kings for intentionally dirty play - and make no mistake, they are intentionally playing dirty. Brown knows the Warriors very well and is executing a very smart game plan on holding, hugging, grabbing, yanking, dirty playing, and baiting the Warriors, specifically Draymond, until this very thing happened. It's winning them the games. It should be a 1-1 series right now, likely Warriors 2-1 in Game 3. But it's 2-0 Kings, and the series could pretty much be over in Game 3 without Dray. Brown and Kings played smart but dirty and got there. Correct...and it was 100% Sabonis's fault. If you go back and watch the replays, it is Sabonis who grabs and yanks Dray so Dray leans on him, Sabonis pulls him, and they both fall down. This is just another example of all the escalation the led to the stomp moment. It's not wink wink, it's what he's actually supposed to do basketball-wise. But he did it too emotionally and histrionically, so here we are. Right, this is why he got suspended, not because of the stomp. The stomp was not suspension-worthy.
I think AD and the Lakers destroy the Kings. GS is a jump shooting team and for the Kings this is a good matchup as they have no rim protection. The Lakers OTOH have a bunch of guys who attack the rim relentlessly and they have no one to matchup with AD. I want to avoid the Clips at all costs: that is the one team that matches up with the Lakers well and has a coach who knows how to to play Lebron since he coached him for years. Phoenix based on the matchups would be the next toughest out but they're offense is very simplistic right now, bench sucks, and the Lakers after the trade can wear them down (weird to think the Lakers can afford to play AD/Lebron in the 30's while the Suns have to go mid 40's for their top 2) Everyone else the Lakers should be able to matchup pretty well against
I seriously doubt any Laker fan on this board would be saying the same if it was AD getting curb stomped
