Wow. Stayed up all night working, rolled out of bed at 12:30, made coffee, then saw Wemby's season is over. Blood clots. Scary. And sad. Love Wemby's game and this is just bad for the NBA overall. Hope he comes back better than ever. Great kid. Whatta frikkin' drag, man.
yeah, from the second i saw him i was like...no way that guy can stay on the floor. but so far, he has. no foot/back issues that tend to plague the really tall guys. guess we'll see if this was a freak thing that happens to anyone or the kind of thing that happens to guys with freakish frames (i think holmgren is always going to struggle with injuries, for example).
Worst part is... Bucks needed a challenge to straight out this s***. WTF are the refs watching in real life? NBA is pathetic, no wonder ratings are down.
Man, sometimes you glance at the scoreboard and do a triple-take. EX: CHA played a spirited game, we took them lightly, and they beat us, at home. They're a bad team, but every now and then things like that happen. CHA, on a tour of the West, goes into POR to play another bad team. You expect it to be a close game between bad teams, but POR beat them by 53, 141-88. WTF? ---------------------------- Another shocker - not as bad as POR winning a game by 53, but still - HOU goes into Utah and loses by 9. Utah won the 1st, 3rd and 4th quarters: the 4th by 12, and the Jazz out-rebounded HOU, 58-40. Kessler had 17, Laurie 10. Keyonte George came off the bench and had 30, with 5 of 8 from 3. Jazz outscored HOU 66-36 in paint. I watched HOU beat MIN the other day and it was a good game, tight. They didn't have it in SLC. ---------------------------- Soooo: what in the Wide World of Sports is wrong with Embiid now? He got benched in the 4th Q. In PHI, Claxton tips in a last-second shot to beat them 105-103. 76ers are 20-36 now. My favorite player for them, easily, is Maxey, who deserves some of Embiid's and PG13's $$$$. PG13: 40 mins: 15-7-2. Embiid: 31 mins: 14/7/5. 4 for 13. 0-6 from deep. 76ers down 17, tie it on a Maxey 3 with 15 secs left. Keon Johnson gets a pretty good look from 3 to win it, but it's short; Claxton made a great play on the rebound and shot to win it as time expired. What a mess the 76ers are. Is Embiid just a stone bum or is he really hurt, like all the time? Is he doggin' it in a major way? After the game a reporter asked PG13 about what might help his ailing teammate Embiid, and PG3 said, "drugs helped." He meant "drugs" helped him overcome pain issues, I think. But PG13 and Embiid both look like they were on some of the "bad" drugs. (Source) ---------------------------
Phoenix is SO bad. How is a team with Durant, Booker, and Beal as well as Royce O’Neale, Tyus Jones, Nick Richards, and Grayson Allen this bad?
Your best 3 players are all good at the same thing and have the same weaknesses to varying degrees. you tried to trade two of them this month. They were in trouble before. Now they're f***ed with a capital F. Durant will be moved this summer and they'll lose that trade. Then they'll tread play in water until Book demands out. I hate his whiny face, so I hope he gets stuck in NBA Siberia.
both? i think he's playing hurt. but he's always hurt and always has been. no one gets on him about conditioning like they do luka or jokic, but he's never been in good condition, imo. so even when healthy, he's kind of dogging it, harden style. he tries when he feels like it. we're also seeing what it looks like when a guy plays hurt like AD did a fair amount with us--they don't look as good. always pissed me off that emiid got an mvp and got all sorts of leeway from the fans and media. both him and kawhi only set foot on the floor if they were absolutely feeling 100% (which was rarely in both cases), whereas AD was frequently playing with some ailment that clearly slowed him down and was just skewered for it. got it coming and going. anyway, philly's in a LOT of trouble, now and moving forward. the joke that they couldn't trade PG for tobias harris right now is very much not funny for them. speaking of... to me, booker and beal's redundancy was a huge issue (i view durant as different, though). the bolded is bigger for me. it was basically clear all season that they didn't want beal around. he's become their russ--he's better than russ was here, but similar problems with complete impact/salary mismatch and high degree of angst about it from all sides. except he had a no-trade clause!!! aarrrggghhh!! imagine if russ had one here...i can't. too depressing. anyway, everyone knew that if your name wasn't durant or booker, you were out. and then they quietly tried to move durant!! so yeah, i think it's mostly mental. folks are just largely checked out. imagine being tyus jones and taking a vet min there imagining you'd get a malik monk type boost and instead it's...this. how much money have you lost being part of this?
Yeah, there's much more overlap with the two. They need the ball in their hands A LOT. KD is three tiers better than either of them at anything and he can play off ball more easily. But I think all three ideally want to get to the same spots and would rather avoid exerting much energy defensively (KD and Book can... at times... when they feel like it) That's what I still don't understand. I said at the time, it would've been like if we were stuck with Russ, so we pivoted to secretly trying to move Bron. Dumbest logic at its finest. It's like you're in Vegas. On your way out. You've already checked out, bags in hand but you feel a $20 chip in your pocket that you forgot about. You feel the need to throw it on some table. After all, you can't spend it once you leave the building. Not until next year and that's too long to wait. Suns got deadline drunk.
If I was Durant, I think I may have been ok with being traded. I understand if GS wasn't his jam, but Phoenix is? Must be a girl.
Because I have all kinds of stuff to get done before I relax and waste time, I...decided to watch MIN@OKC: the OKC@MIN game was pretty good, but OKC just looks like too much for them. I'm hoping MIN can put something together, but OKC is relentless, and led by 22 going into the 4th, so I stopped watching. Huge mistake: MIN outscored OKC 41-19 to force OT, then won it. JAY-zus! Ant blocked SGA at the rim with 13 secs left in OT, then SGA missed a 3 with 2 secs left. Glad I still had it on the DVR... OKC was resting Chet, then, after a ferocious showing, Hartenstein caught someone's elbow when going up for a rebound and left the game with a bloody nose in the 2nd Q and didn't return. I've seen OKC torch teams while playing zero guys over 6'7", so I thought they'd still do that. They were up 25 in the 3rd and, like I said, took a 22 point lead into the 4th, at home. Jaden McDaniels used to be just a defensive specialist, but this year his offense is a lot better. He scored with 11 secs left and got an and-one, hit it to force OT. It was quite an effort by MIN, as OKC's defense is high-energy, swarming, like any guy who gets the ball is suddenly double-teamed. Ant shot 5 for 15, but went 17/13/8. SGA: 39/10/8, but the OKC fans went home after seeing their team post their 11th loss of the season, and I doubt anyone there thought MIN wd outscore their team 41-19 in the 4th. Elias stat: MIN is now the first team in NBA history to go into the 4th down by at least 20, on the road, against a team with a winning % of .800 or better. They come into the Crypt Thursday night.
So: the Charlotte Hornets beat us in LA a week ago. Then they lost by 53 in Portland. Today they lost in SAC by 42. Before the POR game they lost in DEN by 14. Way to make us look even worse, POR and SAC! Sooooo...CHA plays better only against the best teams?
Yea man, it was pretty stunning. OKC figured they had it, psychologically lifted their feet off the accelerator, and the T-Wolves made 'em pay. This comeback felt as rare as Elias said it was.
