Yea, I'll take it with our misses. Butler is obviously very off and we should be up a bit more, because I do like our defense currently. The pace may not be what we want though?
Tyler having one of his shit face games Spo better be quick with the hook if this continues in the 3rd
Turd qtr going to decide the game. I expect Jimmy to attack rim more and hopefully Bam pulls his head out of his ass after halftime
If you told me this would be a one possession game with Jimmy missing 80% of his shots I’d say you were lying
What a waste of a Duncan game. UD should slap the shit out of Bam for being so fucking scared of punishing Lopez for just sitting back and daring him to shoot and being scared to do it
He was a worse shooter last year and was way more aggressive then he is this year. I don’t understand wtf is going on with him. Also if Jimmy didn’t want to play the extra five they would have just went for 3 on the last shot of regulation
Crazy because if this game were reversed I’d be shitting myself that we’d give up a third of the lead in the turd qtr, but we know these dudes just aren’t built to fight back from a big deficit. They already thinking about sleeping in their own beds
Yeah don’t even bother trying to sign Lowry just let Jimmy opt out after next season since we’ll have a lottery picks through 2025 and just start over
Hopefully there is a real shakeup on Spos staff because clearly no one could match what Craig offered us strategically on offense
This feels like when we returned that Shaq/Wade title team only to get crushed by Chicago in the playoffs the next year
Yup. But instead of it being a bunch of old guys predictably letting themselves go after finally reaching the mountain top, it’s a bunch of young guys that felt themselves too much and didn’t put the work in after coming close but not getting it done. Extremely disappointing.
Sucks because we never got to see this team with olidipo like I’m sure they imagined it but pat has to be livid by this performance and I can’t see him not making drastic moves
Yeah, it wasn't quite the splash we'd hope for, but we tried to make a move to improve the team. Don't know if a healthy Dipo(if such a thing will ever exist again) is the difference in this series but it would have been nice to see. We got superhuman Jimmy and Bam last playoffs. Dragic was absolutely great in the bubble, too, until his injury. And let's not even get started on Herro. If he doesn't put in work, we'll all have to live with Hoosier being right on Pat overvaluing his long-term potential.
Yeah dragic’s age really caught up with him this season gotta add a solid 4 to help out Bam, we just get killed on the boards to teams with traditional bigs I have to think we’ve seen the last of Dragic, iggy, Ariza and we will move herro/Nunn and maybe Duncan to improve this roster
Nunn is gone unless he gives you a cap friendly deal bec he gets no offers elsewhere but no point in moving Hero now. You dont sell low. If they didnt trade him early when he had value no reason to move him now. have to hope Hero turns into the player they thought was the best shooter they've ever bought in to do the pre draft workouts and we saw glimpses of last year. Best scenario is all three youngins comeback, improve, and become viewed as assets again like they were last fall and we can actually ship them off for someone of value this time.
I was watching five reasons podcast last night and dudes were talking about Bam needs to develope a 3pt shot that way he can just be a stretch 5 to create the spacing this offense needs. Im like wtf how about he becomes a legit mid range shooter first and he can create space that way. The only plus to Bam being beyond the 3 pt line is that he won't have his back to the basket and will actually have to look at the rim.
Hate to say it, but when Butler was strutting wearing Herro's HS jersey last year, felt like that was going to be the jinx to Herro's year. Think Herro really needs an offseason away from the bullshit and learn how to be a professional.
Sad thing is he really improved his mid range game during the season but it hasn’t been there at all this series
But while we survived with crowder and then Ariza at the 4, we need a legit 4 and idk if we can count on the development of precious and KZ to solve that
sometimes we forget how young these guys are. We all want them to just be stars already (myself included) but maybe it will take them a few years to become consistent and not so streaky, but the mentality in the lockeroom has to change that's for sure and that's from the top down. Losing to ATL when half their roster is out, Minn, Chicago, Orlando at the start of every fucking season can't happen. So maybe getting embarrassed like they are changes that bec last year they didnt have the bad losses.
Yea, KZ has been a disappointment. Hard to say that about a 2nd round pick, but he was getting all this buzz from his time on the practice court and none of it really translated. The buttons they pressed this year really didn't work. Regroup in the offseason and go from there.