Utah is up 4 with 4 1/2 minutes to go. If the Jazz hold on and the Rockets win out, they're guaranteed home court in Round 1. Cuz either the Grizzlies or Clippers have to lose tomorrow night.
History will repeat itself without major changes. Get ready for all other 29 teams to do the same hack-a-dummy-who-cant-even-shoot-50%-from-the-charity-line.
McHale is going to have to figure out how to rotate his bigs to minimize the hack-a-Rocket. Dorsey pretty much can't play at the end of quarters. Smith has to improve or else he's iffy for end of quarters. Dwight should be fine. I don't think the hack-a-Dwight is really all that efficient the way he was hitting them in last year's playoffs. Smith has to up his game at the free throw line.
Lets look at the facts here. When they started hacking it was tied and they continued to do it after they had gained a lead and by the time they stopped it the game was tied. Tim Duncan is shooting 74% on the season and 70% for his career. It makes no sense to employ the hack a strategy to someone that good, I don't care if he was 3-6 at the time. Would I have brought in TJ or Dwight in sooner? Yes But it was right to not hack Duncan and the strategy even with Smiths poor shooting end up being for naught. Main problem was Harden missing like 3-4 shots at the rim early, WAY too many turnovers and some bad defense. We should have lost by way more than 1.
Yes, everything is still in play. 4 teams are tied at 26 losses. Mem plays LAC tomorrow and then GSW, if they drop the UTA game...welel lets see what happens. LAC only tough game left is against Memphis. We have two tough games left in NOP and UTA.
Some people really need to calm down and check the facts. Josh is shooting 4-9, with 0-3 on 3s and shooting 12-26 on FT. That's 44.4% on FG, 0% on 3, and 46% on FT. Its not as bad as you think. Even our offense got completely disrupted, we were shooting 47% on FG as a team only. The tactic did not really helped the Spurs to get the win, the Rox played poorly in the second half also.
The funny thing is the Spurs were in serious foul trouble there at the end. If the game goes to overtime it would have been very problematic for them.
Or after you are on the bonus the player who gets fouls odd the ball can chose to take the Fts or keep playing. Fouls suppose to be a punishment for not playing good defense, not a strategy.
getting 1 fingertip that bends back means you've applied virtually no force to the ball, an example was that out of bounds in the ncaa title game, you could see the finger tip do that, but it does virtually nothing. The shot shanking, is the hand coming down on the arm
The D-Mo injury obviously threw a wrench into things(although he was a sub-60% free throw shooter himself). But this is on Morey to get rid of anyone next season who can't shoot at least 55% from the foul line. That means Dorsey has to go. Even Smith is expendable if he has anymore games like this. You cannot have Dorsey, Smith, Capela, D-Mo, T-Jones, and Dwight all on the same team with the way they all struggle at the foul line.
yeah, it's not the priority anymore. Being able to get out of Round 1 is. So now the more favorable match-up for us is not solely dependent on us.
Lol. Again, that will do nothing. Have you ever wrote an essay and barely made a mistake but writing a sentence with your boss looking over your shoulder and suddenly you have parkinsons.
It doesn't really work because guys usually get in a rhythm. I agree, I don't think the FTs hurt us that much. People will say Smith should have made those but if he starts to make the FTs then the Spurs will simply stop fouling him and who knows what happens then.
