I guess Giannis never heard of Dame time. I know he's a superstar himself, but he's gotta know who to look for at that point in the game....Especially after he just hit a big shot.
None of the Grizzlies have really been impressive, but Edey has been especially ineffective. He's not really affecting the game in any kind of way. He's not even rebounding well which is like the bare minimum he should be doing.
So do we discuss the playoffs in the 2025 NBA playoffs discussion thread or in the other threads or in maybe a future thread that op creates? @Jontro pls help & confirm
I want more physicality. These Rockets kids & Udoka got Kerr crying, Draymond crying, Finch crying, Van Gundy crying, national media crying But when Draymond for the last 10 years has been kicking, stomping, punching, eye gouging, didn’t hear a peep about “physicality” and “player safety”. To Minnesota Timberwolves coach Chris Finch, the physicality in the postseason is out of control. "If you look around the playoffs right now, I mean, it's super physical," Finch told reporters Thursday. "To me, they've gone way too far on the physicality." Finch stressed that he was not complaining about the way the series between the Timberwolves and the Los Angeles Lakers, in particular, had been reffed. He was making a point about the type of contact that has been allowed in general. "It feels like it's physicality without purpose," Finch said. "It's disrupted the flow. If there's not a fight in that Houston–Golden State series, I'd be surprised. I mean, that thing just feels like it's on the edge every single time. You play 82 games in a certain way and then they flip the switch, and I do worry about the ability to be able to control that. But that's what they want, and that's what we're getting right now." He continued: "My problem with right now is it just feels out of context. It feels like it's not the right type of physicality that we're trying to kind of integrate into our game. But we'll just have to kind of keep working through it." In the Warriors-Rockets series, Finch mentioned that the contact taking place on an average possession has been startling, and it has led to several altercations between players. After one uncalled foul in Game 2, TNT analyst Stan Van Gundy said on the broadcast, "Boy, I really wish we could have guarded like this when I had to coach against Steph Curry. [Alperen Sengun] just put his left arm around his hip on that play and took him down. I go back to [when Kentavious Caldwell-Pope] used to have to guard him, and KCP was great on him, but, if he could have done this, it would have been a lot easier." That series has been particularly physical -- and chippy -- but you can find similar stuff in just about every game that has been played. This is primarily an aesthetic issue (what happened to freedom of movement?) at the moment, but, if it's not addressed, it could quickly turn into a player-safety issue.
Hahaha so for years people have clamored for more physicality, especially the old heads, and now suddenly it’s a problem?!!! Talk about irony. I never wanna hear another bring back defense argument from these people if they are seriously going to pursue this route and try to make an example out of the Rockets. Where was this nonsense when Draymond, Zaza, Bogut and the Warrios were mucking up the play-offs? **** all of them.
Media shilling for the Warriors per usual. Some of the Ringers guy said they were rooting for Curry and the Warriors before the series even started. They hate when they can't see Curry shoot his 3s. It's why no one acknowledges the refs blatantly snatching victory our the Rockets hands in the 2018 series. They just want to see their beloved Disney protagonist make it to the end.
For me, it isn't the physicality so much as the ridiculous number of altercations. When a guy escalates something with another player after the whistle (in the name of being "chippy"), he should get a tech. The extracurricular stuff is way out of control and I'm sick of it! Just play physical basketball and get on with it! Confine the physicality to live action, not blustery nonsense that disrupts gameplay and momentum. Bottom line: I'm not calling for more foul calls; I want more technicals to stop the "acting the fool" stuff.
They are all panzies and every physical act reviewed is also adding to the issue. To me the grabbing is out of control though. Just stop touching each other. It’s contact and physical, but soft, not actual rough at all.
