Russ will have to play G5. If he is not fine, he should be getting treatment, not jump up and down on the sideline. I was watching the TNT overtime feed close up. The late G4 missed threes were result of tired legs. Lot of arm measuring. It's so obvious. The driving to the rim is so open there, and yet we refuse to get to the cup. Draw, sucking defense, and kick. So intent. Cute, yes, but again tired legs. Russ would make the game really easy to finish off. I thought him play even 15 minutes today would help.
Here come the excuses. Funny how people think an overrated point guard who's jumper is worse than EG's is gonna magically save the series.
Tired? This is first round of the NBA playoffs and these guys had 3 months off...... This excuse worked the last 3 years but i'm not buying this now.
Tired my ass...give me 40m a year and let me have my 3 months off...I will run around in circle for 48 minutes straight
Harden 43 Minutes House 39 Minutes Tucker 38 Minutes Covington 34 Minutes Green 32 Minutes Gordon 31 Minutes Rivers 15 Minutes BMAC 9 minutes BMac could not get 3~5 more minutes? Rivers could not get another 5 minutes? Tucker would have had 45 minutes but he got hurt Rocket River
Lol. This is bad man. We had a 4 month second off-season and this is like probably the 5th week of being back playing.
The style of play and the team philosophy is all wrong. It is a fruitless strategy. We have seen that so many times in the playoffs the last few years and we are not learning from it. Morey has got to go. This chuck 3 philosophy doesn't work when you have an unreliable "star" like Harden
If you don't see the problem here, I don't have anything to say to you, and carry on. Our defense intensity dropped, our 3P shootig percetange dropped, and not driving to the rim. The FTA deficit is a ridiculour +15 to OKC in the G4. Everything is from the line. Dantoni not changing it or force it. Late in the game, they finally decided to drive, it was so easy but reverted back to 3P again. Mentally fatiqued. Russ has to play. If you don't agree with this, feel free to present your diagnosis.
So okc doesnt get tired? 50 year old cp3 doesnt get tired and just busts our cheeks in 2 games in a row?
if you take that many 3s you get tired, it's compounds if you have shooting 50 a game every game for the entire season
no disrespect OP, but I’m really not trying to hear this excuse They had how many months off? They played 8 seeding games, and now by just game 4 of the 1st round they’re tired? No, they’re stupid. The lack of valuing offensive possessions allowing this OKC team to stay in the game and eventually win it is inexcusable. This team is incredibly dumb and stubborn sometimes.
This is not TIRED as in long playoffs IT's tired as in intense game Dantoni basically ran Harden in the ground Did Hard even get any time off in the 4th We had a non Harden team that had a GREAT STRETCH in game 2 but Have they gotten any burn since? should have got some tonite!!! in the 4th!!! Rocket River
It could be also Okc pretty good, i mean think about it. They did win as many games as rockets and have beat some good teams.
they are not jacking up 50 threes a night for the whole season and they actually have more than a 6 man rotation
may be the fatal flaw of small ball. all that running around switching and rotating, battling for reboundswith bigs, and you have to have enough legs on the other end to shoot 50+ 3's? not to mention they try to do this with nonathletic players.
Playing damn near a 6 man rotation for a team that shoots a ton of jumpers and switches on defense is idiotic. It hasn't worked in the past and it will never work. Carroll should be able to play 10 min. They could give Chandler a few with no Russ. MDA just insists on running his guys into the ground. He even played them in a pointless last game of the season. He's an ass.