Why is Lonzo helping in the paint and not walling off his man in the corner? 2 don’t beat you man, three sends it into OT. Pelicans about to lose in OT. Bone-headed play.
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New York could be this season’s Miami Heat. The dark horse team nobody picked to do anything at all, including make the playoffs as a top 6 seed, and could do some real damage to teams with better “talent”. Talent does not win playoff series, in my opinion, grit and hard work win playoff series. Talent can win you a game here or there but not a series, not when a team defends like the Knicks do. I still have Philly coming out of the east but these Knickerbockers aren’t fools gold. They’re a couple solid role players or a dynamic PG away from being a top team in the east. Randle has arrived and the NBA never saw it coming. Happy for the young man, wish we had gotten, oh, anything at all for him. C’est la vie. respect the work.
Also, KD just signed off on the rest of today’s game with a thigh bruise.
Some might wonder why I don’t respect the talent on Brooklyn. Well, it’s simple. That talent has barely played together at all which is the exact reason why I call them this season’s Clippers. the Clippers were supposed to be the best in the west, had all the right ingredients: better wing talent, guys who could guard our guys, shooters and scorers aplenty and so on. The thing is they ended up barely playing together so when the chips got down, when someone punched them in the mouth all that talent didn’t know what to do. Paul looked at Kawhi, Lou looked at Pat, Pat yelled at an invisible rock he didn’t like, Doc looked at Steve, Steve looked at Zubac. Zubac wondered why he wasn’t passed the ball every time down. There was zero cohesion, zero trust, zero ability to punch back as a team just a bunch of tiny, inconsequential jabs from the weak hand. That’s how I think it’ll go down for the Nets this year. They’ll face off against a team that punches you in the mouth whether it’s the real team from New York, the Heat, Philly or even Milwaukee (who plays A LOT more physical than the Nets want) there will come a time where they look down at their bloody lip and wonder what to do while they lose a series. You want to win? You have to have some kind of on-court chemistry forged by losses or tough victories. Can’t be imagined or coached into a team. Can’t be spoken into existence LaVar Ball style. It has to be forged in fire.
I hate players helping while defending a player in the corner. I would rather they always stayed with their man. If they can really help on the driver, they’ve already lost the game by leaving their man open in the corner. Give up 2 rather than 3. Don’t leave an open shooter in the corner. Period. Although I thought Lonzo did a pretty good job contesting. Just too easy a shot to hit.
Agreed on Lonzo, Jamie. He got caught in no man’s land and D Rose made him look silly on the drive and kick.
Lonzo’s error was bad but hearing Bledsoe’s post game comments where he said “I wasn’t paying attention and lost focus” are all you need to know to understand why he ain’t in Milwaukee anymore.