- Paul Pierce plays his last game in Boston, this time as an aged LA Clipper. They even let him shoot an open 3, which he made, and the crowd went absolutely bonkers (2nd link): https://sports.yahoo.com/news/celtics-g ... --nba.html
- Heat release Derrick Williams. Should the Suns sign the local college star to a 10-day?
Cap wrote:Wow, that stat about the Suns having only two "non-clutch" wins all season is remarkable.
Even when we did have a lead, we lost it in the last few minutes. We are the proverbial "they'll let you back in no matter how far ahead they are" team. I would normally chalk that up to having such a young team. But we play our vets a LOT, and it doesn't help. We need to give it up and turn the kids loose, and let them take their lumps. Playing the vets isn't helping us not be a young/dumb team.
Cap wrote:Wow, that stat about the Suns having only two "non-clutch" wins all season is remarkable.
Even when we did have a lead, we lost it in the last few minutes. We are the proverbial "they'll let you back in no matter how far ahead they are" team. I would normally chalk that up to having such a young team. But we play our vets a LOT, and it doesn't help. We need to give it up and turn the kids loose, and let them take their lumps. Playing the vets isn't helping us not be a young/dumb team.
It's the mixture of vets and young 'uns that's doing it. Either way, it's a learning experience for them. Yeah, if you want the most ping pong balls, dump the veterans. But there is something to be said from learning from experience and seeing it on the court along side you.
"Too little, too late, too unbothered."
- Phoenix Suns 2023-2024 season motto.
"When we all think alike, nobody is thinking" - Walter Lippmann "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." ~ Frederick Douglass
Not sure of the protection (I would say definitely lottery for nxt two years), but Philly getting a 1st for okafor when teams know they are desperately trying to trade him would be a nice get for Bryan. Heard he's trying to get Jrue holiday in the deal as well. I'm not an okafor fan btw, he is such a liability on D..
“Kobe had said (after the play) I wasn’t hugged enough as a child,” Bell recalled. “My mom kind of found him after the instance and we had beat them and offered him a hug in the bowels of the Phoenix arena. She really feels a part of that story.”
I live in Philly so I've seen it first hand. He's become a punching bag of sorts around here
“Kobe had said (after the play) I wasn’t hugged enough as a child,” Bell recalled. “My mom kind of found him after the instance and we had beat them and offered him a hug in the bowels of the Phoenix arena. She really feels a part of that story.”
Davis can cover up a lot of Okafors defensive issues. Not sure how it will work out, but new Orleans needs to do something. It seems to make sense in theory, we'll see how it works on the court
Okafor seems to me like another Al Jefferson, an offense-only paint-planted big man. Such guys sometimes have value, but in today's NBA it seems like they are the odd men out in most of the uptempo offenses. And guys who can't defend are always a liability to some degree. Not a big Okafor fan except in the vague sense that he's an "asset."
Crazy finish to regulation in the Cavs/Wizards game. Lebron blatantly travelled on a drive to the hoop (no call of course) but somehow blew the open layup. But then with 0.3 on the clock he hit a ridiculous fadeaway 3-pointed to send the game into OT. It's been a high quality entertaining game
I am still completely amazed that Westbrook is averaging a triple double half-way through the season, while also keeping OKC in the playoff hunt without anyone else on his team.
They've been trying to keep him at PF. They gave Asik a fairly big deal and even signed Ajinca to make sure he doesn't have to play C. Gentry is starting him with Jones and Hill in the front court right now though so he's playing C anyway.
