Shoulda, coulda, woulda...didn't, can't, won't. I believe another poster predicted a Denver slaughter of Portland on Jokic's broad but doughy shoulders. Cine mi se, Portland je najbolje.
That's kind of the point. FIGHT but possibly a slap fight.
You're one of like 4 people who actually watches the games. It seems the ones with some of the strongest opinions don't even watch or like the NBA.
He's a poor man's Harden, great regular season player - drops off a cliff every year in postseason. But he's first and foremost a great defender, so evaluating him purely on his offensive output isn't fair. Yet equally matchup wise in the postseason you often see bigger guards and both his offense and D suffers. VanVleet was equally useless last night.
Really. Really, really poor man's Harden. I get your point how they both fall off during the playoffs but as a player Lowry should never be mentioned anywhere near Harden. They both play in the NBA and they both perform worse in the playoffs, their only similarities.
All true, he had 2 years of all-star quality play and stats, maybe 3rd team NBA-ish in 15-16, 16-17 and somehow, present company included we've collectively extended that to who he is. Turns out that was the anomaly and he's closer to his career averages 14ppg, 6 assist, 2.3 TO, 1.4 steals, 47% FG, 36% 3pt, yawn.
He has as many free throw attempts as the entire Celtics team, and half of them came on gift calls. And that’s without mentioning how many egregious travels he gets away with, even by NBA standards.
Yeah, I never said the officiating was the difference.
