05-27-2024, 04:36 PM
(05-27-2024, 04:30 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: I'd like to thank most of you (a couple of exceptions in the game thread) for not saying too many stupid things about Powell last night. The proper response to what happened is "wow, we had to play our 4th string center 8 minutes last night and survived that with a -1 during that time". In fact, Powell was inserted while things were falling apart as Edwards went crazy and Dallas immediately went on a 6-0 run. Could he have been inserted at a scarier time in last night's game?
I noticed on Discord they had a self-congratulatory circle jerk earlier today about how they always knew Powell sucked and anyone who ever said otherwise is an idiot.
Yeah, he missed a bunny, but he had two really nice defensive plays (one was wrongly called a foul). He also gave up some buckets (a sin that is somehow more egregious for Powell than it is when it happens to anyone else). But, we survived his minutes and that is all you can hope for when you go beyond your main playoff rotation. They don't give style points in the real world and the scoreboard doesn't care about eye tests. You either outscore the other team or you don't and in the minutes played by our 4th string center we only lost a point and lived to finish the rest of the game.
Let’s hope he has the game of his life tomorrow and we get a good 16 minutes out of him.
I‘m thinking Minnesota could have gone small in game 4 and benched Gobert, just to try something new and get KAT going on the block. But maybe they‘ll stay big now because they think they can dominate without Lively and we have a chance to send them home from the perimeter.