01-19-2021, 04:45 AM
(01-19-2021, 02:10 AM)mavsluvr Wrote: This was a frustrating game, in the same sense that some other recent games have been. Almost every offensive possession is laborious, as the players grind and grind to get a score. Then, even if they get a stop, it seems like they can’t string much else together. They’ll give up an easy basket, or allow an offensive rebound, or turn the ball over, or something. They look a lot like a team that’s in the middle of a very tough schedule, that has never played with all of its main guys together, that has four guys out, another playing injured, and is compiled to a significant extent of third-stringers.
That´s exactly how watching this game feels.
We are as "good" as last years Hawks or GSW, but teams are still gameplaning against us like it is a playoff game and are playing with full effort from the start to the end.
We can hang around as long as things go right, but we are off as the opponent goes on a hot streak of shooting or the refs tag us with weak fouls. Then we need Luka to get Supernova just to get back in the game, but this costs him to much energy and we are even more fff...done.
The good thing is, we now know how much better J-Rich, DFS, Brunson, Kleber, Powell(yes I know he doesn´t have his full lift back(yet?)) and THJ are than just the next guy.