06-03-2021, 05:05 PM
(06-03-2021, 12:07 PM)HanspardsShowerVoice Wrote: I would probably attribute Kawhi getting tired on having to guard Luka a lot and carry a lot of the Clippers offense. He pretty much carried the team on his back coming back from 0-2 deficit. He's played over 40 minutes every game this series except 1, and coming off a grueling condensed regular season schedule. He's also accustomed to a lot of workload management. Definitely an interesting subplot going forward.
Not only Luka, but Kawhi who is an incredibly smart basketball player when you really watch him, realized that he and Paul George had to come down low sometimes and help the small ball centers and forwards.
The Clippers were many times all hands on deck to defend Boban & KP but also to gang rebound against those guys, hack them, push them, whatever it took.
Their small ball team is quite good, really good veterans and a nice talented youngster too but at times they were just too small to guard the Dallas Super Bigs 1v1 and rebound then turn around and battle Kleber, Powell and WCS coming in fresh off the bench!