NBA Season 2024-25

[Who]

LeBron has a hitch on couple of those 3 point shot tonight. Never looked like they were going in.

[Who]

Great hustle by DFS

[Who]

Where was the foul?

That is not a foul. That is ridiculous. Clean play. Accidental contact with the arm / hand when he is coming down. Ridiculous call.

[Who]

LeBron's rebounding has been outstanding tonight.

[Who]

Huge hoop by LeBron off the steal.

2 huge turnovers by Minnesota. Back to back. It was a 9pt game. They could have cut it to 4-5pts without those 2 turnovers. Instead it is an 11pt game.

Make that 4 straight turnovers. Jeez.

[blink]

that was some gawd awful basketball in the 4th from both teams.  Lakers missing shot after shot just giving Minn a chance to come back but they couldn't hit anything either.   

[Who]

Todd Whitehead: Kawhi Leonard scored 39 points on 19 FGA and 5 FTA last night (a 92% True Shooting percentage).

That's the 9th time he's scored 30+ on 80+ TS% in a playoff game ? more than any other player in NBA history.

[Birdman]

Lakers looking bad even thou they won, hopefully Minnesota win next 2 at home.Edwards want to be consider a top 5 player, it?s his time to prove it

[RMO]

Didn't see the game.  Did this feel like one of those situations where the team down 0-1 knew it was a must win and ramped up the effort while the other team seemed content getting one out of two on the road?

[Who]

Didn't see the game.  Did this feel like one of those situations where the team down 0-1 knew it was a must win and ramped up the effort while the other team seemed content getting one out of two on the road?

Lakers did not seem ready for Gm 1. Did not give a good account of themselves. Gm 2 they sorted themselves out and showed their actual level.

Minny played hard in Gm 2. They just didn't have enough players show up offensively. Randle and Ant did their thing but they got no help. McDaniels had a huge Gm 1. He was a no-show. Naz was a no-show. DiVincenzo was a no-show. Conley was a no-show. All those guys were important to their Gm 1 win. None showed up. They were trying hard. The ball just wasn't going in for them.

Conley has been bad most of the season. I thought they got lucky with his Gm 1 performance. They also got lucky with McDaniels. He has the odd game like that now and then. Afterwards he goes back to his usual levels. So this was expected. Naz and DiVincenzo were the bigger missing factors in Gm 2. Minnesota needs them. They are their 3rd and 4th best scorers. They should be back to their proper levels in the games ahead and Minny will be more competitive again.

Each team played 1 game where they did not give a good account of themselves. Lakers one was related to effort. I didn't think the Wolves one was. More just an off-night shooting wise / offensively for them.

[Amonkey]

Didn't see the game.  Did this feel like one of those situations where the team down 0-1 knew it was a must win and ramped up the effort while the other team seemed content getting one out of two on the road?

Lakers did not seem ready for Gm 1. Did not give a good account of themselves. Gm 2 they sorted themselves out and showed their actual level.

Minny played hard in Gm 2. They just didn't have enough players show up offensively. Randle and Ant did their thing but they got no help. McDaniels had a huge Gm 1. He was a no-show. Naz was a no-show. DiVincenzo was a no-show. Conley was a no-show. All those guys were important to their Gm 1 win. None showed up. They were trying hard. The ball just wasn't going in for them.

Conley has been bad most of the season. I thought they got lucky with his Gm 1 performance. They also got lucky with McDaniels. He has the odd game like that now and then. Afterwards he goes back to his usual levels. So this was expected. Naz and DiVincenzo were the bigger missing factors in Gm 2. Minnesota needs them. They are their 3rd and 4th best scorers. They should be back to their proper levels in the games ahead and Minny will be more competitive again.

Each team played 1 game where they did not give a good account of themselves. Lakers one was related to effort. I didn't think the Wolves one was. More just an off-night shooting wise / offensively for them.

I have to give credit to Conley for quietly having a great career as long as LeBron. Didn?t they play together in high school? I think he hasn?t been a top point guard, but has played a long time and been effective at that position.

[Who]

Didn't see the game.  Did this feel like one of those situations where the team down 0-1 knew it was a must win and ramped up the effort while the other team seemed content getting one out of two on the road?

Lakers did not seem ready for Gm 1. Did not give a good account of themselves. Gm 2 they sorted themselves out and showed their actual level.

Minny played hard in Gm 2. They just didn't have enough players show up offensively. Randle and Ant did their thing but they got no help. McDaniels had a huge Gm 1. He was a no-show. Naz was a no-show. DiVincenzo was a no-show. Conley was a no-show. All those guys were important to their Gm 1 win. None showed up. They were trying hard. The ball just wasn't going in for them.

Conley has been bad most of the season. I thought they got lucky with his Gm 1 performance. They also got lucky with McDaniels. He has the odd game like that now and then. Afterwards he goes back to his usual levels. So this was expected. Naz and DiVincenzo were the bigger missing factors in Gm 2. Minnesota needs them. They are their 3rd and 4th best scorers. They should be back to their proper levels in the games ahead and Minny will be more competitive again.

Each team played 1 game where they did not give a good account of themselves. Lakers one was related to effort. I didn't think the Wolves one was. More just an off-night shooting wise / offensively for them.

I have to give credit to Conley for quietly having a great career as long as LeBron. Didn?t they play together in high school? I think he hasn?t been a top point guard, but has played a long time and been effective at that position.

Conley played with Greg Oden in high school + college.

Great longevity. 18yrs as a small PG is tough to do. Other than Stockton, I am not sure anyone else has done that.

I love the way Conley plays. True floor general.

[Who]

Some Gobert defensive stats from first 2 games

you might want to consider the -16.6% defensive FG% differential he has on 17DFGA/g in the first round so far. He's actually been doing quite well.

Meantime, the Lakers are 7.2 points of ORTG worse than they were in the RS so far over the first two games in this series, and it's not like LA was killing it from the floor last night. Minny's problem was shooting 38% from the field, not their defense.

Wolves have 102 DRTG rating in these two games with Rudy on a court, and Gobert is defending opponents on 32.4 FG% so far.

Luka and bron was 1-8 on iso shot attempts on him.

Luka was 1-4 FGA for 2pts. LeBron 0-4 FGA. In Gm 2.

Mohamed
@mcfdraft

All Rudy Gobert isolation plays through 2 playoff games vs. Lakers.

When guarded by Gobert in isolation, opposing scorers are shooting only 41.7% (5-12 FG) from the field, per @SynergySST.

Lakers stars when guarded by Gobert this series:

Luka: 4-10
Reaves: 3-9
Lebron: 1-6

Gobert has played 53 playoff minutes and been off for 43. In those 53 minutes the lakers are scoring 102.1 points per 100. in the 43 off minutes the lakers are scoring 116.3

[Phantom255x]

All that talk about "Heat Culture". They've become a perennial play-in team that is essentially a first round bye for these #1 seeds lol. Fine, they made the Finals in 2023 thanks to Butler and some black magic (Caleb Martin, etc.). But yeah, Riley ain't looking like a genius now.

[Neurotic Guy]

All that talk about "Heat Culture". They've become a perennial play-in team that is essentially a first round bye for these #1 seeds lol. Fine, they made the Finals in 2023 thanks to Butler and some black magic (Caleb Martin, etc.). But yeah, Riley ain't looking like a genius now.

Maybe another league MVP manipulates their way onto the Heat to create a dominant Big Three.  Then Riley?s a genius again.