NBA Playoffs Season 2014-2015

[Who]

Only halfway through the 2nd quarter. It's been a hour already since game started.

Edit: 12 minutes since I first made this post. Only a minute and a half of game clock has gone in those 12 minutes. Middle of 2nd quarter. Unreal.

Edit: DeAndre about to take his 25th FTA of the half. Shaq has all time record for a playoff game with 27 in one half. The record for a full game is also owned by Shaq with 39 against Indy in the Finals.

[mahonedog88]

This fouling thing the Rockets are doing to Jordan right now is unreal

[Sievers81]

This series is just awful to watch, and not just for the whole hack-a-Jordan.

[Who]

Everybody has gone cold from all the standing around at the FT line.

[Who]

Delighted to see LAC go on a run to end the half after all that hack-a-DeAndre.

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

Everybody has gone cold from all the standing around at the FT line.

I don't get it, are these teams blind to facts? I don't remember the exact numbers but when team foul DJ 20+ times the Clips are pretty unbeatable. It's like they don't care and they continue to lose. Sad.

[Who]

This is the record -- 28 free throws in one half for DeAndre Jordan. He only made 10.

[Who]

Everybody has gone cold from all the standing around at the FT line.

I don't get it, are these teams blind to facts? I don't remember the exact numbers but when team foul DJ 20+ times the Clips are pretty unbeatable. It's like they don't care and they continue to lose. Sad.

I don't think it works when you foul this much. I think it's been useful for the odd 3 minute spell to change up the rhythm of the game. I don't think you can do it continually throughout a game and expect good things. All that foul trouble is too problematic. Putting your own team in the penalty for the remainder of quarter. Taking rhythm of the game away from your own team.

I think this type of fouling backfires far more often than it works.

[PhoSita]

Can we just have both of these teams lose?  Nobody wants to watch 80 free throws a game.

[jpotter33]

Shaq is a little sensitive about this lol

[Rondo9]

10/28 for Jordan seriously?!?!?!?!?!? I'm sorry I don't care how good of defensive center he is, I'm leaning towards staying away from him this summer.

That out of the way, what a terrible day for the NBA. Both games to be exact.

[e4e5sesame]

Everybody has gone cold from all the standing around at the FT line.

I don't get it, are these teams blind to facts? I don't remember the exact numbers but when team foul DJ 20+ times the Clips are pretty unbeatable. It's like they don't care and they continue to lose. Sad.

Yeah, the facts are pretty strongly against the strategy (I think the commentators just said the Clippers are 18-2 this season when teams hack DJ). But to be fair, they're the kind of facts that are really hard to accept when the guy shoots 10-28. That an offensive rating of 71.4!

But the trap that teams are falling into is comparing offensive efficiency in a Hack-a-Jordan game to offensive efficiency in a regular NBA game. Rhythm is the issue. If you could actually execute your own offense through all of the stoppages, the strategy would be absolutely dominant. But teams just aren't able to do that.

They need to start comparing the Clippers' Hack-a-Jordan offensive efficiency to their own team's Hack-a-Jordan offensive efficiency. I think if they did this, they would recognise pretty quickly that the strategy is self-defeating.

[Sievers81]

Bye Rockets, you've been a horrible team to watch all year. This is a dreadful series.

[BudweiserCeltic]

With how the Rockets are being embarrassed, I'm thinking Kevin McHale is getting fired after this one if they don't win the series.

[Endless Paradise]

This is an asswhooping of insane proportions.