Celtics take 3-2 lead.
Following from thisCan Westbrook + anyone contend for a title ?
Isn't a team with anyone as ball dominant as Westbrook severely limited ?
Well, in the last 5 years, OKC have been WCF finalists thrice, and NBA finalists once.Can Westbrook + anyone contend for a title ?
Isn't a team with anyone as ball dominant as Westbrook severely limited ?
Durant, Westbrook and Harden were 23, 22 and 22 respectively in 2011-12. Unlike in football, the prime period for an NBA athlete seems to be age 27-32.
Harden at that point was merely a promising young 6th man.
A team that young was never going to beat Lebron, Wade and Bosh in their prime.
IMO their team last year was better than that in 2011-12, with both Durant and Westbrook in their primes.
They also had to trade Harden - they were never gonna be able to keep all 3 of those together, and they went with Ibaka (rim protector) over Harden
Couldn't they have paid the luxury tax and kept him ?
I think Dmishra is selling Harden a bit short in his description of him and whilst he definitely wasn't what he is now he was still very good and was expected to improve.
Isiah Thomas with two big games has the Celtics 2 up on the Wiz.
53 points last night. You have to respect a 5'9 guy that can do that - never mind under his present circumstances.
The Warriors beat the Jazz - the reports say doing so whilst Durant's shooting was off and Curry only played 3 quarters.
Sounds like Warriors- Jazz will be a dull series and totally not worth going to see.
Hilarious conspiracy theory going around in the NBA around the Morris twins.
Markieff Morris who plays for the Wizards got an ankle injury in Game 1 against the Celtics, but was back in action in Game 2 seemingly without any sign of an injury.
Conspiracy is that it's his identical twin Marcus (who plays for Detroit) who's been suiting up for the Wizards 😀.
Here's a picture. They even have identical tattoos. The only difference is that Marcus is about half an inch shorter. Apparently, they used to swap places regularly when they were in school.