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Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #270 on: January 29, 2018, 11:26:22 PM »

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Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #271 on: January 29, 2018, 11:26:51 PM »

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2-2 on the road trip after that melt down, give away game to the Lakers to open the road trip is about all that could be expected. 

Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #272 on: January 29, 2018, 11:27:34 PM »

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Sometimes i truly wonder how the C's are ranked as high defensively as they are. They look like amateurs a lot of the time.

I wonder that too. If the Cs are the best defensive team, that's not saying much for the rest of the league.

And why the heck did Kyrie shoot the ball with 7 seconds left? Why not milk the clock and make Denver foul?

He got a good look by creating separation.  I have no problem with his shot plus if he held the ball just to milk the clocks it might have occurred to the Nuggets to call a TO to advance the ball and maybe they get a better shot.
When you're up by 1 with 17 seconds to go, there isn't a shot you can take than 2 free throws whenever they decide it's time to foul you. That didn't make any sense.
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Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #273 on: January 29, 2018, 11:29:03 PM »

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The kid (Tatum) got his courage back and man I have to say that Theis is outplaying Baynes consistently. Much needed win.

Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #274 on: January 29, 2018, 11:29:35 PM »

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Sometimes i truly wonder how the C's are ranked as high defensively as they are. They look like amateurs a lot of the time.

I wonder that too. If the Cs are the best defensive team, that's not saying much for the rest of the league.

And why the heck did Kyrie shoot the ball with 7 seconds left? Why not milk the clock and make Denver foul?

He got a good look by creating separation.  I have no problem with his shot plus if he held the ball just to milk the clocks it might have occurred to the Nuggets to call a TO to advance the ball and maybe they get a better shot.
When you're up by 1 with 17 seconds to go, there isn't a shot you can take than 2 free throws whenever they decide it's time to foul you. That didn't make any sense.

No reason for Denver to foul. He holds the ball and risks a shot clock violation, they get it back with 4 or 5 seconds left.
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Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #275 on: January 29, 2018, 11:29:54 PM »

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The kid (Tatum) got his courage back and man I have to say that Theis is outplaying Baynes consistently. Much needed win.
Tatum looked fantastic. That's more like it
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Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #276 on: January 29, 2018, 11:30:15 PM »

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Sometimes i truly wonder how the C's are ranked as high defensively as they are. They look like amateurs a lot of the time.

I wonder that too. If the Cs are the best defensive team, that's not saying much for the rest of the league.

And why the heck did Kyrie shoot the ball with 7 seconds left? Why not milk the clock and make Denver foul?

I have no idea.  Was the shot clock off?

Boston got the ball with 17 seconds left and a 1-point lead. Seems like Boston would've just held the ball and forced Denver to foul, unless they had an obvious easy shot opportunity. But Kyrie took a shot with 7 seconds left. Weird.
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Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #277 on: January 29, 2018, 11:32:05 PM »

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Sometimes i truly wonder how the C's are ranked as high defensively as they are. They look like amateurs a lot of the time.

I wonder that too. If the Cs are the best defensive team, that's not saying much for the rest of the league.

And why the heck did Kyrie shoot the ball with 7 seconds left? Why not milk the clock and make Denver foul?

He got a good look by creating separation.  I have no problem with his shot plus if he held the ball just to milk the clocks it might have occurred to the Nuggets to call a TO to advance the ball and maybe they get a better shot.
When you're up by 1 with 17 seconds to go, there isn't a shot you can take than 2 free throws whenever they decide it's time to foul you. That didn't make any sense.

But they weren't fouling and instead played straight up defense knowing they were going to get the ball back with some time on the clock.  If they wanted to foul, they would have done so before Kyrie touched the ball.

Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #278 on: January 29, 2018, 11:32:50 PM »

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Sometimes i truly wonder how the C's are ranked as high defensively as they are. They look like amateurs a lot of the time.

Agree and then it's more likely they call the TO and advance the ball past half court.

I wonder that too. If the Cs are the best defensive team, that's not saying much for the rest of the league.

And why the heck did Kyrie shoot the ball with 7 seconds left? Why not milk the clock and make Denver foul?

He got a good look by creating separation.  I have no problem with his shot plus if he held the ball just to milk the clocks it might have occurred to the Nuggets to call a TO to advance the ball and maybe they get a better shot.
When you're up by 1 with 17 seconds to go, there isn't a shot you can take than 2 free throws whenever they decide it's time to foul you. That didn't make any sense.

No reason for Denver to foul. He holds the ball and risks a shot clock violation, they get it back with 4 or 5 seconds left.

Agree plus Denver would have called the TO, advance the ball into the front court and maybe gotten a better shot down only 1.

Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #279 on: January 29, 2018, 11:33:36 PM »

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Sometimes i truly wonder how the C's are ranked as high defensively as they are. They look like amateurs a lot of the time.

I wonder that too. If the Cs are the best defensive team, that's not saying much for the rest of the league.

And why the heck did Kyrie shoot the ball with 7 seconds left? Why not milk the clock and make Denver foul?

He got a good look by creating separation.  I have no problem with his shot plus if he held the ball just to milk the clocks it might have occurred to the Nuggets to call a TO to advance the ball and maybe they get a better shot.
When you're up by 1 with 17 seconds to go, there isn't a shot you can take than 2 free throws whenever they decide it's time to foul you. That didn't make any sense.

No reason for Denver to foul. He holds the ball and risks a shot clock violation, they get it back with 4 or 5 seconds left.
What shot clock violation? There were 17 seconds on the clock and the shot clock was off.
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Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #280 on: January 29, 2018, 11:34:52 PM »

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Sometimes i truly wonder how the C's are ranked as high defensively as they are. They look like amateurs a lot of the time.

I wonder that too. If the Cs are the best defensive team, that's not saying much for the rest of the league.

And why the heck did Kyrie shoot the ball with 7 seconds left? Why not milk the clock and make Denver foul?

He got a good look by creating separation.  I have no problem with his shot plus if he held the ball just to milk the clocks it might have occurred to the Nuggets to call a TO to advance the ball and maybe they get a better shot.
When you're up by 1 with 17 seconds to go, there isn't a shot you can take than 2 free throws whenever they decide it's time to foul you. That didn't make any sense.

No reason for Denver to foul. He holds the ball and risks a shot clock violation, they get it back with 4 or 5 seconds left.

Now I see the problem—I thought Boston got the ball with 17 seconds left, but they got it a few seconds before that, then just called timeout at 17 seconds, so Kyrie did need to shoot with some time left on the clock.
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Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #281 on: January 29, 2018, 11:34:58 PM »

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Kyrie got his teammates a lot of open shots tonight. He is getting a better feel for when to take it and when not to.

If he could get a few more calls and we hit a few more shots his numbers would be ridiculous.

Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #282 on: January 29, 2018, 11:36:02 PM »

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Sometimes i truly wonder how the C's are ranked as high defensively as they are. They look like amateurs a lot of the time.


I wonder that too. If the Cs are the best defensive team, that's not saying much for the rest of the league.

And why the heck did Kyrie shoot the ball with 7 seconds left? Why not milk the clock and make Denver foul?

He got a good look by creating separation.  I have no problem with his shot plus if he held the ball just to milk the clocks it might have occurred to the Nuggets to call a TO to advance the ball and maybe they get a better shot.
When you're up by 1 with 17 seconds to go, there isn't a shot you can take than 2 free throws whenever they decide it's time to foul you. That didn't make any sense.

No reason for Denver to foul. He holds the ball and risks a shot clock violation, they get it back with 4 or 5 seconds left.
What shot clock violation? There were 17 seconds on the clock and the shot clock was off.

C's got the ball back with I think 28 secs on the clock so the shot clock was still on.

Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #283 on: January 29, 2018, 11:36:43 PM »

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Sometimes i truly wonder how the C's are ranked as high defensively as they are. They look like amateurs a lot of the time.

I wonder that too. If the Cs are the best defensive team, that's not saying much for the rest of the league.

And why the heck did Kyrie shoot the ball with 7 seconds left? Why not milk the clock and make Denver foul?

He got a good look by creating separation.  I have no problem with his shot plus if he held the ball just to milk the clocks it might have occurred to the Nuggets to call a TO to advance the ball and maybe they get a better shot.
When you're up by 1 with 17 seconds to go, there isn't a shot you can take than 2 free throws whenever they decide it's time to foul you. That didn't make any sense.

No reason for Denver to foul. He holds the ball and risks a shot clock violation, they get it back with 4 or 5 seconds left.
What shot clock violation? There were 17 seconds on the clock and the shot clock was off.
Shot clock wasn't turned off.

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Re: Celtics (35-15) at Nuggets (26-23) Game #51 1/29/18
« Reply #284 on: January 29, 2018, 11:37:47 PM »

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Sometimes i truly wonder how the C's are ranked as high defensively as they are. They look like amateurs a lot of the time.


I wonder that too. If the Cs are the best defensive team, that's not saying much for the rest of the league.

And why the heck did Kyrie shoot the ball with 7 seconds left? Why not milk the clock and make Denver foul?

He got a good look by creating separation.  I have no problem with his shot plus if he held the ball just to milk the clocks it might have occurred to the Nuggets to call a TO to advance the ball and maybe they get a better shot.
When you're up by 1 with 17 seconds to go, there isn't a shot you can take than 2 free throws whenever they decide it's time to foul you. That didn't make any sense.

No reason for Denver to foul. He holds the ball and risks a shot clock violation, they get it back with 4 or 5 seconds left.
What shot clock violation? There were 17 seconds on the clock and the shot clock was off.

C's got the ball back with I think 28 secs on the clock so the shot clock was still on.
That makes more sense.
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