Derrick Rose tore his ACL on a non-contact play at the end of a playoff game in 2012 with 1:30 remaining in the game when the Bulls were up by 12 points. By all means, Thibs should have taken him out of the game. I think that’s close enough.
Jalen Brunson had a pretty bad injury a couple months ago with 20 seconds left in garbage time. These things happen.
With a minute and twenty seconds left you’ve still got a chance to win. With 35 seconds you don’t. Tonight it was garbage time, in that Chicago game it was not.
Blazers Remix got to show their full court press! It didn't work, and they gave up a 3. Then Toumani had a grunty drive and shanked a 12 foot flipper. Followed by Denver dribbling the clock out. It sets the stage for next game... just in case the Blazers can't hang in there by 10 on Sunday.
Guys play much harder in playoff games. This was not a playoff game—and there was no chance to win with only 35 seconds left.
It was a non-contact play. It was the end of the game. Philly had already thrown in the towel by putting in their bench.
we got comfortable with wins.
next step that absolutely HAS to happen is to play him completely on the ball. offense looks tangibly better when he initiates it compared to Ant or Brog. his pass first mentality will allow us to play much faster than we are right now. (another indication of why malcolm has to be traded next week).
No, Einstein, you leave them in because the game is out of reach and you know they’re not going to injure themselves trying to make a play—and because giving the bench 35 seconds of meaningless court time isn’t worth doing.
And yet Portland played their starters in most of the games they tanked the last two years. Odd. You’d think if you were trying to lose games you wouldn’t take a chance on injuring your starters.
that old Volvo is still running after the mega RV jump. Those little wagons are beasts.Scoot Wagon taking out all defenders.
If you're tanking first you don't want to get caught. Do you follow the NBA at all?
The "High" life?
I tried to get the Mods to change the name to "Bust-a-Scoot" but they won't do it unless we pony up. This inflation thing is out of control.
Well, it’s obvious you don’t. If all of us on this board know the Blazers were tanking the last two years, the commissioner of the NBA surely knows it.
Scoot had 12 of the Blazers 30 free throws and made 11 of them.
