chokelahoma shitty* blunder

They both made the finals last year, that means they’re both really good teams, right?

Way rockets been playing against under 500 teams they’d probably beat us as well …

By transitive property, that means we won the championship.

I think it was meant to go back to LaMelo but Sexton pulled the trigger too early without a rebounder down there to get a putback. Not making the rim would’ve fucked them even if they did have one.

The airball may have been about Quenton Jackson getting a fingertip on it as it went up.

QJax just generally played Sexton off the court tonight. Surprised me, and I’m a QJax believer

this was supposed to be an easy win for the hornets and they blew it. Lamelo is a great scorer and disher, but he makes some really boneheaded decisions sometimes

Eric Collins is our MVP every season. He makes watching the games fun even tho we don’t win much lol

Haha yeah I caught that as well. Fucking hilarious

Blow out the team in 1st place and lose to the team in 30th. Really fun to watch as you don’t know what can happen

He is insanely good at his job

Back to back brutal losses for Charlotte. First to the Raptors and then to a beloved former Raptor.

Your average Hornets game. I ain’t sayin we lost because of it, but they clearly butt fucked us there and tossed BMilly because he hurt a zebras feelings after said zebra hosed us a couple possessions in a row. Still should have won, but fuck a zebra

There was about 0.5 seconds between the basket and your player’s inbound attempt. Putting that on the officials is some lame shit. That is 100% just searching for someone else to blame for your own team’s fuckup.

Congrats! 🎉

And we’re that masochists who continue to tune in

well they do this thing where they dont stop game flow and just look at it later and take away the points

They took the 3 off the board at the next stoppage. They do it all the time with end of buzzer shots.

It was reviewed and disallowed, and the rule is .3 seconds can be a catch and shoot (if it’s fast enough).

Under .3 seconds cannot be caught, tip only.

Second only to every other game tying attempt we’ve had this season

It’s scheme - I hate these type of narratives.  Turner (and the other pacers centers) are instructed to help protect the rim rather than box out.   That’s why they have high block numbers and low rebound numbers.

Now, granted, Turner and Huff are not great rebounders.  But similarly to how OKC schemed to have Adams box out so Russ could get the rebounds and push, the Pacers bigs are required to protect the rim.

Some bigs (Andre Drummond) are notorious for getting a lot rebounds but getting them not in the context of winning basketball, but rather to get bigger numbers to get bigger contracts. 

There is no doubt in my mind that Turner and Huff could average 8+ rebounds a game if they were instructed to box out rather than rim protect.

But that would be limiting their defensive strengths.  Which is why the Pacers sought out these types of players.

I’ve watched thousands of Miles Turner games and tldr it’s very hard to get the rebound of a shot that was only missed because he had to slide over and help protect the rim, as his coach instructs him to do.

But yeah I’ve also watched bigs like Jalen Duren eat his lunch.

He didn’t throw the inbound pass + the coach clearly called the TO immediately and the refs refused to ref. No argument on the lob - he also carried the team on his back all game

The game wouldn’t have even been close if he didn’t carry….

I knew they’d lose when he threw that oop

Ugly final quarter after an excellent first three

I knew they’d lose when he threw that oop

Wide open too. This is why I wouldn’t take him on my team no matter the price. Dude is just stupid

Obviously wasn’t the play, Lamelo had a 1 on 1

Pacers were doing fine with Miller there.

Yea basically, 2nd night of a B2B