Wasn’t Chris Paul out for them too though? They kept winning until he got back.
yeah, every team they've played so far has been missing a star. and they've been healthy all playoffs aside from the two games paul missed
Pretty accurate.If we're playing the "oh so and so only won because of x, y and z" game we can do that for basically every team that's ever won lmao
Lakers only won because the Clippers choked and Miami was a weak finals opponent
Raptors only won because of GSW's injuries
Warriors only won because they had Kevin Durant and became the avengers
Cavs only won because Draymond's suspension, Curry not being 100%, and the West being much tougher
Warriors only won because of CLE's injuries
Spurs won because Wade was semi-ailing/played like shit
Heat won b2b because of Ray Allen saving their asses and OKC being too young/BOS being too old
Dallas won because Miami choked it all away handing it to Mavs
Lakers won b2b because of injuries to KG, Perkins, Yao, and T-Mac
The list can go on
He played through a pretty bad injury as well:
why did rondo fall out of the rotation? seems like he didn't play at all in the suns series?
I think it was mostly because while they played small ball they didn’t want to play TOO small ball and they obviously couldn’t take out Reggie and while Rondo is definitely a better offensive player than Bev, I’d say Bev is probably a better defensive player and has more versatility defensively. They were switching a lot on defense so having someone who can guard 1-3 and not be a liability against bigger guys was important.
makes sense. i think zubac going down was a blessing in disguise
Yes and no. I agree to an extent but Zubac is actually a really good complimentary C. Guy isn’t going to be making 3s or anything like an Embiid or Jokic but his defense is good and he runs the floor. I think the Clippers got their starting C until he asks to leave in him. Ayton was the biggest issue this series (obviously Paul was really good but the Clippers had SOME answers for him). For Ayton they had to use Cousins and while Cousins is actually not bad at all, he’s not as long as Zubac and so doesn’t disrupt shots as much. Paul’s little short midrange shots around the free throw line and just inside the free throw line went very uncontested with the small ball lineup. Now I’m not saying Zubac would have done much if anything at all, but with a player like Zubac is how you disrupt those. Paul is going to get by whatever guard is defending him and pull up for those shots, especially with a Beverly or Jackson guarding him. If you can’t have a Batum, George, Kawhi, Mann (long and fast defenders), then you gotta bring your C up to block that. Cousins can’t do that as well as Zubac.
