2021 NBA playoffs thread

As a Clipper fan, I can't even get mad at that last play. It was just so well executed.

 

In fact, because it was so well executed that it seemed downright easy, it made me wonder, "why don't more teams do that for under the basket inbound plays?"

I'll hang up and take my answers off air.

 

if that pass is four inches off, it doesn't work.
If booker doesn't nail that screen, it doesn't work.

So well done.

 

Because most teams have defenses that don't feature Boogie Cousins going through the motions leaving his other big man to get picked off by a guy half his size.

 

To be fair it was Zubac who got picked by Booker (from what I saw)

 

That's who I meant by his other big man. Boogie was just kind of there.

 

The Clippers' tallest player is also Zubac at 7-foot, and he doesn't exactly play high above the rim (1.4 blocks per 36). Ibaka's out, and in recent years, most teams do the catch-and-fling - Derek Fisher shot - with a second or less left, vs. going for the play at the rim. Just a really smart, really ballsy play call by Phoenix, considering that they were down by 1, and not playing with house money here.

 

Seems the better defense would have been to put 2 hopping 7-footers as close to the inbounder as possible.

You can't even start to let any coherent inbounds pass. Fucking Clippers clipping it up again.

 

In hindsight now, sure. In execution, NBA players are skilled enough to still make an inbound pass with two seven footers on the ball. Crowder is 6'6" and long, so he's not exactly Jeremy Lin getting swamped by a big defender out there. If for some reason the Clippers had two guys guarding the ball, that leaves Bridges, Booker, Ayton or Johnson wide open for a shot, which probably has a higher percentage of working than the trick play they did.

 

You have to really stretch like hell to try to fault the Clippers on that last play.

The Suns ran it perfectly. The defense was fine, but it wasn't going to stop that.

 

You know that one thing you tried, that didn't work?
You should have done the other.

Like let one player have a wide open shot while you have two guarding the inbounds player.

 

When you see it coming, stealing that pass is very easy from the passer side of basket.