Post#244 » by shackles10 » Wed Mar 6, 2024 3:30 pm
We blew it. No question about it. Felt like when they made their run earlier we either took a 3 (and missed) every possession or went full iso. Blame that on coaching or players only if you want, but coach didn’t stop it and players kept doing it and have for years. I know it’s an anomaly of a game, but damn we brought the ball up so much quicker in the Warriors game. Allowed us to find the mismatches quicker and even the 3’s were more open with extra passes we had time to make instead of shot clock ending we might as well shoot it looks this 4th quarter had.
Really though I didn’t think we played well all game. We just happened to play “worse” in the 4th. The media halftime narrative that we were scoring at will in the first half wasn’t based on reality as we only had 55 and seemed more like they needed to have their turn at talking about our season long offense even if it didn’t match what happened in those first 24 minutes. The defense was fine then, but offensively it was just hot shooting from JT and Zinger for a half.
We didn’t deserve to win after choking it away, but when Mobley got hurt and Jrue shot the 3 right when they fouled was kinda bull. The rule is also messed up in that if a foul is overturned and they see a player gains possession real-time they don’t jump it and give it to that team instead. Why couldn’t they just see if KP’s tip was in time of no foul or at the very least give us the ball since he secured the rebound. I’m guessing it’s something to do with jump balls only at end of games and I just don’t know the rule, but that’s pretty lame. The Tatum review also kinda bull in that once you call the foul you need to and are supposed to review it all. Things happening immediately before, during, and after are all in play, and we’ve seen reviews take those things into account all seasons. A no call would have been fine, but once you do blow the whistle why do we ignore the contact before the shot? Can’t remember if we were in the bonus so maybe it didn’t matter. No contact on the elbow is fine and I’m even ok with not calling the leg contact even though they said it was a natural shooting motion so seems inconsistent at best. He contested hard though so definitely seemed to be on his air space for the landing. Again, don’t want to call it to begin with fine, but a replay should not end with “we wish we hadn’t blown the whistle” basically and should be very conclusive to change the call. Just nitpicking after a game we definitely should have won, felt to me at least like somehow we were going to pull it out, and isn’t this the place for nitpicking?
Anyways, “Carry the hell on”, as our biggest hater/former lover likes to say.
