Camden wrote:I see my observation is being misinterpreted or perhaps misrepresented. Noticeably, most of the Wolves were pressing in the second half of Game 2. Taking bad shots. Turning the ball over. Taking on the entire defense by themselves. Visibly frustrated and panicky as the lead grew larger. You get the picture. I thought it was interesting that D'Angelo Russell continued to remain calm and rally the troops. His efforts clearly failed, but even with a significant deficit he didn't appear frazzled. Obviously, they need his play to be better, but the post-season doesn't appear to rattle him mentally. Never too high, never too low regardless of his play.
You can make your jokes or snide comments about that if you'd like. It was merely an observation in one game thread of many. I'd like to see Karl-Anthony Towns show some of that once in a while. Oh, well.
Cam, you may be right about in this instance, but more broadly speaking you are getting to almost Coolbreaz-level partiality when it comes to DLO (he could never quite shake his abiding loyalty and emotional attachment to Andrew Wiggins of course, to the point where he left the board over it).
Camden wrote:I see my observation is being misinterpreted or perhaps misrepresented. Noticeably, most of the Wolves were pressing in the second half of Game 2. Taking bad shots. Turning the ball over. Taking on the entire defense by themselves. Visibly frustrated and panicky as the lead grew larger. You get the picture. I thought it was interesting that D'Angelo Russell continued to remain calm and rally the troops. His efforts clearly failed, but even with a significant deficit he didn't appear frazzled. Obviously, they need his play to be better, but the post-season doesn't appear to rattle him mentally. Never too high, never too low regardless of his play.
You can make your jokes or snide comments about that if you'd like. It was merely an observation in one game thread of many. I'd like to see Karl-Anthony Towns show some of that once in a while. Oh, well.
Cam, you may be right about in this instance, but more broadly speaking you are getting to almost Coolbreaz-level partiality when it comes to DLO (he could never quite shake his abiding loyalty and emotional attachment to Andrew Wiggins of course, to the point where he left the board over it).
Okay, Q. I disagree entirely, but there's also no point in hashing this out. I know where everyone stands. I also care about this board less and less, which is rather unfortunate considering the history of it.
I've held strong positions in the past. I've been right about a lot (also been wrong here and there). Somehow any time I even mention a particular player I'm fond of -- and was right about -- I get backlash for doing so. And then there are also small personalities on this board that come out of no where to take their shots at me. I have a lot of time and effort invested here. I don't need to put up with that anymore.
It's been a fun season of basketball, but maybe not the funnest year on this forum. I'll check in here and there, but don't be surprised if my posts are less and less frequent for good reason.
Camden wrote:I see my observation is being misinterpreted or perhaps misrepresented. Noticeably, most of the Wolves were pressing in the second half of Game 2. Taking bad shots. Turning the ball over. Taking on the entire defense by themselves. Visibly frustrated and panicky as the lead grew larger. You get the picture. I thought it was interesting that D'Angelo Russell continued to remain calm and rally the troops. His efforts clearly failed, but even with a significant deficit he didn't appear frazzled. Obviously, they need his play to be better, but the post-season doesn't appear to rattle him mentally. Never too high, never too low regardless of his play.
You can make your jokes or snide comments about that if you'd like. It was merely an observation in one game thread of many. I'd like to see Karl-Anthony Towns show some of that once in a while. Oh, well.
I think what is pretty clear is that Dlo is polarizing. He's slow and methodical at his best and worst. Guy needs to make shots for the rest of the series. Hope he does. Thelire is much more to his game as you have rightly pointed out since he's been here, but much like with past players if you shooting 30% you aren't going to get much love if people already perceive you by your limitations.
