Hersh

Nuggets forcing the two man action is killing them. Bunch of bad shots. Maybe try something else?

One reason I’ll never consider LeBron the greatest is the flopping. Jokic’s 5th was legit but the one in the lane was a flop.

Malone rolling the dice not resting Jokic. Dude is way off to start the 4th and he could’ve gotten a spell to start the 4th. 6-7 man rotation can catch up to players

LeBron totally passive now. Ready for the off-season.

NBA officials doing their thing tonight. It’s not that the Nuggets aren’t committing fouls, it’s not calling anything on the Lakers. It’s laughable but Denver still in it.

I'm not absolving the coach of responsibility. I don't think he has the respect of the players on the floor, which is an organizational problem. He's always definitely had some screwups in a couple games when he didn't use timeouts. What I put 100% on the players is the effort that was lacking last night. Let me rephrase, I put in 100% on their best players. I actually think a guy like Grant Williams and Robert Williams and the 4th quarter bench guys played hard. Smart, Tatum and Brown were no shows.

To me, that is 100% on the players when you have a team that's been there before. A bunch of vets laid down. It's like Shaq said last night, he didn't need Phil or any other coach to tell him that he needed to bring in a situation like that.

Y'all are being kind. Those are terrible jerseys for an alternate.

Yeah but they got plenty of money. If you can upgrade the coach, with this roster to win now, you have to try. The players don't sound bought in and apparently they need a coach to motivate them in a big series.

Leadership. Maybe it's cause Tatum is just 19 years old that he hasn't developed it yet, but dude doesn't appear to be the leader of his team. He hasn't hit a FG in the 4th quarter of a game in the conference finals. On the biggest stage, Booker has been great in the finals and Tatum has been his best in the Eastern conference semis. Tatum can still can that narrative but that's how I see it. People forget that about the coaching situation. This guy wasn't gonna be a head coach for a few years at least. It wouldn't surprise me if they reached out to Bud or Monte to see if they have interest.

The amount of money in pro sports is insane. I would not give out supermax contracts to more than a few players going forward in the league and he's not one of them at the moment. (but Boston will probably do it) I'm excluding prime Lebron and prime Steph cause they wouldn't get another supermax contract. Only Giannis, Jokic, Booker, and Luka. So many bad contracts in the league that teams almost immediately want to move or they just cripple a team.

Saddest part of this series is that it's the end of NBA on TNT for the season this week. They are killing the Celtics, rightfully so.

It's not just finding players, it's a commitment to developing them and giving them playing time in a role that fits. The Wiz way is to watch Goodwin have a good game playing 15-20 minutes then only give him 2 minutes the next game if he gets on the court at all.

That would be great. I'm fine with any of the leaked names so far as long as Ted gives them freedom to rebuild or completely retool.

They took a long time last time and we got Tommy. Brown and Tatum 7-40 from three so far this series. Heat vs Nuggets is gonna be great.

So much riding on this next hire, which is taking a really long time.

This series is over. On to some Wiz dreaming, which requires a competent GM being hired. Beal, Wright to the Celtics Brown to the Trailblazers 3rd pick and Simmons to the Wiz. White to the Magic Though if I was the Celtics, I'd just take Simmons and the 3rd pick for Brown.

if it was always that easy, games would have scores in the 60-80 range. The Heat are hitting their shots. We saw the sorry ass Wiz have unbelievable offensive stretches this year which included some of the best shooting nights in franchise history. It happens. It’s a players league. If the stars for Boston don’t show up, and they haven’t, that’s the game.

He's been calling time outs this game. If he needs to get on his stars to hustle back or step up, they already lost. Players need to take ownership. It's not to say the their coach is perfect or the next great head coach, but they had a great regular season and they are in the conference finals.

It's not coaching at the moment. Right now they are lacking on-court leadership and Miami won't miss.

LeBron is an all-time great, but he needs to be the third best player on a championship team now. He’s deferring a lot and settling for jump shots. better than any first round pick for Tommy.

27 FTAs to 11 so far. Only reason the Lakers are in this game. Lakers getting phantom fouls too.

Absolute joke of a game. Officiating trying to dictate this game.

That’s embarrassing for the NBA.

How is that ref, in that position, making a foul call on Jokic??