Watching the game, I begin to think that probably neither of these 2 teams will win the championship. OKC lost because of poor shootings. Jazz won mainly because of Derrick Favors' outstanding performances. Rudy Gobert is overrated. He may have the longest reach (7' 9"?) in NBA, but he can't hold on to the ball at all. Even when he grabbed the ball first, it was easy to knock it out of his hands. He was relatively weak. Even a much shorter strong guy could box against him so he couldn't grab offensive rebound, as shown in many cases. His stats might look OK, but those don't show the chances that he should have grabbed/held onto the ball but couldn't. Joe Ingle was also bad. He almost seemed to be afraid of shooting (even though he was a great shooter during the season). In his last 3 games, he had more turnovers than assists (6-4). They need to vigorously train Gobert to be stronger (like what happened to Anthony Davis, KD, etc.).
P.S. Those who praised Mitchell's performance: he only shot 40% (10 of 25, 0/7 from 3's) and had 2 assists and 4 turnovers. That is not exactly stellar performance at all. They won mainly because OKC shot poorly (many open shots too), period. 作者: sexkiller3 時間: 2018-4-19 11:50 PM
