They lost a lot of their team to injuries. They are also missing Dillon who actually was a ready and willing defender.

Yeah right. Watch how he played against Dillon Brooks when he “bullied” him on top of the key to score an awkward lay-up.

He starts with a bent fore arm that he extends opening up space. He then gets into Brooks space pins his leg with an off arm and cleared enough space to take a lay up which Dillon was still able to challenge. He takes the lay-up while making a downward swipe at Dillon negating the little chance Dillon could challenge.

Remember Lebron elbowing Green’s chest in the Finals against the spurs to blow the lay-up throwing it out of bounds then complain as if it was a foul?

This is pretty established when you check back to his past games before he developed a decent three. the most egregious with him elbowing the fuck out of Manu and Bowen in the 2007 finals.

Sure there are fouls that are not called against the defender but there are also more fouls that are not called on Lebron or Ant or Zion or Morant.

Lebron is not doing the same exact same thing smaller players do. He cannot change directions the same way they can considering his longer limbs, he might accelerate faster because he’s an athletic freak but he’s not doing Jordan’s one handed in out dribbles or the shamgods smaller players with the same smoothness. His passing (outside of interior passing) might be divine but he’s an awkward looking dribbler.

I mean Lebron’s drives are accompanied with him pushing and pinning the defender’s limbs so that he can blow by. It makes sense they do not reward him with free throws when they are not calling him for the numerous offensive fouls he does.

I suppose years of tape establishing his tendencies to take advantage of the physicality allowed to him just makes the refs subconsciously not call late fouls when he opens up the defense with offensive violations.

Now Jokic on the other hand gets scratches and welts on his arms but the refs do not call it for some reason. Now, that’s weird.

If he’s any good at it. He could punt/kick. That is probably the safest position in American Football

There probably is a memo from on top to tell every player to do these celebrations for further engagement. Go full WWE for “fun”.

LOL and Lebron is not commiting several offensive fouls doing so?

He pushed brooks once at the beggining opening up space for his dribble and then checked Brook’s leg with a hand on it when he curled to the basket and pinned Brooks by an elbow to the chest to sag off him so that he can clear the shot with a downwards arm to totally erase the chance at the unlikely block.

Surprised why Brooks did not do the hand check early and only did so when Lebron was already at his strong side. At that point, it is already downhill central.

The refs swallowed the whistle favoring both players.

At the very beggining Brooks should have planted his feet and flopped once Bron straigntened his arm for the slight push, with no superstar call that should have been an easy offensive foul.

They are listing him with shoes on.

He’s probably really around 6’10 and some change and has been since his 4th or 5th season.

Why the hell are they so insistent on lying about these players’ height?

So fellow Raptor fans.

Still want to trade Pascal so that Scott Barnes develops even further?

I do not think it is Pascal’s game that worsened but the offense goes away from him because of Schroder’s playing style.

I would argue bird has the better defense even if it dis not result to more recognition. Guy was good and grittier, he just was not eye poppingly athletic.

As seemingly hype as this is, he inadvertently tripped him.

Pay attention at the 2 second mark.

I know people are low on the Clippers but imagine if they can win somehow. I wonder if people will start saying they were purposely stacking the deck.

I mean he will probably literally beat a regular schmo.

But seriously he could back people down and raise the ball high up. Unless you are tall enough or jump high enough you are not bothering even the most garbage of hook shots from a guy 8 or more inches taller than you

Dame time.

The more hidden answer is the amount you practice an almost identical angle on that shot. You might practice a ton of top of the key shots, but you may never take an exact top of the key in game.

This. Unless you mark the floor and shoot from the same spot on non-corner spots, you are guessing how far away you are and you might overcompensate which reduces your accuracy.

The corner 3 more or less looks the same no matter what court you play in.

For higher profile players, it’s Lebron (and Zion). He moves awful. Even the way he runs is bad. He jumps awkwardly too (admittedly still very high).

Maybe because it is the overly muscular neck and shoulders that limits the grace of the arms moving. No idea why both Zion and Lebron runs like that though (does it limit injuries running exaggeratedly like that?)