Chicago Bulls’ Joakim Noah (L) drives on Miami Heat’s Shane Battier during Game 2 of their NBA Eastern Conference semi-final basketball playoff in Miami, Florida May 8, 2013.
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Butler’s always been excellent at moving without the ball and cutting, not to mention his propensity for getting to the free throw line.
Hopefully the rest of the team’s featured scorers will return to the level they’ve enjoyed in recent years and his great season doesn’t go to waste. They typically get up for such high-profile matchups. That wasn’t the case last season, when Jimmy Butler was the recipient.
“Nikola Mirotic is poised to break out in his second season”. Butler added 10 efficient points to lead Chicago to an 11 point lead, but the Warriors, as is their style, were able to score in bunches to bring the lead down to one at the end of the first. “It was a playoff-type atmosphere in there today and it’s just what you want to play in”. As a team, the Blazers shot a healthy 49.4 percent from the field while holding the Lakers to just 36.4 percent shooting, but did themselves no favors by allowing the Lakers to grab 15 offensive rebounds, something that would have cost them the game against a better team.
“I hope they remember it”, Walton said. The nod to Hoiberg shouldn’t go unnoticed. No longer is this Tom Thibodeau’s plodding offensive team. Kirk Hinrich, who scored a season-high 14 points against the Suns on Wednesday, is expected to get the start at the point for Rose but is still on a minutes limit of around 20 as he recovers from a toe injury. It’s Hoiberg’s offense that put even effort-filled Suns defensive possessions in jeopardy. In a six-point game, that’s an enormous problem to have. Suns coach Jeff Hornacek was issued a technical foul for arguing for a call in the third quarter.
Harden finished with 45 points and 11 assists, scoring 26 points in the fourth quarter and overtime to help the Rockets snap a four-game losing streak in the debut of interim coach J.B. Bickerstaff, who replaced fired Kevin McHale. “We made good decisions”.
Yes, the biggest problem with this theory is that Rose isn’t the shooter that Butler is.
“We should probably figure it out pretty soon”, Hoiberg said. He did it all for us in that fourth quarter.
Even though Curry is getting all these compliments, the Warriors would not be where they are if it weren’t for their team game and versatile roster.
Rose got beat up from constantly driving into the lane. The Blazers defeated the Clippers on Friday night, snapping a 7-game losing streak.
“I don’t think we bring that fight every single night”, Butler told the Chicago Sun-Times after Monday’s practice.
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Booker doesn’t let the big moments consume him. Apparently, the rook was also committing to a unsafe smack-talking game.
