05-17-2021, 12:20 PM
(05-17-2021, 11:56 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: Playoff basketball is just different. Kawhi/PG13 are going to be motivated every possession, which in the regular season doesn't happen.
Clips see a young team like the Mavs and are salivating over it.
Yes, "playoff basketball is just different." And, yes, "Kawhi/PG13 are going to be motivated every possession, which in the regular season doesn't happen." And all of that would be just as true if the Clippers were facing the Blazers in the first round of the playoffs.
I'm not convinced that the Clippers really needed to tank hard against the Thunder, especially since there was no guarantee that tanking would achieve what-the-hell-ever their objective was.
The Thunder, on the other hand, had a crystal clear (and much more significant) reason to tank against the Clippers.
It's all good, though. Moving right along ....