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Tristian Kardashian, Jokic Stopper
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I thought freeze posted that at firstThis post is nasty as hell
You must not believe in the eye test.The minutes he played they weren’t negative or positive in the box score. He grabbed 1 rebound in 10 minutes. And as soon as they put him in actions, it got tough.
Impact bigs do make a difference. He just ain’t one of them.
You keep bringing up the clippers like their 2 best players are ever healthy. Be for real.
What's going on??
Yup, Rui is a "rookie" in playoff basketball who ain't used to guarding centers. TT been guarding and bodying up centers in the playoffs for a long long time. Huge difference my friend.So Denver is talented out enough to “figure out” Rui after G1 but they would have trouble with a guy who hadn’t played basketball in 13 months
Sure buddyNuggets would have DHO’d TT back to calabassas
At no point in his career has Tristan ever played against a center like Jokic, much less on the wrong side of 30 after 13 months of not playing at all.Yup, Rui is a "rookie" in playoff basketball.
TT is a seasoned vet who been there done that. He knows how to play against a team like Denver and what the Lakers would need to be more effective against them.
That's why he thrived in his minutes last night
Whatever adjustment Denver would've made, TT would've countered cause he been there before.
But that's beside the point.
The POINT IS, the Lakers needed to Go Big against Denver in order to win just like they did against them in 2020.
Go Big. Go Big. Go Big. I will say it til y'all eyes get red. Robert Horry has echoed my sentiments and been saying the same thing on Access Sportsnet too. Who you rather believe, a guy who won 7 rings playing next to Shaq, Dream, Duncan or a few stat geeks on NT who started watching the sport in 2005
That's not what TT showed last night. TT proved to all y'all naysayers that he can still play effective big man basketball. You can't deny what you saw from TT last night.Tristan is at a disadvantage at this point in his career.