” I’m not going to lie to you, reputation matters. » Speaking thus, Spencer Dinwiddie refers to the arbitral treatment reserved for players according to their status in the league. And this tendency, probably even more true in the playoffs than in the regular season, for the stars to get the whistles more easily.
“ I talked about it a lot, contentious whistles in the last six minutes of play. We are not going to benefit from this kind of thing “, already predicts the leader of the Nets, quoted by the New York Post, thinking about this first round to come against the Sixers. Where a former MVP, James Harden, and an aspiring MVP, Joel Embiid evolve.
The former Mavs player, involved in the exchange for Kyrie Irving, had already had the opportunity to develop this idea according to which the Nets, because of the departures of the superstars (Kevin Durant and Irving therefore), were now less well off. in arbitration matters.
” I got a lot of shots at the last second or shots to win but it’s the period before that is difficult without superstars. This is what we lack. If someone tries to climb on KD’s back, they’ll whistle him. If KD says ‘and one’, they’re not going to give him a technique. All of these things change the flow of the game. THE (stars) can curse (against the referees), they can do anything, and they’ll let it go. The period from six minutes to 30 seconds from the end, that’s really where you miss them “, he had expressed at the end of February after a match against the Hawks.
Reputations are usually made during the playoffs, right?
But since this meeting, which occurred about two weeks after this series of major transfers, something has evolved internally: the status of Mikal Bridges. The wing player of the Suns, who averages 27 points in Brooklyn, has changed in dimension by multiplying the offensive cards.
So much so that the winger, who learned a lot from Devin Booker and Chris Paul, is starting to receive favorable whistles. His free throw average with the Nets (7) has also doubled compared to his start to the season with the Suns.
” But at the same time, reputations are usually made during the playoffs, right? “, resumes Spencer Dinwiddie, before adding:” If Mikal continues to play at his level, he will be considered a star after that, especially if we manage to progress or do something special. I think we have a player who has the ability to play at this level. »
We will know more at the end of this series of which the 76ers will leave largely favorites, and with whom the former Sun PJ Tucker should be assigned in defense on Bridges.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Kevin Durant | 39 | 36.0 | 55.9 | 37.6 | 93.4 | 0.4 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 5.3 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 29.7 |
| Mikal Bridges | 26 | 35.5 | 47.5 | 37.6 | 89.4 | 0.9 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 27.2 |
| Kyrie Irving | 40 | 36.9 | 48.6 | 37.4 | 88.3 | 1.0 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 27.1 |
| Cameron Johnson | 25 | 30.8 | 46.8 | 37.2 | 85.1 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 16.6 |
| Spencer Dinwiddie | 26 | 35.3 | 40.4 | 28.9 | 79.7 | 0.3 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 9.1 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 16.5 |
| Nicholas Claxton | 76 | 29.9 | 70.5 | 0.0 | 54.1 | 2.4 | 6.8 | 9.2 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 12.6 |
| cam thomas | 56 | 16.2 | 43.3 | 36.0 | 86.1 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 10.0 |
| Tj Warren | 26 | 18.9 | 51.0 | 33.3 | 81.8 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 9.5 |
| Seth Curry | 61 | 19.9 | 46.3 | 40.5 | 92.7 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 9.2 |
| Royce O’Neale | 76 | 31.7 | 38.6 | 38.9 | 72.5 | 0.7 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 8.8 |
| Joe Harris | 74 | 20.6 | 45.7 | 42.6 | 64.3 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 7.6 |
| Dorian Finney Smith | 26 | 27.7 | 35.1 | 30.6 | 78.9 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 7.2 |
| Edmond Sumner | 53 | 13.9 | 46.1 | 35.6 | 91.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 7.1 |
| Ben Simmons | 42 | 26.3 | 56.6 | 0.0 | 43.9 | 1.0 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 6.9 |
| Patty Mills | 39 | 13.6 | 41.9 | 37.6 | 91.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 6.0 |
| Yuta Watanabe | 57 | 15.7 | 49.6 | 45.0 | 73.3 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 5.5 |
| Day’ron Sharpe | 47 | 11.2 | 55.2 | 54.5 | 63.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 4.7 |
| Markieff Morris | 27 | 10.6 | 40.2 | 40.8 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 3.6 |
| Dru Smith | 9 | 7.5 | 48.1 | 30.8 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 3.4 |
| David Duke | 22 | 8.3 | 47.7 | 12.5 | 63.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 3.2 |
| Kessler Edwards | 14 | 5.7 | 25.0 | 16.7 | 50.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.1 |
| Nerlens Noel | 3 | 14.4 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 1.0 |
| Moses Brown | 2 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Alondes Williams | 1 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
