Boston with the wind behind it

Stupid take fouls, and the boring regular season

Game 5’s third quarter is what basketball could look like once they get rid of take fouls. Once the NBA finds a way to legislate advantage out of trading team fouls for fun.

Ime Udoka started big and at halftime he told those bigs to run to the front of the rim in transition and then get out of the way, who cares what you shoot from outside, make some room. Flattened, Boston’s scorers saw lines toward the goal that weren’t around in the first half, air to launch over Miami’s sad excuse for skyscrapers. The Heat are too small, and by now the Heat have no legs.