Darius Kinnard Garland

[godfather]

Let's say JBB just plays Garland 35 minutes, and relies more on Levert, and who gave us nothing. Garland was playing pretty well, too. Imagine the blow back, today, if we were giving him that rest, with a game on the line. And we lose.

Would JBB be at fault? Damn right he would.

Without Allen, JBB has no choice, at all, but to ask and rely on his two best players to play 40 minutes. Look at the minutes log from Orlando, their two best players, they played 40 plus minutes.

This is the playoffs, you have to expect your best to give more. And if they can't, that's on the player. It's not on the coach, to go deep into his bench, in crunch time, and expect lower tier guys to deliver.

That's just absurdity, for any coach to do. JBB is a jack ass, but him expecting or really having no choice but to play Garland 40 minutes in a playoff game, definitely isn't one of them.

Especially when the bench stunk.

 

[Boobie4Three]

Then he's not suited to be paid the money Koby gave him. So who is really to blame?

If a guy of his caliber, can't play over 36 minutes in a playoff game. It speaks more to Garland than anything.

Where is JBB suppose to turn? Levert? Yikes....

Man, Garland is still getting so much of pass. We really are going to blame JBB, for Garland's boneheaded decisions? JBB is at fault for that? Really?

We can blame JBB for a lot of things, but I'm sorry, Garland is no longer an inexperienced young player.

He literally had a turnover, where he loses control of his dribble, with no resistance from the defense. Like, wtf, is that. He can't get across half court, within 8 seconds, in a decisive game.

Mitchell is out the gasping for air, you don't see these dumb ass mistakes.

Garland's dumb ass decisions, is not one's fault, but Garland.

It is surely an indictment on Garland's ineptness on not being able to play bigger minutes, but the facts are he's too exhausted to execute when it counts. I think that's his biggest problem. JB should recognize he needs to get Garland more rest to be sharper during crunch time but yes it's a bigger indictment on Garland than JB in this particular instance. That kind of goes without saying. Not giving Garland any passes here.

 

[Futuredome]

Garland gets a pass because JB refuse to rest and give LeVert the 25 million dollar man his run. A gamble that failed and likely was gonna fail even if he did.

 

[nolookpass]

The Knicks got Josh Hart and Donte Divencenzo out there playing 48 minutes and still making clutch plays for them. Regardless of how many minutes Garland plays, my bar for him in the 4th quarter has been very low as the team’s former all star point guard: stop making boneheaded decisions and turning the ball over. He really can’t seem to stop though. The 8 second violation had nothing to do with the minutes he played

 

[ice cream man]

How good would we be if we traded this guy for Mitchell and held onto Lauri

 

[Omar The Horse]

Goofy with a check

 

[godfather]

I'm actually pretty proud of Garland. Shot terribly, had no confidence, but kept fighting and made key plays to help us win. So no complaints from me. I liked what I saw from him. I hope it lifted his confidence, it should, he played well. Despite the poor shooting, I really think he did.

 

[pinoycavsfan]

Is it time to have him come off the bench next round?

 

[Futuredome]

Typical Garland. Laboring with shooting. Doesn't take the shots he should, instead tries to force it to other players leading to a bad possession. If Mobley was better offensively, he could hide better. Every scoring lapse shows up on him.

 

[Smooth]

One fourth quarter doesn't erase the others but give the man his flowers..

 

[shoes22]

It's funny, today's game by Garland was the exact opposite of game 6.

Game 6 he was great for three quarters, shit the bed in the 4th. Tonight he was terrible for 3 quarters, but came through in the 4th when it mattered.

 

[bushwick_bill]

 

[AustinCarr]

He was a GD mess in the first three quarters. But he stepped up BIG when the team needed him most.

He is someone who can get caught in his own head. But when he can play without getting in his own way he can be a really solid second banana. Big "if", of course.

Congrats to him today. Everything went wrong and then he pulled himself up and gave this team everything they needed.

 

[Kizzle]

He was a GD mess in the first three quarters. But he stepped up BIG when the team needed him most.

He is someone who can get caught in his own head. But when he can play without getting in his own way he can be a really solid second banana. Big "if", of course.

Congrats to him today. Everything went wrong and then he pulled himself up and gave this team everything they needed.

The bar for Garland is In the dirt and i do not know why. Dude hit one shot and ppl forgot his whole 7 games of ass

Man i wish i could be graded on that scale at my job

 

[AustinCarr]

The bar for Garland is In the dirt and i do not know why. Dude hit one shot and ppl forgot his whole 7 games of ass

Man i wish i could be graded on that scale at my job

The man had 10 points, 3 assists,a critical steal, and no turnovers in the 4th quarter of a deciding game 7. For a guy who has traditionally had the yips in pressure situations, that is positive.

That has no bearing on how well or poorly he had played in any of the proceeding 27 quarters of play.

He had an up and down series. A few highs, a decent chunk of lows. And mainly just invisible play. I'm not excluding or excusing any of that.

I'm saying he had a really good quarter when this team needed it to win. Nothing more, nothing less.