The last 4 minutes of regulation, during the Uncle Drew Show, he did not score. We could have used some points from someone.
last 3 minutes
2:55 91-94 Matthew Dellavedova makes 6-foot two point shot (Anderson Varejao assists)
2:25 91-95 Tristan Thompson makes free throw 1 of 2
2:25 91-95 Tristan Thompson misses free throw 2 of 2
2:23 91-95 Matthew Dellavedova bad pass (Shelvin Mack steals)
1:52 93-95 Kyrie Irving misses driving layup
1:28 93-95 Matthew Dellavedova steps out of bounds turnover
0:39 95-95 Kyrie Irving misses 26-foot three point jumper
0:26 95-95 Kyrie Irving misses driving layup
0:24 95-95 Anderson Varejao misses tip shot
0:00 95-95 Anderson Varejao misses 26-foot three point jumper
Dellavedova had 3 possessions, 2 turnovers and a score.
Tristan took a shot, got fouled, missed one of the foul shots
Kyrie missed 3 shots (all shots he normally makes)
Andy missed 1 shot (did anyone really want him getting that shot instead of Kyrie?)
Out of 8 possessions in the last 3 minutes, Kyrie had a whole 3 of them. He missed 3 shots he normally makes. Dellavedova also had 3 of them, he turned the ball over twice. What team's fans complains that we should have changed that to something like 4 possessions for Dellavedova and 2 for Kyrie?
The first overtime we built a leas with this
4:11 95-97 Kyrie Irving makes 16-foot jumper
3:14 97-99 Dion Waiters makes 16-foot jumper (
Kyrie Irving assists)
2:45 99-101 Anderson Varejao makes 16-foot jumper (
Kyrie Irving assists)
1:23 99-102 Kyrie Irving makes free throw 1 of 2 (after drawing a shooting foul)
1:23 99-103 Kyrie Irving makes free throw 2 of 2
He made the plays we needed, then it turned into a foul shooting game. Our best clutch time foul shooter is Kyrie, instead the ball ends up in Jacks hands (I believe Kyrie passed it), and we get
0:21 101-103 Jarrett Jack
misses free throw 1 of 2
0:21 101-104 Jarrett Jack makes free throw 2 of 2
Dellavedova came up clutch in his foul shots, but was anyone really happy it was him instead of Kyrie taking those pressure shots. Especialy after seeing his first one. I can guarantee the other team wanted it to be Dellavedova instead of Kyrie in that situation.
Did Kyrie miss some shots that quarter? Sure, but he's not alone. Here are the misses
4:43 95-95 Dion Waiters misses driving layup
3:27 97-97 Kyrie Irving misses jumper
2:06 99-101 Kyrie Irving misses 18-foot jumper
1:54 99-101 Al Horford blocks Tristan Thompson 's 1-foot shot
1:39 99-101 Tristan Thompson misses 8-foot jumper
1:00 101-103 Kyrie Irving misses 9-foot two point jumper
0:29 101-103 Kyrie Irving misses 9-foot
he had 8 credited possessions in the quarter for Kyrie. 4 points, 2 assists. That's success 50% of his possessions.
I posted this earlier, but here's the 2nd overtime
4:46 108-111 Kyrie Irving makes 26-foot three point jumper
4:35 Jeff Teague lost ball turnover (Kyrie Irving steals) 108-111
4:30 108-113 Kyrie Irving makes two point shot
2:49 113-117 Tristan Thompson makes jumper (Kyrie Irving assists)
2:32 117-121 Kyrie Irving makes 30-foot three point jumper
1:59 120-123 Kyrie Irving makes 19-foot two point shot
1:23 122-123 Kyrie Irving misses 26-foot three point jumper
0:55 125-125 Kyrie Irving makes 17-foot jumper
he was 5-6, plus an assist and a steal. That's efficient.
The team only missed two shots and scored 17 points in the 2nd overtime. They should have won the game. A missed 5 second violation call, a missed call where Mack airballed a shot then got his own rebound certainly didn't help, but we just needed to play some defense and gets stops. Even with those, we never should have allowed 19 points in 5 minutes.
Somewhere in there the refs missed a 5 second call where it took 6.1 seconds to inbound the ball, missed a traveling violation when a player shot, air balled and got his own rebound. We also did the idiotic thing of fouling Kover on a 3 point shot, giving them a 4 point play, then fouling Teague on a layup giving a 3 point play, then winning a jumb ball to determine which team got the game winning shot attempt and tapping it where nobody was.
During the whole 13 minutes I just listed, Kyrie had 16 points on 6-14 shooting, including 2 made 3 pointers, so an eFG% of .500. He actually took a 15th shot, was foul and made the two foul shots. So he was effectively 8-15. He had just 1 turnover (the miscue with 2 seconds left in first overtime), 1 steal, 3 assists.
Kyrie played well enough to win 9 out of 10 games.