Former NBA champion JR Smith was recently interviewed about the 2018 Finals that his career will never bypass. JR said he was the one who carried the pot.
In the first game of the 2018 Finals, the Warriors and Cavaliers played overtime to divide the winners and losers. Around the last four seconds of the fourth quarter, Cavaliers guard George Hill scored two free throws, and he hit the first free throw to help the Cavaliers tie the score. In the second free throw, Hill deflected out and JR magically grabbed the rebound in the frontcourt.
However, JR mistakenly thought that the Cavaliers were leading, and also thought that the team's head coach Tyrone Lue would call the head coach, so his first reaction to grabbing the rebound in the front court was not to shoot, but to dribble the ball out of the three-point line, so as not to give the Warriors a chance to foul. At this time, James kept asking JR and signaling him to shoot, but JR was completely confused at the time, which also made the Cavaliers miss an opportunity to kill the Warriors. As the Cavaliers lost overtime to the Warriors, JR was widely criticized for it.
Now, JR thinks he's the one behind the pot, "I feel like I'm isolated, no one in the coaching staff speaks for me, no one wants to take responsibility for him, so they let me take responsibility." Do you know what I'm talking about? I mean okay. If that's how you guys want to play, we can't call ourselves a real team. JR said.
JR said that any time someone else doesn't shoot, there will be people from the team who will tell you that "one game can't change anything." But no one on the Cavaliers said. At the same time, he said, he said that standing behind him was Durant, and there was a Warriors player who was about the same height as him, and he couldn't shoot at all, he had to dribble the ball out.
But in fact, if JR really wanted to shoot, he had every chance, because after he grabbed the rebound in the front court, Durant was a little out of balance after playing against him and did not stand. Green, who was defending him, had also gone to defend other Cavaliers players, and no one came to block him at the first time.
Of course, the Cavaliers also had their own responsibilities at the time, such as the head coach did not call a timeout, but IT is also true that JR himself does not know the score on the court. Now, he's only talking about the Cavaliers' problems without mentioning his own, which is obviously inappropriate.
Many fans said that if JR hadn't grabbed the rebound in the frontcourt, he wouldn't have been blamed. And he grabbed the rebound in the front court, which was originally a hero, and now he is scolded for being inappropriate. But one yard to one yard, grabbing the rebound in the front court is indeed a hero, but there is a chance not to shoot and do not know the score on the court, JR is indeed the batch, these are two different issues, should not be confused. As for the Cavaliers, it seems that it will be difficult to beat durant and Curry's Warriors if they win the first game, it is another topic.
In addition, JR also said that although he has been away from the NBA for almost two years, he still feels that he is still better than many active players.
'I can still be at my best, I know I'm better than a lot of the players I have now and I have a lot of oil in my tank. JR said.