Rudy Gobert couldn’t do much against the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night. The Clips returned from a 25-point deficit to beat the Clips, win their second-round series and advance to the Western Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history.
Reggie Jackson, Terance Mann and co. went off on the Frenchman, scoring points after points to lead this team to a big win. During the game, a graphic showed that Gobert was the Clippers’ favorite victim. The Californians went 12-15 from the field against Rudy as the primary defender.
— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) June 19, 2021
This sparked many reactions around the community, with fans blasting Gobert. Some said he didn’t deserve the DPOY award, while others defended him and went after their teammates for not helping.
— 🔥 (@AbbasT22) June 19, 2021
Shaq warned us… pic.twitter.com/Lut9I2p23S
— ISaidWhatISaid (@paulyprocks) June 19, 2021
Rudy and simmons, 2 finalists for dpoy but haven’t played good defense at all in the playoffs, 1 can’t guard Stay infront of trae young and the other gets dunked on. Bam during his games even if he wasn’t his best offensively made giannis shoot like 33% when he guarded him.
— 𝓝𝓲𝓬𝓴 (@SSJ_Nick3) June 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/jwalsh824/status/1406121590971154440https://twitter.com/mikeytwts/status/1406121811457236992
Blame SNYDER. Snyder inability to adjust and stubbornness cost his team the series. All he had to do was take him out and go small. It makes 0 sense to have Gobert sit in the paint and allow NBA players to shoot that many open 3s
— kap (@hopefulmetsfan) June 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/oaklandDUBZ/status/1406122172196683779
But apparently bam didn’t deserve dpoy? FOH!!!!!
— ZAE⚡️ (@ZaeMcGuire) June 19, 2021
Terance Mann owns Gogurt pic.twitter.com/o1oZjzjB3q
— 🗿 (@PlutoWavy) June 19, 2021
Oh but he’s tall and gets blocks! Definitely the best defensive player in the league!!
— eddard (@BiggleDong) June 19, 2021
give goberts DPOY to draymond
— 👁️ (@wayy2slimey) June 19, 2021
After Game 5, Gobert wasn’t happy with his teammates, claiming they needed to play better and more aggressively against a team without their best player.
“We weren’t playing with a sense of urgency at the beginning,” Gobert said. “I wish maybe we would have missed some shots [early] so we would have realized we needed to play some defense. Just no urgency on the defensive end.”
They couldn’t make the adjustments in Game 6 and now the West top-seeded are heading home after blowing a big lead again. This postseason started very well for the Jazz, but things quickly fell apart against an inspired Clippers team.
