2023 NBA Playoffs

[Betrayer]

Sabonis is so overrated.

[buddha]

so is milwaukee.

[Betrayer]

Miami is just going to play harder than you. Period. 

[buddha]

spoelstra just whooped the pants of budenholzer.  that was embarassing.

[Betrayer]

Too bad we’re closer to hiring the guy from the Budenholzer tree rather than the guy from the Spoelstra tree. 

[Betrayer]

Also, I need to issue an apology. I was wrong about Brunson. 

[Deleterious]

Weaver might want to ask Lee about his timeout strategy after that **** show.

[Deleterious]

Donovan Mitchell is so overrated. Easy to see why Utah had no problem moving on from him and Gobert.

[casimir]

8 hours ago, buddha said:

spoelstra just whooped the pants of budenholzer.  that was embarassing.

Damn near half of his life spent on the sidelines with the Miami Heat.  That's flippin' incredible these days.  I didn't realize how long he was an assistant, although I knew he worked his way up the Miami ladder to the head chair.  

[NYLion]

Spoelstra is the best in the business and I'm not sure it's all that close. It does help when you have arguably the best clutch player in the league in Butler but that guy can coach, always squeezes the most out of his players.

[Betrayer]

My guess is Chris Quinn is next on the list, so I doubt he leaves Miami.

[Deleterious]

Is the head assistant job at a well run organization better than the head coach job at a poorly run organization?

[Deleterious]

That was the 8th time an 8 seed beat a 1 seed.

It was the first time an 8 seed held a 1 seed to one or less wins in a series.  

[buddha]

according to giannis the season wasnt a failure.  so nice job milwaukee!  great work getting outcoached, outhustled, and outplayed by a team MISSING THEIR BEST SCORER in tyler herro.

jimmy butler and the wannabes/over the hills just whupped the #1 seed in the east.

 

[Betrayer]

47 minutes ago, buddha said:

...by a team MISSING THEIR BEST SCORER in tyler herro.

To be fair, losing Herro probably improved their defense by a good margin.

[Betrayer]

On 4/27/2023 at 3:20 AM, Deleterious said:

Donovan Mitchell is so overrated. Easy to see why Utah had no problem moving on from him and Gobert.

Everyone talks about Cleveland as one of the blueprints for the Piston's desire to go with a 2-big lineup, but that strategy killed Mitchell and Garland in the playoffs because they had absolutely no spacing. Watching them try to get to the bucket against a collapsed NYK defense was painful. Neither of their bigs nor Okoro are respected on the perimeter so the Knicks  were free to just live in the paint on defense and cut off all driving lanes.

Same thing will happen to Cade and Ivey next year if Weaver is married to this 2-big idea. Watching Ivey try to find space in the lane when we were starting Bagley and Wiseman was so painful.

[buddha]

20 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

Everyone talks about Cleveland as one of the blueprints for the Piston's desire to go with a 2-big lineup, but that strategy killed Mitchell and Garland in the playoffs because they had absolutely no spacing. Watching them try to get to the bucket against a collapsed NYK defense was painful. Neither of their bigs nor Okoro are respected on the perimeter so the Knicks  were free to just live in the paint on defense and cut off all driving lanes.

Same thing will happen to Cade and Ivey next year if Weaver is married to this 2-big idea. Watching Ivey try to find space in the lane when we were starting Bagley and Wiseman was so painful.

wont matter when victor is here nailing threes.

[Betrayer]

Refs thought they were helping the Warriors by keeping Sabonis on the bench with fouls. Wrong.
 

Game 7 incoming. 

[buddha]

when anthony davis is healthy and trying, he is still one of the best players in the nba.

[Betrayer]

Since we’ve been talking about overrated players, it’s time to give a shout out to JJJ. Absolute trash in this series.

[buddha]

i know we all hate the lakers, but watching that **** talking bunch of poseurs from memphis lose is very gratifying.

how's it going dillon?  you bottling up that old man lebron?  how's it hanging ja?  where's your dad?  on the sideline wearing a shirt with your picture on it talking **** to everyone?  maybe he's in the club with your gun?

[casimir]

7 hours ago, buddha said:

i know we all hate the lakers, but watching that **** talking bunch of poseurs from memphis lose is very gratifying.

how's it going dillon?  you bottling up that old man lebron?  how's it hanging ja?  where's your dad?  on the sideline wearing a shirt with your picture on it talking **** to everyone?  maybe he's in the club with your gun?

Yeah, its kind of hard for a smaller market team like Memphis to kick away the lovable underdog role against a team like Los Angeles (not necessarily looking at records, but more so brand/legacy), but this cast of Grizzlies is doing a heck of a job doing that.

[Deleterious]

Ayton standing there out of bounds doing nothing while play continues.  

 

[Deleterious]

Scott Foster is the ref for game 7 today.  Let the conspiracy theories begin.

[Deleterious]