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Re: NBA 2018 Playoffs Thread
« Reply #510 on: April 18, 2018, 10:37:24 PM »

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Man. If I was an OKC fan Melo would drive me insane. So many bad shots, bricks. Especially down the stretch.

Re: NBA 2018 Playoffs Thread
« Reply #511 on: April 18, 2018, 10:39:34 PM »

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Might be seeing a couple of upsets in the first round.

Then again, the Western Conference's 3-8 seed are practically just 2 games apart.


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Re: NBA 2018 Playoffs Thread
« Reply #512 on: April 18, 2018, 10:41:09 PM »

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0/6 fg in the 4th quarter for "Playoff P" ::). Sigh.

Re: NBA 2018 Playoffs Thread
« Reply #513 on: April 18, 2018, 10:43:50 PM »

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Ugly game in Houston.  Both teams shooting ~33%.  Gerald Green is ballin' out though.
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Re: NBA 2018 Playoffs Thread
« Reply #514 on: April 18, 2018, 10:52:13 PM »

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Man. If I was an OKC fan Melo would drive me insane. So many bad shots, bricks. Especially down the stretch.
Those two terrible 3’s early in the shotclock in the last 90 seconds would’ve had me screaming
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« Reply #515 on: April 18, 2018, 11:03:13 PM »

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Jimmy Butler doesn't look as good as Jaylen Brown looks in these playoffs...

Re: NBA 2018 Playoffs Thread
« Reply #516 on: April 18, 2018, 11:04:05 PM »

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I truly can't stand watching Harden play.  He's a glorified streetball player with a J.  And for Antoni to say he's the best offensive player he's ever seen proves he should be committed.  He gets away with an insane amount of travels, palming, flopping, shoving, and anything else illegal to be gifted those points.  Sure he can shoot but all that other garbage makes it painful to look at.

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« Reply #517 on: April 18, 2018, 11:16:49 PM »

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Donovan Mitchell is so good! Can't believe he's a rookie.

That's why he's probably going to win ROY. 

Re: NBA 2018 Playoffs Thread
« Reply #518 on: April 18, 2018, 11:24:13 PM »

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Donovan Mitchell is so good! Can't believe he's a rookie.

That's why he's probably going to win ROY.

For as great of a season as he has had, Simmons will take it home.  He has a greater overall impact on the game, Philly will probably have a better playoff run, and he's an advanced stats darling.  For example, he has nearly double the win shares of Mitchell.   
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Re: NBA 2018 Playoffs Thread
« Reply #519 on: April 18, 2018, 11:35:48 PM »

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Lol, even Reggie doesn't want them to go to the monitor.

Could not agree more. One of the NBA's golden children gets knocked over on a basketball play and they automatically look at it.
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« Reply #520 on: April 18, 2018, 11:54:07 PM »

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I truly can't stand watching Harden play.  He's a glorified streetball player with a J.  And for Antoni to say he's the best offensive player he's ever seen proves he should be committed.  He gets away with an insane amount of travels, palming, flopping, shoving, and anything else illegal to be gifted those points.  Sure he can shoot but all that other garbage makes it painful to look at.

James Harden—or as I like to call him, Duh-wayne Wade 2.0.
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Re: NBA 2018 Playoffs Thread
« Reply #521 on: April 19, 2018, 12:26:43 AM »

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I truly can't stand watching Harden play.  He's a glorified streetball player with a J.  And for Antoni to say he's the best offensive player he's ever seen proves he should be committed.  He gets away with an insane amount of travels, palming, flopping, shoving, and anything else illegal to be gifted those points.  Sure he can shoot but all that other garbage makes it painful to look at.

While I agree with all of the above, what's interesting to me about Harden is how, despite his ball handling ability, he can't create space the vast majority of the time, unless, of course, he does that side-step travel move. I mean, sure, he'll drop guys on crossovers, but he's actually not particularly adept at creating his own shot, imo. It's either he shoots a three or drives into the paint, throws his arms out, screams that someone has attempted to shave his beard, and gets to the line ::).

Sidebar - if he were to braid dat beard, he'd legimitately look like Edward Teach ;), lol ;D:


Re: NBA 2018 Playoffs Thread
« Reply #522 on: April 19, 2018, 06:26:44 AM »

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Jimmy Butler doesn't look as good as Jaylen Brown looks in these playoffs...

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Re: NBA 2018 Playoffs Thread
« Reply #523 on: April 19, 2018, 06:27:55 AM »

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Man. If I was an OKC fan Melo would drive me insane. So many bad shots, bricks. Especially down the stretch.

He is just a shell of the player he was out of college.  Not much left to him as an NBA player .

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« Reply #524 on: April 19, 2018, 07:28:56 PM »

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Dragic doing nice things in the first part of the heat / 6ers game...
gonna be a good one.