2024 NBA Season and Playoffs

[jpotter33]

Man, Edwards is just feasting on this week perimeter defense of the Suns.

[Who]

Aww, Anthony Edwards!!

That was mean!

[Goldstar88]

Edwards has been the best in game dunker this season. Just ridiculous…

[Who]

Ant has 36pts on 12-22 FG including 7-13 threes and 7-10 from the FT line. He has 7reb and 6ast as well.

I remember Ant and Conley were 0-9 at one in point late in the 1st half. I think Ant only had 2 baskets. Oh, the commentator just said he was 2-8 FGA for the half for 8pts. So he has 28 2nd half points here to lead Minnesota.

[Who]

Chris Finch looks like he is out of the rest of the season with a knee injury. Don't see that every often.

Man, imagine losing a playoff run because your coach got injured in and a collision during a game.

Not good. Not good.

He is headed for the locker room with two people helping hold him as he walks slowly to the locker room.

[SparzWizard]

Chris Finch looks like he is out of the rest of the season with a knee injury. Don't see that every often.

Crazy. Missing him on the sidelines would be huge moving forward.

[johnnygreen]

Chris Finch looks like he is out of the rest of the season with a knee injury. Don't see that every often.

Man, imagine losing a playoff run because your coach got injured in and a collision during a game.

I don't think I ever seen something like that before.

[Who]

Durant only 2pts in Q4.

Only 1-3 FGA. Hardly shot the ball. No FTs either.

[Who]

E Gordon a non-entity tonight after being one of their top players in Gms 2 & 3. He has 6pts on 2-7 FGA in 37min. Hardly any shot attempts for such a talented scorer / shooter. All those points came in the first half too. And to make matters worse 0reb 0ast 0stl 0blk. Nothing but zeros except for those 2 threes he hit in the first half.

Beal's no-show was the real killer though. Only 9pts 2ast 1reb 6 turnovers. He was averaging 30ppg a few years ago to 9pts in a key playoff game.

Booker finished with 49pts on 13-20 FGA 20-21 FTA. 5reb 6ast 2stl 1blk. Huge game from Booker. Durant had a huge game too but he seemed to vanish in Q4.

[GreenEnvy]

Chris Finch looks like he is out of the rest of the season with a knee injury. Don't see that every often.

Man, imagine losing a playoff run because your coach got injured in and a collision during a game.

Not good. Not good.

He is headed for the locker room with two people helping hold him as he walks slowly to the locker room.

Even if he blew out his knee, why can’t he coach in a week or two? I mean I understand you have to be somewhat mobile but he won’t be running or pivoting. I’d assume with a cane or crutch he can still lead the team during probably the biggest series in franchise history.

[Atzar]

And Phoenix goes out with a whimper.  Wonder where most of those guys end up, because I can't imagine there's any interest internally in running that team back. 

[SparzWizard]

Wolves first playoff series win in 20 years. Crazy. Wolves vs Nuggets/Lakers going to be physical.

Suns first to head off to cancun. More importantly, what will the future of this franchise be? Will both GM and coach be vacated? They unloaded their chest just to get KD and Beal and it flopped badly.

[Goldstar88]

Wolves first playoff series win in 20 years. Crazy. Wolves vs Nuggets/Lakers going to be physical.

Suns first to head off to cancun. More importantly, what will the future of this franchise be? Will both GM and coach be vacated? They unloaded their chest just to get KD and Beal and it flopped badly.

Fixed it for ya. 

[Who]

Chris Finch looks like he is out of the rest of the season with a knee injury. Don't see that every often.

Man, imagine losing a playoff run because your coach got injured in and a collision during a game.

Not good. Not good.

He is headed for the locker room with two people helping hold him as he walks slowly to the locker room.

Even if he blew out his knee, why can’t he coach in a week or two? I mean I understand you have to be somewhat mobile but he won’t be running or pivoting. I’d assume with a cane or crutch he can still lead the team during probably the biggest series in franchise history.

Maybe he can. I don't know.

One or two weeks and return ... in two weeks DEN might have knocked them out of the playoffs already.

[Who]

Wolves first playoff series win in 20 years. Crazy. Wolves vs Nuggets/Lakers going to be physical.

Suns first to head off to cancun. More importantly, what will the future of this franchise be? Will both GM and coach be vacated? They unloaded their chest just to get KD and Beal and it flopped badly.

I wouldn't get rid of the GM but I would get rid of the coach. Not a Vogel fan. He is a one dimensional coach. Like D'Antoni. Give him a roster that suits his ideas, he'll be a net positive. Give him any other type of roster, he'll be one of the worst coaches in the league. Not many teams have old school physical big defensive teams anymore. Not many fits in the league for Vogel. Suns sure aren't one. They never should have hired him in the first place.

I don't think the GM deserves that much criticism because the Beal move was driven by the owner. Maybe not fighting to keep Ayton instead of Nurkic. That was a bad decision. I think there is some talent there with James Jones at GM. I'd give him some time.