2024 NBA Season and Playoffs

[GreenEnvy]

Ant shoots terribly: he trusts his teammates.

Tatum shoots similarly: his teammates saved him.

The narrative the next few weeks will be nauseating.

[blink]

That was an epic choke job by Denver

Yeah, I think this is the main take away from my view.
Ant man didn't shoot very well, it isn't like he willed them to victory.  A lot of the other guys on Minn made plays, and Denver just rolled over.
But that is what happens when you roll over in game 7, you are done for the year.

Glad that Minn won for their team and their fans.   Dallas - Minn going to be an interesting series.

[Who]

Minny

G: Conley, Monte
G: Ant, NAW
F: McDaniels
F: Towns, Slow Mo
C: Gobert, Naz

Dallas

G: Kyrie, Exum, Hardy
G: Derrick Jones Jr, Josh Green
F: Luka, Tim Hardaway Jr
F: PJ Washington
C: Gafford, Lively


Derrick Jones Jr and Luka Doncic vs Anthony Edwards and Jaden McDaniels. A 3+D guy to guard the star and the star. The main offensive creator.

The secondary offensive creator. Kyrie with the advantage over Conley. Towns over PJ Washington. That Towns matchup could be really good for Minnesota.

Those perimeter bigs (Naz, Towns) could be tough for a rookie like Lively to cover. It will be interesting to see if Gafford & Lively can negate Gobert or if Gobert can pull a Zubac and beat them up inside for easy scores & rebounds. He is a good bit bigger & stronger than them but low skilled.

Dallas is quite small at forward. PJ Washington at 6-6 / 6-7 230lbs and Luka an unathletic 6-8 240lbs. They are their only real forwards on their roster. The others are all guards. Two guards. Tim Hardaway, Josh Green, Exum, Hardy. All two guards. Kleber might have been useful in this series.

[CelticSooner]

That was an epic choke job by Denver

They went cold and never recovered. They looked dead because they weren’t even trying on defense.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Dallas vs Minnesota and Boston vs Indiana in the conference finals.

Just like everyone expected at the start of the season!

Minny. Indiana, and Dallas with just 1 title among them.

One of those teams doesn't belong. We should handle Indiana in 5 games.

C's over heat in 5

C's over cavs in 5

C's over pacers in 5? maybe. it should not go past 6.

[Larry for 3]

I gotta pull for one legged Doncic , even tho I despise Irving .

Will TWolves pull a Celtics trick and play down to Mavs



They might

I honestly think the mavs are better than you are giving them credit for.

Yeah but I don’t like this matchup for them at all. The advantages they had vs OKC don’t exist against Minnesota

[mr. dee]

Gobert finally got over his conference finals virginity

[kraidstar]

And the boogie man nuggets are done


It’s absolutely wide for Boston

Denver is dead

Knicks are dead

Adam Silver is dead

Bang the gong, Woooooooooo!!!!

YES SIR!

happy birthday my boy KG!

Nice, nice. I hope KG is savoring all of this

[tenn_smoothie]

1 seed in west -done

defending champs-done

now lets take care of business against the pacers

we can beat the mavs.

I WANT THE MAVS!

I kinda want the Mavs too. I want to beat Kyrie's ass in the worst way. He personally set the franchise back with his cancerous psyche.

Love the pic of Garnett's jersey - I am so pleased they put #5 in the rafters. Should have been 3 and not just 1 !!

[CelticSooner]

Ant shoots terribly: he trusts his teammates.

Tatum shoots similarly: his teammates saved him.

The narrative the next few weeks will be nauseating.

The funny thing is Edwards was passing up some very good looks and dribbling into double coverage.

[Larry for 3]

I gotta pull for one legged Doncic , even tho I despise Irving .

Will TWolves pull a Celtics trick and play down to Mavs



They might

I honestly think the mavs are better than you are giving them credit for.

Yeah but I don’t like this matchup for them at all. The advantages they had vs OKC don’t exist against Minnesota

Both their bigs gonna be in foul trouble all series

[scaryjerry]

Wow did Jokic give up there.

I don't recall ever seeing a team give up like that, down 7 with 33 seconds to go. Jokic bends over and puts his mouthpiece in his sock.

I thought play stopped for some reason. Game was not over.  Bad look. Even Jokic’ final drive - was casual. Could have saved 5 seconds and shot a 3.

Just wanting to get home to his horses isn’t as cute when you lose In the second round, woof

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

And the boogie man nuggets are done


It’s absolutely wide for Boston

Denver is dead

Knicks are dead

Adam Silver is dead

Bang the gong, Woooooooooo!!!!

YES SIR!

happy birthday my boy KG!

Nice, nice. I hope KG is savoring all of this

[AshyLarry]

And the boogie man nuggets are done


It’s absolutely wide for Boston

Denver is dead

Knicks are dead

Adam Silver is dead

Bang the gong, Woooooooooo!!!!

YES SIR!

happy birthday my boy KG!

Nice, nice. I hope KG is savoring all of this

Garnett is having a good week.

[tenn_smoothie]

That pathetic surrender by Denver in the last minute was bizarre.