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Around the NBA - 23-24 Other playoff series 

Post#1 » by bwgood77 » Thu Oct 26, 2023 6:59 pm

Derrick Lively looked pretty good in his debut.







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Post#2 » by Qwigglez » Sat Oct 28, 2023 3:59 am

The Jazz game vs the Clipper was fairly exciting. Glad the Jazz won.
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Post#3 » by Mulhollanddrive » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:19 am

Glad it went down to the last second we'll need a tired Jazz in the 4th.
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Post#4 » by bwgood77 » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:46 am

Wow, Holmgren with 16, 13 and 7 blocks.

Sengun with 25, 14 and 7 assists. Some really good young centers out there.
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Post#5 » by SunsRback4Good » Sat Oct 28, 2023 5:10 am

bwgood77 wrote:Wow, Holmgren with 16, 13 and 7 blocks.

Sengun with 25, 14 and 7 assists. Some really good young centers out there.


OKC sure knows how to draft players. Ibaka, Harden, Durant, Westbrook, Holmgren, Giddy, Dort( great defender)…who else am I missing?
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Post#6 » by SunsRback4Good » Sat Oct 28, 2023 5:19 am

Luka Magic with the shot of the year!!! Don’t think anyone will top this beauty this season. A Kareem hoop shot heaven from 3 point line with a sec remaining on the shot clock.

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bwgood77 wrote:Wow, Holmgren with 16, 13 and 7 blocks.

Sengun with 25, 14 and 7 assists. Some really good young centers out there.


OKC sure knows how to draft players. Ibaka, Harden, Durant, Westbrook, Holmgren, Giddy, Dort( great defender)…who else am I missing?


Jalen Williams, Steven Adams, CAMERON PAYNE (ok, he ended up being a bust for them) and a bunch of other guys they traded. They drafted Tre Mann, and traded these guys they drafted on draft night: Derek Lively who I mentioned above, Alperen Sengun, Immanuel Quickley, Brandon Clarke.

You can bet they would have drafted Booker if we didn't too...they took Payne right after. I can't imagine had they added Booker when they still had Westbrook and KD...Booker's rookie year was the year OKC had the 73-9 Warriors team on the ropes 3-1 and blew it.

I wonder if they got Booker if KD would have left. Probably, given he was just a rookie and GS was really recruiting him.
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Post#8 » by Sunlight » Sat Oct 28, 2023 9:54 am

Nets - Mavs proved once again that the Mikal trade was the right decision. Luka did the same as in Game7. You are able to put some pressure on Luka in defense or put 30-35 points on the board. Neither happened. A role player.
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Sunlight wrote:Nets - Mavs proved once again that the Mikal trade was the right decision. Luka did the same as in Game7. You are able to put some pressure on Luka in defense or put 30-35 points on the board. Neither happened. A role player.


Luka was nuts. He his 4 3s and scored 14 pts in the last 3:30 and his last 3 was crazy. He was well guarded. When he is hot, no one is stopping him.
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bwgood77 wrote:
Sunlight wrote:Nets - Mavs proved once again that the Mikal trade was the right decision. Luka did the same as in Game7. You are able to put some pressure on Luka in defense or put 30-35 points on the board. Neither happened. A role player.


Luka was nuts. He his 4 3s and scored 14 pts in the last 3:30 and his last 3 was crazy. He was well guarded. When he is hot, no one is stopping him.


Kyrie and Luka make up a horrible backcourt both can’t coexist together. It’s like watching Iverson/Carmelo all over again both need the ball in their hands and only one ball to go around. Kyrie’s shooting % is definitely dipping since joining Dallas last season. Cuban should have kept Brunson the youngster is a stud plus he killed Suns in the playoffs. That’s two good guards Cuban traded away Nash & now Brunson.
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Sunlight wrote:Nets - Mavs proved once again that the Mikal trade was the right decision. Luka did the same as in Game7. You are able to put some pressure on Luka in defense or put 30-35 points on the board. Neither happened. A role player.


Luka was nuts. He his 4 3s and scored 14 pts in the last 3:30 and his last 3 was crazy. He was well guarded. When he is hot, no one is stopping him.


Kyrie and Luka make up a horrible backcourt both can’t coexist together. It’s like watching Iverson/Carmelo all over again both need the ball in their hands and only one ball to go around. Kyrie’s shooting % is definitely dipping since joining Dallas last season. Cuban should have kept Brunson the youngster is a stud plus he killed Suns in the playoffs. That’s two good guards Cuban traded away Nash & now Brunson.


Well they scored 66 last night with 17 rebounds and 13 assists. In their first game they scored 55 with 16 assists and 15 rebounds. Not too bad.
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Post#12 » by SunsRback4Good » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:31 pm

bwgood77 wrote:
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Luka was nuts. He his 4 3s and scored 14 pts in the last 3:30 and his last 3 was crazy. He was well guarded. When he is hot, no one is stopping him.


Kyrie and Luka make up a horrible backcourt both can’t coexist together. It’s like watching Iverson/Carmelo all over again both need the ball in their hands and only one ball to go around. Kyrie’s shooting % is definitely dipping since joining Dallas last season. Cuban should have kept Brunson the youngster is a stud plus he killed Suns in the playoffs. That’s two good guards Cuban traded away Nash & now Brunson.


Well they scored 66 last night with 17 rebounds and 13 assists. In their first game they scored 55 with 16 assists and 15 rebounds. Not too bad.


But Kyrie is averaging 20 ppg while shooting 39% fg. Their numbers combined look good cause Luka is doing most of the work.
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Post#13 » by bwgood77 » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:58 pm

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bwgood77 wrote:
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Kyrie and Luka make up a horrible backcourt both can’t coexist together. It’s like watching Iverson/Carmelo all over again both need the ball in their hands and only one ball to go around. Kyrie’s shooting % is definitely dipping since joining Dallas last season. Cuban should have kept Brunson the youngster is a stud plus he killed Suns in the playoffs. That’s two good guards Cuban traded away Nash & now Brunson.


Well they scored 66 last night with 17 rebounds and 13 assists. In their first game they scored 55 with 16 assists and 15 rebounds. Not too bad.


But Kyrie is averaging 20 ppg while shooting 39% fg. Their numbers combined look good cause Luka is doing most of the work.


Yeah, but Kyrie not shooting well so far doesn't have much to do with Luka. Luka draws defenders. Kyrie will have his great games as well.

Those who just look at score and say Bridges can't stop him. His insane barrage at the end, Bridges was on him for only one of them due to switches, and guarded him well but he still hit it. He was double teamed on two of the others and still hit it.

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Post#14 » by Qwigglez » Sun Oct 29, 2023 2:19 am

Maimi blew a gasket. It was I believe 79-83 and then Wolves outscored em 23-6 the last quarter or something.
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Post#15 » by lilfishi22 » Sun Oct 29, 2023 9:52 pm

SunsRback4Good wrote:
bwgood77 wrote:
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Kyrie and Luka make up a horrible backcourt both can’t coexist together. It’s like watching Iverson/Carmelo all over again both need the ball in their hands and only one ball to go around. Kyrie’s shooting % is definitely dipping since joining Dallas last season. Cuban should have kept Brunson the youngster is a stud plus he killed Suns in the playoffs. That’s two good guards Cuban traded away Nash & now Brunson.


Well they scored 66 last night with 17 rebounds and 13 assists. In their first game they scored 55 with 16 assists and 15 rebounds. Not too bad.


But Kyrie is averaging 20 ppg while shooting 39% fg. Their numbers combined look good cause Luka is doing most of the work.

It's 2 games. I'd wait a dozen games before making any sort of judgement. KD is shooting 47/27/81, below his usual percentages but it's not right to say this is how he's always going to be moving forward based on 3 games.
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Post#16 » by sunsbum » Mon Oct 30, 2023 2:31 am

lilfishi22 wrote:
SunsRback4Good wrote:
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Well they scored 66 last night with 17 rebounds and 13 assists. In their first game they scored 55 with 16 assists and 15 rebounds. Not too bad.


But Kyrie is averaging 20 ppg while shooting 39% fg. Their numbers combined look good cause Luka is doing most of the work.

It's 2 games. I'd wait a dozen games before making any sort of judgement. KD is shooting 47/27/81, below his usual percentages but it's not right to say this is how he's always going to be moving forward based on 3 games.
I think any guard in the same backcourt as luka will always have trouble finding themselves. He's just too ball dominant.
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Post#17 » by lilfishi22 » Mon Oct 30, 2023 3:32 am

sunsbum wrote:
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But Kyrie is averaging 20 ppg while shooting 39% fg. Their numbers combined look good cause Luka is doing most of the work.

It's 2 games. I'd wait a dozen games before making any sort of judgement. KD is shooting 47/27/81, below his usual percentages but it's not right to say this is how he's always going to be moving forward based on 3 games.
I think any guard in the same backcourt as luka will always have trouble finding themselves. He's just too ball dominant.

Very well might be true but let's wait more than 2 games to put that nail in the coffin. This is also the best guard Luka has ever played with and it's not even close.
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Post#18 » by bigfoot » Mon Oct 30, 2023 3:03 pm

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Post#19 » by SunsRback4Good » Mon Oct 30, 2023 3:24 pm

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Post#20 » by bwgood77 » Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:29 am

Damn, the Hawks went on a 25-4 run. I saw Minny had a 10 pt lead and checked back like 15 minutes later and the Hawks had an 11 pt lead.

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