Around the Playoffs 2023

Impuniti · Post #41 » by **Impuniti** » Fri Apr 28, 2023 2:02 pm

Coxy wrote:I’d be pretty angry if I were a Bucks fan with that missed Butler pushing off foul on that last second play in the 4th. He clearly shoves the defender, horrible missed call from the blind refs.

If Giannis was actually reffed like every other NBA player, he wouldn't finish a single game he's played this season. No NBA player gets pampered like he does when they ignore 90% of his offensive fouls every single game.

Coxy · Post #42 » by **Coxy** » Sat Apr 29, 2023 12:10 am

Impuniti wrote:
Coxy wrote:I’d be pretty angry if I were a Bucks fan with that missed Butler pushing off foul on that last second play in the 4th. He clearly shoves the defender, horrible missed call from the blind refs.

If Giannis was actually reffed like every other NBA player, he wouldn't finish a single game he's played this season. No NBA player gets pampered like he does when they ignore 90% of his offensive fouls every single game.

Coxy · Post #43 » by **Coxy** » Tue May 2, 2023 3:15 am

Boston letting fatty Harden drop 45 on them at home with no Embiid, shame shame shame.

KevinMcreynolds · Post #44 » by **KevinMcreynolds** » Tue May 2, 2023 4:11 am

Water’s wet, sky is blue, CP3 hurt again

Crazy-Canuck · Post #45 » by **Crazy-Canuck** » Tue May 2, 2023 4:35 am

Kd ran to the lockerroom to call steph to see if there's a roster spot next year. Early bird gets the worm and all.

Coxy · Post #46 » by **Coxy** » Tue May 2, 2023 4:40 am

Crazy-Canuck wrote:Kd ran to the lockerroom to call steph to see if there's a roster spot next year. Early bird gets the worm and all.

Took a while for him to call Steph, he needed to check the internets to see if there was any negaitive talk about him on the forums.

Onus · Post #47 » by **Onus** » Tue May 2, 2023 4:53 am

It’s funny that Kd gets so much hate now but gets so much praise when they try to bring down Steph.

tarantism · Post #48 » by **tarantism** » Tue May 2, 2023 5:02 am

Do we have Ewing theory potential here with Embiid? The Sixers are way more switchy without him. Reed can scale down defensively enough for them to go 1-5 if they want to. The drop with Embiid will open up the midrange for Boston and they have several guys who are comfortable operating there.

I expected Boston to be the team that got stops when it mattered but it was Philly today. They will not be able to play the same style of defense in crunch time with the Embiid lineups.

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Impuniti · Post #49 » by **Impuniti** » Tue May 2, 2023 6:19 am

tarantism wrote:Do we have Ewing theory potential here with Embiid? The Sixers are way more switchy without him. Reed can scale down defensively enough for them to go 1-5 if they want to. The drop with Embiid will open up the midrange for Boston and they have several guys who are comfortable operating there.

I expected Boston to be the team that got stops when it mattered but it was Philly today. They will not be able to play the same style of defense in crunch time with the Embiid lineups.

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They likely lost some focus mentally due to Embiid being out. They're not as good as they were last season defensively, but I still fully expect them to go past them even once Embiid is back.

wco81 · Post #50 » by **wco81** » Tue May 2, 2023 7:18 am

Suns scored 87 points with KD playing 44 and Booker playing 45 minutes , 27 shots for KD and 29 for Booker.

Suns shot 19.4% from 3, had a total 5 FTs, 2 for KD and 3 for Booker.

Hmm they played Damian Lee 26 minutes, because they needed more shooting? Ross and Warren got DNPs.

So KD and Booker played your turn, my turn ball. Book shot well but KD didn’t.

Looks like both of them will need to score over 30-35, maybe one goes for over 40 while the other scores at least 30-35.

Onus · Post #51 » by **Onus** » Tue May 2, 2023 2:58 pm

wco81 wrote:Suns scored 87 points with KD playing 44 and Booker playing 45 minutes , 27 shots for KD and 29 for Booker.

Suns shot 19.4% from 3, had a total 5 FTs, 2 for KD and 3 for Booker.

Hmm they played Damian Lee 26 minutes, because they needed more shooting? Ross and Warren got DNPs.

So KD and Booker played your turn, my turn ball. Book shot well but KD didn’t.

Looks like both of them will need to score over 30-35, maybe one goes for over 40 while the other scores at least 30-35.

Suns might get swept, I think they only get 1 game tops.

GSWFan1994 · Post #52 » by **GSWFan1994** » Tue May 2, 2023 2:59 pm

Told you guys about Paul Reed... jeez, think him being our 1st big off the bench.

And if we could have Josh Hart for Donte then... what a team we would be.

Both are out of our price/trade range now though, obviously.

Crazy-Canuck · Post #53 » by **Crazy-Canuck** » Tue May 2, 2023 4:24 pm

Read on Twitter

Ouch

To the dubs for the min to hang out with dray. :lol:

Onus · Post #54 » by **Onus** » Tue May 2, 2023 4:35 pm

Crazy-Canuck wrote:

Read on Twitter

Ouch

To the dubs for the min to hang out with dray.

crazy to be like we don't want you at any price lmao

tal57 · Post #55 » by **tal57** » Tue May 2, 2023 4:55 pm

wco81 wrote:Suns scored 87 points with KD playing 44 and Booker playing 45 minutes , 27 shots for KD and 29 for Booker.

Suns shot 19.4% from 3, had a total 5 FTs, 2 for KD and 3 for Booker.

Hmm they played Damian Lee 26 minutes, because they needed more shooting? Ross and Warren got DNPs.

So KD and Booker played your turn, my turn ball. Book shot well but KD didn’t.

Looks like both of them will need to score over 30-35, maybe one goes for over 40 while the other scores at least 30-35.

Yep. Gutted the roster for a star. Now came to a point paying the price for it. Two guys practically playing the entire game, taking turns at one on 5 basketball. You could clearly see when they were elevating for the shot neither had any legs left in the 4th Quarter.

KevinMcreynolds · Post #56 » by **KevinMcreynolds** » Tue May 2, 2023 5:20 pm

tarantism wrote:Do we have Ewing theory potential here with Embiid? The Sixers are way more switchy without him. Reed can scale down defensively enough for them to go 1-5 if they want to. The drop with Embiid will open up the midrange for Boston and they have several guys who are comfortable operating there.

I expected Boston to be the team that got stops when it mattered but it was Philly today. They will not be able to play the same style of defense in crunch time with the Embiid lineups.

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He’s going to get a pity MVP after he cried about it last year and with all the race talk on ESPN, but Jokic is the real MVP without a doubt

GSWFan1994 · Post #57 » by **GSWFan1994** » Tue May 2, 2023 5:46 pm

Watch Miami go after Dillon and turn him into an useful piece.

wco81 · Post #58 » by **wco81** » Tue May 2, 2023 9:34 pm

tal57 wrote:
wco81 wrote:Suns scored 87 points with KD playing 44 and Booker playing 45 minutes , 27 shots for KD and 29 for Booker.

Suns shot 19.4% from 3, had a total 5 FTs, 2 for KD and 3 for Booker.

Hmm they played Damian Lee 26 minutes, because they needed more shooting? Ross and Warren got DNPs.

So KD and Booker played your turn, my turn ball. Book shot well but KD didn’t.

Looks like both of them will need to score over 30-35, maybe one goes for over 40 while the other scores at least 30-35.

Yep. Gutted the roster for a star. Now came to a point paying the price for it. Two guys practically playing the entire game, taking turns at one on 5 basketball. You could clearly see when they were elevating for the shot neither had any legs left in the 4th Quarter.

Thing is, they didn't even give guys like Warren or Ross a chance, guys who can hit some wide open looks.

So yeah they gave up some very good role players to get KD but Monty Williams played Damian Lee over Ross or Warren in game 2. Lee played well earlier in the season but he's shooting like 23% from 3 in 6 playoffs games and he's a big defensive liability. Ross and Warren aren't known for being 2-way players but they're bigger and more athletic than Lee so at least they have a better chance to defend, unless they're completely ignorant about the Suns' defensive rotation schemes, having joined the team just a couple of weeks ago.

wco81 · Post #59 » by **wco81** » Tue May 2, 2023 9:41 pm

GSWFan1994 wrote:Watch Miami go after Dillon and turn him into an useful piece.

Dillon turned himself into a pretty good POA defender, starting with the 2020-21 play-in games where he guarded Curry.

He's been their primary defender since.

Thing is, I think he got his extension for being something of a shotmaker. I remember him at Oregon he was a big clutch shooter.

His last two seasons his 3-point shooting has been in the low 30s after being in the 35-37% range his first 4 seasons. That is why they extended him off his rookie deal.

His playoffs shooting has really fallen off, taking more 3s and just ending up under 24% in the Lakers series.

Problem may be he got too distracted getting into these personal feuds.

He can certainly shoot a lot better than he has, a career 80% FT shooter.

He needs to get his head right if he wants to continue.

GSW likely won't be interested but if he's only getting vet minimum deals, he wouldn't be the worst option, though I guess there's a risk that he will stir up too much drama and the team may have to cut him in the middle so they need more character guys as well as guys who can produce.

wco81 · Post #60 » by **wco81** » Sat May 6, 2023 2:56 am

So far it looks like Booker is the main option for Phoenix in game 3 vs. Denver, a game they have to win.

KD didn't like being seen as #2 to Curry with GSW and now he's #2 to Booker? :lol:

Well to be fair, Booker has been hot in the playoffs, shooting very high percentage while KD hasn't been his usual efficient self.

He wasn't in last year's playoffs either.

Then he had a crazy efficient season with the Nets before being traded to Phoenix.

Unless the Suns win this game, it may not matter who gets to be #1 because their season could end soon.