How's everyone? My mixed feelings about current Playoffs

[tamaraw08]

Everybody else still watching the playoffs , or completely moved on?
Well, I stayed watching and had mixed feelings about it.
Obviously Grief. My heart broke after watching them get beat handlily especially at home with the other team shooting 14% from 3, missing 40 of those shots from there and missing 60% of their shots overall
You see teams like Boston missing Tatum and not giving up and winning at home. GSW missing Curry and beating the TWolves.
Denver with a shallow bench forcing game 7 vs the Best RS team. They never gave up, same with the Clips..well until game 7.


JOY!! Most of my hated teams were eliminated. Clippers, Boston and Denver.
Actually was intrigued with the Nuggets/Clippers match up . Actually HATED both teams but hated Denver more because I find guys like Murray, Braun, Russ to be too cocky.
Also hated the TWolves too because I find Ant to be arrogant and so full of himself.Was disappointed that Curry got injured and the Warriors failed to eliminate them.
I felt so much joy watching the freaking Celtics finally got eliminated,
I'm also happy for teams like Indiana, NY and OKC that one of these teams would have a chance to win it all.

[SlimShady83]

Now that Bos and Den are out, anything goes and I'm loving It.

I predicted Knicks/Dallas at the start of the season so I guess i'm sticking with the Knicks.

And yes I watch games when It's live, don't watch games when It's not live. Worse thing about being Aussie, most games are during the day, so by the time I get home most are played or near the end still try my best to watch most.

[Apz]

Watched a few minutes here and there, but always comes to my senses and watch some chinese drama since for me it actually gives more

[xinxin]

I’m rooting for the Knicks to win it all. Pacers are Ok too, for me.

I don’t want OKC nor the wolves to get a taste of winning, otherwise , it’ll be harder for the Luka lakers to get past these equally young teams but with championship pedigree, if ever.


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[danfantastk32]

Not watching much. Some highlights here and there on youtube. Don't have any skin in the game, now. Glad Celtics and Clippers are gone. I had OKC pegged to win it all.....grats to Denver for giving them a real scare. OKC is now battle tested. I personally like Ant-man...so either team coming out of the west is ok with me.

Not sure how I feel about the Knicks winning it. Knick fans already walk a fine line of being intolerable imo. And thats with a thick cloud of 'loser' hanging over them....lift that cloud??? Holy hell....Knick fans will be insufferable for a decade. Think about it....they call MSG the "Mecca of basketball" and nobody younger than Gen. Patton has seen success there. Knick fans have to be careful what they wish for. Remember Cubs fans?? That was a community. They rallied around losing for decades and decades. Now what?? They won a chip...have gone back to sucking, but now they have nothing. Their whole identity and community is destroyed. So maybe Knicks fans should secretly hope they choke.

But either way....it'll be highlights and sports websites for me. I wont be watching, as I don't really care.

As for the Lakers, you had to know this was a 1/2-baked team at best. Glad they got Luka. Now focus on building around him, or moving him for alot of pieces if he doesn't want to wait for the rebuild. Yes...I said rebuild, cause that's what this ultimately will be (if they want to actually win something). If Luka does eventually end up winning a title in a Laker jersey.....It won't be with anyone else currently on the Lakers. I'll give a pass for Knecht maybe developing into something over the next couple years...or a guy like Vincent or Reeves being a deep bench player....but the general point still stands: We need a whole new team around Luka.

[Beethoven]

Dont really have the time to sit down and watch a game (nor even during our own games, due to work, studying, etc) but I find it refreshing this playoffs we have four wholly new teams to vie for the championship.


I actually dont want anyone from west to win (however the egregious teams for me were gsw and denver; they had no business lingering around after their own brief time in the light) so it would be fine if Knicks or Pacers take the whole thing.

[tamaraw08]

Dont really have the time to sit down and watch a game (nor even during our own games, due to work, studying, etc) but I find it refreshing this playoffs we have four wholly new teams to vie for the championship.


I actually dont want anyone from west to win (however the egregious teams for me were gsw and denver; they had no business lingering around after their own brief time in the light) so it would be fine if Knicks or Pacers take the whole thing.

Yeah, I would prefer the Pacers to win it all and then Knicks, if not OKC.
But I really want to wipe that disgusting smirk from that arrogant Ant Edwards face.

[Beethoven]

Dont really have the time to sit down and watch a game (nor even during our own games, due to work, studying, etc) but I find it refreshing this playoffs we have four wholly new teams to vie for the championship.


I actually dont want anyone from west to win (however the egregious teams for me were gsw and denver; they had no business lingering around after their own brief time in the light) so it would be fine if Knicks or Pacers take the whole thing.

Yeah, I would prefer the Pacers to win it all and then Knicks, if not OKC.
But I really want to wipe that disgusting smirk from that arrogant Ant Edwards face.

To tell you the truth, all the players on other West teams (for some reason) are all punchable faces:

steph jokic butler murray ant shai everyone.

Only Lakers faces are not punchable. I find that intriguingly coincidental.

[tamaraw08]

As for the Lakers, you had to know this was a 1/2-baked team at best. Glad they got Luka. Now focus on building around him, or moving him for alot of pieces if he doesn't want to wait for the rebuild. Yes...I said rebuild, cause that's what this ultimately will be (if they want to actually win something). If Luka does eventually end up winning a title in a Laker jersey.....It won't be with anyone else currently on the Lakers. I'll give a pass for Knecht maybe developing into something over the next couple years...or a guy like Vincent or Reeves being a deep bench player....but the general point still stands: We need a whole new team around Luka.

The last few playoffs, I notice the teams that went deep were filled with good defenders who can shoot.
NY has 3, Cetics has 4, Pacers have 3, OKC has as many as 5.
Lakers only has DFS that can defend and hit open 3's.
I like Reaves but the Lakers only have him as a realistic trading piece and him and Luka are both bad perimeter defenders.
Vando (highest paid non shooting wing), Goodwin are such liabilities on offense
and JJ doesn't trust Knecht's defense... unless Dalton finds a tutor who can teach him ways to properly defend, I think he also would be a trade bait. I must admit, I was very disappointed that JJ also didn't even trust Vincent inspite of Gabe proving he can give this team 25 decent minutes like he did in Miami.
Then there's also a huge hole in the Center position.

[Beethoven]

Ehhhh .. I dont really care how we form our team(s) in the next few years cuz all I know is that we will be due a championship at least by 2030.

[danfantastk32]

As for the Lakers, you had to know this was a 1/2-baked team at best. Glad they got Luka. Now focus on building around him, or moving him for alot of pieces if he doesn't want to wait for the rebuild. Yes...I said rebuild, cause that's what this ultimately will be (if they want to actually win something). If Luka does eventually end up winning a title in a Laker jersey.....It won't be with anyone else currently on the Lakers. I'll give a pass for Knecht maybe developing into something over the next couple years...or a guy like Vincent or Reeves being a deep bench player....but the general point still stands: We need a whole new team around Luka.

The last few playoffs, I notice the teams that went deep were filled with good defenders who can shoot.
NY has 3, Cetics has 4, Pacers have 3, OKC has as many as 5.
Lakers only has DFS that can defend and hit open 3's.
I like Reaves but the Lakers only have him as a realistic trading piece and him and Luka are both bad perimeter defenders.
Vando (highest paid non shooting wing), Goodwin are such liabilities on offense
and JJ doesn't trust Knecht's defense... unless Dalton finds a tutor who can teach him ways to properly defend, I think he also would be a trade bait. I must admit, I was very disappointed that JJ also didn't even trust Vincent inspite of Gabe proving he can give this team 25 decent minutes like he did in Miami.
Then there's also a huge hole in the Center position.

I don't wanna put a tag on Knecht yet....I'll give him another year or so to develop, and then I'll judge him. The other names were just "for instance" ...they can all go, for all I care. I'm just saying if we do have a player or two from this current team, they'll be deep bench.

[tamaraw08]

As for the Lakers, you had to know this was a 1/2-baked team at best. Glad they got Luka. Now focus on building around him, or moving him for alot of pieces if he doesn't want to wait for the rebuild. Yes...I said rebuild, cause that's what this ultimately will be (if they want to actually win something). If Luka does eventually end up winning a title in a Laker jersey.....It won't be with anyone else currently on the Lakers. I'll give a pass for Knecht maybe developing into something over the next couple years...or a guy like Vincent or Reeves being a deep bench player....but the general point still stands: We need a whole new team around Luka.

The last few playoffs, I notice the teams that went deep were filled with good defenders who can shoot.
NY has 3, Cetics has 4, Pacers have 3, OKC has as many as 5.
Lakers only has DFS that can defend and hit open 3's.
I like Reaves but the Lakers only have him as a realistic trading piece and him and Luka are both bad perimeter defenders.
Vando (highest paid non shooting wing), Goodwin are such liabilities on offense
and JJ doesn't trust Knecht's defense... unless Dalton finds a tutor who can teach him ways to properly defend, I think he also would be a trade bait. I must admit, I was very disappointed that JJ also didn't even trust Vincent inspite of Gabe proving he can give this team 25 decent minutes like he did in Miami.
Then there's also a huge hole in the Center position.

I don't wanna put a tag on Knecht yet....I'll give him another year or so to develop, and then I'll judge him. The other names were just "for instance" ...they can all go, for all I care. I'm just saying if we do have a player or two from this current team, they'll be deep bench.

I like Knecht but it will all depend on JJ and Rob would have the heart to heart talk if at all JJ would play him or not.
If Redick have his doubts then Pelinka would really need to trade him before he totally lose his trade value and just rots in the bench.
I don't know how you feel about Redick but I am disappointed because I really thought he would be innovative with regards of drawing up plays to maximize his role players instead of completely benching them.

[danfantastk32]

I don't know how you feel about Redick but I am disappointed because I really thought he would be innovative with regards of drawing up plays to maximize his role players instead of completely benching them.

I'm whatever with JJ. I think the Lakers have made it a habit to blame the coach, when the roster's have been terrible. Vogel was a really good coach imo, and when you had a younger Lebron, and AD, and good character guys like D-Green, and Rondo...we won a title...and were right there in the hunt the following year, until AD got hurt. But then get rid of all the good guys, and young talent, and bring in dip-sh** players like Brick and Anthony...and holy sh**!! Suddenly the team plays no defense, and sucks!

Replacing Vogel solved nothing. It only made it worse, as I think Ham is not as good as Vogel was. And I think replacing Ham with JJ solved nothing. JJ is a rookie, and even if he does eventually end up a respected great coach in the future...your gonna have your learning phase. His youth and recent time in the NBA might help him...we'll see. I havent seen anything terrible or great from him. The only terrible thing I saw, was the half-baked squad we threw out there. So my grade on JJ is "incomplete".

His decision to play his started to the ground in game 5 or 6 was a def head-scratcher....le'ts hope he learned from it. Rookie mistake right there. Not that it woulda mattered...let's be honest.

[Beethoven]

I don't know how you feel about Redick but I am disappointed because I really thought he would be innovative with regards of drawing up plays to maximize his role players instead of completely benching them.

I'm whatever with JJ. I think the Lakers have made it a habit to blame the coach, when the roster's have been terrible. Vogel was a really good coach imo, and when you had a younger Lebron, and AD, and good character guys like D-Green, and Rondo...we won a title...and were right there in the hunt the following year, until AD got hurt. But then get rid of all the good guys, and young talent, and bring in dip-sh** players like Brick and Anthony...and holy sh**!! Suddenly the team plays no defense, and sucks!

Replacing Vogel solved nothing. It only made it worse, as I think Ham is not as good as Vogel was. And I think replacing Ham with JJ solved nothing. JJ is a rookie, and even if he does eventually end up a respected great coach in the future...your gonna have your learning phase. His youth and recent time in the NBA might help him...we'll see. I havent seen anything terrible or great from him. The only terrible thing I saw, was the half-baked squad we threw out there. So my grade on JJ is "incomplete".

His decision to play his started to the ground in game 5 or 6 was a def head-scratcher....le'ts hope he learned from it. Rookie mistake right there. Not that it woulda mattered...let's be honest.

Yeah totally agree .. that 2021 season was going to be amazing. We had all the right pieces and we could have won the championship (imo) but the Solomon attacking Lebron injury and the AD injury really put a hamper on that. We should have rolled with that again next season, but no, we had to do this switcheroo completely revamp the team thing with Westbrook (I actually like the guy, but we also brought in all these weak, supposed 3pt shooters that did NOTHING that season).

We should have kept Vogel. But I do have a good feeling about JJ this guy is a critical thinker and will learn from his first playoffs mistakes definitely.

[Beethoven]

Right now Im feeling a bit better about the playoffs now that all Minn has to do is get rid of okc.
and then they themselves get rid of by one of the east teams.

ugh.
cant wait for next season.. or the season where we finally position ourselves in the rightful top again.

[stan francisco]

Watched a few games. I have OKC beating IND in the finals. Their team defense is just disgustingly good. Nobody is going to beat them in seven games this season.

We’ll need to have 8-9 starter caliber two-way players to get anywhere in the west next year.

[danfantastk32]

Watched a few games. I have OKC beating IND in the finals. Their team defense is just disgustingly good. Nobody is going to beat them in seven games this season.

We’ll need to have 8-9 starter caliber two-way players to get anywhere in the west next year.

Yeah, I think OKC have the best team as well. And they will only get better over the next couple years. Lakers have a ways to go.

[Landsberger]

I swing by here every now and again and saw this thread. I opened it not knowing who was still in the playoffs. That's how much I care about the NBA these days. Ratings are showing I'm not the only one who might be tuning out.

As for the Lakers chances going forward. Who knows. Too much money tied up in Bron to improve the team much if at all. The desire of the ownership will be to get that 3 star thing going again. Never mind the 4 such attempts that have put us here. So be on the lookout for the most marketable players around coming to LA.... the Busses have taxes to pay you know.

[danfantastk32]

Yeah, I would prefer the Pacers to win it all and then Knicks, if not OKC.
But I really want to wipe that disgusting smirk from that arrogant Ant Edwards face.

I like Antman...but he certainly got his fill of humble pie the last week or so. I hope this ends up being good for him, as I think he's a fantastic player.