2023 Around The League NBA Playoffs Thread

shrink · Post #121 » by **shrink** » Wed May 10, 2023 5:02 am

cmoss84 wrote:DLo, Vando, and Beasily doing little to nothing to help the Lakers. I do not regret dealing any of them.

Me neither, but I was hoping that DLo would play well .. right up until the Lakers gave him a big new contract!

Post #122 » by **Calinks** » Wed May 10, 2023 6:12 pm

I think it would be epic as hell to see Jokic vs Emciid in the finals but I doubt it happens. I'm rooting for Denver or the Lakers to win it all.

life_saver · Post #123 » by **life_saver** » Wed May 10, 2023 6:55 pm

Jokic is freaking insane...best player in the league. Wouldn't mind seeing Denver win it all just for the sake of Jokic

minimus · Post #124 » by **minimus** » Wed May 10, 2023 7:16 pm

I know it sounds like a broken record, but I think Paul Reed was a physical defensive minded PF that could work with Towns. Pseudo C who can run in transition, clean the glass and defend some wings.

Battletrigger · Post #125 » by **Battletrigger** » Wed May 10, 2023 7:33 pm

Calinks wrote:I think it would be epic as hell to see Jokic vs Emciid in the finals but I doubt it happens. I'm rooting for Denver or the Lakers to win it all.

Lakers no, please. I'm going with Boston or Jimmy Butler.

Post #126 » by **Klomp** » Wed May 10, 2023 8:49 pm

I like the idea of a big man Finals!

TimberKat · Post #127 » by **TimberKat** » Thu May 11, 2023 1:50 am

Latrell Sprewell sighting at MSG tonight and I thought he was busy working at Seven Eleven to feed his kids.

Post #128 » by **Calinks** » Thu May 11, 2023 4:20 am

This is a pretty entertaining playoff season. The execution level is nuts and having role players who can have significant games is everything. You really got to make sure your depth is in place.

TimberKat · Post #129 » by **TimberKat** » Thu May 11, 2023 4:32 am

I never seen anyone, let alone centers, pass the ball the Jokic. I still can't figure out if I want DLo to do well or bad. I am so conflicted watching him. It's been a great series with GSW shot themselves in the foot.

Neeva · Post #130 » by **Neeva** » Thu May 11, 2023 4:43 am

Vando really is useless in the playoffs.

Post #131 » by **Calinks** » Fri May 12, 2023 3:22 am

Nuggets are absolutely destroying the Suns. I know the Suns got one more win than us but its starting to look like we played the Nuggets harder lol. If only KAT could have shown up, we probably could have gotten another win. Makes me chuckle at all the people who said the Suns would demolish the Nuggets. Nuggets are pose incarnate this post-season. Aaron Gordon has been elite in his role, I know some wolves fans wanted us to trade for him, I see why now, the guy is perfect in Denver.

TimberKat · Post #132 » by **TimberKat** » Fri May 12, 2023 3:45 am

Calinks wrote:Nuggets are absolutely destroying the Suns. I know the Suns got one more win than us but its starting to look like we played the Nuggets harder lol. If only KAT could have shown up, we probably could have gotten another win. Makes me chuckle at all the people who said the Suns would demolish the Nuggets. Nuggets are pose incarnate this post-season. Aaron Gordon has been elite in his role, I know some wolves fans wanted us to trade for him, I see why now, the guy is perfect in Denver.

Nuggets clearly will not get to the next step with a slow center in the middle in today's small ball dominated league. Jokic is useless if he doesn't pass the ball and why do you want a center to pass the ball anyway. Next year, they are going to have to paid him 46M. That is a lot of money tie up in a pointless position. They should trade him + 2 #1 to GSW for Thompson, so, they can get to the next level.

TimberKat · Post #133 » by **TimberKat** » Fri May 12, 2023 4:03 am

Suns were already short handed from the KD trade. There is no way to win without Paul and Ayton. What's interesting is Okogie still didn't get any minute tonight. Two stars are not enough, you really need a "team" with 7 or 8 good players.

Neeva · Post #134 » by **Neeva** » Fri May 12, 2023 4:15 am

If it wasn’t for the dumb move by Mcdaniels wolves probably are in the finals against Denver smh.

Post #135 » by **Calinks** » Fri May 12, 2023 5:15 am

Neeva wrote:If it wasn’t for the dumb move by Mcdaniels wolves probably are in the finals against Denver smh.

Its crazy how drastically this pos season could have gone if.

1. McDaniels didn't get hurt.

2. If KAT played like normal KAT in the playoffs and Play in.

We legintametly could have been in the second round and maybe better.

FrenchMinnyFan · Post #136 » by **FrenchMinnyFan** » Fri May 12, 2023 7:48 am

TimberKat wrote:Suns were already short handed from the KD trade. There is no way to win without Paul and Ayton. What's interesting is Okogie still didn't get any minute tonight. Two stars are not enough, you really need a "team" with 7 or 8 good players.

That's exactly the point. I look lot of Denver games thus year and it was obvious that Jokic change his game during regular season. HE make everybody involve. He still able to make triple double when necessary but he also allow his teammate to shine. You win as a team. Even the most talented players cannot win alone. Suns are a good example. They got 2 star players KD and Booker and were smashed .

bluethunder0005 · Post #137 » by **bluethunder0005** » Fri May 12, 2023 11:45 am

Wolves had 1 loss greater than 10 points against Denver and that was Game 1 where they had a lot of rest and the Wolves had none. Suns lost all 4 of their games by 10 or more with the average margin being a 17 point loss.

Also, while we know KAT is obviously not the best defender in the world, Jokic averaged 26/12/9 against us but 34/13/10 against the Suns and he also shot less than 50% from the field (granted that's largely due to a bad shooting game 5). Just interesting to see that even with the injuries we had that honestly we played them tougher than the Suns.

Post #138 » by **Calinks** » Fri May 12, 2023 4:53 pm

The wolves liked chopped liver too. We never looked like a good team or a team that knew what it was doing. TNT constantly talked about how dumb we are, KAT was horrendous compared to his best self, Gobert was hurt the first couple of games, we were missing guys. That was a really bad series for us but we still played hard after game 1 and we almost took it to 6 games.

If we had a full roster, team cohesion, and Towns wasn't crap on offense (Though he did have some good defensive possesions, overall wasn't great though), we could have been really competitive. I always felt like we were around the Lakers level and look how far the are going right now.

That could have been us if we could have gotten the two big thing to work and Towns showed up.

BlacJacMac · Post #139 » by **BlacJacMac** » Fri May 12, 2023 5:30 pm

Neeva wrote:If it wasn’t for the dumb move by Mcdaniels wolves probably are in the finals against Denver smh.

Even having Naz, we probably win the series.

He has his flaws and limits, but his offensive aggression would've likely stopped a few of the major dry spells we had.

Post #140 » by **Klomp** » Fri May 12, 2023 6:11 pm

Calinks wrote:The wolves liked chopped liver too. We never looked like a good team or a team that knew what it was doing. TNT constantly talked about how dumb we are, KAT was horrendous compared to his best self, Gobert was hurt the first couple of games, we were missing guys. That was a really bad series for us but we still played hard after game 1 and we almost took it to 6 games.

If we had a full roster, team cohesion, and Towns wasn't crap on offense (Though he did have some good defensive possesions, overall wasn't great though), we could have been really competitive. I always felt like we were around the Lakers level and look how far the are going right now.

That could have been us if we could have gotten the two big thing to work and Towns showed up.

I think the biggest thing this season and playoffs have shown me is that our issues were a consistency issue and not an ability issue. Consistency only comes through time and repetition.