Around the NBA - Conference Finals and Finals
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They don't even explain the James Johnson ejection. I assumed it was just a double T
There goes my hero. Watch him as he goes.
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Tickets are going for $1500 a piece in the nosebleeds for game 7. This is in OKC! Who the hell can afford that in OKC? Sometimes the game just feels so rigged. At the end of the day we all just puppets and the top 1% be pulling the strings.
Fire Thibs!
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WaltFrazier wrote:They don't even explain the James Johnson ejection. I assumed it was just a double T
Ok. So it seems that it was just a T and ejection on Johnson.
There's video at https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401766127
I didn't figure out how to embed it here.

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If Indiana wins on Sunday, it will be incredibly impressive and also painful as a Knicks fan. OKC will have one of the worst choke series of all time.
I’m not sure if I could take an IND win… damn
I’m not sure if I could take an IND win… damn
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sol537 wrote:If Indiana wins on Sunday, it will be incredibly impressive and also painful as a Knicks fan. OKC will have one of the worst choke series of all time.
I’m not sure if I could take an IND win… damn
honestly it wont be painful for me. The front office would have blown it by lettng Thibs continue his show...I said this all season. We cant win it all with 7 guys in this era of basketball. Indy is the better team by far today and its because of Carlisle. Period. If we played them 7 vs 7 they wouldn't have a chance. Lets see if the Knick front office finally got the meesage and brings in the right coach and we have 10-11 guys that said coach can trust during a playoff run.

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Context wrote:sol537 wrote:If Indiana wins on Sunday, it will be incredibly impressive and also painful as a Knicks fan. OKC will have one of the worst choke series of all time.
I’m not sure if I could take an IND win… damn
honestly it wont be painful for me. The front office would have blown it by lettng Thibs continue his show...I said this all season. We cant win it all with 7 guys in this era of basketball. Indy is the better team by far today and its because of Carlisle. Period. If we played them 7 vs 7 they wouldn't have a chance. Lets see if the Knick front office finally got the meesage and brings in the right coach and we have 10-11 guys that said coach can trust during a playoff run.
What if we won game one as we were 1000-1 odd to win at the end? Wasn’t it plausible we win that series? (Or at least 50% chance?) I still think we’d lose to OKC in 5 or 6 but you never know once you’re in it. We blew it, man. Thibs, the players, and the front office.
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sol537 wrote:Context wrote:sol537 wrote:If Indiana wins on Sunday, it will be incredibly impressive and also painful as a Knicks fan. OKC will have one of the worst choke series of all time.
I’m not sure if I could take an IND win… damn
honestly it wont be painful for me. The front office would have blown it by lettng Thibs continue his show...I said this all season. We cant win it all with 7 guys in this era of basketball. Indy is the better team by far today and its because of Carlisle. Period. If we played them 7 vs 7 they wouldn't have a chance. Lets see if the Knick front office finally got the meesage and brings in the right coach and we have 10-11 guys that said coach can trust during a playoff run.
What if we won game one as we were 1000-1 odd to win at the end? Wasn’t it plausible we win that series? (Or at least 50% chance?) I still think we’d lose to OKC in 5 or 6 but you never know once you’re in it. We blew it, man. Thibs, the players, and the front office.
I think the one thing that Thibs developed was getting our guys to give all they had. I think Thibs built their will up but ultimately too many miles caught up on those legs. I think even if we won game one. Their "team" would have out lasted us. Carlisle had a strategy and he connected with his team and got them to believe that we did have enough bodies and energy to outlast them. I think thats why you saw a confidence in hali vs us that you dont see in hali vs okc.

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If Indy wins, Thibs is an NBA champion.
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Missed the game. Sure silver is pissed his illegal streams numbers are dropping in the finals. Mayeb this will teach him to give kat a better whistle.
Anyways, good thing im dead inside or i might be angry that Hali and the pacers are 1 win away from a chip.
Im fully prepared to live in a world where Hali is a champion cause sports are pain like life. Especially cause this should be us.
Shtty things happen yet we persist.
Anyways, good thing im dead inside or i might be angry that Hali and the pacers are 1 win away from a chip.
Im fully prepared to live in a world where Hali is a champion cause sports are pain like life. Especially cause this should be us.
Shtty things happen yet we persist.
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When you go all in on fat contracts for your top 5, never swing on upside, and dont play the rooks you have ...then our 6-10 likely won't match other team's 6-10 in the short run.Context wrote:sol537 wrote:If Indiana wins on Sunday, it will be incredibly impressive and also painful as a Knicks fan. OKC will have one of the worst choke series of all time.
I’m not sure if I could take an IND win… damn
honestly it wont be painful for me. The front office would have blown it by lettng Thibs continue his show...I said this all season. We cant win it all with 7 guys in this era of basketball. Indy is the better team by far today and its because of Carlisle. Period. If we played them 7 vs 7 they wouldn't have a chance. Lets see if the Knick front office finally got the meesage and brings in the right coach and we have 10-11 guys that said coach can trust during a playoff run.

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sol537 wrote:If Indiana wins on Sunday, it will be incredibly impressive and also painful as a Knicks fan. OKC will have one of the worst choke series of all time.
I’m not sure if I could take an IND win… damn
anyone who really bought that nonsense about OKC being one of the geatest teams of all time needs to be studied. they already got taken to 7 by a mediocre denver team. It's far from shocking that indy took them to 7 and I wasn't that worried about them if we played them
they have zero offense outside of shai. they kind of just pray the other team stupidly commits 30 turnovers and never learns their lesson
NiceLikeChrist wrote:We are going to deeply regret this. We traded away the best player in the trade and still had to give up a great role player AND a pick?
so many people are going to eat their words about randle
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If Indiana wins again, Thibs should be fired again.
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How about that Obi Toppin.
Fine player, he is. Finals MVP?
Fine player, he is. Finals MVP?

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holy smokes, I did not see this coming. OKC looked absolutely shook.
Obi leading scorer and getting chants from the crowd in game 6 of the NBA Finals. what a time to be alive.
Obi leading scorer and getting chants from the crowd in game 6 of the NBA Finals. what a time to be alive.
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Guano wrote:Missed the game. Sure silver is pissed his illegal streams numbers are dropping in the finals. Mayeb this will teach him to give kat a better whistle.
Anyways, good thing im dead inside or i might be angry that Hali and the pacers are 1 win away from a chip.
Im fully prepared to live in a world where Hali is a champion cause sports are pain like life. Especially cause this should be us.
Shtty things happen yet we persist.
Siakam doing black magic caught in 4k

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RHODEY wrote:When you go all in on fat contracts for your top 5, never swing on upside, and dont play the rooks you have ...then our 6-10 likely won't match other team's 6-10 in the short run.Context wrote:sol537 wrote:If Indiana wins on Sunday, it will be incredibly impressive and also painful as a Knicks fan. OKC will have one of the worst choke series of all time.
I’m not sure if I could take an IND win… damn
honestly it wont be painful for me. The front office would have blown it by lettng Thibs continue his show...I said this all season. We cant win it all with 7 guys in this era of basketball. Indy is the better team by far today and its because of Carlisle. Period. If we played them 7 vs 7 they wouldn't have a chance. Lets see if the Knick front office finally got the meesage and brings in the right coach and we have 10-11 guys that said coach can trust during a playoff run.
I don't believe the secret to winning the championship is playing 11 guys if those 11 guys are not that good. That means the wizards should put all 15 players in the rotation and instantly become contenders.
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Gravy wrote:RHODEY wrote:When you go all in on fat contracts for your top 5, never swing on upside, and dont play the rooks you have ...then our 6-10 likely won't match other team's 6-10 in the short run.Context wrote:honestly it wont be painful for me. The front office would have blown it by lettng Thibs continue his show...I said this all season. We cant win it all with 7 guys in this era of basketball. Indy is the better team by far today and its because of Carlisle. Period. If we played them 7 vs 7 they wouldn't have a chance. Lets see if the Knick front office finally got the meesage and brings in the right coach and we have 10-11 guys that said coach can trust during a playoff run.
I don't believe the secret to winning the championship is playing 11 guys if those 11 guys are not that good. That means the wizards should put all 15 players in the rotation and instantly become contenders.
If you dont give your players consistent minutes you will never know if theyre good. Thats the point. Thibs didnt give those guys any real time on the bench. We've covered this all season. In these modern times of NBA ball you have no choice but to play guys and if you dont trust them -well you need to find new guys. and you need to do it by december.

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Iron Mantis wrote:How about that Obi Toppin.
Fine player, he is. Finals MVP?
This one hurts a lot. Even if he was an absolute trash player (he wasn't), I would have kept him for the entertainment value alone. He's so electric. Thanks, Tom!

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Iron Mantis wrote:How about that Obi Toppin.
Fine player, he is. Finals MVP?
Shame we couldn't have an impact player like that coming off our bench. Mike Breen was singing his praise.