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Post #1781 » by **Deeeez Knicks** » Mon May 27, 2024 5:35 pm

Damn, rest in peace Bill Walton

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Clyde_Style · Post #1782 » by **Clyde_Style** » Mon May 27, 2024 6:02 pm

Deeeez Knicks wrote:Damn, rest in peace Bill Walton

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Early Departure for a Good Guy

Take it easy Bill

MrDollarBills · Post #1783 » by **MrDollarBills** » Mon May 27, 2024 6:46 pm

Deeeez Knicks wrote:Damn, rest in peace Bill Walton

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Goddamn it. I swear I heard him calling some game a few weeks back, he sounded like his old self.

Rest well Big man.

Wildcat · Post #1784 » by **Wildcat** » Mon May 27, 2024 6:56 pm

Deeeez Knicks wrote:Damn, rest in peace Bill Walton

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I heard nothing but good things about this dude. RIP.

MrDollarBills · Post #1785 » by **MrDollarBills** » Mon May 27, 2024 7:01 pm

Wildcat wrote:
Deeeez Knicks wrote:Damn, rest in peace Bill Walton

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I heard nothing but good things about this dude. RIP.

Same, never heard any bad stuff about Bill. To me he's always been Luke's often silly and hilarious stoner Dad who used to hoop in the 70s and waved towels for the Celtics in the 80s.

Ghetto Gospel · Post #1786 » by **Ghetto Gospel** » Mon May 27, 2024 7:29 pm

shoutout to kyle kuzma

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jvsimonetti0514 · Post #1787 » by **jvsimonetti0514** » Mon May 27, 2024 8:08 pm

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My god. Historically bad conference finals for Kat

HarthorneWingo · Post #1788 » by **HarthorneWingo** » Mon May 27, 2024 8:12 pm

jvsimonetti0514 wrote:

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My god. Historically bad conference finals for Kat

I hope that we can finally dispense with all of the nauseous KAT trade talk. :noway:

ozwizard8 · Post #1789 » by **ozwizard8** » Mon May 27, 2024 9:25 pm

RHODEY wrote:
knicksNOTslick wrote:
Ghetto Gospel wrote:luka and kyrie on the same team feels not very fair

This is why it was weird for me why they chose to tank out of the playoffs last year. Even with a lower seed, if you have Luka and Kyrie in the postseason, you always have a shot. No sense to tank for a lottery pick. But it did pay off for them to get Lively.

Because despite how insanely gifted they were offensively they realized that they needed defensive balance within the constrains of. their limited flexibility. You cant blame them I guess....but at the same time it seemed like a very " low rent" move. No one will remember though...they'll just remember the championship that they will win this season.

Those trades they made for G afford and that Charlotte Hornets dude really is what put them over the edge.

Gafford trade was robbery.
First of all, why OKC helping but not taking Gafford? They send a late 1st for future draft pick exchange. They could've simply send their pick to Wizards to get a solid backup C for rebounding, rim protection, setting screens. Instead they helped Dallas again. First with Lively and now Gafford.

Secondly, why Wizards trading him for just a late 1st round pick of a bad year? Young athletic rim protecting center with a reasonable contract.

For PJ, Mavs paid a 1st round pick but they also offloaded Grant Williams contract. That contract wasn't too high so its not an unbalanced deal but still a cheap one to get PJ. PJ is undersized for PF but if you have Lively-Gafford at C, that becomes manageable with his athleticism.

DJJ and Exum on vet min were also very good signings. I am aware Exum is not playing in playoffs much but still its a minimum deal. You roll the dice.

ozwizard8 · Post #1790 » by **ozwizard8** » Mon May 27, 2024 9:29 pm

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I’ll never forgive the wolves for robbing us of this series

Partly on Denver and Malone.
Kidd and T.Lue showed many times on how to expose Gobert in last few years. Even KAT is a known choker. They could've done better with adjustments.

Clyde_Style · Post #1791 » by **Clyde_Style** » Mon May 27, 2024 9:56 pm

HarthorneWingo wrote:
jvsimonetti0514 wrote:

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My god. Historically bad conference finals for Kat

I hope that we can finally dispense with all of the nauseous KAT trade talk.

At this point our FO should have the common sense to roll the dice on Randle doing well in the playoffs rather than taking on more salary for KAT

It will have to be a blockbuster trade to move Randle now anyway and that someone is probably not going to be KAT with the series he's having

Clyde_Style · Post #1792 » by **Clyde_Style** » Mon May 27, 2024 10:08 pm

The playoffs sure does show out who is clutch and who ain't

god shammgod · Post #1793 » by **god shammgod** » Mon May 27, 2024 10:10 pm

jvsimonetti0514 wrote:

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My god. Historically bad conference finals for Kat

but how could this be ? we were chastised for saying he's not a winner :lol:

sol537 · Post #1794 » by **sol537** » Mon May 27, 2024 10:24 pm

ozwizard8 wrote:
RHODEY wrote:
knicksNOTslick wrote:This is why it was weird for me why they chose to tank out of the playoffs last year. Even with a lower seed, if you have Luka and Kyrie in the postseason, you always have a shot. No sense to tank for a lottery pick. But it did pay off for them to get Lively.

Because despite how insanely gifted they were offensively they realized that they needed defensive balance within the constrains of. their limited flexibility. You cant blame them I guess....but at the same time it seemed like a very " low rent" move. No one will remember though...they'll just remember the championship that they will win this season.

Those trades they made for G afford and that Charlotte Hornets dude really is what put them over the edge.

Gafford trade was robbery.
First of all, why OKC helping but not taking Gafford? They send a late 1st for future draft pick exchange. They could've simply send their pick to Wizards to get a solid backup C for rebounding, rim protection, setting screens. Instead they helped Dallas again. First with Lively and now Gafford.

Secondly, why Wizards trading him for just a late 1st round pick of a bad year? Young athletic rim protecting center with a reasonable contract.

For PJ, Mavs paid a 1st round pick but they also offloaded Grant Williams contract. That contract wasn't too high so its not an unbalanced deal but still a cheap one to get PJ. PJ is undersized for PF but if you have Lively-Gafford at C, that becomes manageable with his athleticism.

DJJ and Exum on vet min were also very good signings. I am aware Exum is not playing in playoffs much but still its a minimum deal. You roll the dice.

Brilliant team building by Dallas front office. Making the most of everything at their disposal. If they didn’t get all of Gafford, PJ, or Jones Jr, they wouldn’t be one win from finals. And all those guys were available to any team.

RHODEY · Post #1795 » by **RHODEY** » Mon May 27, 2024 11:38 pm

sol537 wrote:
ozwizard8 wrote:
RHODEY wrote:Because despite how insanely gifted they were offensively they realized that they needed defensive balance within the constrains of. their limited flexibility. You cant blame them I guess....but at the same time it seemed like a very " low rent" move. No one will remember though...they'll just remember the championship that they will win this season.

Those trades they made for G afford and that Charlotte Hornets dude really is what put them over the edge.

Gafford trade was robbery.
First of all, why OKC helping but not taking Gafford? They send a late 1st for future draft pick exchange. They could've simply send their pick to Wizards to get a solid backup C for rebounding, rim protection, setting screens. Instead they helped Dallas again. First with Lively and now Gafford.

Secondly, why Wizards trading him for just a late 1st round pick of a bad year? Young athletic rim protecting center with a reasonable contract.

For PJ, Mavs paid a 1st round pick but they also offloaded Grant Williams contract. That contract wasn't too high so its not an unbalanced deal but still a cheap one to get PJ. PJ is undersized for PF but if you have Lively-Gafford at C, that becomes manageable with his athleticism.

DJJ and Exum on vet min were also very good signings. I am aware Exum is not playing in playoffs much but still its a minimum deal. You roll the dice.

Brilliant team building by Dallas front office. Making the most of everything at their disposal. If they didn’t get all of Gafford, PJ, or Jones Jr, they wouldn’t be one win from finals. And all those guys were available to any team.

To me they got even more than what they needed. They went from being very weak at the Center position to it being a strength. They also got a legit 3rd option PJ for scraps. You throw in the other guys and its just icing. Its crazy that Hardaway isn't even playing right now. They are beyond loaded

GettinitDone · Post #1796 » by **GettinitDone** » Tue May 28, 2024 1:11 am

The greatest shooting big man ever shooting 4-32 3P in the last 5 games :lol:

I think KAT went from Minny saying "he's going nowhere we're building around him and Ant for the next 2-3 years at least" before WCF G1 to "we'll take 80 cents on the dollar" now Mavs are up 3-0 because of his contract.

Celtics going to the Finals this year may be the easiest road ever... all teams they beat were/ are missing their best player (Jimmy/ DMitch / Hali).

HarthorneWingo · Post #1797 » by **HarthorneWingo** » Tue May 28, 2024 1:21 am

Nembhard making a name for himself. Cha-Ching.

HarthorneWingo · Post #1798 » by **HarthorneWingo** » Tue May 28, 2024 1:32 am

Randle being interviewed by Kevin Hart on ESPN2

GettinitDone · Post #1799 » by **GettinitDone** » Tue May 28, 2024 1:37 am

HarthorneWingo wrote:Nembhard making a name for himself. Cha-Ching.

I can't believe our season ended because of Numbskull

Think about it if he hadn't hit that shot in G3 (shot that after he made his face said it all "I can't believe it went in, I just threw it up lol"), we'd most likely have won to go up 3-0 and most likely won the series 4-0 or at least 4-1... avoiding G6 (Hart's abdomen injury) and G7 (forcing OG to play prematurely likely aggravating his hamstring, and of course JB's hand)... we'd have been in pretty good shape against C's.. then OG probably comes back in G3 of ECF or G5... I really think we could beat them even without Ju, Mitch and Bojan to go to Finals damn damn damn damn :cry:

If you have read The Winner Effect book, it says winning is a momentum as you win get early result, you are likely to win and win more... (losing is also a momentum going the opposite way)... credit to Numbskull he took that big shot and run it's been his confidence builder since

HarthorneWingo · Post #1800 » by **HarthorneWingo** » Tue May 28, 2024 1:45 am

GettinitDone wrote:
HarthorneWingo wrote:Nembhard making a name for himself. Cha-Ching.

I can't believe our season ended because of Numbskull

Think about it if he hadn't hit that shot in G3 (shot that after he made his face said it all "I can't believe it went in, I just threw it up lol"), we'd most likely have won to go up 3-0 and most likely won the series 4-0 or at least 4-1... avoiding G6 (Hart's abdomen injury) and G7 (forcing OG to play prematurely likely aggravating his hamstring, and of course JB's hand)... we'd have been in pretty good shape against C's.. then OG probably comes back in G3 of ECF or G5... I really think we could beat them even without Ju, Mitch and Bojan to go to Finals damn damn damn damn

If you have read The Winner Effect book, it says winning is a momentum as you win get early result, you are likely to win and win more... (losing is also a momentum going the opposite way)... credit to Numbskull he took that big shot and run it's been his confidence builder since

That 3 pointer he hit made me nauseous. But let’s face it, we would’ve gotten shutout by the Celtics. I’m glad that I didn’t have to watch that.