JoshuaPotter wrote:pepe1991 wrote:JoshuaPotter wrote:
Honestly they are using game 7 of the 1st round as a scape goat to their massively failed / flawed mismanagement of players.
Nobody will like me for that line. People will say "play the song" and fine. Wins cure all ailments, I have said that several times this past season.
We might even disagree on what our next move should be. Ya'know what, fine. The point being we both agree that we should be doing more then....nothing. lol.
I was happy to hear that the rumors we were at least window shopping during the trade deadline were true. Whether we decided to keep the band together because nobody wants crap players on their roster, or actually had the epiphany to let the guys play it out well never truly know.
I would say like this: if you replace Pacers with any of 2023-24 teams : Magic, Cavs, 76ers, Knicks i would not, and i bet most nba people would not consider those teams as contender(s). If you have to list top 5 best nba teams, Pacers don't come close.
Draymoond Green pretty much said execlly what most people think
"They got to the conference finals. Somebody had to get there. It’s the east.”
Given Heat & Bucks were striked by injuries, this year it was pretty much "insert random name to Eastern Conference FInals ____Here* ".
Magic in particular had pretty much no injuries ( serious one) whole year long, they had nobody injuried for playoffs, got lucky break of top 2-3 player of opposing team getting hurt, and still lost in first round.
Running back same roster would be one of most idiotic decisions possible.
I don't necessarily agree with this line of thinking.
Generally speaking, no, Indiana is not a top 5 team. But after that you go off the rails.
There are some true bottom rung teams in the east. Fair. In terms of parity, it is as good as it has ever been both east and west full stop.
If you want to say current roster with east and west healthy we are in a playin team next year. Sure. Fine. Ill roll with it. But this idea that Indiana sucks when 4 games separated 7 teams is kinda disingenuous at best and playing to low hanging fruit discussions at worse. Pacers are no 1 offense in many offensive categories outside of points. It's not a stretch to see them where they are.
If anything, a discussion can be had at how good the Celtics are as despite what division they are I think you would be silly to not suggest they are the current clear favorite regardless of division. Similarly speaking, did you expect to see Dallas Vs Min as WCF? I think if you started the year off saying that tons of people would say "Denver would like to have a word". Going into the playoffs OKC was also a big question mark.
"Yeah but...." (insert : injuries, matches, timelines, rookie inexperience)
So? It's the playoffs, and on paper, it was anyones game if they could get past Denver in the West and anyones game if they got past Celtics in the East.
f anything, a discussion can be had at how good the Celtics are as despite what division they are I think you would be silly to not suggest they are the current clear favorite regardless of divisio
Depending who you ask, i'm on a record Celtics are my title favorites for at least past 5 months.
And i went to see, and vast majority of betting houses had Celtics as title favorites from opening day.
. Similarly speaking, did you expect to see Dallas Vs Min as WCF?
Maybe not Wolves, but Dallas was in circle of 10 title favorites. I saw lot of houses having them above Clippers, Heat, 76ers.
Pacers thing and conversation to me is silly.
In first round they got lucky as Giannis didn't play at all, midway in series they got even luckier as Lillard got hurt.
Round two: No Randle, i belive second game Bogdanovic twists ankle and is out for rest of series, at the tail end OG and Brunson got hurt, Mitchell Robinson got hurt as well. Like, literally best 5 Knicks players were either out or playing through injury.
i just think they got lucky and ended up in ECF by accident, kind a like Hawks in 2021 ( i belive? )
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