Around The League 2022-2023 season

[SOUL]

Watching the Cavs get crushed makes me hope that we take it a bit slower than they did. They're now in a 'win-now' mode but Mobley didn't get a chance to develop offensively organically as a top 3 pick normally does. Can they afford to go through growing pains with him by giving him more reps than he currently deserves?

At some point though, isn't it as simple as your all-stars need to play like all-stars?

Mitchell averaged 28.3 PPG on a .614 TS% in the regular season. He averaged 23.2 PPG on a .518 TS%.

Basically a total pathetic no show by a guy that's going to make either the All-NBA first team or second team, ya know?

A lot of shooters/scorers aren't stepping up in the playoffs. Opportunities shrink and play is much more physical. It's why I simply don't think getting shooters takes a team to the next level. You need three level scorers and guys with the mental fortitude to step up. Guys like Jimmy Butler kind of get overlooked the entire regular season and every postseason they just step up.

Heat went from one of the bottom 4 shooting teams in the league for 82 games and I think right now they're shooting the highest 3% percentages in a series ever.

[thelead]

Suggs is a MUCH better defensive player than Jrue... yeah I said it

[SOUL]

Suggs is a MUCH better defensive player than Jrue... yeah I said it

Ehhh...

He def has fresher legs and less wear and tear. Also less offensive responsibility

[RookieStar]

Watching the Cavs get crushed makes me hope that we take it a bit slower than they did. They're now in a 'win-now' mode but Mobley didn't get a chance to develop offensively organically as a top 3 pick normally does. Can they afford to go through growing pains with him by giving him more reps than he currently deserves?

Yeah... with DON getting 1st 2nd and sometimes 3rd options on offense, Mobley isn't being developed as a go-to option despite being only a 2nd yr player and still great potential.

I like what Mos is doing and making sure PB and Franz are the 1a and 1b option in our team despite Cole's thinking lol

Maybe Mobley is not as good offensively as he is perceived to be?

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Right now he isn't. Yet how would we all know if option 1 and 2 are being held by chucker guards. We don't even know his go-to-move.

[RookieStar]

Suggs is a MUCH better defensive player than Jrue... yeah I said it

Ehhh...

He def has fresher legs and less wear and tear. Also less offensive responsibility

Yeah Suggs is younger by... almost a decade(???) And Jrue is like option 1b/1c after GA..

We would riot if Suggs tries to shoot more than Franx and Paolo

[CZ Eddie]

JIMMY FREAKING BUCKETS FOR THE TIE TO CLOSE THE CLOCK OUT!!

[CZ Eddie]

Not sure if luck shot or talent.
Gotta be both!

[eyriq]

JIMMY FREAKING BUCKETS FOR THE TIE TO CLOSE THE CLOCK OUT!!

It's crazy

[eyriq]

I cannot believe that the Heat won the series. Bucks could not even get off a shot with plenty of time left.

[CZ Eddie]

DUDE

[CZ Eddie]

Rumors coming into this game are the Bucks coach will be fired.
I don't see it happening but there is smoke.

[eyriq]

I'm really looking forward to the Heat vs Knicks. Too bad Herro is out.

[Howard Mass]

The Bucks collapse and errors down the stretch were insane.

[pepe1991]

So...Bucks yet ANOTHER season is thrown off by Middelton's knee if he can't recover ( or be in shape) by playoff time,

Giannis might be looking at exit doors real soon, they are now wasting his prime on aiging,yet uber expensive roster.

Lopez (35) , Holiday (33) aren't getting any younger.

Pepe they’re the 1 seed

Oh well...


I thought they are mid team whole year long. Their record was made out of two massive winning streaks.
One on opening season, and one toward the end. Everything in between was mid.
They had 9 win opening and massive 15 wins streak. During second run in particular, Giannis averaged 37-14-6 and 7 opponents were non- playoff teams. If your best player needs to do that much lifting just to beat average teams, you probably aren't well set heading into playoffs.

First i thought they just miss healthy MIddelton. And for sure, his injury didn't help. But this series proved that they lack another versitale ballhandler to create something.
It's mindblowing that title contender over 5 games is being outscored by 57 points in 4th quaters. Average margin of 4th quater loss for them was whooping 11,5 points a game.

Bottom line, Bucks are very old team without serious guard depth. It's 6'11 PF who handles the ball, 6'7 shooting gaurd who is better served as catch & shoot option and Jrue Holiday ( and i belive he once said he doesn't even like to play PG, but can't find it now). Other guards are bench bodies who would be DNP-CDs even on Hornets or Pistons. Matthews & Ingles are 35 and 36 and can hardly move, and that's your bench? And Javon Carter, who has been depth bench body for his whole life is your 22 mpg rotation bench PG now? Javon Carter, prior this playoffs, logged epic total of 150 min of playoff basketball and made 12 shots ( 12-27 FG for career)... Yea... it won't cut it in playoffs.

And Bud's gimmick defense got exposed by 5th worst offense... Good for them they didn't face Celtics

[pepe1991]

Bucks last possession in OT gave me headache.

They had two timeouts, they could cross ball half court, they could stop the clock. Instad Giannis dribbles in traffic, passes to Middelton, who dribbles in traffic, who passes to Allen for wide open 3, who puts ball on the floor and dribbles into shot clock violation.


Bucks aslo had timeout at the end of 4th.

Still, how execlly professional basketball team shoots 28-45 FTs is beyond me. Especially Giannis 10-23 FT

if Bud survives this comedy of errors of his behalf i will be shocked

[RookieStar]

Also... shout out to Kevin Love.. the real MVP taking out GA lol

[BadMofoPimp]

Of course, Jimmy Buckets went God mode on consecutive games helping the 8th seed Heat finish off the 1st seed Bucks. Anyone see that end of regulation game tying shot at the last second? God Mode.

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[Optimus_Steel]

Did not expect Mil to lose in 5 games like this. I thought they were the best team in the east. This is a major collapse. They lost double digit leads twice in the 4th quarter on back to back games. Kevin Love has been an excellent addition for them and Cle looks foolish for letting him go, they could have used him in place of Allen on their series. Miami was a terrible 3pt this year yet went crazy this series. The free throw shooting...yikes.

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[bigdogdylan5]

I love giannis man he is by far away my favorite superstar and I hate this for him. But damn I loved his post game conference. I feel like this league is getting deeper and deeper I am not sure we will see a warrior or Miami dynasty anytime soon with this much spread out talent

[Last Guardian]

Yeah... with DON getting 1st 2nd and sometimes 3rd options on offense, Mobley isn't being developed as a go-to option despite being only a 2nd yr player and still great potential.

I like what Mos is doing and making sure PB and Franz are the 1a and 1b option in our team despite Cole's thinking lol

Maybe Mobley is not as good offensively as he is perceived to be?

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Right now he isn't. Yet how would we all know if option 1 and 2 are being held by chucker guards. We don't even know his go-to-move.

And yet this board wants those chucker guards who would never get Paolo or Franz the ball.