NBA Playoffs 2025 (Poll created for Finals prediction)

sunsbg · Post #221 » by **sunsbg** » Thu May 22, 2025 7:44 pm

Crazy history between these two teams repeated after 30 years.

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Post #222 » by **bwgood77** » Thu May 22, 2025 8:17 pm

Who do you think is better? Brunson or Haliburton?

Or you can look at it this way. Haliburton is 24, the age Brunson was in his 2nd year in Dallas. For their age, who is better?

Post #223 » by **bwgood77** » Thu May 22, 2025 8:19 pm

sunsbg wrote:Crazy history between these two teams repeated after 30 years.

Watch on YouTube
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I remember I was watching that at a 2 story apartment, downstairs, and when it got to 8 with not that much time left, I went upstairs where the bathroom was, and on my way back down I hear all this cheering. Can't believe I watched that whole game and missed that part, but of course saw all the replays.

sunsbg · Post #224 » by **sunsbg** » Thu May 22, 2025 8:46 pm

bwgood77 wrote:I remember I was watching that at a 2 story apartment, downstairs, and when it got to 8 with not that much time left, I went upstairs where the bathroom was, and on my way back down I hear all this cheering. Can't believe I watched that whole game and missed that part, but of course saw all the replays.

Back then there were no live games in my country except the all star game at the middle of the night. You got 1-2 condensed games a week on replay and NBA Action show. Now I replayed the game on TV in the morning - watch, pause, do some work, etc. Times have changed. I expected the game will be close and glad I decided to watch without knowing the result in advance.

mkot · Post #225 » by **mkot** » Thu May 22, 2025 11:12 pm

bwgood77 wrote:Who do you think is better? Brunson or Haliburton?

Or you can look at it this way. Haliburton is 24, the age Brunson was in his 2nd year in Dallas. For their age, who is better?

Brunson is a great iso scorer, he would be in my top 5 list of player if I need a shot to win a game, but I personally hate flopper or FT merchant. Last night in the last seconds of OT, instead of trying to make a bucket, he stuck his butt out trying to lean in and draw foul with the game on the line, what am I watching? He might be the better player right now, but Haliburton is a true offensive engine you can build around, I'd take him if I'm starting a new team.

garrick · Post #226 » by **garrick** » Fri May 23, 2025 5:03 am

The Wolves offense is a mess and if they really want to be contenders they need a 2nd elite scorer to pair with Ant so if I were them I would be seeing how I could make a trade for KD.

Unfortunately I don't see too many enticing assets so they will try to pawn off Gobert and filler which I am not really sure is something we want even though we have a glaring need at center.

thamadkant · Post #227 » by **thamadkant** » Fri May 23, 2025 5:24 am

Wolves will never get to the Finals nor WCF with Gobert as center. He is so useless as an offensive player when there's even a little bit of resistance in front him. Its 4 vs 5 every time Wolves has the ball, Thunder only has to cover 4 players and its a huge disadvantage.
Thunder's backup wings are all active both ends, cutting, slashing and moving.... but at the same time very unselfish, would give the ball up to the big men cutting and running. Puts Suns to shame the way they treated Ayton ignoring him and hoisting contested shots.

Thunder, barring injuries, will win their first ever championship. They are too balanced, too good both ends and their biggest threath was Celtics and Nuggets, both out. What a story.

bullsaficianado · Post #228 » by **bullsaficianado** » Fri May 23, 2025 5:52 am

thamadkant wrote:Wolves will never get to the Finals nor WCF with Gobert as center.

They have been to two straight WCF's with Gobert as center.

thamadkant · Post #229 » by **thamadkant** » Fri May 23, 2025 6:12 am

bullsaficianado wrote:
thamadkant wrote:Wolves will never get to the Finals nor WCF with Gobert as center.

They have been to two straight WCF's with Gobert as center.

Finals then. They will never be the West best with Gobert, since the top west teams have offensive centers who out produce Gobert.

It happened to Utah and it has happened and will happen to Wolves... Gobert is a liability when teams go small or if the other team has a scoring center since Wolves dont get anything out of Gobert.

Mr Puddles · Post #230 » by **Mr Puddles** » Fri May 23, 2025 6:33 am

garrick wrote:The Wolves offense is a mess and if they really want to be contenders they need a 2nd elite scorer to pair with Ant so if I were them I would be seeing how I could make a trade for KD.

Unfortunately I don't see too many enticing assets so they will try to pawn off Gobert and filler which I am not really sure is something we want even though we have a glaring need at center.

If the Wolves offer Gobert in a package for KD we should take it faster than you can say "sacre bleu".

Gobert can single handedly transform any team into a top defensive team.

The wolves seem loyal to him and he agreed to restructure his contract to keep their cap situation more tolerable, but if that deal was on the table the Suns should 100% go for it. The Suns would be a better team overnight.

mkot · Post #231 » by **mkot** » Fri May 23, 2025 7:13 am

Mike Conley is the only plus player among the Wolves rotation players in both game. The Wolves is winning by 17 with him on the court and losing by 59 without. They need Gobert on the court to cover Naz Reid and Randle bad defense, but he needs to play less. SGA and JDub are attacking his drop so Finch needs to adjust their defensive coverage. Mix in some zone, less Gobert.

The Thunders are allow to slap and hack in the paint, Edwards needs to make his threes. Edwards 1-9, Randle 0-3, Conley 1-4, Naz Reid 0-5, they are really only guarding Edwards on the perimeter, the others need to make their open threes.

Hopefully they can find their shots at home, otherwise it's a quickie

sunsbg · Post #232 » by **sunsbg** » Fri May 23, 2025 7:31 am

OKC winning the title makes trading KD harder as there is no way a young team like HOU watches them and thinks trading for 37yo player is the right move instead of betting on internal improvement by the players they drafted and having a bunch of high lottery picks in next few years. Even an old win now team like Mavs are out of the picture after getting Flagg in the draft. Wolves, Nuggets, Heat are probably teams which will show interest but these don't have too many lucrative assets. Best case is Rockets after failing in the playoffs see Booker as fitting their timeline and give our picks back to start a proper rebuild. Of course rebuilding is not in Ishbia's plan, so we are stuck in mediocrity.

sunskerr · Post #233 » by **sunskerr** » Fri May 23, 2025 8:15 am

Thunder are such an amazing team. I have been following them for maybe 4-5 years now when they were winning 20 games. When they got Jalen Williams and Chet I said they would be the best team in the league in a couple years. I think I also said the Rockets would be very good too. But man they have so many fun players to watch. I really like Caruso...I thought the Thunder made the right move trading Giddey for him but I did not realize he was arguably the best perimeter defender in the game and was good enough to even be their 2nd best player in that Nuggets series. He has an incredible impact almost every time he enters the game...Lakers were fools to give this guy up.

All this complaining about free throws and Shai is, in my opinion, whilst there is of course truth to it, really just people trying to find the easiest thing to latch on to in order to hate on a team and player's success. If you followed this team and Shai for many years you would realize just how talented he is (he is as good if not better than Luka). People didn't moan about it last year when the Thunder were good. And they're not seeing the incredible scoring talent (imo the best in the league)- the footwork, the shot making, the ball handling. And he does it mostly from mid range which is something people have be crying about the lack thereof in the modern game.

68 wins, the best regular season point differential of all time, and a guy who looks like was able to take a leap to generational player (or at the very least to the absolute top tier of elite players like Jokic, Giannis). IF they can close the deal and win a championship it's one of the best teams ever.

If you can't enjoy what they are doing I suggest you take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself if you actually enjoy watching NBA basketball.

KdoubleDees23 · Post #234 » by **KdoubleDees23** » Sat May 24, 2025 2:37 am

Brunson just took the dumbest shot and lost the game for the Knicks

SunsRback4Good · Post #235 » by **SunsRback4Good** » Sat May 24, 2025 2:39 am

KdoubleDees23 wrote:Brunson just took the dumbest shot and lost the game for the Knicks

He assumed they would foul him and rushed a long shot.

Mulhollanddrive · Post #236 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Sat May 24, 2025 2:45 am

Thibs never been to the finals

garrick · Post #237 » by **garrick** » Sat May 24, 2025 3:48 pm

Mr Puddles wrote:
garrick wrote:The Wolves offense is a mess and if they really want to be contenders they need a 2nd elite scorer to pair with Ant so if I were them I would be seeing how I could make a trade for KD.

Unfortunately I don't see too many enticing assets so they will try to pawn off Gobert and filler which I am not really sure is something we want even though we have a glaring need at center.

If the Wolves offer Gobert in a package for KD we should take it faster than you can say "sacre bleu".

Gobert can single handedly transform any team into a top defensive team.

The wolves seem loyal to him and he agreed to restructure his contract to keep their cap situation more tolerable, but if that deal was on the table the Suns should 100% go for it. The Suns would be a better team overnight.

We would be better but I think Gobert has proven he's a liability in the post season with his stone hands and lack of any kind of offense and Booker has always been pretty bad at throwing lobs for our big men due to his tunnel vision.

If we want to go deep in the playoffs Gobert is a pretty bad value if we're swapping KD for him.

starbosa10 · Post #238 » by **starbosa10** » Mon May 26, 2025 1:12 am

sunsbg wrote:OKC winning the title makes trading KD harder as there is no way a young team like HOU watches them and thinks trading for 37yo player is the right move instead of betting on internal improvement by the players they drafted and having a bunch of high lottery picks in next few years. Even an old win now team like Mavs are out of the picture after getting Flagg in the draft. Wolves, Nuggets, Heat are probably teams which will show interest but these don't have too many lucrative assets. Best case is Rockets after failing in the playoffs see Booker as fitting their timeline and give our picks back to start a proper rebuild. Of course rebuilding is not in Ishbia's plan, so we are stuck in mediocrity.

Maybe Knicks get desperate after this meltdown sweep lol

SunsRback4Good · Post #239 » by **SunsRback4Good** » Mon May 26, 2025 1:21 am

starbosa10 wrote:
sunsbg wrote:OKC winning the title makes trading KD harder as there is no way a young team like HOU watches them and thinks trading for 37yo player is the right move instead of betting on internal improvement by the players they drafted and having a bunch of high lottery picks in next few years. Even an old win now team like Mavs are out of the picture after getting Flagg in the draft. Wolves, Nuggets, Heat are probably teams which will show interest but these don't have too many lucrative assets. Best case is Rockets after failing in the playoffs see Booker as fitting their timeline and give our picks back to start a proper rebuild. Of course rebuilding is not in Ishbia's plan, so we are stuck in mediocrity.

Maybe Knicks get desperate after this meltdown sweep lol

Mitch Robinson, Shamet and picks for Durant. Who says no?

Post #240 » by **lilfishi22** » Tue May 27, 2025 6:43 am

SunsRback4Good wrote:
starbosa10 wrote:
sunsbg wrote:OKC winning the title makes trading KD harder as there is no way a young team like HOU watches them and thinks trading for 37yo player is the right move instead of betting on internal improvement by the players they drafted and having a bunch of high lottery picks in next few years. Even an old win now team like Mavs are out of the picture after getting Flagg in the draft. Wolves, Nuggets, Heat are probably teams which will show interest but these don't have too many lucrative assets. Best case is Rockets after failing in the playoffs see Booker as fitting their timeline and give our picks back to start a proper rebuild. Of course rebuilding is not in Ishbia's plan, so we are stuck in mediocrity.

Maybe Knicks get desperate after this meltdown sweep lol

Mitch Robinson, Shamet and picks for Durant. Who says no?

That a serious question?

Who you got?