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Triple7 · Post #461 » by **Triple7** » Thu May 11, 2023 3:13 am

Curry is dead serious this game. Even after that buzzer beater 3 before halftime, you could see he ain’t celebrating the shot like he usually does. I want the same serious mind set from our guys tom. No fooling around and clowning.

exculpatory · Post #462 » by **exculpatory** » Thu May 11, 2023 3:30 am

Dubs playing like a championship team should play in an elimination game.

zoyathedestroya · Post #463 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Thu May 11, 2023 3:34 am

Most of these playoffs games have been lame with all the blowouts. It can still be salvaged if the Celtics win the title.

VeryMuchWoke · Post #464 » by **VeryMuchWoke** » Thu May 11, 2023 4:13 am

zoyathedestroya wrote:Most of these playoffs games have been lame with all the blowouts. It can still be salvaged if the Celtics win the title.

The usual level of playoff physicality just isn't being allowed this year, so shooting variance may be playing a bigger role.

The NBA just gets worse and worse every year. At least the parity is kind of cool.

Post #465 » by **Darthlukey** » Thu May 11, 2023 4:24 am

VeryMuchWoke wrote:
zoyathedestroya wrote:Most of these playoffs games have been lame with all the blowouts. It can still be salvaged if the Celtics win the title.

The usual level of playoff physicality just isn't being allowed this year, so shooting variance may be playing a bigger role.

The NBA just gets worse and worse every year. At least the parity is kind of cool.

Parity is great until you are a top 2 seed who still cant make it past the rest of the league and get upset.

The parity is cool, im salty we are wasting it

Bar Fight · Post #466 » by **Bar Fight** » Thu May 11, 2023 4:26 am

Damn, we might be the first team knocked out of the 2nd round…

Kalela · Post #467 » by **Kalela** » Thu May 11, 2023 4:32 am

Bar Fight wrote:Damn, we might be the first team knocked out of the 2nd round…

Sixers will definitely go for the kill. We will need a crazy performance from Tatum to survive. No slow starts.

Post #468 » by **Darthlukey** » Thu May 11, 2023 4:37 am

aim2please wrote:Lakers up 3-1, all of the sudden in game 5 they can't get to the free throw line. 10-7 at the half. NBA wants longer series, no more 20 free points for the boys in yellow.

Knicks got 40 free throws tonight to extend the series. I know I'm boring you with this but I hate seeing stuff like this.

Its **** BS isnt it. Like the last lakers GSW game, no FTs for GSW until the game was well and truly over, then they flooded them with FTs to make the overall FT count look more balanced

zoyathedestroya · Post #469 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Thu May 11, 2023 5:06 am

Read on Twitter

I have more faith in this dog than Joe’s coaching ability.

VeryMuchWoke · Post #470 » by **VeryMuchWoke** » Thu May 11, 2023 5:47 am

Darthlukey wrote:
aim2please wrote:Lakers up 3-1, all of the sudden in game 5 they can't get to the free throw line. 10-7 at the half. NBA wants longer series, no more 20 free points for the boys in yellow.

Knicks got 40 free throws tonight to extend the series. I know I'm boring you with this but I hate seeing stuff like this.

Its **** BS isnt it. Like the last lakers GSW game, no FTs for GSW until the game was well and truly over, then they flooded them with FTs to make the overall FT count look more balanced

Unfortunately the lemmings that can't see it now will never see it, barring some kind of bombshell. Therefore, it'll likely never change.

FlatearthZorro · Post #471 » by **FlatearthZorro** » Thu May 11, 2023 6:17 am

Just watched a bit of Knicks-MIA's last game and I can't figure out what MIA's plan was. Leave dudes wide open and hope they miss? They did make a run, but dang.

Post #472 » by **Feed Your Head** » Thu May 11, 2023 2:04 pm

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Hal14 · Post #473 » by **Hal14** » Thu May 11, 2023 2:12 pm

exculpatory wrote:Dubs playing like a championship team should play in an elimination game.

Yeah, well they were down 3 games to 1, as the higher seeded team.

If the celtics did that, oh boy - I can't imagine what all the doom and gloom posters would be saying :lol:

Bar Fight · Post #474 » by **Bar Fight** » Thu May 11, 2023 5:29 pm

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Replace Brad with Masai and Joe with literally any decent coach :pray:

flintsky21 · Post #475 » by **flintsky21** » Thu May 11, 2023 6:37 pm

When they're not shooting 20 more FTs than the other team, the Lakers look pretty mediocre. What a surprise.

cgf · Post #476 » by **cgf** » Thu May 11, 2023 8:19 pm

aim2please wrote:Lakers up 3-1, all of the sudden in game 5 they can't get to the free throw line. 10-7 at the half. NBA wants longer series, no more 20 free points for the boys in yellow.

Knicks got 40 free throws tonight to extend the series. I know I'm boring you with this but I hate seeing stuff like this.

FWIW 8 of those FTs came from Miami intentionally fouling Robinson under the rim because they don't have an answer for his size on the offensive glass. If you take away those 8 extra FTs from Mitch, we ended up with just 6.5 more FTA than we averaged in the regular season...which is high, but not crazy high given our mid-3 was cooking and they are all good at getting to the line.

Marvel wrote:Brunson played every single minute and Grimes.

Yeah Quickley being out...and struggling when he was playing...has hurt us a lot. Thibs leaned on our depth a lot to get here but with the injuries piling up and our season on the line, we're running out of options.

Post #477 » by **Darthlukey** » Thu May 11, 2023 8:56 pm

flintsky21 wrote:When they're not shooting 20 more FTs than the other team, the Lakers look pretty mediocre. What a surprise.

Like that matters though, that's always been the case.

What amazes me more is people complaining bron doesn't get enough free throws, but not acknowledging the massive disparity the lakers are advantaged by overall

Post #478 » by **Darthlukey** » Fri May 12, 2023 2:46 am

Suns appear to be replicating their performance vs Dallas in game 7 last season

Jokic has 2 fouls against each of suns bigs in 1st too

Post #479 » by **Darthlukey** » Fri May 12, 2023 3:02 am

Wow, payne keeping suns from a proper blow-out so far

Post #480 » by **SuperDeluxe** » Fri May 12, 2023 3:12 am

Durant 1-10 for the half so far. He must be Tatum-soft.