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Re: Around The League 2022-2023 season 

Post#1221 » by RookieStar » Thu May 18, 2023 6:34 am

pepe1991 wrote:Every.Single.Game. Every single game Celtics have at least 1 period where they have no clue what they are doing on offense.
Than they have one peroid where nothing works but they make shots they have no business making and somehow stay in a game.


About Heat. They were 6th worst offense in nba ( very close to Magic) and in playoffs they are 3rd best. It's impossible to explain and rational. Inject Nuggets- Heat finals in my vains :lol:


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Re: Around The League 2022-2023 season 

Post#1222 » by drsd » Thu May 18, 2023 6:36 am

CZ Eddie wrote:Grand Theft Miami!
Stole game 1 on the road. Not bad!
Came from behind, too.


I know he hates being called "Playoff Jimmy", but he has something more than basketball IQ; he might be the most mentally tough player in the NBA right now (him or Kawhi Leonard).

Butler plays great simply because he envisions greatness for himself. That is not a taught skill. He is a friggen emotionless robot.

What a great player.
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Post#1223 » by drsd » Thu May 18, 2023 6:36 am

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Post#1224 » by pepe1991 » Thu May 18, 2023 7:06 am

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pepe1991 wrote:Every.Single.Game. Every single game Celtics have at least 1 period where they have no clue what they are doing on offense.
Than they have one peroid where nothing works but they make shots they have no business making and somehow stay in a game.


About Heat. They were 6th worst offense in nba ( very close to Magic) and in playoffs they are 3rd best. It's impossible to explain and rational. Inject Nuggets- Heat finals in my vains :lol:


AG vs POS Lowry. This time AG has some thugs to back him up. Lol


Butler vs Gordon would be fun.
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Re: Around The League 2022-2023 season 

Post#1225 » by Message Boar » Thu May 18, 2023 7:58 am

My emotions about the heat, more or less:

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Like, I get the Celtics are a weirdly flawed team in their own right, but they should still be comfortably better than this Heat team, yet here we are. I really wonder what kind of deal with the devil they made to turn themselves from this trash offensive/shooting team into a team that shoots above 50% from three on the regular. On the road. Against what should be elite defensive opposition. It's maddening. It's like they filed a request to allocate all of their shooting luck for 1 year to the playoffs with nil going to the regular season, or something. Not to mention they wouldn't be here if Giannis had stayed healthy. Heat fans didn't even believe in their chances around the end of the regular season, at all.

/end rant
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Post#1226 » by drsd » Thu May 18, 2023 8:16 am

Message Boar wrote:My emotions about the heat, more or less:

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Like, I get the Celtics are a weirdly flawed team in their own right, but they should still be comfortably better than this Heat team, yet here we are. I really wonder what kind of deal with the devil they made to turn themselves from this trash offensive/shooting team into a team that shoots above 50% from three on the regular. On the road. Against what should be elite defensive opposition. It's maddening. It's like they filed a request to allocate all of their shooting luck for 1 year to the playoffs with nil going to the regular season, or something. Not to mention they wouldn't be here if Giannis had stayed healthy. Heat fans didn't even believe in their chances around the end of the regular season, at all.

/end rant




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Re: Around The League 2022-2023 season 

Post#1227 » by MoMM » Thu May 18, 2023 9:13 am

Optimus_Steel wrote:You have to admire the Miami organization, they find guys who are undrafted or 2nd rounders and make them a sum of all parts better. Wish this Orlando team had the cojones the Miami organization has.

Recipe is simple. Sign some white unselfish guys who can shoot for 3, use them for 3-4 years and then let them leave for free (when they ask for big bucks), repeat process every single year.

It's crazy that they are at this point and they don't even have Herro or Oladipo in this playoff run.
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Re: Around The League 2022-2023 season 

Post#1228 » by Skybox » Thu May 18, 2023 11:49 am

Message Boar wrote:My emotions about the heat, more or less:

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Like, I get the Celtics are a weirdly flawed team in their own right, but they should still be comfortably better than this Heat team, yet here we are. I really wonder what kind of deal with the devil they made to turn themselves from this trash offensive/shooting team into a team that shoots above 50% from three on the regular. On the road. Against what should be elite defensive opposition. It's maddening. It's like they filed a request to allocate all of their shooting luck for 1 year to the playoffs with nil going to the regular season, or something. Not to mention they wouldn't be here if Giannis had stayed healthy. Heat fans didn't even believe in their chances around the end of the regular season, at all.

/end rant


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Post#1229 » by Blue_and_Whte » Thu May 18, 2023 12:16 pm

So good to see the real MVP working the Lakers. It’s embarrassing that a racist POS like Perkins can openly say any white MVP’s won only because they’re white then proceed to influence votes by essentially shaming anyone if they voted for Joker. Fake victimhood
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Re: Around The League 2022-2023 season 

Post#1230 » by drsd » Thu May 18, 2023 12:20 pm

Skybox wrote:Riles has great hair. I’d like to check underneath for horns or at least markings on his scalp confirming that deal.




Pat Riley won an NBA championship as a player
Pat Riley won an NBA championship as an assistant coach
Pat Riley won an NBA championship as a Head Coach, five times
Pat Riley won an NBA championship as a lead executive, twice


Maybe he did make the crossroads deal.
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Re: Around The League 2022-2023 season 

Post#1231 » by JoshuaPotter » Thu May 18, 2023 1:12 pm

Message Boar wrote:My emotions about the heat, more or less:

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Like, I get the Celtics are a weirdly flawed team in their own right, but they should still be comfortably better than this Heat team, yet here we are. I really wonder what kind of deal with the devil they made to turn themselves from this trash offensive/shooting team into a team that shoots above 50% from three on the regular. On the road. Against what should be elite defensive opposition. It's maddening. It's like they filed a request to allocate all of their shooting luck for 1 year to the playoffs with nil going to the regular season, or something. Not to mention they wouldn't be here if Giannis had stayed healthy. Heat fans didn't even believe in their chances around the end of the regular season, at all.

/end rant


It's only one game fren. Let's wait to see how the series goes.
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Re: Around The League 2022-2023 season 

Post#1232 » by Message Boar » Thu May 18, 2023 3:41 pm

^yeah yeah I was just coping. Idk, I just felt good about Boston at least taking game 1 when I went to sleep last night. I hate the Heat but I don't care much for Boston (and Boston sports fans), either. Go Nuggets.
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Re: Around The League 2022-2023 season 

Post#1233 » by pepe1991 » Thu May 18, 2023 5:22 pm

Heat was always one of my favorite teams to hate on, especially with Lebron & Big 3 and that Dallas series from 2006, but this Heat roster is apsolute biggest underdog story since that 00s Pistons.

They play guy who was cut by Hornets, guy who was vaiwed by Celtics, guy who signed for Heat after being in G league of Kings , Cody Zeller...
My friend today joked in gym that if Strus, Vincet and Martin showed up for pickup game for us, they would probably ended up on bench :lol:

I just have no heart to hate on team that has 2 above average players who play their guts up and bunch of players anybody could sign for nothing, yet elected to not do so.
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Re: Around The League 2022-2023 season 

Post#1234 » by Audi » Thu May 18, 2023 5:32 pm

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Post#1235 » by eyriq » Fri May 19, 2023 1:11 am

Game 2 is a fist fight. Love it!
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Post#1236 » by eyriq » Fri May 19, 2023 1:13 am

Jeff Van Gundy is very obnoxious good lord
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Post#1237 » by Bensational » Fri May 19, 2023 1:19 am

Nuggets got no bench. What’s this lineup? Bruce Brown running point? MPJ and Jeff Green forcing up bad long 2’s? Yuck.
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Post#1238 » by eyriq » Fri May 19, 2023 1:26 am

Bensational wrote:Nuggets got no bench. What’s this lineup? Bruce Brown running point? MPJ and Jeff Green forcing up bad long 2’s? Yuck.
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Post#1239 » by jonbob17 » Fri May 19, 2023 1:26 am

What the hell was that Lebron...It's the conference finals!
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Post#1240 » by Bensational » Fri May 19, 2023 1:31 am

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Bensational wrote:Nuggets got no bench. What’s this lineup? Bruce Brown running point? MPJ and Jeff Green forcing up bad long 2’s? Yuck.
LeBron is mortal. I've just seen the proof


Looked like the Monstars just sapped his power. First he has an open layup and puts it into the rim, then he has a fast break dunk and fumbles it. I feel like Leonidas just showed Xerxes can bleed.

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