2023 NBA Finals, The Last Stand: Heat @ Nuggets, 6/12 @ 8:30pm

Rapaz · Post #1961 » by **Rapaz** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:36 am

This is an NBA franchise, not a disadvantaged youth organization. No one is going to feel sorry for you for being undermanned. Improve the team.

Spacely · Post #1962 » by **Spacely** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:36 am

Y’all think we would’ve beat the Lakers if they made it

Umbooki · Post #1963 » by **Umbooki** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:36 am

I hope Josh Hart got a bad case of bubble guts from all that titty milk. :-?

marson · Post #1964 » by **marson** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:36 am

Lilseb93 wrote:It was a winnable series too but these shooters always disappear when it matters most. It happened against Boston last year and against the Lakers too.

It was our defense. We can't make a string of stops against the Joker like we did against the Celtics. Thank the lord they are not making any head coaching changes and will continue to be a stupid shot-taking team next year.

We also shot poorly against the Celtics. Literally no answer to Jokic and to be fair no one in the league found one yet.

TroubleS0me · Post #1965 » by **TroubleS0me** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:36 am

ShulaDon92 wrote:
AirP. wrote:He wasn't looking to score when he had that TO, before this series that would have been a step back jumper. It was a 1 point game and he was STILL looking to pass the whole play.

Read on Twitter

He's clearly cooked. It's obvious
Look at the knee buckling

-SHULA

I still think about that 3 he took vs Celtics last year in ECF, when he could have drive to the basket
He wasn't hurt then

oreon · Post #1966 » by **oreon** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:37 am

marson wrote:
Flash4thewin wrote:Butler once again showed us who he is. Nothing wrong with losing, that happens, but it's how one loses that says it all.

Glad he made a mini-run by himself and scored the last 12 pts for the Heat. He won't be crucified as much in the media.

He had a bad series plain and simple. Heat had no chance to win this series with this version of Butler. If he gets criticized he deserves it. He was being talked about as a top 10 player and future hall of famer, which he is. With that comes expectation to play at high level in every series. And if you don't you get criticized. If we think he should get a pass but then we can talk about him as a top 10 player. If he had a serious injury then would explain it and not much could have been done about that.

3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1967 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:37 am

Beenie wrote:
3ammy3uck3ts wrote:
Beenie wrote:
Overstated. Jokic moved him around like a blow up dummy.

Murray blew past him on the perimeter in a key possession down the stretch.

Moreover, he did nothing on offense in the second half but miss 6 shots in the paint.

Post the clip of Murray blowing by him

Rewatch the game lol

It happened

You’re drunk, it didn’t happen :lol:

goodboy · Post #1968 » by **goodboy** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:37 am

Enso wrote:
Spacely wrote:
3ammy3uck3ts wrote:
Post the clip of Murray blowing by him

Post the clip of Murray getting blowed

Lol

From my hometown Kitchener, Ontario. Post the clip

Lilseb93 · Post #1969 » by **Lilseb93** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:37 am

marson wrote:
Lilseb93 wrote:It was a winnable series too but these shooters always disappear when it matters most. It happened against Boston last year and against the Lakers too.

It was our defense. We can't make a string of stops against the Joker like we did against the Celtics. Thank the lord they are not making any head coaching changes and will continue to be a stupid shot-taking team next year.

We also shot poorly against the Celtics. Literally no answer to Jokic and to be fair no one in the league found one yet.

We had so many open looks in this series. It's not like Denver scored 130 a game. We only scored 89 tonight for example. The shooting was garbage all series except for game 2.

marson · Post #1970 » by **marson** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:37 am

Spacely wrote:Y’all think we would’ve beat the Lakers if they made it

Absolutely. Anyone in the west not named the Nuggets, we would've out-toughed them.

ShulaDon92 · Post #1971 » by **ShulaDon92** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:38 am

TroubleS0me wrote:
ShulaDon92 wrote:
AirP. wrote:He wasn't looking to score when he had that TO, before this series that would have been a step back jumper. It was a 1 point game and he was STILL looking to pass the whole play.

Read on Twitter

He's clearly cooked. It's obvious
Look at the knee buckling

-SHULA

I still think about that 3 he took vs Celtics last year in ECF, when he could have drive to the basket
He wasn't hurt then

I accepted that shot. It didn't go. F it

You crazy trolling now bringing this up lol

-SHULA

wade44 · Post #1972 » by **wade44** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:38 am

Spacely wrote:Y’all think we would’ve beat the Lakers if they made it

Not with this version of Jimmy. Would have been a much better series, although I couldn’t stomach the thought of losing to them again in the Finals

Bishop45 · Post #1973 » by **Bishop45** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:38 am

Read on Twitter

Post #1974 » by **DayofMourning** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:39 am

Lilseb93 wrote:
DayofMourning wrote:
Lilseb93 wrote:It was a winnable series too but these shooters always disappear when it matters most. It happened against Boston last year and against the Lakers too.

Boston is a legit gripe.

Lakers??? We lost Bam and Goran. No chance. Lets not rewrite history.

The shooters went cold in that series is what I'm saying. Unless I'm totally misremembering.

Its a domino effect. You take out our top scorer, then our defensive hub.....role playing shooters cant compensate for that. Its a delicate balance. Inuries suck so bad. Luck is what you need. With luck, Hakeem wins more chips than Jordan.

RRR3 · Post #1975 » by **RRR3** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:39 am

DayofMourning wrote:
Lilseb93 wrote:It was a winnable series too but these shooters always disappear when it matters most. It happened against Boston last year and against the Lakers too.

Boston is a legit gripe.

Lakers??? We lost Bam and Goran. No chance. Lets not rewrite history.

We were 1-1 in the games Bam missed and 1-3 when he played, don't think you can really blame that. Goran sure. Jimmy also played like a god that series though, if he plays at his normal level we might have got swept.

Lilseb93 · Post #1976 » by **Lilseb93** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:39 am

Jimmy is only going to get worse with age. That's why we desperately need a #1 scoring option on this team.

Enso · Post #1977 » by **Enso** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:39 am

marson wrote:
Spacely wrote:Y’all think we would’ve beat the Lakers if they made it

Absolutely. Anyone in the west not named the Nuggets, we would've out-toughed them.

Ya but the refs would of really helped the Lakers and I couldn’t handle losing to LeGuangzhou

Cmon_Son-_- · Post #1978 » by **Cmon_Son-_-** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:39 am

marson wrote:
Spacely wrote:Y’all think we would’ve beat the Lakers if they made it

Absolutely. Anyone in the west not named the Nuggets, we would've out-toughed them.

Denver aint out tough us. They out talented us. Which what we saw from Jimmy don't think we would've been the Lakers either

Post #1979 » by **QUIZ** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:39 am

Spacely wrote:Y’all think we would’ve beat the Lakers if they made it

Hard to say, we looked out of gas… but so did LeBron. We also would’ve had home court in that series. If both our series and their series with the nuggets went 7 then I’d say yes.

With the disclaimer though that I really don’t think highly of that lakers team.

RRR3 · Post #1980 » by **RRR3** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:40 am

Spacely wrote:Y’all think we would’ve beat the Lakers if they made it

Probably not but Darvin Ham is so stupid we'd certainly have a decent chance.