NBA Games Discussion Thread - Part 5

9 and 20 · Post #1341 » by **9 and 20** » Sat Jun 10, 2023 3:05 am

KCP, man. Shutting down Butler and then Bam on those 2 possessions and then hitting the 3 to put the game almost completely out of reach. Happy for the dude.

dobrojim · Post #1342 » by **dobrojim** » Sat Jun 10, 2023 3:54 am

MIA held under 100 again. Lose again.

CntOutSmrtCrazy · Post #1343 » by **CntOutSmrtCrazy** » Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:11 am

9 and 20 wrote:KCP, man. Shutting down Butler and then Bam on those 2 possessions and then hitting the 3 to put the game almost completely out of reach. Happy for the dude.

About time. He's been pretty bad in the Finals. A ton of bad fouls, poor shot selection, and not making the ones he should. Him and Porter are why this wasn't a sweep.

Jay81 · Post #1344 » by **Jay81** » Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:18 am

Miami could really use beal

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CntOutSmrtCrazy · Post #1345 » by **CntOutSmrtCrazy** » Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:20 am

nate33 wrote:Take a look at Jokic's basketball reference page and marvel at the absolute absurdity of his stats. He has led the league in every summary metric for 3 years:

Look at his on/off differential, for goodness sake!

The most preposterous statistic is him posting a 70.1% TS% this year on 25 points a game. C'mon now. Is this even real?

His defense, which the media -ESPN I'm looking at you and your campaign to give Embiid the MVP- dumps on him for has been great these last 2 games in Miami. He must of had 12-15+ deflections/steal/blocks tonight. Totally stymied any rhythm Miami tried to get going, gave them a taste of their own medicine.

Post #1346 » by **Zonkerbl** » Sat Jun 10, 2023 2:52 pm

Jokic plays Tim Duncan defense. Nothing flashy, always in the right spot, physical, takes up space, makes you shoot over his stretched out Pillsbury Doughboy arms

FAH1223 · Post #1347 » by **FAH1223** » Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:58 pm

CntOutSmrtCrazy wrote:
nate33 wrote:Take a look at Jokic's basketball reference page and marvel at the absolute absurdity of his stats. He has led the league in every summary metric for 3 years:

Look at his on/off differential, for goodness sake!

The most preposterous statistic is him posting a 70.1% TS% this year on 25 points a game. C'mon now. Is this even real?

His defense, which the media -ESPN I'm looking at you and your campaign to give Embiid the MVP- dumps on him for has been great these last 2 games in Miami. He must of had 12-15+ deflections/steal/blocks tonight. Totally stymied any rhythm Miami tried to get going, gave them a taste of their own medicine.

Zonkerbl wrote:Jokic plays Tim Duncan defense. Nothing flashy, always in the right spot, physical, takes up space, makes you shoot over his stretched out Pillsbury Doughboy arms

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9 and 20 · Post #1348 » by **9 and 20** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 2:54 am

Jokic is such a good player. It makes it even better that he looks like he doesn't give a crap about dominating the other team.

These refs let Miami mug the Nuggets on one end then call phantom fouls on the other end. Pretty ridiculous.

Post #1349 » by **Zonkerbl** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:04 am

Gentleman's sweep!

9 and 20 · Post #1350 » by **9 and 20** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:06 am

Jokic brothers look like extras in a Van Damme movie, lol. Jokic says the job is done so everyone can go home.

Good for Denver, man. Miami made a game of it, ugly as it was. They played way over their head in the playoffs and now only need one Brad Beal to put them over the top.

long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #1351 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:07 am

What a brawl. What a game!!!

Love Jokic.

“The job is over. We can go home now.”

closg00 · Post #1352 » by **closg00** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:11 am

Heat fans should be proud, they did as-much as they could, dunno if Hero could have made any difference.

trast66 · Post #1353 » by **trast66** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:12 am

Jay81 wrote:Miami could really use beal

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No doubt they will try.

Ish Smih NBA Champion!

queridiculo · Post #1354 » by **queridiculo** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:20 am

Who's the next former Wizard to win a championship?

Ish Smith, Caldwell-Pope, Calvin Booth, Popeye Jones ya heard!

AFM · Post #1355 » by **AFM** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:28 am

queridiculo wrote:Who's the next former Wizard to win a championship?

Ish Smith, Caldwell-Pope, Calvin Booth, Popeye Jones ya heard!

Don’t forget Thomas Bryant. He got a ring tonight.

CntOutSmrtCrazy · Post #1356 » by **CntOutSmrtCrazy** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:10 am

Stop. Ish and Bryant didn't play. KCP was horrible in a lot of spots (granted he had a big steal tonight that got them up 3). Why do this game to yourself?

Post #1357 » by **Zonkerbl** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 1:49 pm

Butler did not look comfortable. Would not be surprised to learn he was trying to play on a high ankle sprain.

Post #1358 » by **nate33** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 2:14 pm

queridiculo wrote:Who's the next former Wizard to win a championship?

Ish Smith, Caldwell-Pope, Calvin Booth, Popeye Jones ya heard!

You can make that argument about lots of teams every year.

Look at all the former Detroit Pistons who won a championship this year. Man, that team lets all their talent get away before developing them!
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Reggie Jackson
Ish Smith
Bruce Brown

Look at all the former Clippers who won a championship this year. How did they let these guys get away?
DeAndre Jordan
Reggie Jackson
Jeff Green

Look at all the former Brooklyn Nets who won a championship this year. What are they doing?
DeAndre Jordan
Jeff Green
Bruce Brown

OKC Thunder:
Ish Smith
Reggie Jackson
Jeff Green

LA Lakers:
Thomas Bryant
DeAndre Jordan
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

Orlando:
Aaron Gordon
Ish Smith
Jeff Green

dobrojim · Post #1359 » by **dobrojim** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:12 pm

Hats off to MIA for what they accomplished. But again, held under a hundred. Shoot held under 90.
Bam was amazing. Great player. Lowry I will give more props to than I did earlier in the playoffs.
He's scrappy AF and a better shooter now at 37 than I remember him being as a younger guy.
But it's both funny and frustrating to watch him under the basket get away with constant fouls.
JVG is right in pointing out the refs seem to tend to let physically undersized players get away with more.

dobrojim · Post #1360 » by **dobrojim** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:15 pm

PS Congrats to the Nugs. Nice to see a new team get a chip. Hard not to like Joker
and Murray. And while Porter's 3 ball disappeared, he gradually found other ways
to help his team. Gordon was a really good contributor at times as well.

Jeff Green. All those teams that 'gave up' on him. Sheesh.