NBA FINALS, Gm 1 – Mavericks @ Celtics – 8:30PM, Thurs, June 6, 2024

24istheLAW · Post #361 » by **24istheLAW** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 4:16 pm

This is the final boss of the maturation of the Jays.

There's two guys who are traffic cones on the other team. As long as the ball moves, one of Porzingis, White, Holiday, and Horford will be getting the bucket.

If Jayson and Jaylen are possessed with tunnel vision, and are swept up in seeing this as being about themselves and a referendum on how they stack up as point scorers with Luka and Kyrie? The Mavs have a good chance. If we share the rock we lift banner 18.

Post #362 » by **bisme37** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 4:19 pm

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The Corey's · Post #363 » by **The Corey's** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 4:22 pm

I heard KP was 3 or 4 months out

Tyakack · Post #364 » by **Tyakack** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 5:08 pm

The Corey's wrote:I heard KP was 3 or 4 months out

Lol, I never said he was 3 to 4 months out. I said he looked like it in that one video. I was being hyperbolic but I was trying to say he didn't look ready in that clip. I still stand by that. Even if he plays game 1 and looks 100% healthy. I always thought he would play in the finals though. How he looks when he's there has always been my biggest concern.

The Corey's · Post #365 » by **The Corey's** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 5:10 pm

Tyakack wrote:
The Corey's wrote:I heard KP was 3 or 4 months out

Lol, I never said he was 3 to 4 months out. I said he looked like it in that one video. I was being hyperbolic but I was trying to say he didn't look ready in that clip. I still stand by that. Even if he plays game 1 and looks 100% healthy. I always thought he would play in the finals though. How he looks when he's there has always been my biggest concern.

I'm just **** around.

zoyathedestroya · Post #366 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 5:28 pm

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Celtics don't trap/blitz. Very uncommon. Will be surprised if we used this or if they're even practicing that now.

The Corey's · Post #367 » by **The Corey's** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 5:44 pm

General board has Luka having the best finals of all time apparently.

There's no way Luka can do better than Curry did two years ago. That's about the peak of what you can expect from a superstar in the finals.

That won't be enough against this incarnation of the Celtics.

Fencer reregistered · Post #368 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 6:07 pm

Just saw this. Note that the other guys are deep bench or coaches.

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Edit: Determined below to be a fake. Sorry!

The Corey's · Post #369 » by **The Corey's** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 6:10 pm

Who made the bull **** decision to move the headlines to the bottom of the page? It's **** with 15 years of scrolling for me.

King Of The 4th · Post #370 » by **King Of The 4th** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 6:19 pm

Fencer reregistered wrote:Just saw this. Note that the other guys are deep bench or coaches.

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It's fake, from earlier in the season.

Fencer reregistered · Post #371 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 6:21 pm

zoyathedestroya wrote:

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Celtics don't trap/blitz. Very uncommon. Will be surprised if we used this or if they're even practicing that now.

How are the Mavs' secondary passers? With an excellent/great passer like Luka and a competent one like Kyrie, those stats suggest a lack of passing/ball movement skill otherwise.

Actually -- is Luka really a great passer? We've heard that since he came into the league, he has gaudy assist stats, and the first few passes of the video below are really impressive (a bunch later on not so much):

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So he's at least weakly great at passing, and perhaps even better than that.

zoyathedestroya · Post #372 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 7:49 pm

King Of The 4th wrote:
Fencer reregistered wrote:Just saw this. Note that the other guys are deep bench or coaches.

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It's fake, from earlier in the season.

Yeah, never believe or re-post anything CelticsForum tweets. Unfollowed them a looooong time ago.

zoyathedestroya · Post #373 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 7:52 pm

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Interesting. That's on the day when they're supposedly going harder in practice with KP.

zoyathedestroya · Post #374 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 8:11 pm

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Outside of maybe one game in the 2022 Finals, he was almost invisible in that series. Safe bet he'll be more impactful in this one.

Post #375 » by **bisme37** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 8:23 pm

There's some stuff happening in the NBA app this week if anyone's interested...

reload141 · Post #376 » by **reload141** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 8:39 pm

bisme37 wrote:

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Watching Joe’s eyes is like watching a movie within itself.

zoyathedestroya · Post #377 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Sun Jun 2, 2024 9:29 pm

zoyathedestroya wrote:

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Celtics don't trap/blitz. Very uncommon. Will be surprised if we used this or if they're even practicing that now.

Post #378 » by **165bows** » Mon Jun 3, 2024 1:00 am

zoyathedestroya wrote:
zoyathedestroya wrote:

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Celtics don't trap/blitz. Very uncommon. Will be surprised if we used this or if they're even practicing that now.

Yeah they don’t do that much - not sure how to describe it better but I think they try to hedge and force the ball handler towards the helpers if that makes sense. That’s how they described it against KD and I don’t think it’s changed that much.

TheMartian · Post #379 » by **TheMartian** » Mon Jun 3, 2024 1:19 am

Boston508 wrote:
The Corey's wrote:
Boston508 wrote:
What brand of phone do you have? If you have an android phone I have a solution.

What's the solution. It stutters and lags on my S23 Ultra.

Are you using the Samsung internet browser? Even my old S7 can run this website without issues.

I am using a Samsung phone and browser, but even my old OnePlus phone is freezing using Chrome browser.

Mr_Mojo_Risin · Post #380 » by **Mr_Mojo_Risin** » Mon Jun 3, 2024 1:31 am

TheMartian wrote:
Boston508 wrote:
The Corey's wrote:
What's the solution. It stutters and lags on my S23 Ultra.

Are you using the Samsung internet browser? Even my old S7 can run this website without issues.

I am using a Samsung phone and browser, but even my old OnePlus phone is freezing using Chrome browser.

It's not your end mate, it's the site. Not sure whether their servers have been affected by some form of adware or whether it's their new or existing advertisement system that generates their revenue, but it constantly runs updates and tracking via javascript causing the poor performance.

Here is a screenshot from my Firefox Dev Tools window (It's just a 10 second sample of communication between my browser and RealGM servers - when all I have done is load the site and nothing else). Even as I type it's continuing to cycle and affect performance of the RealGM browser tab and slow down typing).