Around the NBA: Playoff Edition #2

BeatDaCavs420 · Post #461 » by **BeatDaCavs420** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:13 pm

Blake and CP3 come on down!

Post #462 » by **Ice Man** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:24 pm

Blake? Are you kidding me? He is Jo Noah the Second. It would be a disaster to sign him.

MC3 · Post #463 » by **MC3** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:24 pm

G Buckets wrote:That guy always seems to be hurt during the postseason.

Meant to be Bull.

jc23 · Post #464 » by **jc23** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:28 pm

MC3 wrote:
G Buckets wrote:That guy always seems to be hurt during the postseason.

Meant to be Bull.

lol aint that the truth

Mech Engineer · Post #465 » by **Mech Engineer** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:40 pm

Payt10 wrote:Another 1st or 2nd round exit for Doc Rivers. Overrated!

While I think he is not a great coach, he has two of his best players injured most of the time during playoffs. No coach can overcome that.

The smartest thing to do is move on from the core. Griffin and Paul are like the west coast version of Noah and Rose.

Post #466 » by **Payt10** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:42 pm

Mech Engineer wrote:
Payt10 wrote:Another 1st or 2nd round exit for Doc Rivers. Overrated!

While I think he is not a great coach, he has two of his best players injured most of the time during playoffs. No coach can overcome that.

The smartest thing to do is move on from the core. Griffin and Paul are like the west coast version of Noah and Rose.

Yeah, but he's also had a few years where everybody has been healthy, Paul was in his prime, and they still couldn't get past the 2nd round. If Boston's big three didn't come together, he wouldn't be held in such high regard around the league.

I think the even bigger mistake made with Rivers, is allowing him to run that Clippers franchise. That had disaster written all over it.

jc23 · Post #467 » by **jc23** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:48 pm

Griffin seems like a guy who peaked a few years back, when his athleticism was at its highest. I see him aging poorly in this new stretch the floor era.

Mech Engineer · Post #468 » by **Mech Engineer** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:03 pm

Payt10 wrote:
Mech Engineer wrote:
Payt10 wrote:Another 1st or 2nd round exit for Doc Rivers. Overrated!

While I think he is not a great coach, he has two of his best players injured most of the time during playoffs. No coach can overcome that.

The smartest thing to do is move on from the core. Griffin and Paul are like the west coast version of Noah and Rose.

Yeah, but he's also had a few years where everybody has been healthy, Paul was in his prime, and they still couldn't get past the 2nd round. If Boston's big three didn't come together, he wouldn't be held in such high regard around the league.

I think the even bigger mistake made with Rivers, is allowing him to run that Clippers franchise. That had disaster written all over it.

I don't know about Paul. He is a great regular season PG but seems to get exposed the deeper he goes in the playoffs plus seems to get hurt. He just cannot be a top option with his size and not being an automatic 3 pt shooter.

The blame gets distributed. Rivers proved he can win with a legit group in Boston. The LA group seems to be promising but falls short when matched up against elite teams.

These kind of groups(Noah, Rose or Griffin, Paul etc..) are fools gold. They are talented and a GM gets fooled they can win with them but are never healthy at the right time but you can't let go of them either. It is tough to find talent and "delusional hope" is the problem for many GMs/fans.

Indomitable · Post #469 » by **Indomitable** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:20 pm

Snell is playing great defense and actually understands his role. Maybe it was the organization.

MC3 · Post #470 » by **MC3** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:46 pm

Indomitable wrote:Snell is playing great defense and actually understands his role. Maybe it was the organization.

Or maybe it was him given contract year. Still think he is a scrub. But certainly not on his way out the league scrub I thought he was year ago. And I still even if he is a Bull wouldnt give him contract extension, keeping guys like him on roster is a doom for your franchise, waste of money.

Indomitable · Post #471 » by **Indomitable** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:06 pm

MC3 wrote:
Indomitable wrote:Snell is playing great defense and actually understands his role. Maybe it was the organization.

Or maybe it was him given contract year. Still think he is a scrub. But certainly not on his way out the league scrub I thought he was year ago. And I still even if he is a Bull wouldnt give him contract extension, keeping guys like him on roster is a doom for your franchise, waste of money.

Actually he a defender non volume shooter. He has a role on a good team.

Post #472 » by **RedBulls23** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:16 pm

Has a player disappeared this much in the postseason like Lowry does every year?

johnnyvann840 · Post #473 » by **johnnyvann840** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:21 pm

Ice Man wrote:Blake? Are you kidding me? He is Jo Noah the Second. It would be a disaster to sign him.

Yeah. Hell no to Blake Griffin.

Jimako10 · Post #474 » by **Jimako10** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:35 pm

Snell looks like prime Korver out there!

R3AL1TY · Post #475 » by **R3AL1TY** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:41 pm

RedBulls83 wrote:Has a player disappeared this much in the postseason like Lowry does every year?

That's why I prefer shooters that don't have to rely on the 3-ball like Redick and Anderson. Guys like Lowry and Korver that rely on the 3ball can disappear come playoff time. But unlike Korver, Lowry has the skills to take the ball to the hoop, but he's just not doing it enough.

Dan Z · Post #476 » by **Dan Z** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:51 pm

What do you think of Thon Maker? I know there were questions about his age, but beyond that I got the sense that many people were mixed about him.

R3AL1TY · Post #477 » by **R3AL1TY** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 9:12 pm

Dan Z wrote:What do you think of Thon Maker? I know there were questions about his age, but beyond that I got the sense that many people were mixed about him.

He has shown good defense and a little bit of his J, but I think with him, it will take time to see if he improves each year to earn plenty minutes. What's interesting is his playoffs numbers look better than his regular season's so far with his minutes being up.

Post #478 » by **Payt10** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 9:25 pm

Read on Twitter

I missed that goaltend by Giannis. Holy ****!

BloodyQ · Post #479 » by **BloodyQ** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 9:29 pm

There is an urgency to all these teams in the playoffs.

It's so sad watching the Bulls just jog up the court and set up some lackadaisical play....pathetic.

Post #480 » by **Ice Man** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 9:29 pm

Raps-Bucks looking like a classic 7 game series. Not quite the Bucks walkover that most on this board foresaw -- Lord, nobody loves Milwaukee like todays Bulls fans -- but for sure the Bucks are a good young team and will give Toronto all it can handle.