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PLAYOFFS Round 2! Saturday TNT: 7:30pm, Sunday ABC: 1:00pm, Monday TNT: 7:30, 10:00pm

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Post#321 » by 2019nbachamps » Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:11 am

Young_Buc wrote:For the first time in a long time the NBA may have parity. IF the Nets experiment fails I'd love to see the Utahs, Phoenix, Denvers, Phillys etc battle it out for the title. So much more exciting than the LeBron squad/KD Warrior gibberish (Raptor and Spurs titles notwithstanding) we've seen over the last 10 years.

If the nets fail and only another super team beat them... Well, forget it.


The parity is great. Should be even more open next season if Lakers and Warriors are healthy.
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Post#324 » by niQ » Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:00 am

How is it that Jae Crowder has bounced around the league so much already?
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Post#325 » by Anticon » Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:09 am

Don't ever want to hear people say Murray is superfluous now.
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Post#326 » by Hipster Doofus » Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:20 am

Ivan Drago wrote:
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Ivan Drago wrote:Sixers are going to lose this series and are going to regress next year. I see their role players like Green, Howard, Korkmaz, & Scott all bouncing to different teams.


I very respectfully disagree on both accounts.


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Post#328 » by Raps in 4 » Thu Jun 10, 2021 5:48 am

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Young_Buc wrote:For the first time in a long time the NBA may have parity. IF the Nets experiment fails I'd love to see the Utahs, Phoenix, Denvers, Phillys etc battle it out for the title. So much more exciting than the LeBron squad/KD Warrior gibberish (Raptor and Spurs titles notwithstanding) we've seen over the last 10 years.

If the nets fail and only another super team beat them... Well, forget it.


The parity is great. Should be even more open next season if Lakers and Warriors are healthy.


Healthy Lakers steamroll the west (unless Lebron is washed next season). Warriors are unlikely to be competitive, unless they trade their pick and Wiseman (which I would strongly consider since Curry isn't getting any younger). Klay is coming off the two worst injuries in basketball, back-to-back, late in his career. Most players come back diminished from just one of them. I'd look to trade Wiseman and their pick for KAT or Dame.
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Post#329 » by Raps in 4 » Thu Jun 10, 2021 6:12 am

Anticon wrote:Don't ever want to hear people say Murray is superfluous now.


Denver is such a trash team outside of Jokic and Murray. Which makes it all the more impressive Jokic was able to get out of the first round.
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Post#330 » by 2019nbachamps » Thu Jun 10, 2021 12:39 pm

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2019nbachamps wrote:
Young_Buc wrote:For the first time in a long time the NBA may have parity. IF the Nets experiment fails I'd love to see the Utahs, Phoenix, Denvers, Phillys etc battle it out for the title. So much more exciting than the LeBron squad/KD Warrior gibberish (Raptor and Spurs titles notwithstanding) we've seen over the last 10 years.

If the nets fail and only another super team beat them... Well, forget it.


The parity is great. Should be even more open next season if Lakers and Warriors are healthy.


Healthy Lakers steamroll the west (unless Lebron is washed next season). Warriors are unlikely to be competitive, unless they trade their pick and Wiseman (which I would strongly consider since Curry isn't getting any younger). Klay is coming off the two worst injuries in basketball, back-to-back, late in his career. Most players come back diminished from just one of them. I'd look to trade Wiseman and their pick for KAT or Dame.


Klay will still be a great shooter and will give them 20 ppg again. Issue is whether he can remain a good defender.

Warriors are in win now mode. I imagine they’ll shop their young assets around this summer and try to bring in a 4th big piece next to Steph, Klay, and Dray.
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Post#331 » by ash_k » Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:17 pm

I was really hoping Denver would control the series to make them think that Murray might no longer be needed to then eventually see Masai trade the pick for Murray ...oh well
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Post#332 » by FluLikeSymptoms » Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:23 pm

Raps in 4 wrote:
Anticon wrote:Don't ever want to hear people say Murray is superfluous now.


Denver is such a trash team outside of Jokic and Murray. Which makes it all the more impressive Jokic was able to get out of the first round.

Bill Simmons mentioned his Ewing theory re: Jamal. Dude’s really slipping. I wonder if the people who have explained basketball to him are still in his life.
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Post#333 » by Rodrickle » Thu Jun 10, 2021 5:09 pm

Raps in 4 wrote:
Anticon wrote:Don't ever want to hear people say Murray is superfluous now.


Denver is such a trash team outside of Jokic and Murray. Which makes it all the more impressive Jokic was able to get out of the first round.
Nah they have a pretty good team. Lots of good roleplayers plus MPJ. Barton, Gordon Campazzo Morris Milsap are all pretty good players

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Post#334 » by hsb » Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:42 am

The Bucks can't help themselves sometimes. They are going back to old habits this quarter so far.

They have to stay discipline to avoid the Giannis wall.
"I definitely knew he traveled, but I didn't know they were going to call it. That was one of them situations in which a great player made a move...and they called the call. And I was like, 'Oh, man, there is a God.'
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Post#335 » by Coco Costanza » Fri Jun 11, 2021 1:24 am

Have the Nets led at any point?
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Post#336 » by hsb » Fri Jun 11, 2021 1:47 am

The Bucks, in the playoffs, are a tough watch lol.
"I definitely knew he traveled, but I didn't know they were going to call it. That was one of them situations in which a great player made a move...and they called the call. And I was like, 'Oh, man, there is a God.'
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Post#337 » by WaltFrazier » Fri Jun 11, 2021 1:54 am

Giannis is a great athlete, a freak, competes hard, good person. I would never even say it's good we didn't get him. But man, even aside from the free throws, he has a really limited offensive game for playoff basketball.
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Post#338 » by Lord_Zedd » Fri Jun 11, 2021 1:57 am

Nets playing their worst basketball and Bucks can only manage to tie them.
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Post#339 » by C_Money » Fri Jun 11, 2021 1:57 am

Bricks galore in this game lol.
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Post#340 » by hsb » Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:07 am

Holiday comes out of nowhere to take the lead. Forgot he was even on the court.
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