Bucks @ Nets: Game 7 - Sat. June 19 @ 8:30 PM - TNT

[MrDollarBills]

Man, I can not get over the fact that How horrible Joe was..

Kevin huerter from Hawks was amazing today and helped them advance to the ECF. We only needed 1 game from Joe out of 5 games, he gave us nothing. Zero.

Not just Huerter, Seth Curry, Nikal Bridges, Batum, even Reggie Jackson

The only thing Joe does better than those guys is shoot a jumpsuit and he couldn't even do that having it served up on a platter. Just so damn disappointing, that wide open shot with a minute left tied game. He HAD to hit that, that would have redeemed the whole series and failures of years past too.

It's good that Joe is such a likeable guy which has saved him from some of the more crazed and toxic type of criticism.

Joe proved who he was in this series. A scrub. A choker.

We were not asking much from him. Literally just hit wide open 3s. Something you have done your whole career.

I get it if you have 1 bad game. But he literally had 5 bad games in a row. Unforgivable. I will never look at him the same.

I still think he has a ton of trade value though. Get back something valuable.

Yeah I think Joe squandered a lot of good will, not just from the fans, but the team as well.

[Paradise]

So, I took a little break from the board after Game 7. I would rather do they then get banned. This played out exactly like most of us expected after seeing the holes in the Boston series.

Joe was flat out garbage but Nash found a way to be even worse. I honestly think Jason Kidd would’ve gotten better out of the other guys than Nash running KD and Harden into the ground for no reason.

There is no excuse for lack of playing time for TJ, Clax, etc. Good coaches take chances on guys with fresh legs and energy. That’s what got the clippers into the Conference Finals.

We got outcoached in the grand scheme of it. I’m not trying to debate this. I never once believed Nash could figure it out without our Big 3 destroying teams based off pure talent. Now, we’re here.

Btw, Joe sucked balls but this easily could’ve been Spencer or LeVert, Allen, etc. That has little to do with why we ultimately didn’t close this out sooner.

[Prokorov]

People an point to huerter, curry, or batum but for every one of them there is a millsap, ariza, matthews (all shot under 28%).

Then there is someone like Tyler Herro, great least year, awful 31% this year.

or even stars. Beal, Jrue under 25%.

PJ tucker was 30.3%.

your not getting road shooting or consistent playoff shooting from many role guys. it is one of the reasons that playoff basketball is just basically half court and stars going iso. cause thats more reliable then role guys taking open shots.

this is always why coaching matters so much in a long series. you need to find the guys who are going to give you good minutes and be ready to swap them in and out. you wanna ride jrue or beal sure you have to. harris doesnt need to play 50 minutes in game 7

[Prokorov]

The big three should return healthy but the question is going to be how Marks re tweaks the roster. With Aldridge and Griffin, we were fine, but we lost Aldridge and injuries did us in, one from the giant ugly turd taking out Kyrie, and the other from Harden’s hamstring.

Aldridge was an awful fit. him retiring was a blessing in disguise. nash over used him over better players. we were going to him in the post instead of runinng through guards and wings.

[Lamak]

this loss still hurts, kevin durant put on a magical performance the entire game, championship level play and that shot was insane. in onvertime we just had so many missed opportunities. really wish kyrie could have given a few minutes if harden was out there hobbling around.

[ArksNetsSince99]

The big three should return healthy but the question is going to be how Marks re tweaks the roster. With Aldridge and Griffin, we were fine, but we lost Aldridge and injuries did us in, one from the giant ugly turd taking out Kyrie, and the other from Harden’s hamstring.

Aldridge was an awful fit. him retiring was a blessing in disguise. nash over used him over better players. we were going to him in the post instead of runinng through guards and wings.

Prok idk there is something about you that really rubs me the wrong way ,you’re inconsistent in your posts all the time
First , your posts in may , "i don’t care about regular season standings , later on role players got in slumps on the road ( guess what ? Higher seated teams plays usually more home games than road games if its done in 5 or 7 games
Second , last few months , Claxton sucks (gotta look for summertime job in supermarket bagging groceries) you later on , "Claxton needs more minutes "
Third , Blake is a corpse , he wasn’t a corpse at all , he got good to great stretches, he hustled , diving on the floor for loose balls several times
Fourth, LMA retirement was a blessing in disguise, how you so sure ? In small sample size he was decent , not a starter but maybe , just maybe decent enough to give us that few points what we missed in game 7 ?

Nash ,here i give you that you was correct from beginning, i hoped that maybe is a learning curve for him , clearly wasn’t, he possibly cost us a championship, is he 100% responsible ? No , he didn't injured Kai , he didn’t injured iron man Harden ,or Jeff Green, i want him gone anyways , he did his part and I’ve seen enough

[Prokorov]

The big three should return healthy but the question is going to be how Marks re tweaks the roster. With Aldridge and Griffin, we were fine, but we lost Aldridge and injuries did us in, one from the giant ugly turd taking out Kyrie, and the other from Harden’s hamstring.

Aldridge was an awful fit. him retiring was a blessing in disguise. nash over used him over better players. we were going to him in the post instead of runinng through guards and wings.

Prok idk there is something about you that really rubs me the wrong way ,you’re inconsistent in your posts all the time
First , your posts in may , "i don’t care about regular season standings , later on role players got in slumps on the road ( guess what ? Higher seated teams plays usually more home games than road games if its done in 5 or 7 games
Second , last few months , Claxton sucks (gotta look for summertime job in supermarket bagging groceries) you later on , "Claxton needs more minutes "
Third , Blake is a corpse , he wasn’t a corpse at all , he got good to great stretches, he hustled , diving on the floor for loose balls several times
Fourth, LMA retirement was a blessing in disguise, how you so sure ? In small sample size he was decent , not a starter but maybe , just maybe decent enough to give us that few points what we missed in game 7 ?

Nash ,here i give you that you was correct from beginning, i hoped that maybe is a learning curve for him , clearly wasn’t, he possibly cost us a championship, is he 100% responsible ? No , he didn't injured Kai , he didn’t injured iron man Harden ,or Jeff Green, i want him gone anyways , he did his part and I’ve seen enough

I'm not always going to be right, and it important to realize that and admit it when im wrong instead of just stubbornly sticking to a position:

-Claxton. i was wrong on several counts. i didnt think he could play center defensively, i thought he was a 4. i was wrong. didnt think he was starting calibur, i was wrong. i admitted so quite some time ago. maybe a few weeks after he was in the rotaiton

-Home court. this was me and whiskey slick going back and forth. 2 reasons i didnt care about the 1 seed. i thought philly was a joke and we shouldnt want to avoid them. that homecourt didnt matter vs philly because it wouldnt go 7 games, and home court only really matters if it goes 7 games. second, i didnt think home court would matter, since there were no fans. i didnt think it would open up for the playoffs, especially with how dumb the NBA has been with covid protocols.

that said, we had home court vs milwaulee and it didnt matter.

-aldridge. i hated what i saw from him. how our offense operated and how we couldnt switch as much as with claxton/blake. i hated him taking mid range jumpers and trying to score in the post. i dont think that works... which is why embiid never scared me either.

[3pt_chucker]

So, I took a little break from the board after Game 7. I would rather do they then get banned. This played out exactly like most of us expected after seeing the holes in the Boston series.

Joe was flat out garbage but Nash found a way to be even worse. I honestly think Jason Kidd would’ve gotten better out of the other guys than Nash running KD and Harden into the ground for no reason.

There is no excuse for lack of playing time for TJ, Clax, etc. Good coaches take chances on guys with fresh legs and energy. That’s what got the clippers into the Conference Finals.

We got outcoached in the grand scheme of it. I’m not trying to debate this. I never once believed Nash could figure it out without our Big 3 destroying teams based off pure talent. Now, we’re here.

Btw, Joe sucked balls but this easily could’ve been Spencer or LeVert, Allen, etc. That has little to do with why we ultimately didn’t close this out sooner.

Perfectly said