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Profound23 · Post #1841 » by **Profound23** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:49 pm

-Jragon- wrote:If we somehow magically packaged KM for KD, wouldn't he complain about the same BS here? Dame and KM never really got on page with who should have the ball either.

Probably, but I don't care. Give me the talent and they can figure it out. Or he comes here and is unhappy too, still worth a shot if you can truly trade Middleton/Lopez for KD and Grayson Allen (works for me lol).

drew881 · Post #1842 » by **drew881** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:01 am

The three Suns wiretap article headlines are hilarious. Talk about a **** coaster

Plossum · Post #1843 » by **Plossum** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:05 am

Boston is almost going to win the East by default. Orlando and Indy are the only two other healthy teams in the conference and they aren’t on Boston’s level.

drew881 · Post #1844 » by **drew881** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:20 am

emunney wrote:
MickeyDavis wrote:
drew881 wrote:
But then in the back of your head you are rooting for AROD.

??? His bid to buy the team failed.

I don't think they've selected the jury yet.

ETA: First mediation session is May 1

https://apnews.com/article/timberwolves-sale-mediation-alex-rodriguez-c3d2c51a63c5cb6439d9610a30fdc5e9

For some reason I thought he is remaining a minority owner. He had been at the game rocking his white jeans.

Matches Malone · Post #1845 » by **Matches Malone** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:43 am

Read on Twitter

Plossum · Post #1846 » by **Plossum** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:57 am

This Derrick White game is very emblematic of the modern NBA. If you get a guy who goes off from three in a game you’re very hard to beat.

Same thing with us a Turner the other day or even Grant **** Williams going Steph Curry on us.

Not whingeing about it, just crazy how so many teams’ success or failure depends on how well they shoot the three.

This is why Denver is so good imo. They’ve built a really effective and sustainable offence that doesn’t rely on spamming threes.

pifhluk23 · Post #1847 » by **pifhluk23** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:02 am

MN DEN is the finals

MartyConlonOnTheRun · Post #1848 » by **MartyConlonOnTheRun** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:06 am

Matches Malone wrote:

Read on Twitter

I always had the mindset of that one of KP or Old Man Al would be injured come ECF and Giannis would feast. Just cruel that Giannis is now becoming the predicably injured guy.

Post #1849 » by **paulpressey25** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:24 am

MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:I always had the mindset of that one of KP or Old Man Al would be injured come ECF and Giannis would feast. Just cruel that Giannis is now becoming the predicably injured guy.

Giannis has put on a lot of miles. And not just minutes/games played, but how he exerts himself so much. 36 Giannis minutes equates to 250 Big Dog minutes and 275 Charlie Villanueva minutes of exertion.

He and the team need to rethink what Giannis 2.0 looks like for the second half of his career.

Post #1850 » by **paulpressey25** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:28 am

Plossum wrote:This Derrick White game is very emblematic of the modern NBA. If you get a guy who goes off from three in a game you’re very hard to beat.

As a Bucks fan, it’s still very frustrating as to what Brad Stevens pulled off with Derrick White. By all odds he should have been a Grayson Allen type addition, but he’s turned into Joe Dumars with the Celtics. They’re back down with us if they hadn’t pulled that off. Heck, we beat them in 2022 if they didn’t have him.

ETA: oh, and I see he went #29 in the 2017 draft. One of many super productive players we passed on to take DJ Wilson.

ETA2: I see from pick 18 to pick 30 of the 2017 draft, we could have had John Collins, OG, Jarrett Allen, Kyle Kuzma, Derrick White or Josh Hart.

KidA24 · Post #1851 » by **KidA24** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:45 am

No uniforms the Bucks have had in the last five years rival how awful these pelicans uniforms are

blazza18 · Post #1852 » by **blazza18** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:01 am

The Lakers get more points off cherry picking than any other team. I would love to see the stats to back that up.

Baddy Chuck · Post #1853 » by **Baddy Chuck** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:02 am

paulpressey25 wrote:As a Bucks fan, it’s still very frustrating as to what Brad Stevens pulled off with Derrick White. By all odds he should have been a Grayson Allen type addition, but he’s turned into Joe Dumars with the Celtics. They’re back down with us if they hadn’t pulled that off. Heck, we beat them in 2022 if they didn’t have him.

This feels like revisionist history to me. He wasn't really just an extra player on the Spurs like Grayson was who got moved for some second rounders. He was a full time starter who had just gotten a 4/$70 extension from the Spurs. Boston got a steal looking back but it isn't like they didn't pay a price. They traded two first round picks for the guy. They hit it out of the park obviously but they put their money where there mouth was on that move.

KidA24 · Post #1854 » by **KidA24** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:28 am

AD is moving like he broke his collar bone

KidA24 · Post #1855 » by **KidA24** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:46 am

KidA24 wrote:AD is moving like he broke his collar bone

I posted this 60 seconds of game time after he collided with mpj

ejn1214 · Post #1856 » by **ejn1214** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:47 am

Baddy Chuck wrote:
paulpressey25 wrote:As a Bucks fan, it’s still very frustrating as to what Brad Stevens pulled off with Derrick White. By all odds he should have been a Grayson Allen type addition, but he’s turned into Joe Dumars with the Celtics. They’re back down with us if they hadn’t pulled that off. Heck, we beat them in 2022 if they didn’t have him.

This feels like revisionist history to me. He wasn't really just an extra player on the Spurs like Grayson was who got moved for some second rounders. He was a full time starter who had just gotten a 4/$70 extension from the Spurs. Boston got a steal looking back but it isn't like they didn't pay a price. They traded two first round picks for the guy. They hit it out of the park obviously but they put their money where there mouth was on that move.

Granted, I didn't watch a ton of spurs but him and d. Murray kinda switched off on big games for the Spurs. He was always above the level of Grayson allen and a much more complete player.

blazza18 · Post #1857 » by **blazza18** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:27 am

Thank you Jamal Murray.

BUCKnation · Post #1858 » by **BUCKnation** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:33 am

Baddy Chuck wrote:
paulpressey25 wrote:As a Bucks fan, it’s still very frustrating as to what Brad Stevens pulled off with Derrick White. By all odds he should have been a Grayson Allen type addition, but he’s turned into Joe Dumars with the Celtics. They’re back down with us if they hadn’t pulled that off. Heck, we beat them in 2022 if they didn’t have him.

This feels like revisionist history to me. He wasn't really just an extra player on the Spurs like Grayson was who got moved for some second rounders. He was a full time starter who had just gotten a 4/$70 extension from the Spurs. Boston got a steal looking back but it isn't like they didn't pay a price. They traded two first round picks for the guy. They hit it out of the park obviously but they put their money where there mouth was on that move.

He was at best a 7th man in their rotation until he learned how to shoot randomly, 5 years into his career. Now he is regularly a top 3 guy for them nightly. He was basically a non factor for them post trade in 22 outside of a couple of games here or there.

BUCKnation · Post #1859 » by **BUCKnation** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:37 am

Den/Min will be interesting. Cant say Denver have been very impressive, but got the job done by basically showing up for 4 quarters in the entire series.

James1980 · Post #1860 » by **James1980** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:43 am

Jamal Murray is clutch