NBA Season - now 24/25
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@ACT-Crusader did you see the last 2 buckets Kyrie had? The first was one of those wild dribble drives finished with a sublime contested reverse layup, and the 2nd was a straight-out-of-the-textbook pull-up jumper in the lane. The latter was almost more beautiful, the separation he got from such a simple move done perfectly at insane speed was just amazing.
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So the 10 teams in the East are sorted, just need to sort out the order of 6-9. I think Bulls will finish 10th.
Nets currently in 6th but only a game ahead of the Heat. The Hawks and Raptors are both on 40-39 and Hawks have the tie breaker.
Nets have @Pistons, Magic, Philly. Prediction 3-0; 46-36; 6th
Heat have @Philly, @Wizards and Magic. Prediction 2-1; 44-38; 7th
Hawks have Wizards, Philly, @Celtics. Prediction 1-2; 41-41; 8th
Raptors have @Celtics, @Celtics, Philly. Prediction 1-2; 41-41; 9th
Bulls have @Bucks, @Mavs, Pistons. Prediction 2-1; 40-42; 10th -
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
So the 10 teams in the East are sorted, just need to sort out the order of 6-9. I think Bulls will finish 10th.
Nets currently in 6th but only a game ahead of the Heat. The Hawks and Raptors are both on 40-39 and Hawks have the tie breaker.
Nets have @Pistons, Magic, Philly. Prediction 3-0; 46-36; 6th
Heat have @Philly, @Wizards and Magic. Prediction 2-1; 44-38; 7th
Hawks have Wizards, Philly, @Celtics. Prediction 1-2; 41-41; 8th
Raptors have @Celtics, @Celtics, Philly. Prediction 1-2; 41-41; 9th
Bulls have @Bucks, @Mavs, Pistons. Prediction 2-1; 40-42; 10thAfter everything that happened, the Nets stil make the playoffs. Wow.
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@voodoo said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
@gt12 said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
Mavs suck. Who could have thought that adding Kyrie would make them even worse at defense?
Right, I just watched the 2nd half of the Mavs v Hawks. And you know what? I have fallen right off the Luka wagon.
Like all the way off, I'm waving it goodbye into the sunset, I might never again get on it.
Today Kyrie was in one of those moods. In the 4th quarter alone, he had 14 points with only 1 missed shot, including the last 6 Dallas points including a sweet move for the tying shot with 35 seconds to go. Brought them all the way back.
Atlanta come down and score on a lucky tip to go up 2 (yeah Dallas still can't rebound)
So 20 seconds to tie or go ahead, you go to the hot hand right? Or at least involve him in the play somehow, right?
Nah
Luka demands the ball at the inbounds, dribbles the clock to 3 seconds, makes a shit drive right and throws a bail out cross court pass to Wood on the wing who is well covered.
It was so fucking selfish, I couldn't believe it. Weak coaching from Kidd too.
And of course Luka whined all game and had multiple defensive lapses (did anyone hear Lowe tell the story of a scout telling him that Luka is the worst transition defender in the HISTORY of the league??!!)
Yeah, Kyrie is an odd guy and not a great defender. But this is Luka's team. How about he turns up to the season opener not needing to "play himself into shape". How about he sets the tone on D with some fucking effort? How about he gets back on D after a miss instead of whining at the refs every single fucking time? How about he show some class and reward a teammate when he's hot and give his team the best chance of winning a game?
Sorry Luka, I'm out on you (I'm sure you'll be devastated to hear that).
As an aside, how come the Mavs never run a Luka-Kyrie pick and roll at the top? Surely that would create some awesome matchup issues, they can both pop or roll to the rim, you can't cheat under. I haven't watched many of their games this year so maybe they do run that a bit, but they sure didn't today - it's all penetrate and kick, over and over
Fucking Mavs. I somewhat understand why they did what they did tonight, but this team should never have gone down this road. To bitch out like that is some shit.
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@gt12 said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
@voodoo said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
@gt12 said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
Mavs suck. Who could have thought that adding Kyrie would make them even worse at defense?
Right, I just watched the 2nd half of the Mavs v Hawks. And you know what? I have fallen right off the Luka wagon.
Like all the way off, I'm waving it goodbye into the sunset, I might never again get on it.
Today Kyrie was in one of those moods. In the 4th quarter alone, he had 14 points with only 1 missed shot, including the last 6 Dallas points including a sweet move for the tying shot with 35 seconds to go. Brought them all the way back.
Atlanta come down and score on a lucky tip to go up 2 (yeah Dallas still can't rebound)
So 20 seconds to tie or go ahead, you go to the hot hand right? Or at least involve him in the play somehow, right?
Nah
Luka demands the ball at the inbounds, dribbles the clock to 3 seconds, makes a shit drive right and throws a bail out cross court pass to Wood on the wing who is well covered.
It was so fucking selfish, I couldn't believe it. Weak coaching from Kidd too.
And of course Luka whined all game and had multiple defensive lapses (did anyone hear Lowe tell the story of a scout telling him that Luka is the worst transition defender in the HISTORY of the league??!!)
Yeah, Kyrie is an odd guy and not a great defender. But this is Luka's team. How about he turns up to the season opener not needing to "play himself into shape". How about he sets the tone on D with some fucking effort? How about he gets back on D after a miss instead of whining at the refs every single fucking time? How about he show some class and reward a teammate when he's hot and give his team the best chance of winning a game?
Sorry Luka, I'm out on you (I'm sure you'll be devastated to hear that).
As an aside, how come the Mavs never run a Luka-Kyrie pick and roll at the top? Surely that would create some awesome matchup issues, they can both pop or roll to the rim, you can't cheat under. I haven't watched many of their games this year so maybe they do run that a bit, but they sure didn't today - it's all penetrate and kick, over and over
Fucking Mavs. I somewhat understand why they did what they did tonight, but this team should never have gone down this road. To bitch out like that is some shit.
@gt12 said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
@voodoo said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
@gt12 said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
Mavs suck. Who could have thought that adding Kyrie would make them even worse at defense?
Right, I just watched the 2nd half of the Mavs v Hawks. And you know what? I have fallen right off the Luka wagon.
Like all the way off, I'm waving it goodbye into the sunset, I might never again get on it.
Today Kyrie was in one of those moods. In the 4th quarter alone, he had 14 points with only 1 missed shot, including the last 6 Dallas points including a sweet move for the tying shot with 35 seconds to go. Brought them all the way back.
Atlanta come down and score on a lucky tip to go up 2 (yeah Dallas still can't rebound)
So 20 seconds to tie or go ahead, you go to the hot hand right? Or at least involve him in the play somehow, right?
Nah
Luka demands the ball at the inbounds, dribbles the clock to 3 seconds, makes a shit drive right and throws a bail out cross court pass to Wood on the wing who is well covered.
It was so fucking selfish, I couldn't believe it. Weak coaching from Kidd too.
And of course Luka whined all game and had multiple defensive lapses (did anyone hear Lowe tell the story of a scout telling him that Luka is the worst transition defender in the HISTORY of the league??!!)
Yeah, Kyrie is an odd guy and not a great defender. But this is Luka's team. How about he turns up to the season opener not needing to "play himself into shape". How about he sets the tone on D with some fucking effort? How about he gets back on D after a miss instead of whining at the refs every single fucking time? How about he show some class and reward a teammate when he's hot and give his team the best chance of winning a game?
Sorry Luka, I'm out on you (I'm sure you'll be devastated to hear that).
As an aside, how come the Mavs never run a Luka-Kyrie pick and roll at the top? Surely that would create some awesome matchup issues, they can both pop or roll to the rim, you can't cheat under. I haven't watched many of their games this year so maybe they do run that a bit, but they sure didn't today - it's all penetrate and kick, over and over
Fucking Mavs. I somewhat understand why they did what they did tonight, but this team should never have gone down this road. To bitch out like that is some shit.
Totally agree. I’m a grown up, I accept teams tank. But it feels so much worse at this end of the season.
To take Luka out after a quarter, and say to the league “thanks for that shot at the play-in, we respectfully decline to try for it” just feels terrible.
The league needs to change something up
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@voodoo said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
@gt12 said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
@voodoo said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
@gt12 said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
Mavs suck. Who could have thought that adding Kyrie would make them even worse at defense?
Right, I just watched the 2nd half of the Mavs v Hawks. And you know what? I have fallen right off the Luka wagon.
Like all the way off, I'm waving it goodbye into the sunset, I might never again get on it.
Today Kyrie was in one of those moods. In the 4th quarter alone, he had 14 points with only 1 missed shot, including the last 6 Dallas points including a sweet move for the tying shot with 35 seconds to go. Brought them all the way back.
Atlanta come down and score on a lucky tip to go up 2 (yeah Dallas still can't rebound)
So 20 seconds to tie or go ahead, you go to the hot hand right? Or at least involve him in the play somehow, right?
Nah
Luka demands the ball at the inbounds, dribbles the clock to 3 seconds, makes a shit drive right and throws a bail out cross court pass to Wood on the wing who is well covered.
It was so fucking selfish, I couldn't believe it. Weak coaching from Kidd too.
And of course Luka whined all game and had multiple defensive lapses (did anyone hear Lowe tell the story of a scout telling him that Luka is the worst transition defender in the HISTORY of the league??!!)
Yeah, Kyrie is an odd guy and not a great defender. But this is Luka's team. How about he turns up to the season opener not needing to "play himself into shape". How about he sets the tone on D with some fucking effort? How about he gets back on D after a miss instead of whining at the refs every single fucking time? How about he show some class and reward a teammate when he's hot and give his team the best chance of winning a game?
Sorry Luka, I'm out on you (I'm sure you'll be devastated to hear that).
As an aside, how come the Mavs never run a Luka-Kyrie pick and roll at the top? Surely that would create some awesome matchup issues, they can both pop or roll to the rim, you can't cheat under. I haven't watched many of their games this year so maybe they do run that a bit, but they sure didn't today - it's all penetrate and kick, over and over
Fucking Mavs. I somewhat understand why they did what they did tonight, but this team should never have gone down this road. To bitch out like that is some shit.
@gt12 said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
@voodoo said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
@gt12 said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
Mavs suck. Who could have thought that adding Kyrie would make them even worse at defense?
Right, I just watched the 2nd half of the Mavs v Hawks. And you know what? I have fallen right off the Luka wagon.
Like all the way off, I'm waving it goodbye into the sunset, I might never again get on it.
Today Kyrie was in one of those moods. In the 4th quarter alone, he had 14 points with only 1 missed shot, including the last 6 Dallas points including a sweet move for the tying shot with 35 seconds to go. Brought them all the way back.
Atlanta come down and score on a lucky tip to go up 2 (yeah Dallas still can't rebound)
So 20 seconds to tie or go ahead, you go to the hot hand right? Or at least involve him in the play somehow, right?
Nah
Luka demands the ball at the inbounds, dribbles the clock to 3 seconds, makes a shit drive right and throws a bail out cross court pass to Wood on the wing who is well covered.
It was so fucking selfish, I couldn't believe it. Weak coaching from Kidd too.
And of course Luka whined all game and had multiple defensive lapses (did anyone hear Lowe tell the story of a scout telling him that Luka is the worst transition defender in the HISTORY of the league??!!)
Yeah, Kyrie is an odd guy and not a great defender. But this is Luka's team. How about he turns up to the season opener not needing to "play himself into shape". How about he sets the tone on D with some fucking effort? How about he gets back on D after a miss instead of whining at the refs every single fucking time? How about he show some class and reward a teammate when he's hot and give his team the best chance of winning a game?
Sorry Luka, I'm out on you (I'm sure you'll be devastated to hear that).
As an aside, how come the Mavs never run a Luka-Kyrie pick and roll at the top? Surely that would create some awesome matchup issues, they can both pop or roll to the rim, you can't cheat under. I haven't watched many of their games this year so maybe they do run that a bit, but they sure didn't today - it's all penetrate and kick, over and over
Fucking Mavs. I somewhat understand why they did what they did tonight, but this team should never have gone down this road. To bitch out like that is some shit.
Totally agree. I’m a grown up, I accept teams tank. But it feels so much worse at this end of the season.
To take Luka out after a quarter, and say to the league “thanks for that shot at the play-in, we respectfully decline to try for it” just feels terrible.
The league needs to change something up
Under investigation now apparently because they are too dumb to not just tank quietly, but come out and announce it. Even though it will fuck us up worse if the league does something, it would funny if they just removed the protection from the pick (I doubt that will happen though).
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Warriors in 6….
Bucks look the toughest team because of their ability to turn it up defensively when they want to. Jrue, Giannis and Lopez are basically 1st team all-defensive players. They have size and shooting too.
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@Higgins said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
@voodoo If Karl Anthony Towns's calf injury is not bad enough to stop him from playing today, the Lakers might be lucky to even get past my Timberwolves.
You can get $4.30 on that at the TAB mate, good luck to you!
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@Bovidae And it almost was too but somehow my guys managed to blow a ten point lead in the last to lose it by six in overtime, still the $1.90 for the eight point start went someway toward softening the blow. The Timberwolves have another shot at the eighth spot in the Western Conference taking on the winner of New Orleans v Oklahoma City for that last qualifying position.
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@Bovidae said in NBA Season - now 22/23:
ESPN's NBA experts, all 17 of them, picked the Heat to beat the Hawks in the play-in game today. And guess who won?
Good news if you are a T-Wolves fan then!
Heat blew it at home. They were always under the pump at down by 20PTS during game.
