NBA Season - now 24/25
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@voodoo the Suns may not need to be one of the greatest teams ever to with this comp this year. We should now make the finals and then all we need to do is win one more series. And that series could yet be against a team without an established superstar that we match up well against (my biggest worry would be Capela getting on top of Ayton).
But to add further context to the 20/21 Suns, they did finish #2 in the West and even though both the Lakers and Nuggets were missing key personnel, each still had their biggest star. Ayton and Booker continue to step up, Paul does Paul most games, and the depth is incredible with Crowder, Bridges, Payne, Johnson, Craig, Saric and Kaminsky in support.
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Bogdanovic is having a shocker. Can’t hit anything, even wide open ones.
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Wild
Playing just eight main guys in the rotation, the Clippers' legs looked drained. After playing 13 games in 25 days this month, the Clippers finished 0-for-12 in the fourth quarter on shots that could've tied the game or taken the lead. That's the most such attempts without a make in the fourth quarter of a playoff game over the past 25 postseasons, according to ESPN Stats & Information
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Flagrant 1, get stuffed.
CP3 initiated the contact.
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Playoff PG came to play in the 2nd half.
Good win by the Clips.
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No Ice Trae and the Hawks offence hasn’t missed a beat.
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Clint Capela with a Bird-esque shot with the shot clock expiring. Love it.
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CP3 drops a 40-piece with zero turnovers to win an away close out game and defeat the evil empire death star Clippers (formerly the KD-Warriors). Love it.
If he wins his first ring in his 16th year in what is(was) viewed as a non-elite, non-main market team, it will be an amazing story.
Meanwhile the Bucks are in a massive scrap against the not-very-good Hawks. Giannis' knee hyperextension was horrible to watch in real time and he won't play Game 5.
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@shark I bet she's a dud root
Good to look at but
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@kiwimurph said in NBA Season 20/21:
Suns fanbase in the Finals is gonna be wild.
It’s been a long time between drinks. Happy for them. I went to a Suns game 5 years ago and the team was a joke, there was more in-fighting and drama than an episode of Big Brother, no problem getting tickets though!
Congrats @shark
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@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
@shark I bet she's a dud root
Good to look at but
Hawt No cans. But good on him.
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@act-crusader I was 7th form last time the Suns made the NBA Finals. It was a dream year with Sir Charles, KJ and Thunder Dan in the prime of their careers plus a great supporting cast. But we could only take two games off the Bulls. And John fucking Paxson of all fucking people sunk us in the last seconds as we almost forced a game 7. My Dad even let me bunk school to watch one of the finals games.
I'd become aware of and started loosely following the Suns the season prior. That might have been the first year Sky showed NBA ball in what must have only been Sky's second year. The 1992 Dream Team also created massive global awareness of basketball. Pre-Charles it was the KJ and Tom Chambers show. But for 1992-93 the Suns pulled off a major coup in signing Barkley and were instant contenders. In the new 'Sunburst' strip they took the NBA by storm and it seemed like every second game on TV featured the Suns. I was obsessed and started collecting player cards and managed to find an up to date Suns cap. There was a store at the Moorhouse Ave end of Manchester St which sold heaps of NBA gear, and I subscribed to an Australian publication dedicated to whatever the NBL was called then, and the NBA. I lived and breathed basketball then and played at school also.
So yeah, I'm pretty excited about this.
