2024 NBA OFFS AND INS

they got outrebounded 5 of 6 games including 47-31 tonight

they’re playing the long game (haha but not literally) I think it’s fine

they’ll find some reboundy guy

andre drummond reclamation project coming soon

chet is 2 years older than lively too so it’s not even like they can just chalk it up to their youth

one thing that also tripped them up is that in the regular season they got a lot of supplemental offense from giddey, he was essentially their back up PG and could run the team when shai was sitting or make things happen when they played together. in this series he put up 6-3-1 on 41/18 shooting and didn’t play more than 13 mins after game 1. accordingly there was too much of a burden on shai, j dub had some moments but in the end wasn’t really anywhere close the paul george-ian second creator you can project him to be.

nothing about giddey’s game at the moment makes you think he will become playable in the offs, so imo they need to find another guard who they can mix in w/ dort, wallace, joe who can actually create off the dribble. those guys were all great regular season role players and dort and wallace will obv be key cogs but their collective inability to take any playmaking burden off shai & j dub was a noticeable anchor in this series

using a challenge down by a field goal, when you have one timeout and 2.5 seconds left, seems like a huge mistake to me

When was the last time OKC had a veteran who was a real player? Chris Paul? It seems like it's either youngsters or Presti's salary fodder. They could use a Mike Conley type.

the impact he's had on the won't Wolves has been incredible

the challenge is defensible to me because if they won it it would’ve been a jump ball and the game would’ve been over. so it was a high upside gamble, and your chances of scoring with 2.5 seconds even w/ a timeout are still pretty slim

Sad for okc. Dallas was unwatchable to me last year but adding all this athleticism and high flying bigs has made them much more aesthetically appealing. Hate them tho and need them to be beat.

I thought the challenge was good and didn’t know about the not loosing possession thing

DJJ being a solid rotation piece is cool, this really is the right team right place type of thing ala GP2 2022 Bruce Brown 2023 type of thing

its game seven sunday, take deep breaths, remember to hydrate

nothing better than a game 7 without your team in it

just sit back and enjoy some high stakes hoops

weve got fans of all todays teams on here good luck to everyone may god walk with you

personally im kind of conflicted from a celtics pov theyd def like minny and indy to win, seems like with a healthy jamal murray denver is winning that series pretty easily i guess you could hope for an unhealthy jamal murray in a potential finals but idk id rather just play the worse team which is IMHO the wolves, no offense to the wolves theyve played great stepped up and so forth and could def beat the celtics i just think denvers better, if not for the celtics pov id be rooting for denver theyre just a fun nice team who have one of the best weirdo basketball savants off alltime

on the other side from a celtics pov youd like to play indy just cause theyre less physical than the knicks tho i guess you could make the argument that theyre more likely to perform some high variance shooting feats which is prob the only way either team is beating the celtics or even extending the series, i like both teams a lot but from a disinterested pov having a celtics knicks series would be good, old school east coast basketball, and it would be funny if the celtics could continue their 30 year campaign of terror vs new york, tho itd be pretty easy for knicks fans to just write it off cause of all the injuries which is fair, healthy knicks v celtics could be a pretty cool series tbf

wonder if minnys style should be favored in a game seven seems like playing defense is more robust in the bright lights than precision offense, but on the other hand denver has the big joker, and its always a question if minny will be able to score enough to stay in the game will their role players hit any shots, kinda boring to say but it could come down to how jamal murrays leg and elbow are feeling, maybe hell find a way to get buckets even if injured he is a gamer, an epic if not very game seveny thing would be if we got a joker ant battle where they both go for 40+ and it comes down to the wire

on the other side this feels like a half dead knicks squad guts out a win at the garden and thibs gives his post game press conference from atop their dying bodies saying its good for conditioning to never rest your starters all year actually, or i guess indy could just run around and hit a bunch of threes too

i think the best team will win

which team will be the best tune in to game sevens to find out

can't remember the last time we got two Game 7s in series like this with no consistency or narrative, I think it'll be Pacers and Nuggets but as I've been hearing you have to play the game to know who is going to wind up with more points

thats the way they decide

kinda antiquated, they could use ai to decide these things much faster #innovAItion #movefastandbreakstuff #limpbizkit

Ultimately what’s gonna matter is which team puts the ball through the hoop more. Some say that will be the Nuggets. Others will argue it’ll be the Timberwolves.

Magic must have some sage insights about how to determine the winner of the all-important game 7 after the game has been played

Potentially classic game recipe for Knicks fans, I'm already mentally prepping myself to watch Hart grab 10+rbs with an abdominal strain today.

I can confidently say that I have zero idea what's going to happen tonight

yeah I’m too emotionally invested and nervous to even think about it right now. good luck m@tt may the best team win

og and hart both out there playing in the game

every knick is limping

og doesnt look fit to play

OG stiff as a board out there lol. Thibs prob shouldn’t play him again (he’ll play 35 minutes)

this idea that you can play injured if you want to enough *cue willis reed clip from 50 years ago* is very silly

i think the pacers are gonna win this theyre moving so much faster knicks are too fucked up

Hali is coooookin

And he loved to talk smack love it

he should try to fit in the reggie miller choke gesture at some point

whole team is on fire, hard to beat a team shooting 78%

even contested ones are completely wet

hali wow

knicks exhaustion is showing

yeah they got no legs cant defend

indy up 20

yeah this is over. damn

feel bad for the celebs at the garden how could indy do this after all theyve done for us

alec burks down 20 is the best player in the nba

he was born into the moment, molded by it

lol