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  1. 2 hours ago, d2o said:

    they dont usually start 2nd round series until almost all of the 1st round ones are done.   THey may overlap a gm 1 with a gm 7 from the previous round but the start of the series wont vary more than a day or two.

    Yeah, right now the 2nd round is scheduled to start Monday, April 30, with April 28/29 as the move up dates.  They'll almost certainly bump up GS/NO to either Saturday or Sunday, whichever day the last Game 7 (if any) is on.  So two days earlier at most.  That's not nothing though.  Steal game 1, pressure Steph to come back in a "must win" game maybe before he's ready, and you might have something.

    My guess though is that Golden State learned their lesson 2 years ago bringing back Steph too early (even if the Portland series would have been tied 2-2 had he not played Game 4), and, barring an elimination game, he won't touch the court until he's 100% and has had adequate practice time.  That'll be easy to do if they keep winning; those decisions obviously become more difficult if they're down--or even tied--in a series.

  2. Damn, I could have sworn that I saw a few people picking New Orleans. Either way, very few people had Portland winning easily and expected a long series.

    Gotta wonder whose head rolls in Portland after this one. People, including me, have been knocking Portland for awhile for tying their success to two 6'3" redundant, non-defensive-minded guards (the contracts of Crabbe, Turner, etc. didn't help). They seemed to figure something out mid-season, but the playoffs are a different animal.

  3. Someone should probably tell Steph that patting himself on the back for his humility in a self-narrated commercial about his rise to greatness is kind of contradictory.

  4. 4 minutes ago, kopp0e said:

    Who would have thought the Pels have a chance to not only win the series, but sweep the series from the Blazers..? Damn sure not me... Got Portland sayin' #WhoDat..?

    Most people picked this as a tight series because of how well NO matches up with Portland. NO in 7 seemed to be a pretty common selection. But, yeah, no one saw this.

  5. 2 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

    Question: would the Pels be looking this good with Boogie?

    No.

    Admittedly, I'm biased because I'm not much of a Boogie fan because of his "effort." But the more shooting that you can put around AD, the better. They've played at the fastest pace in the league since Boogie went out; they were below average without him.

    If they pay him, they're insane IMO.

  6. 4 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    I know it's not going to happen, but the way the Pels are playing right now they could beat anyone in the NBA.

    The quicker they finish off Portland, the better chance that round 2 starts a couple of days earlier, and they can get a game or two more w/o Steph. 

    Still, I think Golden State wins easily in 5, 6 at most. Starting three guys 6'4" and under is great playing Portland; it gets a little problematic when KD and Klay are on the wings. There's a reason why GS has won about a billion straight against NO, until a couple of weeks ago. AD will be able to basically pick his own stats against Dray, JaVale, and ZaZa though. 

  7. On 4/18/2018 at 7:36 AM, aggie08 said:

    This is who Dame is: a volume, relatively low-efficiency shooter that has a lot of off nights, but look the hell out when he gets hot.  He'll have himself a game or 2 before this series is over.

    Or, you know, not.

  8. 4 minutes ago, d2o said:

    You think all of those things would happen with GS?

    For a series? No. For a game or 2? Who knows, maybe? Which is more than I can say for any Cav not named LeBron.

  9. 9 minutes ago, d2o said:

    Yeah, that prospect does nothing for me.

    Simmons, Embiid doing their thing on both ends, Covington D'ing fools up, and Redick/Saric/McConnell/Belinelli/pick your favorite white guy shooting 3's sounds more much appealing to me today than LBJ, Love, and...Larry Nance maybe?

     

    ...I admittedly had difficulty talking myself into the Toronto alternative.

  10. 13 hours ago, Machinator said:

    For the first time, I'm truly doubting that this team can make the Finals.

    I said back on Shaggy that I hoped that someone other than the Cavs would make the Finals--even if I didn't think it was likely--just for variety's sake.  Then, I thought about it and walked it back.  I wanted one more year of the best player on the planet taking on a superteam, with all that talent sharing the same court.  Now, I'm back to my original instinct.

    We all know exactly how a Cleveland v. GS/Houston Finals will go: Kevin Love will have a couple of nice 18 and 10 games while being picked on defensively, the Cavs defense will largely by overwhelmed, and LeBron will be brilliant and unguardable...and it won't be enough.  Probably not even close to enough.  I couldn't possibly care less right now about seeing Jordan Clarkson and Rodney Hood in the NBA Finals.

    Conversely, even if a different Eastern representative will almost certainly still lose, maybe we'd get to see a 40/20 game from Embiid or an out-of-nowhere 4th quarter from Fred Van Vleet.  Just something new would be fun.

  11. 3 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

    Yeah, this is really what I was asking about. If Cleveland goes home in round one he has all of that time to sit around doing what he does- crafting his next team. What if he has one team in mind and tells the Cavs to make it happen?

    If the Cavs like the package, then they have no choice but to do it. That would be ideal for them to get a young star, an expiring, and a lottery pick if LeBron is gone anyway. If they don't like the package, they can tell him to "Piss off, we're not absorbing Ryan Anderson's contract just so we can say that we didn't lose you for nothing. Find another way to reunite the banana boat."

  12. 8 hours ago, BigOrange1 said:

    inside the nba is nowhere near the show it used to be.  on top of the kg shit, shaq and chuck being clueless about modern day basketball really hurts the show.

    It still beats the recent insistence of putting Stephen Jackson in front of the camera on seemingly every NBA show going. 

  13. 8 hours ago, Chapo said:

    Alot of voters regretting voting Lilliard for All NBA 1st team. For sweet pleasure of Texags-like meltdown, go to read Blazers Edge. Funny that they still talk abt Lilliard 0.9 sec shot against the Rockets several yrs back like it was their championship.

    Meh. Who should take his place on the 1st team?  Dipo or Westbrook?  Both have arguments (Dipo as a two-way player and Russ putting up another triple-double while actually shooting a higher % than Dame), but Dame's regular season was just as impressive, if not more so.  It was Steph's spot--but he missed way too much time--so someone not on his level has to take it.

    This is who Dame is: a volume, relatively low-efficiency shooter that has a lot of off nights, but look the hell out when he gets hot.  He'll have himself a game or 2 before this series is over.

    The Pelicans are just an awful match-up for them.  Both teams play nominal 2 point guard lineups, so Dame and CJ don't have their usual quickness advantage. They're going head-to-head with one of the best defensive point guards in the league and Playoff Rondo defense, and they're getting bullied.  Most teams have a taller shooting guard or forward to punish NO's lack of size and shitty wings; Portland's wings might be even shittier.  And that says nothing of Portland having absolutely no answer for AD.

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  14. 20 minutes ago, Fred Willard said:

    The risk with the do nothing approach is he comes back and is mvp, decides the spurs can fuck off and is an UFA a year from now. I think he would still want a sign and trade in that situation though.

    Do sign and trades still work like that? I thought guys on new contracts have to be on the team that signed them until at least December.

    He could opt in for the '19-'20 season, then get traded so SA could at least get something back in return (like CP3 did), but no chance in hell he does that for $21M per.

  15. 15 minutes ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

    What injury history?  When he rolled his ankle three times in the playoffs and came back from it twice? 

    When he had a sore knee like 5 summers ago and skipped a USA bball training camp?  

    Hes been pretty durable up to a year ago.  

    Here's only played 70 games twice in 7 years. Part of that is Pop being ultra conservative, obviously, but I think this season officially puts him in "injury risk" territory with Steph, Kyrie, AD, etc.

  16. 20 minutes ago, Fred Willard said:

    The 3rd option is do nothing. If Kawhi doesn’t play the 2018-2019 season and make an all nba team he won’t be eligible to get the super max.

    Yeah, that would be my move. Make him prove that he's still a Top 5 player, go an entire season relatively injury free, and regain the trust of his teammates. If he misses an All-NBA team, he's probably gone for sure, and the Spurs lose him for nothing...but dodge a bullet on a guy who might not be the same. Even if he makes an All-NBA team, he may still bounce because he felt slighted not getting an extension earlier. But not many players pass up $70M when it comes down to it.

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