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  1. 1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Then shorten the regular season. Makes zero sense to play 82 games and tell the 7th and 8th seeds they still have to fight for their spots vs the 9th and 10th seeds at the end.

    The Warriors had no business even competing for a playoff spot and last night proved that.

    It's just a silly gimmick used to fill more tv time before the real playoffs start. About as silly as the mid season tournament.
     

    The Warriors were 10 games over .500. In a normal year, they'd be comfortably locked into the top 8. The West is just fucking loaded this year.

    I like the play-in in years like this where there's 10 decent or better teams in a conference. But it's not the norm. I couldn't give the slightest of fucks about the play-in in the Eastern Conference. Though, that's true for their entire playoff bracket until the conference finals.

  2. 2 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    0-10 for Thompson 

    He’s been stealing 💰 since the injuries 

    His two-way play was essential to them winning the title after he came back from his injuries in 2022.

    He hit the most threes of his career last year on 41% shooting.

    But yes, he was awful against the Lakers in last year's playoffs, and he was awful for the bulk of this season and obviously not worth his current salary anymore.

    I'm not sure he's worth ~$12M per moving forward, and I'm also betting he'd be way too insulted to take it. Can't think of a team that would pay him any more than that though.

     

  3. 10 seeds being 0-6 in the play-in does make you question its existence. 

    It does at least give Sacramento the historic opportunity to lose to the same team 6 times in the same season, none of them playoff games.

  4. On 4/9/2024 at 9:19 PM, aggie08 said:

    I don't care how hot the Warriors finish the regular season--most teams playing for seeding win a bunch down the stretch with half the league either resting stars or packing for Cancun--they're still not very good, and they're not getting past the first round, if they even get there 

    ...but damn it's at least nice to see Klay return to form over the second half of the season. Dude looked absolutely done a few months ago.

    Welp, Klay managed to completely undo all the positive sentiment he ended the season with in one game. Dynasties don't typically end gracefully, I guess.

  5. The more interesting question going forward is will Steph be the loyal soldier and toil away on teams fighting for play-in spots from now on, so he can retire a Warrior? His days of being able to truly carry a playoff team on his back are over, but he's still got a few years of being a phenomenal #2 if he wants to still compete for titles somewhere.

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  6. 29 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    Haven’t seen much of this so far, but klay 0fer? Yikes. This his last season as a warrior?

    If he's not willing to take an extremely team-friendly contract, yeah. Warriors' owners are finally very serious about not being deep into the luxury tax. Can't blame them, obviously, for a team going nowhere. Not sure what Klay's value is on the open market at this point in his career. How many teams truly need an old guy whose primary skill (now that his defense has declined) is hoisting threes?

    Klay not making a single shot if this is his last game as a Warrior would be a bummer.

  7. Kings should feel pretty shitty with how that half ended. Won the offensive rebound battle 9 to 1 and the Warriors had 9 turnovers. Leading to 13 more shot attempts for Sac. Steph's been quiet. Klay has been abysmal. They should be up 15, not 4.

    Two aggressively mediocre basketball teams.

  8. 4 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

    Still think the play in is the stupidest idea LeBron?

    Probably? They were the 8 seed. Without the play-in, they're sitting at home resting, waiting to go play OKC, not Denver.

  9. 14 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    The lectern "cost" reimbursed her friend who paid for a girls' trip to Paris.

    However I doubt that anything comes out of this because I assume it would require a local prosecutor to go after her.

    I have to assume all Arkansas prosecutors are related to her, 2nd cousin or closer.

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  10. 15 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    Anyone tell Boogie he's not out of the league because he can't play anymore, he's out of the league because he's an asshole.

    A little Column A, a little Column B.

  11. 1 minute ago, MrX said:

    Yeah - definitely a torch passing era. LeBron, Curry, Steph won’t be playing in another one. Holiday same. And if Leonard plays he probably won’t come back again. So that’s half the team turning over for 2028. 

    I wonder if it was always the plan for this generation's best to play together one last time, or they actually felt needed with last year's youth movement shitting the bed in the WBC.

  12. 10 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

    OKC vs gsw would be awesome. Length vs no length

    Youth vs. experience, with the unlikely possibility that inexperienced role players forget how to shoot in the playoffs* to make things interesting. 

    *aka the Joe Harris effect

  13. 1 hour ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

    I think the Ws are washed (other than Steph obviously). They'll probably wind up with the 8 seed, but I expect them to be a fairly easy out for OKC (6 games at most) if that's the matchup. 

    Yeah, I was half kidding when I said that OKC and Minnesota don't want to see Golden State. Sure, they'd probably rather see Sacramento or New Orleans than a team full of accomplished vets, but obviously no one's scared of the Warriors anymore (look no further than their home record this year).

    Every desperate team gets hot in February and March when half the league is already checked out or starting to plan out their rest schedules for the playoffs. They're finally healthy (or, not suspended in Draymond's case) and playing decent basketball, but there's no scenario where they see Round 2. A tough 6 games sounds about right, if they even get there. Shit, Sacramento has been in a free fall, and I have zero confidence for tomorrow. A rivalry and revenge game in an arena where GS lost 3 of 4 playoff games in last year.

  14. 2 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    Horrible drive by Morikawa but he somehow gets birdie on 14. Scheffler hits a perfect drive on 14 and pars the hole. Golf

    Golf indeed. 15 though.

  15. On 4/13/2024 at 6:56 AM, HornOnTheBayou said:

    So the Pelicans finally avoid the play-in and their reward is Denver in the first round.

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    Good news! They may make the play-in after all!

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