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25 minutes ago, I Plead Da Fif said:

Also likely going to happen to the Nuggets.

Yeah, Denver is a bit younger than the Clippers but they have no depth and just played a hard 7 game series.  OKC is young, a lot of depth, and coming off a week's rest.  They start playing every other day tomorrow.

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3 hours ago, Blotto said:

Look at George and Harden just casually sitting in the top 5 all time. 

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Just shy of 815 million between the two. THAT’s an insane amount for those two clowns to have been paid while delivering nothing. 

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Indy impresses the hell out of me.  Tyrese is amazing, and they always play defense down to the last second of every possession.  In thinking about Rick C., I think about possibly influence of Larry Bird on him.  They are winning this game on the road and I think that is a big indicator.  Underdog road team winning game one has a _____% of success in winning the series... Pretty high I would imagine. 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, JGrayDBU said:

Indy impresses the hell out of me.  Tyrese is amazing, and they always play defense down to the last second of every possession.  In thinking about Rick C., I think about possibly influence of Larry Bird on him.  They are winning this game on the road and I think that is a big indicator.  Underdog road team winning game one has a _____% of success in winning the series... Pretty high I would imagine. 

 

 

Google

When the road team wins Game 1 of an NBA playoff series, they have a roughly 52.6%chance of winning the series.

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Just now, Js1 said:

Google

When the road team wins Game 1 of an NBA playoff series, they have a roughly 52.6%chance of winning the series.

wow! Lower than I would have thought. Still impressive. 

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On 4/20/2025 at 1:07 PM, Message Board User said:

I'll be pleasantly surprised, maybe shocked, if the Cavs make it.  They've been playing too mediocre-ly over the past 6 weeks for me to feel confident.

If/when the Cavs lose in the playoffs, it'll be because one or both of the two issues that have reared their ugly head for the Cavs over this period:

3 point shooting (particularly from Garland/Mitchell)

Defensive rebounding

Pacers are 19-36 from 3 tonight (fucking Nembhard who shot less than 30% for the season was 5-6)

Cavs?  9-38 (Mitchell 1-11 and Garland DNP)

That's the story right there tonight.  Hopefully, there is a regression to the mean the rest of the series.

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Game 7 nerves for Houston early.

This series has got to be the most zone defense I've ever seen in the NBA Playoffs. Just daring dudes not named Curry or Van Vleet to shoot.

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This has to be the longest series in playoff history as far as days in real life taken to play.  We've been at this two weeks.

Jalen Green is ass, my dude.

Jabari Smith is just a guy.

If I were a really wealthy old guy, Jimmy Goldstein might be my north star.  Fly around the country watching games and buying gorgeous mid mod trophy houses.

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21 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

If I were a really wealthy old guy, Jimmy Goldstein might be my north star.  Fly around the country watching games and buying gorgeous mid mod trophy houses.

He's a huge piece of shit who made his money exploiting the poorest members of society then suing municipalities when they would try to get him to stop

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4 minutes ago, Baboontyme said:

My personal preference would be to watch Steph play ball as long as possible but I tend to agree. Wolves are a bad matchup for this team. Six games sounds about right. 

I dont know about all that. GS went 3-1 against Minn this season and all of those games were before picking up Jimmy Butler in Feb. GS had the 3rd best record since the all-star break, and any team with both steph and jimmy is no pushover in the playoffs. 

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51 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

So excited for Gobert v Draymond with playoff intensity. Going to be awesome. 

wonder if you can get a prop bet on which game in the series draymond's stupid ass picks up his 7th technical in the playoffs and has to sit out a game. I think he picked up his 5th tonight, correct? I'd probably bet game 2. 

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Posted
8 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

If nothing else, it’s always nice to see a shit bag like Dillon Brooks lose.

wonder who life long rocket fans had a tougher time pretending who to like more...Dillon or CP3 

Posted
11 hours ago, Blotto said:

I dont know about all that. GS went 3-1 against Minn this season and all of those games were before picking up Jimmy Butler in Feb. GS had the 3rd best record since the all-star break, and any team with both steph and jimmy is no pushover in the playoffs. 

On paper, Minnesota is a pretty good matchup for Golden State. While Minnesota is good on defense, they aren't going to be nearly as physical as Houston, especially when it comes to guarding Steph. I doubt they ask ANT to chase him for any significant length of time. After the past two weeks, Steph is going to be able to breath a little. Draymond sure as shit isn't intimidated by Gobert, and they're going to put Rudy in so many actions 30 feet from the basket.

BUT Minnesota is so hot right now and oozing confidence. If Randle, McDaniels, and Reid shoot like they have been, Golden State just doesn't have the offense to keep up. 

Realistically, it's probably simple: if Ant is consistently the best player on the court, Minnesota should win pretty comfortably. If Steph can pull out another 3-4 transcendent performances, it's going to be a battle.

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38 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

Normal basketball play

 

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So sick of his shit but way more sick of these assholes making excuses for his behavior and not booting his bitch ass out of games.   Now they are alternating between giving him techs and flagrants so essentially he would have 3 incidents in a game before they will eject him.

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On paper, Minnesota is a pretty good matchup for Golden State. While Minnesota is good on defense, they aren't going to be nearly as physical as Houston, especially when it comes to guarding Steph. I doubt they ask ANT to chase him for any significant length of time. After the past two weeks, Steph is going to be able to breath a little. Draymond sure as shit isn't intimidated by Gobert, and they're going to put Rudy in so many actions 30 feet from the basket.
BUT Minnesota is so hot right now and oozing confidence. If Randle, McDaniels, and Reid shoot like they have been, Golden State just doesn't have the offense to keep up. 
Realistically, it's probably simple: if Ant is consistently the best player on the court, Minnesota should win pretty comfortably. If Steph can pull out another 3-4 transcendent performances, it's going to be a battle.

Well we have like 4 guys to throw at Steph. If Steph’s tossing up slop and drilling it from 27 ft, nothing you can do.

And yea Rudy doesn’t have Ingles, Donovan Mitchell, Jordan Clarkson and Boban Bojnaovic to cover for with this team. Haven’t seen him be played off the floor yet. Should have more games like game 5 vs LA with GS’ lack of center unless they unleash looney on him because he’s feasting


Warriors are a weird team. They’ve got 4 guys who can go for 20+ any night but hield and pods might go for 30 then 8-10 the next few games.

Butler will get his 15-20 but Randle was exceptionally good on LeBron so he might be able to contain Jimmy.

Doubt ant sees much of Steph unless it’s clutch time, gotta save his legs for offense. We made that mistake with him chasing kyrie last year and he was gassed by halftime
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On 5/2/2025 at 2:34 PM, Reynolds Woodcock said:

 

 

We found Helobious’s sock account.

Nah just mixed up the two generic white dude always on Windhorst.  My bad.

Posted
3 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Better career: Harden or Russ?

 

I think I lean Russ. Never thought I'd say that 3, 4, 5 years ago.

Despite his playoff ineptitude, it's still Harden. First, he was a significantly better regular season player than Westbrook, and that should count for something. Second, Russ hasn't exactly bathed himself in glory in the playoffs. 

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8 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

Despite his playoff ineptitude, it's still Harden. First, he was a significantly better regular season player than Westbrook, and that should count for something. Second, Russ hasn't exactly bathed himself in glory in the playoffs. 

Russ was the only one that showed up in his finals appearance.  That was the first of Harden's disappearances.   Russ at the very least is pretty close to the same in the playoffs as he is in the reg season.    Harden chokes over and over.   I'd take Russ.

Posted
28 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

Despite his playoff ineptitude, it's still Harden. First, he was a significantly better regular season player than Westbrook, and that should count for something. Second, Russ hasn't exactly bathed himself in glory in the playoffs. 

Better player, I agree, it's still easily Harden. But whose career and legacy I'd prefer?

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Interesting debate. I guess I’m taking Harden but it’s close. Think he had a longer sustained stretch of “top five player in the league” and their playoff resumes aren’t different enough for Russ to make up the gap. 

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that game 7 last night was the sloppiest, ugliest, street ball-esque horse shit that i’ve seen in a long time. now i barely watch the nba to begin with, and i stop watching it once my fantasy season ends, and i only tune in to the fourth quarter of close playoff games, so i have no idea if this is what these games usually look like. but i actually watched that game last night, and the entire thing was just 10 guys running around like chickens with their heads cut off, with no plan, just straight improvising, often running aimlessly and then leaping in the air before having any clue what they wanted to do with the ball. this was every player on every team for all four quarters. and iirc both teams were in the 60’s late in the 3q. that was without a doubt the ugliest, sloppiest, most 24 Hour Fitness nba game i have seen in years. that was horrible basketball.

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4 hours ago, d2o said:

So sick of his shit but way more sick of these assholes making excuses for his behavior and not booting his bitch ass out of games.   Now they are alternating between giving him techs and flagrants so essentially he would have 3 incidents in a game before they will eject 

Nvm you're right. 

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BS and Rusillo touched on this but Houston needs to trade Sengun, Green, and Jabari and some tasty picks for Giannis.  That's the only way they're winning a title and even then I'm not sure.  They're going to have to throw in assets for someone to take Green's awful deal that they didn't have to do.

I guess if they want to keep running FVV back that's fine but they need another guard that's not small.  FVV will get you some stats but he's small and they can't play Reed with him because then they have two 6'0" (if that) guards out there at once.  A roster of Amen, Giannis, FVV, and maybe Jabari might get them somewhere.

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2 hours ago, aggie08 said:

Better player, I agree, it's still easily Harden. But whose career and legacy I'd prefer?

To this point, would you rather be remembered as one of the greatest offensive players in league history...but quite possibly the biggest choke artist in professional sports* with a weakness for the strip club lunch menu? Or, as a super flawed dude who also never won anything (other than an MVP) but played his ass off--good or bad--every time he touched the court who was generally beloved by teammates? It's tough.

 

*Passing along some numbers that popped up on my socials: 

 

Career playoff games with under 4 FG made: 

Harden - 35

LeBron - 5

Steph - 3

KD - 2

 

Career playoff games with under 5 FG made: 

Harden - 55

LeBron - 9

Steph - 8

KD - 4

 

Career playoff games with as many turnovers as FGM:

Harden - 42

LeBron - 17

Steph - 13

KD - 7

 

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Just for funsies, Top 100 players still in the playoffs, per: https://nbarankings.theringer.com/trade-value

Nuggets
1 - Jokic
30 - Murray
54 - Gordon
64 - Porter Jr
91 - Braun

Thunder
2- SGA
21 - Williams
35 - Holmgren
61 - Hartenstein
80 - Dort
88 - Caruso

Celtics
4 - Tatum
21 - Brown
41 - White
57 - Porzingis
66 - Holiday
93 - Pritchard

Warriors
6 - Curry
20 - Butler
50 - Draymond

Timberwolves
7 - Ant
58 - Rudy
74 - Randle
75 - McDaniels
77 - Reid

Cavaliers
9 - Mitchell
13 - Mobley
32 - Garland
53 - Allen
78 - Hunter

Knicks
10 - Brunson
17 - KAT
48 - Anunoby
59 - Bridges
71 - Hart

Pacers
19 - Haliburton
38 - Siakam
87 - Turner

 

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Posted
44 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

To this point, would you rather be remembered as one of the greatest offensive players in league history...but quite possibly the biggest choke artist in professional sports* with a weakness for the strip club lunch menu? Or, as a super flawed dude who also never won anything (other than an MVP) but played his ass off--good or bad--every time he touched the court who was generally beloved by teammates? It's tough.

 

*Passing along some numbers that popped up on my socials: 

 

Career playoff games with under 4 FG made: 

Harden - 35

LeBron - 5

Steph - 3

KD - 2

 

Career playoff games with under 5 FG made: 

Harden - 55

LeBron - 9

Steph - 8

KD - 4

 

Career playoff games with as many turnovers as FGM:

Harden - 42

LeBron - 17

Steph - 13

KD - 7

 

jesus christo

My eyes almost popped out of my head looking at those.   Those are INSANE!!!

Posted
51 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

To this point, would you rather be remembered as one of the greatest offensive players in league history...but quite possibly the biggest choke artist in professional sports* with a weakness for the strip club lunch menu? Or, as a super flawed dude who also never won anything (other than an MVP) but played his ass off--good or bad--every time he touched the court who was generally beloved by teammates? It's tough.

 

*Passing along some numbers that popped up on my socials: 

 

Career playoff games with under 4 FG made: 

Harden - 35

LeBron - 5

Steph - 3

KD - 2

 

Career playoff games with under 5 FG made: 

Harden - 55

LeBron - 9

Steph - 8

KD - 4

 

Career playoff games with as many turnovers as FGM:

Harden - 42

LeBron - 17

Steph - 13

KD - 7

 

jesus christo

There was some stat that in like 60 elimination games combined Curry, Durant and Bron only had 2 games with less than 20 points. 

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