NBA Finals 2024 Discussion: One Is The Lonliest Number

Roster “balance”

 

Kyrie 0-12 vs. Boston since 2021 after stepping and rubbing on their mascot logo guy whatever his name is

 

The Leperchaun



yes, intended spelling

 

C Bags tried to hand that game to dallas and the mavs still blew it. its basically boston vs luka with how the rest of the mavs team hasn't bothered to show up. dallas really has no business even being there. again, f*** minny for beating denver and handing boston the title

and kyrie is a f***ing fraud

 

It's the Finals Cookie..there isn't anything similar, between those two players at all.

 

except they both have sucked in the most important series for their team

 

A Chokeolo team, has never sniffed the Finals. Never will with him on it.

 

Game 2 is not a must win game. And hell yeah. I'd trade Reaves and Christie for Kyrie today, tomorrow, next week, month or decade.

 

There's no getting around that he has a pretty game, but he's also limited on defense, and hasn't shown up at some pretty bad times.

Doncic is out there hobbled, and I don't see Kyrie demanding the ball to lighten the load. He's found his beta comfort zone. But yes, we were hoping for and expecting more to prevent the C Bags from winning this series. It's not over, but it's not looking great unless he shows up at a completely different level.

Hard to see them winning 4-5 now.

 

every finals game is a must win

 

he means must must

technically some think of that as elimination games

but I think that's faulty thinking myself. If you don't have home court advantage, you really HAVE to steal one game on the road in addition to holding home court advantage.

The first two games is the ideal time to do that. Must must? Maybe not, but it's a must. Otherwise you can only win by going 7 games in all likelihood

 

Ya, “he always moves the goal post” should be his real name.

 

three and four are now "must-wins" to me. dallas's only chance is to extend the series and hope horford and/or zinger can't make it the distance. they're just outmatched. no real shame in it for them. kyrie's playing worse than i expected, but everyone else is kinda doing what i expected, on both teams.

 

tatum's been having himself quite a mediocre playoffs

28% from 3 and 6 games below 40% from the field. yet the C Bags won all 6 of those games because of how deep they are

 

well, "depth" can be defined differently. pritchard and hauser wouldn't get minutes on basically any other playoff team, imo. but their top 6 are just miles ahead of everyone else's. fortunately for them, they have all six in the finals. if they had to toss luke kornet out there it would be like when we played detroit with slava.

 

He's leading the (probable champion) team in points, rebs and assists.
But I'm not a fan of his game, poor shot selection and not great IQ. I don't like Brown too, but he's been playing really well on both ends this year


Dallas had some opportunities yesterday, but everything is falling to Boston. That late buzzer beater from Pritchard after Dallas went on a little run to end the quarter was a gutter. The foul on PJ on White's block would have made it a 3pt game with 40sec left.
Both teams shot really bad yesterday. I think Dallas shoots the hell out on game 3 and win big. Game 4 will be decisive.

I'm giving Dallas a 10% chance to win it all at this moment though