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yeah, that post ends with "what are they going to do?" but the answer is pretty clear, right?

i'd say you trade giannis to replenish some of the draft capital and let all the FAs walk, but i'm pretty sure all their outgoing picks are fully unprotected (yipes!).

to me, this means you try to trade giannis for win-now players. i think houston (smith/fvv/picks?) and san antonio (johnson/barnes/castle or sochan/picks) can both make that happen.

be interesting to see how they decide to go with the gm being safe in his job now, but i don't see an option wherein giannis is a buck in october, man.

yeah, sorry, you don't get to do it several times and still be ok with me. i get a trade demand in some contexts (i thought AD's was fair; i understood the shaq/kobe stuff, etc.), but jimmy just keeps burning down his franchise and getting to play the hero in the next town. and he gets a pass from the press because...he's weird? i like him on the court, obviously. serious competitor. before we got luka i said i would have taken him in trade just because i knew we'd have had a title shot for one year.

 

didn't expect to see Zubac as the leading scorer for the Clips in a playoff game.

They shot over 50% and lost. Interesting series.

 

Watched MIL@IND, Game 5. MIL in a must-win.

Jeeez: you're down 3-1 and make it to overtime. You're Gary Trent, Jr. You hit 8 3s to keep the possibility of MIL's season alive. You've been en fuego this game, just like your team's win in Game 3, when you hit 9 from deep. Your teammate AJ Green hits a FT to put you up 118-111 with 40 seconds left in OT. You've come a long way. You can feel Game 6 in MIL comin' on. Green misses his 2nd FT: rebound Siakam, 4 secs later Nembhardt pulls up from 33 feet and hits it.

But you're still up by 4 with 34 secs left. It's looking good that you're gonna live to play another game. Came up big in OT crunch on the road down 3-1.

You're Gary Trent Jr and you throw the ball away under pressure with 29 secs left. With 17 secs left Halliburton makes a driving layup. You're still up 2. But Halliburton got the and-one. He hits it. Bucks still up 1, take a timeout. You just need to kill the clock. You take it in, you're Gary Trent Jr. Your teammate passes the ball to you, wide open along the sideline. Just kill the clock or wait to get fouled and hit your FTs and hold on in OT for the win. But Trent can't catch the pass. It goes through his legs. He was thinking ahead. Took his eye off the ball for a split second, the sorta thing that ends your season.

Tyrese has Giannis up top corner of the key, gets around him and hits the layup: your season, Milwaukee, is over. Gary Trent, Jr: you had a great game but you are the goat. Not the GOAT, but simply the goat. As in meeehhhhh: it's over for you. Wow. MIL up 7 with 40 secs left, IND wins the game by 1.

I'd like to see Doc get canned, but then he'd be back on TV with that fingernails on chalkboard voice and trivial "observations." Yikes!
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I watched ORL @ BOS. Of course I want ORL to win. And they looked good. They hung in there and were up 51-47 early in the 3rd. Paolo picks up his 4th foul: very bad news for ORL. Mosely decides to gamble and keep Paolo in there. Paolo picks up his 5th foul a minute and a half later. Mosely freaks, demands a review. Replay shows he kinda did jump into Jaylen. Mosely takes out Paolo. BOS immediately goes on a 30-9 run. They won the 3rd Q 36-13. Sorry Magic it wasn't your year.
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Also watched Toileteers @ DEN, Game 5. If you didn't see it and looked at Joker's stat line: trip-dub, but it's 13/10/12 on 4 of 13 shooting, you figure Clips are up 3-2. But Jamaal drops 43 on 'em. DEN took a 16 point lead into the 4th after winning the 3rd by 8. They played even in the 4th. I was surprised.
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Also: I got very little done today. And yea: I watched DET@Knicks too: DET stayed alive in MSG. Amazing how much better they are one season later! Very very physical game. Both Brunson and Hart sustained injuries in late in the 4th that looked pretty bad, but they both reported to the scorer's table with the game on the line, but play kept on and they couldn't get back into the game on time. Weird! Knicks are at home to eliminate DET in a rough series. They lose and now go to DET. This could be very interesting.

All the while, I'm tryna stave off Laker worries with us down 3-1. And to add injury, GSW is up 3-1 over HOU. Daym!

 

The Bucks had one of the worst choke jobs I’ve ever seen. You have a 7 point lead with 40 seconds remaining and they just gave the game away.

 

Good to see HOU stay alive at home and beat the living crap outta GSW.

Their big test is Game 6 in San Francisco. If they can win that, I think they can win Game 7. Gonna be difficult.

 

yeah, green really hasn't taken that step. so inconsistent, too. thompson's not skilled enough and may never be.

again, i was surprised they didn't pursue fox harder. and maybe they did and we don't know, but i felt like SA would have had to pay more if houston had been a serious bidder.

 

lmao agreed on green, reminds me of JR smith



fair play to houston, i guess FVV stepped it up recently and the other high draft picks have been good. Game 7 should be fun.

 

Clippers gon clip.

 

man, sucks that garland is basically going to be hobbled all playoffs if he even makes it.

seriously, does boston have a set of voodoo dolls or something? they get nobody at full strength.

 

I think the Pacers will go to the Finals .

 

Haliburton seems liek the best player, but damn somethign about that team. Reminds me kind of like a detroit pistons team, unless Haliburton is sometype of franchise player.

 

Hali IS overrated, he's clutch though. Boston will smoke anyone, so there's that

 

IND came up with the Game 1 win in CLE, and it was shocking. But then again, every road team has won Game 1 in the Semifinals so far.

No way can IND win Game 2 in CLE. Even without Garland and Mobley, CLE was up 20 over IND, and took a 14 point lead into the 4th.

If you haven't seen it: the last 48 secs of the game are completely insane. IND down 7 with 48 secs left: win on Halliburton's 3 with 1 sec left. IND up 2-0 over the team with the best record in the East, going back home for Game 3. Wow.

Aaaaand MIN goes 5 for 29 from 3 while GSW - even without Steph for most of the game - makes 18 3s. GSW up 1-0. I didn't see the MIN team that played us: same guys but none of the fire. I suspect they took GSW lightly...kinda like how we took MIN starting in the 2nd Q of Game 1 at the Crypt.

Tomorrow, if the Knicks somehow pull out a win and go up 2-0 over the Bags, I'll be ecstatic. But what are the chances BOS misses 45 3s again? (A: 0.003%)

 

particularly cruel ending to that game and the season for cleveland. i mean, you lose 3 of your top 5 players (mobley, garland, hunter) and then mitchell gets hurt at the end of the game (if he's right, they don't lose, imo--he looked like he could barely walk). in the grander scheme, you have a kind of storybook regular season only to have the playoffs be a full-on nightmare scenario.

who cares, they're young and will get another shot, you say? WRONG. their payroll is about to balloon to 217 million (committed to only 11 players). and that's if they let ty jerome (sixth man of the year candidate and key role player) walk.

so something tells me when they come back next year, it will have to be with fewer horses.

 

yikes, looks like tatum may have just torn an achilles...

 

Knicks are gonna blow it, won't they?

 

Knicks go up 3-1, Tatum out, going back to BOS.

BOS smokes them in Game 5.

If the Knicks don't close it out in MSG, I predict they become part of the 4%.

(The 4% of teams who had a 3-1 lead and then lost 3 straight.)