3 random thoughts 1) Holliday played like crap the whole game until the end. He would've been crucified if they had lost. They ponied up 3 first round picks for him. Goes to show how BOS wasted their picks 2) Morey must be frustrated out of his mind that he inherited a guy like Ben Simmons who can't shoot. MDA eliminated tonight, let's see if Doc and Moreyball survives tomorrow. 3) I don't mind rooting for CP, I think he's paid his dues. But I see Milwaukee winning it all anyways
I really want the Suns to destroy the Anaheim Clippers. The Bucks to come out of the East and destroy the Suns. This would be the only "win" I would find in this playoffs.
Glad to see Griffin and James " the disgrace for the game of B-ball" Haren out . I'm very surprised the Bucks won given their weaknesses in close games AND the way this game was called
I forgot about Blake, that’s icing on the cake! The Blake Griffin never reaching a conference finals streak continues.
Yeah I keep track on every prick/b**** remaining in the playoffs . Blake is a dirty one. Homeless guy who costed our season on ATL Simmons/Embiid/Cry me a rivers Crowder/Booker/CP Beverley/ anti Lakers communication
So... Kevin Durant is really good at basketball. His scoring ability post-Achilles injury is remarkable. From everyone wandering if he was going to even be an all star level player when coming back to his game 5 that'll live in the history books to last night, literally his shoe was a couple inches from that wild shot being a 3 and sending the Bucks home. Thinking about this last night...I really wonder what his legacy will be 10-15 years from now. The Jump to GS, then this "super team," and to a lesser extent his pettiness on Twitter and tense relationship with the media. I think those are really going to factor in and water down how we think about him. This was all self induced. What's wild is it could've easily gone very different. He's such an elite talent, he didn't need either of these teams. Him plus one other guy with a team centered around their strengths is enough. I don't blame him for leaving OKC, but not wanting to compete or try... that's weak and tarnished his legacy regardless of ring count, I think.
same as lebron during the heat era, pre-return to cleveland, imo. kd's weird heel-turn from quiet assassin to "beefing with nerds on the internet as a fake other nerd on the internet" will always confoud me. as you said, it's like he decided to become a villain for no real reason. the gs titles are cheap, and nets titles will be as cheap. the only way to fully rehab the legacy would be to do something like lebron did--rehab two franchises without engineering a triple-star juggernaut. i'm shocked at how well he's played, post-achilles, though. thought there was no way we'd see what we just saw from him in a playoff series.
I don't even think the Bron formula would save him. He'd have to go to DC and he doesn't have the ties to the city that the kid from Akron had to Cleveland. So that wouldn't be as special. Then to go revitalize a historic franchise and get them a ring... who would that even be? Knicks? I also think the how Bron shouldered the responsibility of honoring Kobe AND won that year. I think it's a perfect storm to be enshrined as a beloved Laker. Something I'd never think was possible 3-4 years ago. He was my most hated superstar in the game. Saw this just now... So if he just wore his actual size, they'd still be on the road to the ship. Damn.
The ONLY storyline worth following with what potentially could have been a Brooklyn-The Other L.A. Team Finals is Griffin going all out to show-up Ballmer after his acrimonious departure...
I thought someone posted this earlier, but then I realized it’s just identical to the garbage he pulled in Game 6. Plays like this are why I don’t want to hear a word of sympathy for Harden playing through the hamstring injury. If you’re healthy enough to throw your legs forward on a 3 (pretty risky play in itself), then you don’t get to talk about playing on one leg.
I mean making it to the end. I think that might be synonymous with carrying the team on the strength of ability at this point since availability is the most important ability.
We're not done though. We still need more anti-jinx power. Paul George will carry the Clippers to their first ring!
i'll try it: the clippers are in perfect position. the pressure is completely off them without kawhi, and some vets like reggie jackson and batum know this is probably their last best shot at a title (and perhaps for each, a substantial payday this summer). they're in attack mode instead of being afraid to lose like last year. most of their support players are vets, compared with phx, which is a nursery, and milwaukee, who basically employs 5.5 nba players with divincenzo out. i'm not sure how one could bet against them at this point. terance mann going 15-21 from the field is "team of destiny" type stuff. much like the lakers last year, the third star by committee is unfolding each night, maybe patrick beverly scores 25 today. maybe marcus morris scores 40. you simply don't know and thus can't prepare. now that they realize they can just play small all the time and not bother with their biggest roster weakness (center), the governor is off and the jig is up.
Philly fans are such an angry lot but I can't blame them... Two years in a row flame-out in the postseason. This time as the No. 1 seed.
Ben Simmons reminds me of basically the Lakers, but represented as a player. Great in transition and on defense, horrible anywhere outside the paint and can't hit FTs.
