By IWMTB19 Go To PostWhat do people think about a Jazz-Spurs first round, who would have the advantage?I just want to avoid Houston, GS and OKC. In that order.
Pretty happy if we just make the playoffs though tbh.
By IWMTB19 Go To PostWhat do people think about a Jazz-Spurs first round, who would have the advantage?I think the Jazz take it if Ingles plays ok.
By giririsss Go To PostThere's a lot of injuries every year. This might have been the most total. The question was framed as "has this been the worst year for injuries"…a team of Curry Kyrie Khawi Boogie and Embiid would be pretty good
in terms of career impact and impact upon games (like, meaningful actual minutes that would alter games / play offs) not really. Not out side the normal Injury prone guys.
By blackace Go To Posta team of Curry Kyrie Khawi Boogie and Embiid would be pretty goodTruth.
By reilo Go To PostEast would be lucky to have a Blazers quality team. Easily a #1 seed out East.The Toronto Raptors have swept the Portland Blazers three seasons straight, with this season being 14 and 25 point blowouts. Sit down + be humble please.
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/4/5/17199484/houston-rockets-perfect-foil-golden-state-warriors
Houston threatens Golden State in a way no team could in last year’s playoffs. None of the Warriors’ opponents could match up with them when they downsized and played Green and Kevin Durant up front. Portland didn’t have enough talent, while Utah and San Antonio were built around traditional centers. Cleveland was the only one to take a game from Golden State because it had the shooters to spread the floor for LeBron James and Kyrie Irving, but not enough of those shooters could play defense. It wasn’t just that the Warriors had four future Hall of Famers in their prime. They were playing a different game than anyone else. The difference this season is that the Rockets can play it, too.
That’s where the similarities end, though. Houston copied Golden State’s roster construction, but it uses those pieces very differently. Kerr runs a motion-based offense that features an endless number of cuts and back screens. He rarely uses the pick-and-roll between Curry and Durant, which might be the hardest play in basketball to defend—it’s almost as if he’s worried that relying on such easy points might create bad habits. D’Antoni, on the other hand, is obsessed with creating points as easily as possible. The Rockets are essentially what would happen if an NBA team tried to build an entire plane out of a black box. There’s little of what they would consider wasted movement in their offense: They run pick-and-rolls the entire game, and then everyone else stands as far apart as possible and waits to take spot-up 3s.
A playoff series between Golden State and Houston might not happen, as both teams (even as the West’s top two seeds) will have to defeat formidable opponents in the first and second rounds. They have been the two best teams in the NBA this season, and it would be a shame if their contrasting philosophies couldn’t be tested in the ultimate crucible. The Warriors are still the team to beat, but a season that started out looking like a coronation is now anything but. Every superhero needs a nemesis, and the Rockets are the perfect foil for them. They were built as a response to Golden State’s dominance, and their existence forces the Warriors to grapple with who they are and what they believe
By livefromkyoto Go To PostThe Toronto Raptors have swept the Portland Blazers three seasons straight, with this season being 14 and 25 point blowouts. Sit down + be humble please.Y'all trash and won't even make it to the ECF.
By reilo Go To PostY'all trash and won't even make it to the ECF.Three. Straight. Season. Sweeps.
By Smokey Go To PostRaptors are fraudsOh hey let me just check here...
Yep, swept the Rockets this season too!
By diehard Go To PostRaptors are good and the Blazers are pretty good tooWhat is this? Compliments on a team that isn't yours? diehard, we need to talk.
even simpler
Lue is an idiot.
The thing with the Raptors is that they have 10 good players... You don't play 10 players a night in the playoffs.
So I'm not sure how well they'll do.
So I'm not sure how well they'll do.
By IWMTB19 Go To PostWhat do people think about a Jazz-Spurs first round, who would have the advantage?
Just channel whatever voodoo the Lakers did this year.
By Smokey Go To PostRaptors are frauds and the Blazers are the Blazers.scared of Portland? ; )
simple
I think the problem the Jazz are going to have in the playoffs is that their offence will probably be pretty easy for a team like the Spurs to stop. There just aren’t enough scorers there.
By IWMTB19 Go To PostThe thing with the Raptors is that they have 10 good players… You don't play 10 players a night in the playoffs.Casey says he will, and I believe him, at least in the early going to see how it works out. It’s been the team’s strength all season.
So I'm not sure how well they'll do.
Harden hurt?
EDIT: Got hit in the boys. Instant karma after that forearm shove into Baldwin on the same play.
EDIT: Got hit in the boys. Instant karma after that forearm shove into Baldwin on the same play.
By reilo Go To PostHarden hurt?
Please
Baldwin your goon gave him a shot because they didn't call a push off on harden
By Smokey Go To PostPleaseSo, they're even? Hitting a dude in the face is definitely an earned unintentional nuttap.
Baldwin your goon gave him a shot because they didn't call a push off on harden
By reilo Go To PostSo, they're even? Hitting a dude in the face is definitely an earned unintentional nuttap.
Unintentional? lol
Trash blazers doing trash things
Yeah he totally didn't mean to hit him in the midsection . Totally. Y'all gettin that work anyway, so whatever .
So, to summarize: Harden shoves Baldwin in the face, and Smokey is okay with that, then on the same play he gets unintentionally nuttapped on the ensuing drive, and Smokey is calling bloody murder. Rockets fans, never change.
Where did I say I was ok with it? I said "Harden push off". Did you miss that with your delusional Blazer glasses on?
By reilo Go To PostSo, again, they're even? Why are you angry then?
I'm not angry, you tried to play foo foo talking about "Harden hurt". I told you what happened. You said Baldwins hit was unintentional which is lol and clearly said with Blazer rose colored glasses on.
Coincidentally the guy that was on the receiving end of hardens push off just happenes to give him a shot. "Unintentional" . Really. Just say your boy hit him lol.
You're still posting about it. You sound angry and you called him a goon. Why are you angry, Smokey?
By reilo Go To PostYou're still posting about it. You sound angry and you called him a goon. Why are you angry, Smokey?
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostHug it out, fellas.they do this every year.
its almost a love affair.
LeBron might be more athletic than he was in his first stent for Cleveland when you account for the insane amount of muscle he put on after
By Dark PhaZe Go To PostLeBron might be more athletic than he was in his first stent for Cleveland when you account for the insane amount of muscle he put on afterhe absolutely is not
By s y Go To Posthe absolutely is not
He can easily still do that
By Dark PhaZe Go To PostHe can easily still do thatdisagree. Bron is still a god athlete but he was just bigger, faster and stronger when he was younger, obviously. played defense in the regular season too.
By s y Go To Postdisagree. Bron is still a god athlete but he was just bigger, faster and stronger when he was younger, obviously. played defense in the regular season too.he wasnt bigger or stronger, just faster.
By unknown Go To Posthe wasnt bigger or stronger, just faster.lbj might have been 300 pounds in miami