Eh? I'm not a Sixers fan at all, but I've been paying attention to them since they drafted Embiid. I'll pass on the bandwagon, just looking forward to the playoffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greendaybum5
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Eh? I'm not a Sixers fan at all, but I've been paying attention to them since they drafted Embiid. I'll pass on the bandwagon, just looking forward to the playoffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greendaybum5
Sixers starting 5 is ridiculous. Harris was such a great pickup. They gave up a lot, but if it leads to a title it’s worth it.
Toronto getting Gasol was huge. His post defense will be important against Embiid and can allow Toronto to play straight up without double teaming them. Siakam/Leonard/Green/Lowry are great defenders so scoring against them will be difficult.
Boston is still talented as fuck. They’re 25-9 in their last 34, and have weapons galore. If they play Hayward less and Brown/Tatum more they’ll be better. Addition by subtraction.
Milwaukee added another legit shooter in Mirotic who’s also a capable defender. Mirotic, Giannis, Bledsoe, and Middleton is strong as well.
I have no fucking idea who wins the East, but the playoffs are gonna be awesome.
Agreed. I would go Raptors, Bucks, Sixers, Celtics, Pacers in that order in terms of who I think will come out of the east.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Professor
Pacers w/o Dipo might as well not be on the list.Quote:
Originally Posted by manonfire101
Glad to see Bogut back on the Warriors. Time for them to get healthy and gear up for the playoffs.
amazed at how well they've played without him so farQuote:
Originally Posted by Nightmarez
Ya, seriously. Their defense is great. Reminds me a bit of Utah couple years ago.
I got a piece of the LA Forum court, the old Lakers court, signed by Jerry West recently.
f u spence
If Embiid could stay healthy, you'd win. The raps are really disappointing me.
I never thought I'd say this, but Kyrie is actually shooting the C's right out of the playoffs..
Now that's more like it :o
https://streamable.com/skik8
And this:
https://i.imgur.com/zr9zuRu.gifv
The reddit memes are extra spicy is the postgame thread.
These ECF suck. Sixers would've been such a better matchup. Can't believe we lost that series.
pfft
it's amazing how good kawhi is. literally playing the roll LBJ played for Cavs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
Carrying this team by himself.
I totally disagree. Our defense has been stellar. It's a shame really that everyone on the team has seemed to forget how to shoot open shots though.
That sixers series was amazing tho. It really is a shame that embiid was sick in a couple of the games. Just based on how that series went and how this one is going, I would say the sixers were the better team (even if the bucks beat us in 7, they would really have to thump us for me to change my mind). We've really outplayed them on both ends in 3 of 4 games this series, only reason we lost game 1, and game 3 was so close is because a lot of open shots just aren't falling.
Coming in to the series, I thought if the raptors continued to shoot poorly, the bucks would win handily. But their offense hasn't been nearly as potent as I expected and they are a lot softer then the sixers were. We're totally bullying them so far. Can't wait for tomorrow.
I bet on the finals game one on draftkings
Captain: Steph Curry (GS) (1.5x point multiplier)
UTIL: Kawhi Leonard (TOR)
UTIL: Klay Thompson (GS)
UTIL: Marc Gasol (TOR)
UTIL: Fred VanVleet (TOR)
UTIL: Andrew Bogut (GS)
I don't know NBA at all, but it's Draft Kings and you have a dollar budget thats why I have Bogut lol. Anyways I figured Bogut might get a little extra time if Durant and Cousins are out or eased back in. Maybe I'm stupid.
tbh, I have no idea about nba betting either.
Raps in 7
Wow, spencer you must be pretty happy right now. I am not as happy as you because of all the poor sportsmanship by the Raptor fans. Like cheering for KD's injury and Klay Thompson's injuries. I felt that was down right disrespectful.
I cheered for the Durant injury, dudes a bitch ass. The Klay injury was sad tho. ILL TAKE THE DUB THO!
Yea raptors fans are awful. If that was Philly we'd have been on front page of national news. Amazing the raptors fans havent gotten roasted for that yet.
Nice win Spence. Kawhi is a freak. Better hope he comes back or Raptors are a 6 seed next year at best.
Of course you did ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
I didnt actually cheer for the injury per se, I cheered for durant not to exist on the warriors lol. This series was dead even with the durantless warriors. It was lookin like a 7 game series before klay went down.
If Durant had played, the warriors woulda just swept us like theyd sweep anyone else, and the league would continue to be broken.
@philly probably better then the nets and magic still imo. Would be a 4 seed behind indiana. That being said, raptors fans were generally really good based on coverage I saw. Shouldn't let a few shitty people ruin all the positive stories. 1000s of people out in the streets for each playoff game without any violent crimes? Not bad
I think we went 17-5 without kawhi in the reg season.
Nobody knows what the fuck is going on with the Celtics. Irving basically got run out of town because he's a grade A bitch. So now it looks like they're back to rebuilding.
Sucks, Boston won only two championships this year.
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Boston prob loses Horford and Irving. Surprised they wouldn't trade Tatum + pieces to get AD. Would've locked up Irving.
Also for fun here are my predicions -
Irving - Nets
Klay - GS
KD - GS (i think he was leaving if he didn't get hurt)
Jimmy - Philly
Tobias - As a sixers fan I hope he stays, but I have a feeling he takes a deal somewhere like Dallas.
Kawhi - 50/50 Toronto and LAC. I'm going to say he goes to Clippers simply because of family.
Kemba - Seems like it's down to Lakers and staying in Charlotte. Just don't see how he passes up chance of playing with LBJ and AD so I'm going to say LAL.
Forgot a few -Quote:
Originally Posted by Greendaybum5
Boogie - Dallas (think about that trio of Luka, KP and him) could also see him going to either BKN/NYK wherever Kyrie goes.
Barnes - Kings
It would be cool to see Jimmy Butler in a raps jersey if Kawhi leaves. He's not Kawhi in terms of defense or shooting, but he's no slouch with either, and he's a much better playmaker.
Lowry and him are buds.
0% chance lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
Looks like I was right about Mavs going after a center lol. Just looks like it's going to be Horford instead of Boogie.
Well that was a pretty ridiculous start to NBA free agency...Was really hoping Ainge would pull off some magic and keep Horford, although I suppose it's probably for the best that we don't pay an aging big man 100 million bucks. I am still really excited for next season despite the Celtics lack of any kind of big man, largely because Kemba was one of if not my favorite non-Celtic prior to this signing. I just hope we can dredge up enough big men to have a shot at dealing with Horford/Embiid and Giannis.
Toronto should stop telling Kawhi to stay and leave the man alone. Just rebuild the team from scratch again, there is no pressure to repeat as NBA champions
best NBA offseason ever......
The nba is incredible. Sad the east is gonna be so bad this year, but at least that means the raps have a non 0 chance to make the finals again losing both Danny Green and Kawhi.
Who do you guys think wins the east next year with all the changes? I wanna bet on the darkhorse pacers. With Oladipo healthy, Turner another year of maturation, and Brogdon now in the mix, I think they're gonna turn some heads.
Utah are my picks to win the championship. Clippers probably will win it though.
Is Durant with the Knicks now? I think 76ers will win the eastern conference or Bucks
East (regular season)Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
1. Bucks
2. Sixers
3. Celtics
4. Pacers
5. Nets
6. Raptors
7. Bulls
8. Pistons
West
1. Clippers
2. Jazz
3. Blazers
4. Lakers
5. Nuggets
6. Rockets
7. Warriors
8. Mavericks
I think ECF will be Sixers v Pacers (assuming Oladipo gets healthy mid season) and I think Sixers will win the East.
I think it'll be Clippers v Blazers with Clippers winning West. I love the Jazz this year with the Conley addition, but Spencer picked them so i wanna be different.
Edit: sadly I think whoever comes out of West will ultimately win this year unless they get beat up so much during a tough playoff run. I love my Sixers chances this year and just don't see how any team out East has a shot vs them in a 7 game series. East is weaker than it's ever been.
Yup, east is hot garbage :(