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NBA 2018/19

mdgoonah41

the NBA is the best. the absolute best.

Bryant

Jimmy Butler 😆 what a routine!

Got ejected today too, but Dudley's sacrifice was in vain.

arsedocmd

Was J Allen fouled on that last play?

KingslandBarge

Great to see the non-favorites putting up a fight in the playoffs. The Nets being outscored 17-27 in the fourth quarter is a lot to do with a lack of experience and high-stakes execution in my opinion. They will benefit from the experience and it brings me joy seeing a team comprising of dispensable assets putting together good basketball in the last few months and under play off lights. Win or lose this series, I hope it garners a bit of fervor among the community.

mdgoonah41

a few thoughts

refereeing was terrible in this game. terrible. they did everything they could to help the nets even the series
on the play that started the melee, embiid got a clean block. if you want to say it was a foul, which i dont think it was, it was a common foul. the league better rescind that flagrant on embiid
dudley instigated the entire thing, butler was sticking up for jo. obviously thats a huge win for the nets, sacrificing a nothing player like dudley to get butler ejected. the league really needs to look at this
fuck the nets. on to the next one.

KingslandBarge

hehe what's wrong with the Nets? Embiid committed a flagrant 1 elbow without penalty in Game 2 and laughed about it afterwards. Thats just putting a target on your back. Then from Dudlley's angle yesterday the foul on Allen looked pretty hard so he came in to defend his teammate. The league needs to look into this? What the refs needlessly ejecting both players or Dudley? I'd be surprised if you think Dudley had dastardly intentions to get an opposition player ejected.

Btw on second look Simmons didn't take a shot at Dudley; just got pushed along with him.

Rex

Think the refs largely got that call right. Dudley and Butler had to go of course. Was a hard foul by Embiid, but he did get a lot of ball too. Perhaps a flagrant was a tad harsh, but can easily be motivated too IMO.
Was a really good game btw! I really like watching LeVert. Will be interesting to see how he develops in the next couple of seasons.

mdgoonah41

Rex wrote:
Think the refs largely got that call right. Dudley and Butler had to go of course. Was a hard foul by Embiid, but he did get a lot of ball too. Perhaps a flagrant was a tad harsh, but can easily be motivated too IMO.
Was a really good game btw! I really like watching LeVert. Will be interesting to see how he develops in the next couple of seasons.

i disagree with this. i think either you eject just dudley for instigating (and coming half way down the court to do it) or more preferably, you eject neither. i think the refs overreacted because the players fell into the first row when the shoving started. technicals would have been fine. what the refs did was allow to dudley, a nobody, to sacrifice himself to get the 3rd best sixer ejected from the game.

Bryant

The baddest motherfucker in the NBA right now.

Next Question, wait, I mean, next season Russ. 😆

Meatwad

dame dolla strikes again. shit gave me flashbacks to 5 years ago against the rockets. couldn't even sleep good. i fuckin love this game.

Rex

Logo Lillard hits again. Sooooo fucking good! Just sad that Nurkic is out, because I think the Blazers could have gone places these playoffs with him. Defending McCollum and Lillard is such a nightmare for any team, the addition of Kanter is great, but ultimately I think Nurkic being out will prevent them from being in position to knock off either Rockets or Warriors.

flobaba

It was an incredible shot wasn’t it? Bittersweet for me because it was against OKC but I can’t hate on greatness. OKC just doesn’t have a balanced squad yet, and Westbrook for all his energy isn’t a mature player and doesn’t know how to control a game in critical moments, and neither is Paul George. Lol at PG13 saying in the post game presser that it was a “bad shot”.

Anyway the OKC squad needs to be tweaked and our glaring weaknesses - poor 3 point shooting and lack of bench offense has to be addressed before we stand a chance in the playoffs in the future.

Now me and LeBron can just sit back and enjoy the rest of the playoffs. May the best team win.

Rex

Westbrook is obviously amazing but, man, has his shooting gone to shit! It was never great, the fact that he can average a triple double with his shooting woes is mindboggling, but as a team OKC needs to be constructed differently to have a chance to go all the way IMO. More shooters is a given, but Westbrook also has to realize that he can't be the man when it comes to jump shots down the stretch when a game is in the balance.

Meatwad

well scoring is the easiest part of a triple double for a guard and he chucks it up enough, so that doesn't surprise me. OKC established what's important to their team culture when they basically give him freebounds. what kind of self-respecting big man does that? so of course steven adams isn't gonna be shit when he's bitching up like that. and last year he had westbrook telling him what questions he was allowed to answer from reporters. you're 7' your response should be "if you don't shut the fuck up i'm going to step on your little ass." they're going nowhere with westbrick, former UCLA player or not. he doesn't make good decisions and it's why when harden was their 6th man, he ran the team in the 4th quarter.

Bryant

😆

arsedocmd

lol, utah defending harden from the back

Meatwad

first game you seen in the series? it was more ridiculous in the first game. anyway, a couple months ago scottie pippen said on espn that's how he would defend harden and milwaukee's coaches said "oh for real, we're gonna try that." and it worked pretty good because it takes away his step back. utah just copied it. it's a pretty good strategy if you have a long player defending harden from the back and funneling him towards a shot blocking big like gobert.

arsedocmd

I was just lolling at how unusual and inventive teams are exerting themselves to defend the freak not disparaging.

Rex

Utah just don't have the players to even slow down Harden with that approach, even if the approach makes sense. Bucks, on the other hand, have the players to execute. In the end it mostly comes down to that anyway.

Meatwad

i thought they did a great job of slowing him down after the first game, they made adjustments to a strategy they were just copying. when they tweaked it for their personnel they did better. gobert basically made his floater game ineffective.

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