Have been banned from the other thread by an apparently sensitive snowflake (ironically after dozens of pages of political discussion from others) so I'll stick my thoughts on the NBA Playoffs here from now on. We needed a new thread anyway. [Reply]
Very good game to watch. 33 minutes to play 2 minutes is a bit extreme. The last segment from .7 to the live ball was unnecessary IMO. Clippers knew who was on the floor for defense, and know the rules. Trying to cheat the integrity of the game should result in some sort of violation/penalty. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Coogs:
Very good game to watch. 33 minutes to play 2 minutes is a bit extreme. The last segment from .7 to the live ball was unnecessary IMO. Clippers knew who was on the floor for defense, and know the rules. Trying to cheat the integrity of the game should result in some sort of violation/penalty.
There was also not .7 seconds left after Ayton’s shot.
And one of the Clippers players pushed Booker but nothing ever happened because of it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
Real shame that great sequence of basketball was married by Scott Foster and the blatant shenanigans to try and force feed the Clippers a win.
I was at the game last night. It was brutal from the start, Foster is a disaster. The entire stadium was riding the refs hard all night which seemed to only increased Foster's enthusiasm for his incompetence.
There was no excuse for the length of time it took after the alley oop to sort out LA trying to make a sub without a timeout. Just terrible. NBA really needs to do something to clean up the amount of time the refs go to review in the final 2 minutes or at least find a way to make it happen faster. I am all for getting the call right but that was a painful 2 minutes of basketball.
Hell of a win for the Suns with Booker not having a good game, 5/16 FGs and 7 turnovers. Crowder and Bridges both had a rough night too. Payne and Ayton saved the day big time. Huge for a young team to find a way to win on an off night. On a night like that, I would have liked to see a little more Cam Johnson. He was very good in his minutes. [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
No the hawks were not the "better team" when you consider the sixers had 18 and 26 point leads in games four and five and somehow contrived to mess it up. And as a sixers fan i can tell you Ben WILL be traded by the looks of it...Morey already tried to get rid of him earlier this year, even telling his agent to prepare for a trade so what makes you think he won't again?? Unless Ben decides to finally shoot with his dominant right hand i don't see him playing for us again.
I bet Sixers fans watch those games with the same mindset that Chiefs fans used to have before Mahomes.
Any Sixers fan that watched the first round series and knew that Embiid was not 100% healthy did not watch expecting to win.
Morey would be wise to keep Simmons with the idea that he can be coached up. But you may be right, Morey has a way of moving All-Stars on and off the roster and having a playoff team that never wins it all. [Reply]
Originally Posted by jettio:
I bet Sixers fans watch those games with the same mindset that Chiefs fans used to have before Mahomes.
Any Sixers fan that watched the first round series and knew that Embiid was not 100% healthy did not watch expecting to win.
Morey would be wise to keep Simmons with the idea that he can be coached up. But you may be right, Morey has a way of moving All-Stars on and off the roster and having a playoff team that never wins it all.
That's a good comparison. The Sixers definitely feel like the Chiefs pre-Mahomes. The impossibly blown leads in huge games. The choking at the end of games. Thank god Mahomes H. Christ showed up to save us from that misery. [Reply]
An older lady telecommuter from ATL that I work with said on a conference call about 6 weeks ago that the Hawks were gonna win it all. I laughed it off as homerism. Maybe I should have put some money on it :-) [Reply]
