[NBA] West Playoffs, Round One
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Yeah ATT marketing team ought to clean house.
Maybe, maybe not, difficult to say - but certainly not with the injuries
Paper Clippies , I like it. ......Mavericks are fodder too. Don't like Doncic whiny boy; enjoy watching him lose .....
iowamcnabb
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I wonder if Jordi regrets taking the Nets job so early. The Lakers Suns and Nets are all a mess in their own way but coaching Lebron for a year or two before they blow it up could be better than Brooklyn. I get it though, the jobs are tough to get and he probably didn't want to risk it.
Oh yes they'd have won 62 games if not for Ham. I see.
kingsboi
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call it a trial and error phase of being a first time NBA owner
kingsboi
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I don't believe Bron's ego will allow him to be coached so Jordi made the right choice here
kingsboi
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so it appears that these commercials tends to come with a duo from a respective team. Jokic/Watson, Butler/Jaquez and now Chet/SGA.
kingsboi
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it may be a way to distract all the noise in the arena, its a psychological approach. Caron Butler used to chew straws in his playing days.
Since the TWolves won't be reffed like the Lakers were, I like the Nuggets chances.
iowamcnabb
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Yeh the others are fine, the Chet/SGA one is just extra corny. I like they have paired a young player with a vet though
Anyone can identify failure after the fact. Most of these same writers had them penciled in for multiple championships as soon as they picked up KD.
I don't question whether you believe this, but I do think it begs the follow-up question, how much of this belief of yours is informed by your spirit being broken by the last two months of the regular season?
That doesn't matter but so much, because the Kings match up better against the Thunder than they do against the Pelicans. Kings/Thunder would have been a much more competitive series, and one that the Kings had a better than 50 percent chance of winning, in my opinion, simply because the thing that the Pelicans can do to kill Sacramento's offense (neutralize Sabonis), the Thunder can't do.
Either way, I would like to have seen it happen, just to see if my theory about how the Kings played the regular season is correct.
I'll bee dat.
Nuggets got 15ppg from their bench in the first round, which I suppose would be a problem if their starters weren't so productive... but their starters were so productive.
We'll see. Personally, I don't think that the lakers exposed any weaknesses in the Nuggets that can be exploited by any team that does not have LeBron James and Anthony Davis on it. I guess we'll find out, soon enough.
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None. I have based my assessment, and will continue to base my assessment, on the fact that we were very inconsistent throughout the regular season. Along with the fact that I had seen enough of the Thunder during the regular season to be confident in my expectations and, ultimately, my prediction.
We all would've liked to have seen that matchup happen. And I would've been the first to publicly admit my mistake IF we had gone on to beat the Thunder. Or if we had managed to keep the series relatively competitive (i.e. 4-2 with our four losses being super competitive games, or 4-3).
I think you are right but Ant has been christened the next big thing by some so who knows if the refs got the memo.
megapoxy
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To sum it up, I think MPJ was the "X factor" in the Lakers series, and those weaknesses was the "not so great defense" from Nuggets, especially inside the paint. McDaniels will match up with MPJ and I doubt it will be so easy for him to score that easily.
Will be "neutral" watching this series, cheering for the Thunder in the other one regardless of which the opponent will be.
And yet somehow teams with playoff aspirations keep trading for him / signing him anyway for his veteran presence. His new nickname should be Sleeper Cell.
megapoxy
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He already passed Tobias with that corner 3
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