[NBA] Play In Day Three Open Thread
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After HVL dumped him?
Still hoping for a comeback.
This is super unfortunate: Charlotte has been a Top 3 League Pass Favorite team to watch this season for me, and Orlando has been a Bottom 5 Most Boring team. Plus, I really wanted to see Charlotte/Detroit in the first round after all the heat between the two of them during the regular season.
At least LaMelo had a good game: Kon better count his blessings that ROY ballots had to be in before the start of the play-in.
It was a bad pick to pick Hornets, ngl lol
We might've had our Cardiac Kings, but you don't even know which Hornets team gonna show up each night.
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Hornets have been more consistent than most teams, since their core finally got healthy; a hell of a lot more consistent than the Magic, for sure.
Makes me glad I'm not a gambler, though!
Being healthy doesn’t guarantee consistency. Sure, they’re riding a wave of momentum, but this is still a young group without much experience at all in high-stakes games. On top of that, the Magic are simply a better matchup for the Hornets. Paolo is a tough match up for them clearly but Franz is the true superstar player in this team.
A lot of their imbalances come from their poor shooting which was not the case tonight, while the Hornets' lead guard has been the most inconsistent and largely remained irrelevant, and their top three-point shooters struggle in a Playoffs style targeted match up to play well enough to even stay on the court.
(EDIT: Andre Drummond made more 3s in one postseason game than Kon did in 2)
I get that, but I watch Hornets games. I watched more Hornets games this season than any other team besides the Kings and Spurs: they have been consistent. This was an off night.
That’s fair. I’ve started watching a lot more Hornets games in the second half of the season, especially over the last couple of months, and at times they look genuinely dangerous, like a team that could do some real damage. I mean the Bam thing aside, they were trading buckets with the Heat.
But the playoffs are a different beast. Officiating aside, it really comes down teams hunting and exploiting weaknesses while making adjustments on the fly. I just think they have something to prove when it comes to handling those high-pressure moments. They likely need a few more reliable rotation pieces, particularly on defense, to stay composed and weather the storm when opponents start attacking their weaknesses.
It makes more sense to me to lean toward the Orlando Magic based on the stronger roster matchup. As proven tonight, they didn't have much of an answer for neither Franz nor Paolo.
Well, one thing that you can say about the Magic is that they came into tonight's game playoff-tested. They knew what it would take to advance from practical experience, whereas the Hornets could only know about it in theory. It's the single biggest reason why people don't want to believe in the Spurs this year.
So back to 5-game rounds?
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