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Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Tue June 15, 2021 3:29 am
by verb_to_trust
When he was with the Bulls I am not shitting you he was the worst basketball player I had ever seen. It's a combo of that and it being really annoying he's a somehow a serviceable player now.
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Tue June 15, 2021 3:30 am
by Bammer
Ah, a former Bull. I see.
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Tue June 15, 2021 12:26 pm
by Electromatic
Monkey_Driven wrote:Just saw the replay of Jokic's ejection. I understand how the rule is written and how this technically qualifies, but c'mon.
Why not just a flagrant 1 instead? He obviously hit him in the face, I understand the head contact is something they’re trying to remove in all sports but that did ice the game, even though that series was thoroughly dominated anyway.
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Tue June 15, 2021 1:59 pm
by Monkey_Driven
Electromatic wrote:Monkey_Driven wrote:Just saw the replay of Jokic's ejection. I understand how the rule is written and how this technically qualifies, but c'mon.
Why not just a flagrant 1 instead? He obviously hit him in the face, I understand the head contact is something they’re trying to remove in all sports but that did ice the game, even though that series was thoroughly dominated anyway.
Should have been a flagrant one. The rule should be re-written to consider intent. He clearly was going for a hard foul on the ball.
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Tue June 15, 2021 4:48 pm
by spike
Just double/triple KD and make the other guys beat you, right?
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Tue June 15, 2021 5:38 pm
by ghost
Or...leave him open and double the 2nd best guy, that way almost no one but KD scores. It's not like he's gonna score 115 points.
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Wed June 16, 2021 1:31 am
by ghost
Bucks starters on pace to foul out shortly after halftime.
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Wed June 16, 2021 2:19 am
by Monkey_Driven
Everytime I've watched the Bucks this postseason they look like they've completely forgotten how to play offense.
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Wed June 16, 2021 3:00 am
by Monkey_Driven
Giannis was terrible in that second half.
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Wed June 16, 2021 3:05 am
by spike
he literally dropped the ball
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Wed June 16, 2021 3:05 am
by spike
spike wrote:Just double/triple KD and make the other guys beat you, right?

Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Wed June 16, 2021 3:15 am
by Monkey_Driven
Harden's out there playing on one leg and they're doing Giannis isos?
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Wed June 16, 2021 3:23 am
by Electromatic
Kevin Durant is good at Basketball.
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Wed June 16, 2021 5:05 am
by verb_to_trust
We had a Jeff Green game. Cavs fans know.
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Wed June 16, 2021 3:15 pm
by 4/5
And now Kawhi's out. So many playoff injuries...
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Wed June 16, 2021 3:33 pm
by Electromatic
4/5 wrote:And now Kawhi's out. So many playoff injuries...
I thought load balancing was supposed to stop all that?
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Wed June 16, 2021 6:54 pm
by spike
I think the players defer to Giannis too much. He’s not the smartest or saviest player. Beyond Coach Bud being useless, that’s all I can seem to come with to explain why they seem to start playing ineffective basketball on both ends at the drop of a hat. It’s so weird.
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Wed June 16, 2021 8:38 pm
by ghost
Yep. I credit Giannis with wanting the ball in his hands in big moments, but it's killing them in second halves of close games. The ball stops moving and they just take turns ISOing. I'd say the ball should be in Jrue's hands in those situations but he hasn't looked much better than Bledsoe in this series.
I think they can take it to 7 games, but if they couldn't close out a road game yesterday I don't know how they do it in game 7.

Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Thu June 17, 2021 12:03 am
by verb_to_trust
Giannis is a regular season player.
Re: NBA Thread
Posted: Thu June 17, 2021 1:57 am
by Monkey_Driven
verb_to_trust wrote:Giannis is a regular season player.
That's partly it. He also needs a coach that has the balls to tell him not to take 8 threes a game.