SA: DeMar DeRozan puts up 18/12/6 in Game 1 win
SA: Derrick White nets 16 with five dimes in win
DEN: Nikola Jokic triple-doubles in playoff debut
LAC: Lou Williams scores 25 points in Game 1 loss
LAC: Montrezl Harrell leads Clippers w/ 26 points
GS: Kevin Durant nets 23, ejected late in victory
GS: Steph becomes all-time leader in playoff 3's
SA: Jakob Poeltl will start Game 1 vs. Denver
ORL: D.J. Augustin hits game-winner vs. Toronto
TOR: Pascal Siakam scores 24 w/ 9 boards in Game 1
/nba/ general - NETS, FOOL edition
Raptors are garbage
>Ayy pussy mothafucka you gotta come out here and guard me
Sixers are garbage.
I just want EDP445 talking about the 6sers
>Derrick White nets 16 with five dimes in win
Putting you crackers on notice
>mfw 3/4 road teams won today
>2019
>still having the first round be best of 7
Fucking animals.
NEST
as is tradition
>Lowry 0-7 FG 0-2 FTs
Leafs got uppity and forgot it was trash bros not trash bro
>be the Rockets
>play Jazz tomorrow
>mfw
>that moment where Kawhi realized throwing an air ball would allow him to leave Canada quicker
>They talking about next year... and I’m over here saying I’m not gonna be here hahaha
>14ppg 8apg
>40% FG 34% meme
How did fat Dennis Schroeder make the all star team this year?
>not even DeFrozen's choking can stop us
this away team upset shit happens every year and people still get surprised. first rounds are a meme
The winner of Game 1 wins the series 80% of the time, so no this doesn’t happen every year and your raptors are absolute shit!
My rapties lost game 1...AGAIN
Prime D Rose > Westbrick, Kyrie, Dame, Soften, and D Wade
What happened to the Wilt autist?
the playoffs came around
You forgot curry. He's a system babby who can't even win finals Memevp
>playoff mode
Hey it's all part of the process eh
Golden State is 23-22 without Curry and 25-1 with Curry and no KD.
*scams you out of $35mil*
based white boy
No suprises, we all knew that Raptors and Nuggets are frauds.
He's a spurs fan
>The winner of Game 1 wins the series 80% of the time
bit of a meme buddy. i'm sure that stat is much lower in the first round
Made sense the first year, overpaying to draw a talented role player from a veteran team to an unproven team of youngsters. This year Shamet should be starting in his place and going forward, they really could have tried to draw Klay from GS with a max he’d be a perfect fit then extend Tobias.
Ben Simmons
Shamet
Klay
Harris
Embiid
Lineup beats whatever the hell they have now.
GSW is built for curry not for durant.
>letting a way past prime rookie of the year bust expose your all-star point guard
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF CANADALAND
Just blow up your team and tank until the NBA folds.
>not realizing that Ben Simmons is playing like garbage so he can leave Philly and join Lebum
The spurs are going to beat the nugs and you’ll wonder why you fell for such a meme of a team.
I tried to tell /nba/ yesterday but they never listen to me
SOON
DET: Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart
LAL: DET 2020 (top 20 protected), John Leuer expiring
PHX: Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma
LAL: Mikal Bridges, MIL 1st, two second rounders
CLE: Lebron James
LAL: Matthew Dellavadova, John Henson, Jordan Clarkson, CLE 2020 1st (lottery protected)
Who says no?
What did cupcake get ejected for? They were cruising
He gets ejected now routinely, has 16 techs to this point IIRC, think he wants to look tough and like he doesn’t care
I do. :)
Higher seeds rarely lose game 1.
When is LeBron going to be honest with Ben.
He keeps refusing to shoot because he is surrounded by enablers.
D.J. Augustin > Raptor
Guy has been the strongest, biggest and most athletic player on any given court from the time a basketball was placed in his hands. He never had to work strenously at any aspect of his game to be individually dominate on a court. In High School (American) he averaged 28.0 points, 11.9 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.6 steals per game while shooting 70 percent.
Missed the NCAA tournament entirely in college, did not care to compete and always looked disinterested on the court knowing he was NBA bound and was essentially forced to play college ball for a year given his age so people gave him a pass.
>In the week leading up to the 2016 NBA draft, Simmons' attitude and character were questioned by a number of NBA media analysts.
You can tell if you follow the 76ers the guy is an arrogant ass who talks as though he's already won the chip, scoring title and MVP. youtube.com
Simmons response to being booed while having an abysmal game: "If you're going to boo, then stay on that side. That's how I feel. If you're a Sixers fan and you're going to boo, stay on that side."
Embiid's response to being booed despite injury: "Tonight they didn't fall, but for me, I'm fine. I'll play through anything. But for some guys it's annoying. It can be annoying. It's like every missed shot, you get booed so you get the next one and it's kind of like, ‘Should I shoot it or should I not because I'm about to get booed?' I don't know. Some guys are like that. It's hard. I think we all got to do a better job. Us, the fans, but I don't blame them. We got to bring the fun and go to play sharp."
None of this suggest he has any interest in or capacity to improve his game beyond fast break layups and passes, made worse by the fact Brown insist on playing a 90s style power forward at point guard so now you're handing over the reigns of your offense to that same guy who has no game outside of 10ft. Ship his ass to the Lakers, that's where he wants to be.
what i should've said is that 80% is probably true on average but lower seeds are definitely not an equal chance as higher seeds of going on to win the series after winning game 1. you're extrapolating the data my friend
too bad rhey traded shamet tot the clippy
also
WHERE THAT DUMB NIGGER SAYING POP WONT 7D CHESS AND SENT THE NIGGLETS TO THE SHADOW REALM
>MUH SWEPT
>MUH SEED
AHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAH
>Simmons response to being booed while having an abysmal game: "If you're going to boo, then stay on that side. That's how I feel. If you're a Sixers fan and you're going to boo, stay on that side."
Thats a big yikes. He better have some outstanding games or things are gonna get ugly for Ben in Philly.
At least Benny didn't score 1 point like that one game in 2018.
my nuggies have this in 6 desu
Spurs sweep in 7 nigella
soon we'll be rid of you
nuggxit now
brexit in a bit
What was the thought process behind making a 6-10 guy with no jump shot let alone a pull-up into your starting point guard, and a manlet white guy with no jump shot into the back up PG, and having no options behind them?
that markelle fultz wouldn't be a monumental bust and that Ben Simmons would get better
>have an elite 7-1 center
>he has to chuck threes all night because the paint is clogged by the PG, SG, and SF.
I woke up this morning and made sure last night wasn't a dream.
The Toronto Raptors did indeed lose to the Orlando Magic. Life is great.
Most players add a little something to their game in the offseason, especially young guns. Simmons at point guard seemed reasonable given he can actually guard his assignment there, unlike when Giannis played PG for a season, and is by far the best playmaker on their roster. Philadelphia sacrificed practically all their depth and sold away a lot of shooters (Covington, Saric, Shamet, Muscala) to get star players with overlapping skill sets.
If Simmons never even develops a reliable 15 footer he's going to require a roster tailored to his strengths and weaknesses to be successful. Won't be able to co-exist with Embiid and Philly will have a tough decision on their hands.
Threadly reminder
>3 pretenders exposed at the same day
Time to wrap this one up
Orlanbro here. Same here. Almost shit myself out of laughter when Raptard missed the 3.
>every top team but the Warriors are frauds
Woah, it's totally like this was completely expected yet Yea Forums was the only one that said otherwise.
Enjoy lolWarriorswin the league, the playoffs, the show
I'm switching to Hockey the rest of the month.
Orlando/Brooklyn/Spurs broship when?
>1 point
probably more embarrassing than scoring 0 since you know he missed a free throw
It could've been a technical bro.
>letting simmons shoot a tech
time to embrace our only hope. The White Dragon!
My Pisties will upset today as well!
my cats name is mittens
>Brooklyn
>Broship with Orlando
Top kek. Never, you faggot.
My Hawkies >
any good nba podcasts? the ringer one kinda sucks desu
Hey Hornets fan who was talking all that shit the other day, how does my ass taste?
5 games gives the refs less opportunity to get the #1 and #2 seeds back in it after they choke a Game 1.
Prediction
Celties
Pisties
Blazies
Cockshits
lowe post and full 48 are fine. road trippin with channing frye and richard jeffersion is a riot. woj is a bit dry but gets good guests. nate duncan and danny leroux are total cunts full of themselves but do get deep into the data.
>Prime D Rose
You mean the whole 6 months that he was playing great back in 2010?
APOLOGIZE
OH NO NO NO NO NO
No need to. I'm still mad the Pacers got rid of him. Imagine how good they'd be if they had him instead of Cory Joseph.
I swear there isn't a more overrated player. It's like he's been canonized as a saint and crowned the true GOAT PG just because he could jump him and had a bunch of highlights, forget his stats weren't even better than LeBron that year or any MVP afterwards. Let's just pretend he was some God
>not giving shitty team the gentlemen sweep
Sixgods in 5 famo
trading away JV was the biggest mistake Masai has ever made
Put Ingram and Hart as the 2nd trade and I'd agree to that. Rest are shit
Signing Ibaka a big contract, getting rid of Ross, and not trading Lowry for Conley wasn't?
bro, have you seen his bbc? Ibaka deserves every fucking penny
>bro, have you seen his bbc? Ibaka deserves every fucking penny
Here's your list of offers bro
2-0 to the good guys on monday
you think brett brown lasts this series?
Michigan St. and Purdue primary options. OU and Iowa St. secondary.
But the good guy will go 1-1 monday
Kino pic
>Purdue
>primary option
better be a whiteboi
thanks user
>why won’t pop let me drink grape soda
>put in Reddick get burned on defense
>take out Reddick get burned on offense
EmBLEED you BITCH you keep getting fooled by DLO you fucking clown, falling for his tricks. BLOCKED by JARRET ALLEN fucking MedicalJoe
Funny how Embiitch eats up being the comical and outgoing person goof, but when things don't go his way, he easily loses his temper and whine like a bitch while everyone laughs at him.
Where's based Virginia?
GoT or NBA playoffs?
enjoy your last championship
2020 marks the beginning of eastern conference dominance
Hi /nba/, is it true that durant and kyrie are going to the knicks? Thanks
Salt
Literally nothing wrong with shipping out Ross
Just finishing walking my dog while flexing, lmao
Yes it's true
nets
same city, just different team is all
Nobody even goes to Nets games. They don't want to walk out the arena and get shot after a bad game either
perfect for kyrie and durant
in an ideal world they'd want to play in empty arenas
>Brooklyn
>gun violence
Is this 1992? Lmao GTFO retard
>Get Kyrie and KD
>thinks no one would go to the games
Lmao you're retarded, Knicks fans would immediately convert.
Barclays Center is a black 'hood
clearly it worked
It’s because he’s from the inner city, like Iverson
As if lol. Not that rich black people want to be play for or be around ghetto projects chimps anyway.
It's gentrified as fuck and your ass knowns as much about Brooklyn as the typical white boi that only knows it from 90's rap
Barclay's Center is in a neighborhood where one-bedroom rental goes for 2-3 grand per month and a townhouse costs 4-5 million dollars to buy.
I live there it is full of spooks
Nets sold out their last 4 home games
>live in brooklyn last three years
>could've gone to Nets games for $10-20 per game
>in future seasons` they're gonna be $100+ per game
Smells like bullshit. I saw the Bucks and Raptors games and the arena was like a Pistons game
Post a bigger bitch
Brooklyn is gentrified retards, the cracker hipsters have priced out the original man and replaced the culture with coffee shops.
Reminder that Brooklyn belongs to the Dutch.
I don't think there is one desu.
Dude is an emotional lesbian. Like the type of dyke that beats their girlfriend and looks like a man.
same with philly, welcome to being a sucessful team
>tickets were literally 2-5 dollars
>now cost 40 to 100+ depending who they play against
The starters
bruh him kid extremely sick ok leave alone
Fred VanVleet can't really play in the playoffs
every time they had him on the court without Lowry to help, Orlando's guards started going crazy
re: brooklyn gentrification
casual reminder that saul williams' "grippo" was released in 2004
>tfw 2000 was 36 years ago
I've finally accepted the Warriors are winning it all this year. There's just no scenario I can possibly imagine them losing.
Even if Klay and KD got injured, Cousins and Curry are waiting right there to drop 30 each with Iggy off the bench.
It's just too much for the rest of the league.
Just waiting on the off season now.
KD going there is a lock
Kyrie is a possibility but not a certainty
>the original man
Blacks didn't settle it. whites were the original man if you don't include the NAs but no one cares about them anyway
They don't stand a chance of winning withouth Klay and KD tho, you're overestimating them.
>36 years ago
I know we are memein but really im getting fucking old and time is flying quick.
>yfw 2000 was almost literally 20 fucking years ago
>mfw I have no face
But they're not injured and even if 2 go down 3 all stars and a former all star is waiting
every time that the Sixers had Ben Simmons on the floor without Butler, they got destroyed
the guy really is just shook
we haven't even seen the Bucks play a game yet
>no Kentucky
If I can’t play for hometown I’ll go euro league
i live in nyc
>getting fucking old and time is flying quick.
i know man, i know
Bucks are overrated. Rest of the league has started to catch on to their spread 5 system. All you do is wall Giannis off the rim and make him kick out, which he still has issues with and guys aren't shooting as hot as they were back in Dec.
Overall the team with the best Net. Rtg. in the NBA has lost in playoffs majority of the time since 2000, most didn't even make the Finals, lost in the conference finals.
Bucks might make the Finals but I have no reason to believe they can guard Curry and KD, let alone Klay and Cousins. It's a lot easier to guard Giannis and take your chances on everyone else making shots.
So basically
Team with 5 all stars>>>>>>Team with 1 real star and a fake star in Middleton
Brogdon > Middleton
Neither Green nor Cousins are legit all star calibre right now. Curry/Durant/Thompson will be enough however.
Cousins is averaging 16ppg on limited usage and Green is still very good on defense
remember when lebron used to make the playoffs
he just crusing for next year finals
Who?
Middleton is a huge threat off the bench plus bledsoe will easily out thug Durant exposing him for the bitch he is and run curry into the ground
Lebron is smart, he knows this is the last year of the Warriors dynasty and he would rather make the finals next year rather than adding another L to his finals record
D Wade is the only champion, and he is way above all of those dudes, he is straight hall of fame
How exactly would LeBron lose to the Warriors in the finals?
This is your brain on nothing but snow and beer
Middleton doesn't start?
Bledsoe is the reason the Bucks wont win anything
Thank god i'm not a leaf
>people itt actually think the untested, playoff rookie Bucks are going to the Finals
Lol
As long as he keeps his autism in check they should be alright
Okey Indiana will beat Boston, it must.
Reminder next year is probably gonna be something predictable, like Celtics vs Lakers, with kyrie, heyward and davis vs lebron, butler and kemba
If MCW is hits 2 3s a game and lowry averages 0 for the rest of the series my raps could still win in 7.
With Lowrys 0, how does that affect his points avg over the rest of the series? Say he scored 18 next game what would be his average? Am I retarded?
Wait the raps only played kawhi 33 minutes
>hoping to win in 7 in the first round
YIKES
According to woj (18+0)/2=9
Yes, he needs to be well-rested for next season when he goes to Philly or Brooklyn
Nurse still thinks it's the regular season. Danny green and kawhi should've played with siakam more instead of that retarded small lineup that allowed the magic to linger.
Oh yeah of course. Take his total and divide by the number of games. I really am retarded, dayum.
They really had him play 50 regular season games so he could play 30 min in the playoffs
I would rather rest him more when OG is back. For now kawhi needs to play closer to 40 against these giga niggas. Especially when shots aren't falling.
gordon hayward, hayward
he fell on his fucking arse
his leg done broke up in half
gordon hayward, hayward
gordon hayward, hayward
celtshits gave him the max
he fucked up the ainges plans
gordon hayward, haywards
thought you norwegians had the second highest hdi in the world
>Duke Had Higher ESPN Ratings Than NBA During 18-19 Season
No wonder ESPN shilled him so hard. NBA is dying.
Not how it works, ppg is determined by minutes played
Points-per-game is minutes played? Seems counter-intuitive.
The highest I think. Doesn’t make me intelligent apparently.
Just think, if a player scores 8 points and leave the game with a injury within 5 minutes, his ppg wont go down as much. Doesnt count as a whole game
leave the warriors to me
>Not how it works, ppg is determined by minutes played
>people like to watch Zion
>Zion is playing in NBA next year
>NBA is dying
looks right to me
Zaza will take out giannis before halftime
Yes it does count as a whole game you dang Brazilian
that's why we also have points per 36 minutes played stats, and points per 100 possession stats
I'm an actual OKC fan in OKC. Unless Adams suddenly makes his free throws and Ferg suddenly becomes prime Ariza plus PG going back to MVP level, we'll be lucky to even win 3 games off Denver.
Too much missing open 3s and defense not good enough to cover 3pt spamming teams consistently. Roberson isn't coming back either.
If KD didn't leave we'd be the best team without a doubt. Also we'd have gotten Horford and Adams wouldn't have 20mil a year.
People aren't gonna watch him on a shitty ass team that can't win, they should give the team that wins the championship the first overall pick and the worst team the 30th.
Those duke niggas gonna have a target on their head
take total number of points, divide by total minutes, then multiply by the average minutes played per game.
So say lowry scores 5 points but only plays 16 minutes next game.
(0+5) / (16 + 34) = 5/50 * 25 = 125/50 = 2.5
this formula works every time btw
Anyway off to the UK to visit family. Wish me luck lads, shame I can’t watch the games tonight.
The Sixers are in more trouble than the Raptors
The Raptors problem is their guard play, VanVleet can't defend in the playoffs and Lowry can't score, but Kawhi and Gasol should be enough to win and the Magic won't shoot 48% from 3 or 90% from the line the whole series. But Ben Simmons problems are not going away.
He's going to the New York Knicks where he will play with NBA champions Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving actually
The Raptors can't beat anybody and two former DPOY can't check DJ Augustin, they're super ass. Masai should have stopped trading for guys drafted 15 and later in the draft when all the talent is in the lottery.
SOON
>(0+5) / (16 + 34) = 5/50 * 25
hmm
i hope your plane crashes into the buckingham
He's too uppity
(0 + 5 + 8 + 0) / 4 = Lowry will average 3.2ppg en route to Toronto being elimianted in four games.
RJ and Zion will do fine, it's Cam that's gonna bust hard.
RJ is pretty trash desu, can't shoot the meme or kncok down free throws, looks like a poor man's Shabazz Muhammad.
>off Denver
did i miss something
RJ doesn't play defense and can't shoot. That's not something that you really want to see in a player coming into the NBA
Cam might learn to shoot and he'll be good if he does. really there's only three good prospects in this draft and it's Zion, Ja, and Jarrett Culver
Jaxson Hayes is elite and has a good chance of becoming the next Giannis under proper tutelage.
Now there's a name I haven't read in a while
How many times do you really think that the Spurs are going to be able to hold Denver under 100 points this series?
>RAPTIES LOSE
>76ers LOSE
>MY KYRIE, MY CELTIES WIN
Just take the L rest of the east
4 times
OKC and denver are going to play each other after they've both been eliminated to determine the 5th best team in the conference
Denver is a joke. They crumble under pressure, just like in the regular season.
I will watch NBA games for the first time today. I will go to the piston!
denver is an 8th seed team that over achieved in the regular season, prove me wrong
i'm like half joking, i'm cautiously optimistic at the very best about the spurs' prospects.
but if you're asking like that, how many times are the nuggets going to be able to hold the team with best offensive efficiency in the league to 101 points?
No one here supports Denver, this is a Celtics fan forum.
Hayes has huge upside but he's still extremely raw and needs a lot more development and toughness. He would probably be, like, a late lottery guy in a normal draft.
Like I would say Hayes is a step below where Mo Bamba was as a prospect last year
based Pisties bro!
Defense wins championships
celtics are an overrated team that lacks cohesion, and will probably still make the ECF just because the east is so weak, but would be a first round exit in the west.
He was 6'7 this time last year and has incredible hands and athleticism, you'd be foolish not to take him if you miss out on Morant or Zion. He will easily grow to 7'2 and mantain his dexterity, once he improves his rebounding (not a large obstacle considiring Tristan Thompson and Myles Turner's abysmal rebounding numbers under Shaka Smart) he will be the best traditional big man in the NBA.
Our piston wins the NBA Championship this year perhaps!
Celtics are a championship contender this year now that their Eastern rivals have been exposed. We will sweep the East with relative ease, while the Warriors are tired from the Rockets and Spurs.
For me it's purdue Ohio state and Georgia tech
soon
Damn, you his agent or something?
Myles Turner averaged 1.5 more rebounds per game despite playing slightly fewer minutes per game than Hayes. Hayes is tissue paper soft. That said, he might still be the fourth best player in the draft, because the draft is insanely bad.
California, fuck pretty white girls near the beach and get Jason Kidd comparisons from retards by default
Tatum has sucked this year because he's too worried banging thots behind his girls' back!
Seems like kind of an issue that the Celtics best perimeter defender is going to miss the 1st 2 rounds
>muh Western conference is le epic
Denver Chuckets memechucked their way to a 2nd seed and then were promptly exposed by Popogoat last night. Let's not pretend like the West is competitive.
>Cal Berkeley
>near the beach
this is technically true but not really in the way that you mean it
I genuinely wish the kid a long and healthy career. Even if he doesn't reach the heights placed on him I'd hate to see him get a really bad injury that cuts his time in the league short.
The 2nd seed and 3rd seed in the East also lost yesterday
Hayes has only been playing center for a year, this time last year he was playing football exclusively. Now he's starting at arguably Texas deepest position, his genetics alone are worth drafting over someone like Culver with much lower upside. He's got a handle like a guard, NCAAF footwork, hands like baby Shaq, jumps out of the gym and he's still growing. Also knocks down 75% of his free throws, will definitely have a game outside of 15ft when an NBA development staff get their hands on him. He's already a demi God with about two seasons of basketball under
Also blocked 2.2 shots per game this past season, not bad for a guy just learning to play.
So is the East competitive, or does the West suck? Why the double standard?
thats supposed to be hard?
IND +7.5
OKC +3.5
MIL w, DET +13
HOU w, UTA +6.5
>he fell for the underdogs are gonna continue winning meme
In the regular season, 1-4 in the East looked really good and everyone else looked really terrible, whereas in the West, everyone looked pretty good but no one except the Warriors are dominant. So based on that, if the East was really better, you would expect the good East teams to run through the shitty East teams like a hot knife through butter, instead of looking like crap and losing. Whereas the West playoffs being competitive makes a lot more sense. The gap between Denver and San Antonio in the regular season was a lot smaller than the gap between Toronto and Orlando.
Don't see many Canadian flags today
Wait, are those actually the lines, or is that your prediction
Some black chick I met on Tinder is trying to say she's pregnant, will I be okay if I just block her number?
I'm not even gonna lie I have always hated Boston but nothing brings me more enjoyment than kyrie dropping a load of hot cum on the Pacers.
raise that mutt to be the next Steph Curry
did you sex her up
>He thinks Indiana and Blunder are underdogs against dysfunctional leltics and crippled portland respectively
There's a reason Pop chose McMillan as his assistant coach for Team USA
Actual. IND line is obvious money
>Wilt
oh no the playoffs
Yeah but I wear condoms
I can't think of a single team the celtics would beat in a 7 game series that made the playoffs in the west other than the clippers. Even denver would sweep them
Everyone in the NBA can do this. You're literally throwing a inflated ball at a thin piece of metal. Doing it with just grip strength is insane.
Go and try to do it yourself and see dumb LeShit rider
>Indiana's starting PG
Sad
Sure kid
she was probably already pregnant with Jamal's kid and just went to Tinder to find herself a baby's mama after Jamal went to jail.
I also think OKC should be straight-up favorites with Nurk out and Houston-Utah is 50/50
Seems like a scam to be honest, just gonna block her number if she’s genuinely pregnant she’ll find a way to bill me later
so the nba apparently told every announcer for game 1's to mentioned that the refs in whatever game it is are 3 of the 36 most carefully selected refs for playoffs
adam sliver only cares about pr
je besoin une fille blanche...
Curry getting injured might be enough
definitely block her. nothing good can come from further contact.
What else are they supposed to say? "Today's refs are half-blind losers who are here to ruin your playoffs"?
she's pretty hot for a negro
OKC is coming out of that series for certainty, it just a question which away game will they steal first, g1 or g2. i think it's thiis. Jazz/Rox are more 30/70, Mitchell, Korver and Ingles need to be lights for 4 games to come out, it's untenable. Also fuck this timeslot.
charge your phone
If Silver cared about PR and reffing, he wouldn't let Jeff Van Gundy keep calling games. All that guy does is bitch about the way that the refs run the game.
celtics looking thin
Fuck Celtics offense is like regular season trash. That's it man Celtics 1st round exit
I think Houston has plenty of defensive weaknesses for Utah to try to exploit, though. Really think it's by far the most interesting 1st round series.
My Celties...
Remember when everyone was certain that OKC would sweep the Jazz last year? Never count on westbrook in the playoffs
Jaylen Brown is legit terrible
Rooting for Jazz regardless
playoffs westbrook is like a baby with a rubik's cube
Celtics offense is legit terrible
>bake my famous Canadian Ketchup cake in anticipation of celebrating my rapties win
>they lose and now I have a whole Ketchup cake uneaten
Celshits worse than sixers oh no no no no
My Celties getting back into it (:
did kyrie destroy the locker room with his zoomer bs
Rockets finna get dabbed on
Kyrie is a millennial idiot
Celtics would be better with prime Ryan Gomes than Kyrie, don't @ me
This is such a low scoring quarter boomer basketball is back!
dont say anything like you have for the last however many years, just mention their names
not anymore he doesn't, all he does now is blab about how hard everyones job is
>every higher seed except the warriors is going to lose
FUCK YOU SILVER
I'm getting diarrhea just from looking at the label.
How underaged are you people? 2012-2014 never happened? 2013 second round didn't happen? 2012 Finals when he had 40, 2016 vs Spurs he was amazing, 2016 when they stole game 1 vs warriors
Almost 5 years of playoffs you never watched like a bunch of kids that only started watching
nugs finna get swept by the spurs cant believe i fell for the nugs meme
Brazil admitted he only started watching 3 years ago and doesn't even watch, just looks at box scores to shitpost
Other guy clearly didn't even watch that series he's talking about
>2016
Was that the one where OKC was up 3-1 against GS but Westbrook and Durant choked 3 games in a row to throw away the series?
KD made him good, he's sucked dick with Paul George. He needs a top 3 player to concede to or his style of play will just lead to annual early exits.
>Scary Terry is in
He really is underaged, just posts memes
KD made him average 30/10/10 one year and 25/7/7 most his career?
problem is that hes been bad for the last couple years. nigga took 40 fg attempts in gome last year
>muh counting stats
Explain his TS% getting worse every year since KD has left, even after adding PG. He's at 50% TS this year
It's pretty standard. There's always at least 4 kids in these gens and Yea Forums has 14% underaged posters based on that one poll moot did before he left
haha gayward still sux
sabonis plays nothing like his dad did
>2012 finals
the one he lost and had tons of mental lapses at key moments in the game that cost his team the series?
>2013/14
all I remember is the thunder losing before the finals and KD trying to carry the team while westbrick bricked them out of the game
face it, since KD left westbrook has been exposed as a playoff choker
Not a good look when Morris is the leading scorer for them yikes
Major Yikes
the only people who care about others being underage are the barely 20 year olds who think they're grown up now. I'm a 30 year old boomer oldfag, it's adorable how upset you kids get that other younger kids post here
This post is so dumb. That was because no one else could score but him entire game 55% shooting until ending. PG entire game below 30%
Taking a lot of shots isn't bad if you're the only person able to score. Melo non existent whole series, grant not getting enough minutes, so many factors ignored
Dumb
coz they have different bodies. nba-watching burgers never saw prime arvydas play anyway when he still had all his acls.
>I'm a 30 year old boomer oldfag
>thinks that's young
if only you knew
False flagging kid
Full blown children that couldn't watch because it was past bedtime
Surely you NEST
t. larping underage
reminder you shit up every adult discussion you come into because you spend all your posting privileges defending how not underage you are
so you admit the thunder are shit and aren't making it past the first round?
which one is it - the thunder are good and westbrook is an inefficient chucker holding them back, or the thunder are bad and westbrook is carrying a bunch of shit team mates? Either way you look at it, the thunder suck dick
>Westbrook haters exposed as zoomers
All makes since. Westbrook is literally an improved version of AI and Kobe, so of course little kids can't appreciate
Hold on, most people here are older than 28 right? Right?
What the fuck is Jaylen doing
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>that flag
>accusing others of shitting up discussion
oh the irony
/pol/tard no one cares, troll tactics don't matter to people that know what they're talking about. This isn't a debate.
post ages
23 here
>Leltics 2/11 from the memepoint line
lmao
for me, it's the sparties
>celtics starters all have less than 2 pts
just blow up my team daddy
I turned 30 in March. Fuck time flies so fast.
The Westbrook haters also love to romanticize young D Rose when Westbrook is better than D Rose ever was. It annoys me when people don't understand the impact of a player who's a constant THREAT at all times during the game. Westbrook is never passive.
Little kids fuck off.
You're supposed to be at Sunday school.
80 here
>2017
>lost in first round
>2018
>lost in first round
>2019
>???
am I the only one noticing a pattern here after KD left?
If you can't recognize the man in the middle of this image you're officially underaged
the church is dead in merica though
50 cent?
Oscar Robertson, easy
if you don't recognize this man, you're officially underage
I'm 30 and I have no idea who he is.
if you don't recognize this man, you're officially underage
nice falseflag kid, real oldfags will recognize him
So no argument for his PER and TS getting progressively worse since KD's departure? Leave it to a Westbrook cocksucker to get blindsided by a boxscore in place of an argument
so we all agree the 2019 nuggets are just a shit version of the 2014 Hawks right? Just a bunch of pretenders?
kyrie trying to do too much
>PER
>TS
why do zoomers always bring this shit up? Is it because they don't understand basketball at all and try to use numbers made up by ESPN to compensate for it?
I don't listen to black people music.
>PER spikes after KD leaves
>Progressively worse
Once again troll tactics don't work
Yes, but other than that the Warriors who can expose them like LeBron did?
Daryl Morey created TS, Michael Jordan and Lebron James are first and second in all time PER. Weird it's only Kobe and Westbrick fans that think efficiency is bad
He has a PER of 20 this season and 24 the last, so yes that is a negative progression
Kyrie would be better if he had simpler scoring moves. It's funny watching him get the ball and he tries to do a highlight reel play everytime.
Kyrie, Kawhi, and Butler all getting swept in the first round.
The question is, which one do the lakers pick?
None. Lakers only getting Melo.
Melo to the Lakers plus Ty lue would be beautiful meme magic
Fuck the orlando
wtf is wrong with the East every home team losing their 1st game lmao
>Denver
lol no
The only one I could conceivably see them getting is Kyrie just because he's weird and may not appreciate just how much a bad front office can impact a team's chances.
feel bad for kyrie, his first playoffs series without lebron is the pavers
hes going to average 19ppg on 35% fg
literally just a bear head. retard
spurs are already exposing them
Don't feel bad for him at all, guy wanted to lead his own team and has a lot more talent on the roster than Lebron did when he beat the Pacers (with Oladipo). Part of leading a team is assuming responsibility when you get BTFO, unfortunately Kyrie doesn't have a mafia to deflect blame like Lebron
no one is gonna wanna touch the Lakers with a 10 foot pole. LeBron is confirmed cancer
if it is confirmed that Ty Lue is the coach no one is gonna wanna go there
Kids thinking 1 game is an entire series
walton joining the kings and the kings playing the lakers four times every season, you can be sure he'll whip the kinglets into sweeping the lakers every year. four scheduled losses already.
>the fucking state of home teams that are not the warriors
Christ can the rest of you fuckers get it together.
that would mean lebron is actually the coach and he has a lot of buddies in the league so
They are getting Kemba and Butler.
steph can I at least get a "see you in the finals boston" just for old times sake?
i wonder what team will be the first to withstand the allure of just throwing random diva stars at their roster. thinking it might be nets. someone like irving or even durant would probably hurt them more than they would benefit from them, all things considered.
Nets win the chip with durant
see you in the finals boston
>thinking this young nugs team can handle pop
B-BUT HOW COULD KD LEAVE SUCH A TALENTED TEAM WITH SUCH ALL STARS SUCH AS CHUCKBROOK, ROBERSON AND ADAMS?
Kyrie, yes, he's a guy who if his shots aren't going in he adds very little to a team and the NBA is moving away from the way he scores. KD makes the Nets a title contender today and probably three years from now.
It’s more the team he left to join than the team he left. And they were up 3-1 in the WCF before the chokejob
would you rather your team not make the playoffs at all but have the cap space to sign a max free agent this off-season and have a chance at Zion, or make the playoffs as a top seed but get swept in the first round and realize your team won't be any better next year?
depends what team
The first one but without them drafting Zion
whatever your team is right now
Post your draft boards
the knicks arent signing zion bud
>we still have Larry
What if KD had joined the Spurs in 2016?
They reached WC finals in 2017, maybe with him they could have take down GSW.
That would have 100% saved his legacy
He probably would’ve just been a cancer and ruined them
that would have been almost as bad as joining GS
>Tonight
>all the celtics haters BTFO after we found our groove
so quiet in here all the sudden
Vucevic won't shoot 3-14 for the rest of the series either. In fact Orlando's three best scorers went a combined 12-43 from the field and they still won the game. This game wasn't a fluke.
thanks daddy
my lakeshits (:
lmao how is this even possible?
You spelled Spurs wrong, compadre.
>mcbuckets
they got shut down by spain's finest
Save up for a paternity test.
Spanish pick and roll
is it time for FVV to take over for Lowry?
Yes. Especially in the playoffs where Lowsy becomes straight ass.
FVV, Lin 2 man rotation and have Lowshit sit on the bench as the 15th man.
Lost of us oldfags been coming here for years. I'm 51. Which, by the way, means my parents were actual boomers and not just ninja kiwi grapefruit board boomers. I'm generation X. Which, for many of my contemporaries is beginning to mean generation X-lax every day or we can't poop. Yeah, I laugh at them, too.
Lin is fucking trash, kys chink boi
no. lowry is still our playmaker. he is still the one risking his body every moment. he is still positive (+11, FVV was -20). Literally a fluke of a win from... fucking Magic
Because hes a bitch. They got Dipo and Horford was waiting for KD to resign before he joined OKC too
You're so underaged it hurts. Like Adams and Roberson aren't elite defenders
>Game 7
>Lin fouls out with FVV already on the bench due to injury
>Nurse has no choice but to check Lowry in
>up 1 with a 16 seconds left to go in the 4th quarter
>Lowry immediately fouled and sent to the free throw line
>bricks both
>DJ Augustin gets the board, runs down the court and hits the meme
>Orlando wins
>0 points
>+11
what the fuck did plus minus mean by this?
Nice.
Single game plus minus is mostly meaningless, it just means when he was in the game the Raptors mantained an 11 point lead.
Pacers finna get dabbed on
I would dearly love to see Adams playing for my Spurs. The bigs would be Adams and Aldridge against power teams and Poetl and Gay/Bertans against small ball lineups. Pop would shred people.
Pacers are literally the worst team in the playoffs. Detroit will probably put up more of a fight than this.
plus minus is the elite advanced stat.
get fucked haters
uhhh that's not how +/- works
Isn't plus minus just point differential when you were on the court minus when you were off?
Lowry vs Simmons
Lowry vs Bledsoe
Lowry vs Curry
Nobody even knew Augustin's name before that game and he lit up that fat turd. Why do you like getting handicapped 5v4 and still call yourself a fan?
lowry is better than them except curry
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poor juwan going to a shitty place
>Vucevic 11 points on 3-14
>T-Ross 10 points 2-11
>Fournier 7-18
ORL in 6.
It's time to remind /nba/ once again that choking is when you have a lead or some position of power, and manage to fail.
Being a underdog you are in no position to "choke" if you win it's an epic feat, if you lose it's expected.
Spamming "blank choked" is infantile meme spouting of the highest level.
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The Lakers have received permission to speak to Juwan Howard, plan interview him next week
lol another shitty organization
>corey joseph is your top performer with 14 pts
grim
I thought jaylen brown was supposed to be an intellectual? lmao
Kawhi is the one player you dont want your Bronze State to see in the finals so everything you say is designed to hurt the Raptors' chances of advancing, it only makes sense you'll be sticking up for deadweight like Lowry.
Simply having a lead isn't enough either. If you improbably have a 10 point lead on a team greater than you, the odds of them coming back are higher than you maintaining, statistically.
It's all about sealing the deal. When you're the underdog you have the most favorable moral position.
>today i will remind them
He can't even beat Orlando hahahahahahahhahaha
oh wait my bracket is already busted fuck
My Celties :)
Celtics took a really big shit on the Pacers and /nba/ got quiet as fuck
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Vuc 11 -13 Gasol
Isaac 11 - 24 Siakam
Gordon 10 - 25 Kawhi
Fournier 16 - 13 Danny
Augustin 25 - 0 Lowry
Every Raps starter beat or matched their assignment since nba basketball is usually played 5v5 except for that one no-show who is Derozen's chokebuddy.
if oladipo weren't injured the pacies would have won by 15.
i'm not worried about the nets yet. i think my snakes have just been sleeping coming into the playoffs and need a game to pull it together (except butler because he is god)
these people act like kraft went on a raping spree
>TOR to win 4-0
wait what why did the refs end the game after 3 quarters? I've been box score watching so I'm kinda clueless
what does any of that have to do with feminism? Am I just too stupid to understand or does this tweet not make sense?
getting a handjob is sexist
lowry is the last relic of the old raptors. he shouldve been purged like JV and derozan.
>84-74
boomer basketball
Basically, Kawhi had to equalize Augustin's production AND lockdown Gordon to below 4 points in order to win game 1. That was Lowry's impact and contribution to Ujiri's 2019 finals push.
>turn on the OKC vs Portland game
>it's a women's hockey game in overtime
FUCKING KILL ME
omg!!!
Of course Sparks poster doesn't make any playoff prediction with his 'model,' otherwise he'd be exposed.
>Pretenders falling like flies
>Celtics humiliates the Pacers
bow down to /our only hope/
The Eastern Conference is once again the JV league. The only team with a shot to take the rockets or warriors to 6 games in the finals is the Bucks.
wouldn't mind them beating the warriors in the finals 2bh
TIGER IS BACK
Russ about to blow out DLills ass
according to his spark ranking he picked the warriors
lol the bucks would shit on the rockets
Fucked a lot of white girls I've heard
Isn't it a player ranking system?
What will you do when the Bucks get btfo tonight by my Pisties' twin towers?
You can’t be back at 44 years old unless you are on the roids which Tiger has been doing his whole career. The guy is a fraud in the same way Barry Bonds is a fraud. Babe Ruth and Jack Nicklaus are the true GOATS
Twin towers? Isn’t Blake hurt?
Wait... the Lunder don't even have home court advantage? lmao
Those old farts wouldn't even be able to qualify against today's athletic and better trained black and Dominican BBCs, although I've heard Ruth was a mulatto...
Boomerball is back OKC/Blazies game has no commentary
>i'm scoring zero for you deebo. trash bros foreve-oh, hey kawhi
>*begins to spark the spark that will inevitably ignite the flame*
> TOR to win 4-0
Winning though you fucking methhead
> TOR to win 4-0
>TOR to win 4-0
>ancient
heard it in his high pitched voice
cal or BC desu if i gave a shit about academics
> TOR to win 4-0
I’ve been noticing a lot of emotional bias in this thread. Isn’t there some kind of rating system that could clear up the facts for us?? Like maybe we could make use of advanced algorithms or something in order to make sense of all the stats and data available currently in the nba... just a thought.
what channel is blazies thundies. poocific rim is on TNT.
>TOR to win 4-0
>i'm not worried about the nets yet. i think my snakes have just been sleeping coming into the playoffs and need a game to pull it together (except butler because he is god)
He only got that MVP because nobody wanted to vote for Heel LeBron
ABC and ESPN
TSN4
Nigga have you been to Brooklyn? That shit is white as fuck now.
How do I get drunk enough to forget? Take it up the ass?
Disney Channel. Oh wait, that's where Orlando's raping of Lanada gets televised every day.
thanks nibbas
fuck you
Why the hell did PG13 stay in OKShit again?
Bad news Russell the Nigger fans. The verdict is in. Even if he wins this series it does not mean shit, but if he loses he is the most worthless and low IQ nigger in Nba history.
my thundy are shit bros
based
lol
ganbatte thundies
lmao
im a lakies fan, my favorite non-lakers player is westbrook and my east team is the raptors. this season is literally the worst thing that could possibly happen basketball-wise
karl fuckin malone
Sparks predicted GSW would own playoffs no challenge. and Sparks also predicted the rockets and nuggets would choke. That’s all I remember.
Well we how this plays out
Imagine being this much of a fag.
Westbrook sucks dick
its always darkest before dawn...
My Blazies balling the fuck out on these OKC scrubs, Enes Kanter looking like prime Chris Webber on these fuck niggas
one of my favorite pastimes when watching OKC games is observing the lack of movement of westbrook when he's not involved. sometimes he's not even in the fucking widescreen frame, camping at center court.
Wow, those are some smart-ass WNBA players
Lol OKC has all the uppity nigs who think they're good for no reason
Go raptor!
Paul George is ass
Russell Westbrook is ass
Nerlens Noel is ass
Markieff Morris is ass
Dennis Schroeder is ass
Raymond Felton is ass
Steven Adams is cool
Enes Kanter out here looking like prime Wilt
OKC out here looking like the dumbest team in basketball, not putting Kanter in the pick n roll even once
Paul George is MVP but can't break Rodney Hood down with a screen then bails out of the final shot for a Markieff Morris iso? Scrub nigga and his baby mama a thot
kanter the absolute mad lad
Kanter > Westnigger Chuckbrook
OKC has no offense but run the fast break and shoot the meme, seen more complex shit in the half court in JV
>TOR to win 4-0
>westbrook 2 pts
>george 4 pts
i exhauled loudly and made a lemon biting face IRL
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Want to call Westbrook a nigga so damn bad when I go to game 2 but also don't want to get banned
The S.P.A.R.K. Rating System for April 14th, 2019 (updated for 12:00PM):
FLAME:
>•>99% to make Conference Semi-Finals
>•>90% to make Conference Finals
>•>80% to make NBA Finals
>•>60% to win NBA Finals
1.) Warriors (1-0): 175,899 overall sp. rating
SPARKED:
>•>95% to make Conference Semi-Finals
>•>75% to make Conference Finals
>•>40% to make NBA Finals
>•>15% to WIN NBA Finals
2.) Raptors (0-1): 91,986 overall sp. rating
3.) Bucks (0-0): 91,986 overall sp. rating
SPARKING:
>•>70% to make Conference Semi-Finals
>•>10% to make Conference Finals
>•>10% to make NBA Finals
>•>5% to WIN NBA Finals
4.) Rockets (0-0): 38,427 overall sp. rating
SPARKY:
>•>75% to make Conference Semi-Finals
>•>40% to make Conference Finals
>•>5% to make NBA Finals
>•>2% to WIN NBA Finals
5.) Thunder (0-0): 36,163 overall sp. rating
SPARKER.1:
>•>90% to make Conference Semi-Finals
>•>20% to make Conference Finals
>•>5% to make NBA Finals
>••>70% to make Conference Semi-Finals
>•>50% to make Conference Finals
>•>5% to make NBA Finals
>•>2% to WIN NBA Finals
9.) Nuggets (0-1): 12,888 overall sp. rating
SPARKISH:
>•>25% to make Conference Semi-Finals
>•>3% to make Conference Finals
>•>2% of making Conference Finals
>••
KEK
Imagine believing you can separate OKC and choking in the playoffs.
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Lol Evan Turner looking like Clyde Frazier out here on these fuck boys
basketball all day, lads
ginobili 4 > dirk 1
>TOR to win 4-0