Everything Playoffs-2021

[G__Deane]

How many team in NBA history have lost with a player that goes off for 46 points, 14 assists and seven rebounds or better?
That's a crazy stat line in a loss

[G__Deane]

SportsNet comment:

Last NBA Championship for the teams left in the playoffs:

76ers: 1983

Bucks: 1971

Hawks: 1958

Suns: Never

Nets: Never

Jazz: Never

Nuggets: Never

Clippers: Never

[MixxAOR]

SportsNet comment:

Last NBA Championship for the teams left in the playoffs:

76ers: 1983

Bucks: 1971

Hawks: 1958

Suns: Never

Nets: Never

Jazz: Never

Nuggets: Never

Clippers: Never

Great for the league

[golden]

Great for the league

Adam Silver dreams about a Jazz-Bucks finals.

[MixxAOR]

Adam Silver dreams about a Jazz-Bucks finals.

oh fuck Silver

[slaw]

Add Dallas to the list of teams that needs a rethink this offseason. Porzingis hasn't delivered, they've really flubbed the last two free agency periods and drafts, and the Richardson trade looks terrible to this point, so they need to hit on something this summer.

[LJ2]

Add Dallas to the list of teams that needs a rethink this offseason. Porzingis hasn't delivered, they've really flubbed the last two free agency periods and drafts, and the Richardson trade looks terrible to this point, so they need to hit on something this summer.

Cuban being the business man that he is must be pressuring to move Porzingis. His contract is just dead weight the way he's performing.

[golden]

Add Dallas to the list of teams that needs a rethink this offseason. Porzingis hasn't delivered, they've really flubbed the last two free agency periods and drafts, and the Richardson trade looks terrible to this point, so they need to hit on something this summer.

Yeah, I didn't understand the Seth Curry trade. He was their second best player in the bubble. Richardson is another one of those Miami Heat mirage scrubs that are coached up & only look good in their system for a year or 2. Seth Curry, getting wide open looks playing beside this version of Luka, would probably average about 25-30ppg.

[MixxAOR]

Add Dallas to the list of teams that needs a rethink this offseason. Porzingis hasn't delivered, they've really flubbed the last two free agency periods and drafts, and the Richardson trade looks terrible to this point, so they need to hit on something this summer.

They probably have to resign Hardaway

[LJ2]

Yeah, I didn't understand the Seth Curry trade. He was their second best player in the bubble. Richardson is another one of those Miami Heat mirage scrubs that are coached up & only look good in their system for a year or 2. Seth Curry, getting wide open looks playing beside this version of Luka, would probably average about 25-30ppg.

I thought it made a lot of sense, Richardson was the better defender and a solid 3pt shooter as well. Mavs needed better defenders around Luka, and probably expected a youngish guy like Richardson to improve. He's regressed a bit instead for whatever reason wheras Curry is feasting off the open looks he's getting with Embiid sucking in the defences.

[The Great One]

How many team in NBA history have lost with a player that goes off for 46 points, 14 assists and seven rebounds or better?
That's a crazy stat line in a loss

Great stat line but meh. Just like the last couple of games he did most of his damage in the 1st quarter. He wasn't much of a factor in the second half. The points that he scored in the 4th were mostly in garbage time.

[planetmars]

Porzingis has now become disgruntled but he was terrible.. I think that situation is going to play out with a trade. If I had to throw up a guess.. They will trade Porzingis to Sacramento for Buddy Hield.

Hield gives Luka a shooter.. and the Kings get a guy that can replace Holmes with if they lose him in free agency. Both have contracts until 2024.. although Porzingis makes about $36M in his last year, and Buddy makes $18M (his contract goes down, not up).

[The Great One]

Yeah, I didn't understand the Seth Curry trade. He was their second best player in the bubble. Richardson is another one of those Miami Heat mirage scrubs that are coached up & only look good in their system for a year or 2. Seth Curry, getting wide open looks playing beside this version of Luka, would probably average about 25-30ppg.

People continues to get fooled by Heat Culture.

Richardson is known as a good(not great) defender. That's it. Not much of an offensive player. Curry obviously is known as an offensive player. In today's NBA, offense/shooting = gold.

It goes back to what I said in the draft thread. Who cares if Mann is not a good defender? he's a 3 level scorer in college. IF they think that he can translate his offensive game to the NBA then why not draft him?

[golden]

People continues to get fooled by Heat Culture.

Richardson is known as a good(not great) defender. That's it. Not much of an offensive player. Curry obviously is known as an offensive player. In today's NBA, offense/shooting = gold.

It goes back to what I said in the draft thread. Who cares if Mann is not a good defender? he's a 3 level scorer in college. IF they think that he can translate his offensive game to the NBA then why not draft him?

The people who are harping on the Raptors to "draft for defense" aren't taking into account that the NBA has been openly changing the rules to favor offense over defense for the last decade or more. The NBA isn't shy about publicly admitting that.... even bragging about it. Trae Young is Exhibit A of their plan coming successfully to fruition. A little guy that the average fan can relate to... David slaying Goliath. People couldn't relate to Shaq, even though he tries his best to have a fun personality, he still looks like a superhuman ogre.

And that's also opened the door for random scrubs to go off from game to game. At some point in the future, defense won't matter.... it will be more about shot-making skills, just to keep up. Make or miss league.

[slaw]

The people who are harping on the Raptors to "draft for defense" aren't taking into account that the NBA has been openly changing the rules to favor offense over defense for the last decade or more. The NBA isn't shy about publicly admitting that.... even bragging about it. Trae Young is Exhibit A of their plan coming successfully to fruition. A little guy that the average fan can relate to... David slaying Goliath. People couldn't relate to Shaq, even though he tries his best to have a fun personality, he still looks like a superhuman ogre.

And that's also opened the door for random scrubs to go off from game to game. At some point in the future, defense won't matter.... it will be more about shot-making skills, just to keep up. Make or miss league.

Wouldn't Steph Curry be exhibit A? You know, a guy who has actually won something.

History tells us good teams can play on both ends and that those are the teams that win titles, with maybe one exception in the last 20 years (and that was a team that didn't try in the regular season). Even GSW only won when they figured out how to get stops. The Clippers and Nuggets series are prime examples, just completed, of how, even in shootouts, it's ultimately the team that can force timely misses and turnovers that wins.