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Total Members Voted: 3

Voting closed: June 13, 2022, 11:38:11 PM

[Yankguy1]

What about him?

[kiidcarter8]

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1122991513452064770

[carlos123]

The penalty for faking and flopping should be ejection, or better yet, execution.

This is Les in his executioner uni.


And this his victim, looking terrified of what's coming...

... or maybe just pleading with the refs. for another foul.

[lesterluv]

They let em play last night.  The refs were consistent in not calling that foul.  You should be pleased.

Couldn't tell you. Didn't watch except the last minute DVR'd. Very jetlagged after a 15 hour flight. Fell asleep during the first quarter of Philly-Toronto last night, too. Looking forward to getting back on schedule though. Seems like we'll have four good series — well, as good as they can be in the new NBA.

Kerr: "I don't remember people falling down on 3 point shots all the time when I played. It was a different rule. Once you released the ball you were allowed to make contact, there was no foul. But the game has gotten -there's so much deception as part of it, as part of the game"

"There’s no basketball anymore, there’s no beauty in it,” Popovich said back in November. “Now you look at a stat sheet after a game and the first thing you look at is the 3s. If you made 3s and the other team didn’t, you win. You don’t even look at the rebounds or the turnovers or how much transition D was involved. You don’t even care.”

I agree. Guess I'm just an old, you-know-what.

[bodiddley]

DEN-POR didn't seem to have playoff intensity.
There were a lot of plays where things seemed in slow motion and in the middle of plays I was left wondering if a foul had been called.

The end of the TOR-PHI game was fun.  Danny Green had 2 open 3's for the tie -- first exactly at the 1 min mark, the other around 15 secs.  Green had the team high +/-, but shot poorly, and needed to can one of those.  Embiid was real sloppy in the 4Q, but then came through with a spinning drive to up the lead to 3 with under 20 ticks left.  Butler was scoring like mad in the 4Q.
Enjoyable last 5 mins (I missed the 1st half).

[Kam]

Kerr: "I don't remember people falling down on 3 point shots all the time when I played. It was a different rule. Once you released the ball you were allowed to make contact, there was no foul. But the game has gotten -there's so much deception as part of it, as part of the game"

"There’s no basketball anymore, there’s no beauty in it,” Popovich said back in November. “Now you look at a stat sheet after a game and the first thing you look at is the 3s. If you made 3s and the other team didn’t, you win. You don’t even look at the rebounds or the turnovers or how much transition D was involved. You don’t even care.”

I agree. Guess I'm just an old, you-know-what.

I also lament the over-reliance on the 3.  I want the line moved back.  Don't make it so easy to shoot threes.

I disagree with Kerr.   Protect the shooter.  He is saying that only because no one has injured one of his guys.

[Kam]

  Butler was scoring like mad in the 4Q.
Enjoyable last 5 mins (I missed the 1st half).

Jimmy Butler playing like Latrell in 2001

[kiidcarter8]

Butler has to shoot more to lead more.  Just the way it is as they are constructed.

[Kam]

I want the Knicks to sign Brook Lopez

[carlos123]

I want the Knicks to sign Brook Lopez

And I want’em to sign Lester Dawg to the FO.

Clean house baby!!!

[Kam]

Houston is never short of excuses when they lose.   But damn.... GS gets ALL the breaks.

[facilitatorn]

GS creates a fair number of its breaks. Houston could be in serious trouble.

On Bucks - Boston, I want the Bucks to advance mainly to give Kyrie more incentive to leave but if he goes out with production like he had in game 2, do you have to wonder a little if he’ll perform in the future the way a team would want? I expect a bounce back, especially with two games at home for Boston.

[bodiddley]

Thought the GS-HOU game was mostly boring.
GSW would have had a been up a good deal more, but Rockettes finished the 1Q and half strong.

Up 10 with 1:30 left, Durant had B2B turnovers, both resulting in GSW fouls, which stopped the clock and gave HOU 4 FT's.

[kiidcarter8]

I loved the game.

Interesting certainly at the end for the bettors.

113-104 late - game already decided.  GS giving 5 points

Rivers drains uncontested 3.
Curry stripped - turnover
Harden uncontested layup
4-point game, 2 ticks left. 
A gift from the gods for HOU bettors.
Then Harden love taps Durant and they call it
KD foer the cover - drains 2 - up 6
But 2 ticks left for Harden to please HOU bettors.
Shoots long 2/3 court shot after buzzer to preserve his shooting %.

[bodiddley]

I'm predicting Durant signs a 4 year deal with  . . .  BKY. 
* Gets to play in NYC with less media attention than the Knix. 
* Joins a team with good young players (LaVert, Tangelo, Jarrett Allen, Kurucs, RHJ is only 24) and solid role player vets (DMC, Edavis, Dudley)
* Good coach

Durant could either play with Tangelo or the Nets could let him go.
Tangelo - Dinwiddie
Lavert -   Joe Harris
DMC -     RHJ
Durant -  Kurucs
Allen -     EdDavis

Pretty nice team with balance.
Btw, KD averaging 1.5 mental errors in the last 2 mins of games this series ...