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Total Members Voted: 2

Voting closed: June 01, 2022, 11:20:06 PM

[kiidcarter8]

Blessed by the basketball gods these last few days.

NBA is FAN-tastic!

[bodiddley]

Wow, Dort outscored Harden by 13 and HOU won by 2.  Crazy.
Looks like Gallo had an awful G7.

Awful Rivers had an austin series -- or the other way around.

[kiidcarter8]

Yeah, AR didn't find his stride -

Cool how both coaches pretty much went seven deep.

Would love to see a league wide return to short rotations - makes for much better ball.

[kiidcarter8]

Thought about DENVER but I'll go with the chalk - LA and LA in WC semis.

8-0 first round.

Trailing 0-2 in both EC semis - which will each go 7 (because this is the year basketball gods ROAR)

[bodiddley]

DEN-UTA was about as evenly matched as it gets.
Would have liked to have seen both healthy -- with Bogdanovich and Gary Harris out there 100%.  Both teams have a tendency to play really well for stretches or even games and then look flat or disjointed at other times.  DEN had the deeper team.

I can't see NUGs beating CLIPs.
LAC has three stellar defenders they can sic on Murray, who still is young and has off games.  CLips probably the better team on both sides of the ball.  I'll go with a 5 game series.

[bodiddley]

Wow, Nets just hired Steve Nash as Head Coach.
Pretty cool.  Somewhat like they did with Jason Kidd.
Though now Nash has to put up with Kyrie.
Very interesting.
Maybe Nash will just go ahead with a 3G lineup -- Kyrie-LaVert-Dinwiddie.  Durnat and somebody else rounding out the starters.
Interesting development.

[kiidcarter8]

Though now Nash has to put up with Kyrie.

Working WITH todays pro stars is the key.  Name any currently succesful coach and you have your example. 

Great example of a team thinking outside the box.  Knicks had ample opportunity the last ten years to do so as well.

Will Nash do it well?  I hope so.  And I hope he isnt the scapegoat if Nets dont make a Finals.  Much o this lies in buying the rest of the groceries.

[bodiddley]

Well, the key for next year is Durant's recovery.  The season starting 3 months or so later than regular will help KD.

And you can be sure that KI and KD approved the Nash hire.
I assume they'll push the pace which both of them will like (as soon as KD has recovered enough for a fast pace).

[bodiddley]

Cool how both coaches pretty much went seven deep.
Would love to see a league wide return to short rotations - makes for much better ball.

Playoff rotations are always shorter.

But I think it depends on your team composition.
Look at LAC:
Pa Bev - PG - Kawhy - MaMo - Zubac
RegJax - Shamet - Sweet Lou - Montrezl
(they also have JaMychal Green when they need an extra Big).

That's 9 (or 10).  Who ya gonna leave out and why?
Also, Pa Bev and Zubac are probably best under 30 mins.
Having a deep team can wear down the opposition.
And if your 2nd unit is tight, it's an advantage as then you can bring in a rested Kawhi for the last 6 or 7 minutes.

You play your roster.  Guys you trust.  Guys who play well together.

[kiidcarter8]

Dallas went 7, backs to the wall - just 6 minutes for 8th man.

Clips 9.

Each missing a key guy, true

[bankshot1]

nut punch loss

great game though

[kiidcarter8]

Who checkin OG?

[bankshot1]

I've now watched that play about a 10-15 times and I don't see who to blame on D.

Brown had to stay with Siakim and then Gasol after the switch or Gasol walks in alone and 2 points ties it.

Tatum could not chase OG as that would have opened the near corner for an open 3 for FVV

They lost on a cross court rainbow pass to the corner and the guy hit with no time on the clock.

Can't be too pissed the Celts got beat on a miracle 1 out of 20 type play.

shit happens.

[bodiddley]

That inbounds play/shot saved TOR's season.

A cross court pass like that has to be right on target for OG to be able to rise up and get a good shot off with just 0.5 secs left.  Credit a beautiful pass by Lowry (along with of course OG for nailing the game winning).

Speaking of passes, that Kemba to Theis feed to break the tie just before the buzzer was terrific.

[kiidcarter8]

I think the NBA time keeper saved their season

heh

Always someone to blame.

Did they have Tacko Fall guarding Lowry?