2020-21 Around the NBA Thread

[Evil Ash]

uh... LeBron, the players had to agree to the starting dates of the season. y'all wanted the money for a 72 game season, you get what comes with it.

Oh come on LeBron is the genius when it comes to health related matters. I mean its not like he'd do something like he'd break covid protocol in order to go a marketing event

 

[GatorAZ]

Ben Simmons is a disaster in the playoffs.

 

[Finito]

What happened?!

I think Philly was up by 26 at its peak and just pulled the most epic 4th quarter choke job

 

[Proximo]

They couldn't make anything all of the sudden.

It was something like a 15-0 Atlanta run to end the game. Embid even missed two free throws at the end.

 

[Hoop Head]

Of course Atlanta will make the finals. That is the way it is. A virtually gimme for the Suns if they can get out of the West but their leader gets Covid and will put us behind the 8 ball to kick off the WCF.

 

[95pro]

I missed the sixers hawks game. Any blame on Doc?


Media ripped the bucks and coach today.

 

[Covert Rain]

Utah is choking away an opportunity to beat the Clippers without KL.

 

[Proximo]

Utah seems to just be content shooing 3’s.

clippers are really impressing me with this performance.

 

[Hoop Head]

Did I miss this? Stan Van Gundy is out as the Pelicans coach.


Espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31644683/sources-stan-van-gundy-one-season-new-orleans-pelicans

 

[Proximo]

I missed the sixers hawks game. Any blame on Doc?


Media ripped the bucks and coach today.

well, I would not really blame him too much, was mainly sixers players just missing everything.

they are way to dependent on embid in my opinion.

 

[Proximo]

Did I miss this? Stan Van Gundy is out as the Pelicans coach.


Espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31644683/sources-stan-van-gundy-one-season-new-orleans-pelicans

yep. That should make that team much better if the next coach features Zion instead of in graham.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Utah seems to just be content shooing 3’s.

clippers are really impressing me with this performance.

Is Mitchell out? 10 points halfway through the third is prettt uncharacteristic of him in big games.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Of course Atlanta will make the finals. That is the way it is. A virtually gimme for the Suns if they can get out of the West but their leader gets Covid and will put us behind the 8 ball to kick off the WCF.

I wouldn’t count them as a gimme. They slaughtered us late in the season and they’ve been on a tear since McMillan took over.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

well, I would not really blame him too much, was mainly sixers players just missing everything.

they are way to dependent on embid in my opinion.

And letting the hawks go nuts. The quarter was 40-19.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Gobert finally hurting clippers going small with offensive putbacks. If clips tried that on us we would have to beg Ayton to do the same.

 

[Proximo]

Is Mitchell out? 10 points halfway through the third is prettt uncharacteristic of him in big games.

no, he is passing out of doubles or launching 3’s.

has not been driving much. Clippers are defending him well. They miss Conley.

 

[Proximo]

I wouldn’t count them as a gimme. They slaughtered us late in the season and they’ve been on a tear since McMillan took over.

yeah they are a pretty good team. I actually think they have a chance if harden plays nearly as bad as last night.

 

[elindholm]

Philly is done. Psychologically don’t see how they recover from this loss.

They LOST? How is that even possible? I stopped paying attention when they were up 20-something in the third.

Edit: Ben Simmons 4-14 from the line, LOL.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

As dorky as Steve ballmer is, I’m pretty sure I’d look just like him if I owned a team and they were winning.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

They LOST? How is that even possible? I stopped paying attention when they were up 20-something in the third.

Let hawks close to 18 to end 3rd. And then hawks outscored them 40-19 in the 4th. Sixers were absolutely pathetic.

 

[Proximo]

Man Utah is choking now.

 

[Covert Rain]

Is something wrong with Mitchell? He has not been driving to the bucket most of this game.

 

[ajcardfan]

Is something wrong with Mitchell? He has not been driving to the bucket most of this game.

Yes.

 

[Hoop Head]

Is something wrong with Mitchell? He has not been driving to the bucket most of this game.

He missed a bit of time to end the season with a bad ankle. I believe he's missed a couple of playoff games also but that was 1st round. Without Conley though he's had to carry more of a load offensively and hasn't been able to get back to full health.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Who do we even want to win this game that will make it more likely to get to Game 7?!