The 2025 Play-in Tournament

[Ronin]

Starts with Hawks/Magic on TNT

 

[Ronin]

Grizzles/Warriors is the late game on TNT

 

[BirdGangThing]

hbo/Max too or just tnt

 

[Phrazbit]

We should all be pulling for the Warriors tonight, I think they are a really rough matchup for Houston and we need Houston to get embarrassed.

 

[Ronin]

hbo/Max too or just tnt

Max too

 

[Hoop Head]

Orlando is clicking on all cylinders against Atlanta. The Magic have suffered from some key injuries but they're going to be a force if they keep their core together. Suggs, Banchero, Wagner are their big 3 but they have solid depth around them.

 

[Hoop Head]

Magic won 120-95 so Atlanta has to play the winner of Miami and Chicago.

Orlando will face Boston.

Surprisingly, Orlando won their division but thankfully division winners aren't granted top seeds anymore and won't have home court.

 

[95pro]

Play-in Jimmy doesn’t look like a 35 year old out there.

 

[Cheesebeef]

We should all be pulling for the Warriors tonight, I think they are a really rough matchup for Houston and we need Houston to get embarrassed.

Agreed.

 

[Russ Smith]

Butler has been terrific but it sure feels like those 6 missed FT's are going to come back to haunt us.

I guess Kerr wants spacing but playing Buddy this much and not Kuminga is tough to defend when Buddy is 0-3 and getting murdered on defense.

Outside of Butler, Payton and Post have been huge main reason the Warriors still have the lead.

 

[Russ Smith]

I will never understand reviews. Draymond is inside Eadey clearly comes over him and makes contact, both announcers immediately say oh that's goign to be reversed. then they see the part at the end where he grabbed Draymond on the shoulders and shoved him so they're both saying it might be a reversal and a flagrant.

And they call the foul on Draymond after reviewing it

 

[95pro]

I don’t follow GSW but podz does some bone headed things.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Steph is just a freaking legend.

 

[Russ Smith]

Steph is just a freaking legend.

That was such a tough shot and he's playing with his thumb taped and in pain. Unreal.

I hate to say it but Memphis was better when Ja was on the bench with the rolled ankle

 

[Russ Smith]

Totally clean block

Ball don't lie sort of since he made the first

 

[95pro]

I don’t follow GSW but podz does some bone headed things.

That block wasn’t one of them.

 

[Russ Smith]

2 hand shove to Moody's back and they call the foul on Looney not Edey? The 2 minute report on this one is going to be fascinating

 

[Cheesebeef]

2 hand shove to Moody's back and they call the foul on Looney not Edey? The 2 minute report on this one is going to be fascinating

That call was bizarre.

 

[Russ Smith]

And then they don't call curry for what I thought was a walk before Memphis fouled him in the backcourt

 

[Dback Jon]

Memphis can’t inbound. Wow

 

[Russ Smith]

Game on the line and GP2 locks up Ja and forces a 5 second call on the inbounds

 

[Russ Smith]

That call was bizarre.

Technically he shoved Moody in the front not the back.

But they survived and move on. Play in Jimmy so far just like playoff Jimmy except for all the missed FT's.

If they Kerr is really not going to play Kuminga he needs to have Looney and Santos get more time and less Buddy Hield, he's not making any shots and that's literally all he does is shoot.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Technically he shoved Moody in the front not the back.

But they survived and move on. Play in Jimmy so far just like playoff Jimmy except for all the missed FT's.

If they Kerr is really not going to play Kuminga he needs to have Looney and Santos get more time and less Buddy Hield, he's not making any shots and that's literally all he does is shoot.

The NBA is lucky GS/Kuminga never figured out how to use him/how to step up because if they had a legit third scoring option/super athletic wing to add to this mix, they’d be almost impossible to beat.

Russ… what do you think the deal is with Kuminga?

 

[BirdGangThing]

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[Phrazbit]

The NBA is lucky GS/Kuminga never figured out how to use him/how to step up because if they had a legit third scoring option/super athletic wing to add to this mix, they’d be almost impossible to beat.

Russ… what do you think the deal is with Kuminga?

I think Kuminga feels a lot of pressure on that roster, he is talented but it seems like he feels the weight of being a young guy on a dynasty.

Subtract Durant, add Butler and Kuminga to our roster... I don't know that we're a contender, but we'd sure have been a lot more interesting. Butler's intensity would have made a huge impact on this roster, the Suns have no one like that. As has been discussed, Booker seems to mold himself to the "alpha" on the team, I think Butler would have been a great guy for him to follow... and Durant just isn't an Alpha, he just wants to "hoop".

At the very least, I think the Warriors should be glad that Durant rejected the trade. They'd have lost Kuminga, Wiggins, a few first round picks, not gotten Butler, but had gained Durant... and if Durant rolls his ankle or pulls something or he and Green recall "oh yeah, we hate eachother" they miss the playoffs entirely.