2018 NBA Playoffs Thread

[Vincent Van Goat]

buc em you are appreciated, but weren't saying MIL and BOS were both trash teams?

How MIL force 7 games with against BOS and with a mostly healthy Jaylen Brown

Like, Phila did their thing in the regular season and in the first round, for sure. You gotta start putting more respect on other teams prior though. Like, you calling Boston's defense unstoppable now, but prior to the series both MIL and BOS were trash

Especially since Phila themselves were disrespected themselves prior to the season, feel like you'd be more mindful of calling other teams trash when they're actually not

 

[pums]

I got insoles, B.

Traction of my flint 13s are hella trash i dont know how ya’ll PJ Tucker do it .

 

[DeadsetAce]

Buc em legit thought the 76ers were making it to the finals a few days ago

buc em you are appreciated, but weren't saying MIL and BOS were both trash teams?

How MIL force 7 games with against BOS and with a mostly healthy Jaylen Brown

Like, Phila did their thing in the regular season and in the first round, for sure. You gotta start putting more respect on other teams prior though. Like, you calling Boston's defense unstoppable now, but prior to the series both teams were trash

Especially since Phila themselves were disrespected themselves prior to the season, feel like you'd be more mindful of calling other teams trash when they're actually not

life comes at you fast

 

[pums]

Did I say Embiid was going to drop 40 points and 30 rebounds on 80% shooting from the field and Ben Simmons was going to have a 50 point triple double with zero turnovers or did I say our team wasn’t going to lose at home?

None of these happened so

 

[HIM]

Buc Em legit heard 90% of this thread besides Buc Em as well as every sports analyst on television say that the Sixers were the favorites in the East just a week ago.

Do you remember or does Buc Em only remember?

This is why, to me, this is the greatest choke in NBA history

 

[Clyde Frog]

So LeBron got as many postseason buzzer beaters as Jordan and Kobe COMBINED huh

and to go further, game tying or go-ahead field goals in the last 10 seconds in the playoffs

Kobe Bryant: 5/22 (23%)
Michael Jordan: 7/15 (47%)
LeBron James: 12/23 (52%)

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[nick.]

Evan Turner's Sixers forced a game 7 vs the Celtics

 

[frshstunna]

I don't wanna see the too young excuse for Philly either. They're not ****ing young . Simmons maybe but Joel is walking around with a max contract, time to produce. Everyone else in the rotation is a vet

Yea and add on Embiids questionable health they in win now mode sooner than everybody thinks

 

[amitt5504]

Evan Turner's Sixers forced a game 7 vs the Celtics

*Jrue Holiday Sixers

 

[pums]

Please Anything but a cavs warriors again

 

[frshstunna]

These Kyrie/Hayward trade “ideas” are so dumb.

Like they haven’t been seeing that the more stacked a team is the better is the best way to go these past couple seasons

 

[amitt5504]

This is why, to me, this is the greatest choke in NBA history

Nah it’s bad but not that bad. Biggest choke goes to the Thunder up 3-1

Got blinded by the hype but this is the same team that showed up in the beginning of the season. Inconsistent shooting, defensive lapses and a **** ton of turnovers. At the end of the day, you always regress to who you are. I mean look at the Raptors lol

Sixers too the leap a year earlier than expected. The success we have now is what should’ve happened last year had Simmons not got hurt. Gotta add some 2 way wings and a Simmons jump shot

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Please Anything but a cavs warriors again

This is what we all expected though, we can't be mad at what we've gotten out of the first two rounds

The conference finals are shaping to be even better

Unfortunately the end result could be CLE/GSW again but honestly Boston got the juice to challenge Lebby

Could Boston compete with HOU or GSW?

 

[buc em]

buc em you are appreciated, but weren't saying MIL and BOS were both trash teams?

How MIL force 7 games with against BOS and with a mostly healthy Jaylen Brown

Like, Phila did their thing in the regular season and in the first round, for sure. You gotta start putting more respect on other teams prior though. Like, you calling Boston's defense unstoppable now, but prior to the series both teams were trash

Especially since Phila themselves were disrespected themselves prior to the season, feel like you'd be more mindful of calling other teams trash when they're actually not

No...I never, ever called Boston trash, I called the Bucks trash and said that if they took them to 7 games there was no way in hell they were winning a 7 game series vs us. But that was without factoring in the matchups against them that gave us trouble in the regular season. And even factoring in those bad matchups I still didn’t think they’d be able to beat us 4/7 games but a ridiculous shooting night by the Celtics in Game 1 and the Sixers completely blowing the games in Games 2 and 3 have obviously changed that.

 

[pums]

The “Trash” Bucks beat the Celtics three times though.

 

[P C H]

Yeah I know this isn't the offseason thread.

 

[ballinsam23]

Meh it’s fine.

Sixers and Celtics are gonna be running the East in the foreseeable future anyway. A 2nd round loss does suck since most people thought the Sixers had one of the easier routes to the ECF, but they’ll be here again.

 

[B Sox]

Nah it’s bad but not that bad. Biggest choke goes to the Thunder up 3-1

Nah. The 73-win Steph needs moar help Warriors being up 3-1 and losing in the NBA Finals was a bigger chokejob.

 

[Quincy McCall]

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

No...I never, ever called Boston trash, I called the Bucks trash and said that if they took them to 7 games there was no way in hell they were winning a 7 game series vs us. But that was without factoring in the matchups against them that gave us trouble in the regular season. And even factoring in those bad matchups I still didn’t think they’d be able to beat us 4/7 games but a ridiculous shooting night by the Celtics in Game 1 and the Sixers completely blowing the games in Games 2 and 3 have obviously changed that.

I gotcha. Yeah Bucks would have been the easier match up for sure, still though, calling them trash when they took Boston to 7 is kinda what I'm getting at

Either way at least you aint call Boston trash so my bad on that

 

[friscostylez]

Take Bron off the Cavs and compare the squad to every other team in the east without their number one option.

The Celtics, Philly and Toronto are absolutely better.

I’d take the Bucks and the wizards squads over the Cavs sans LeBron also.

I disagree. you take the top player from those teams and they're trash as well. Also, Bron is at his best when he plays with players who depend on him for his playmaking ability.

KLove is the best option number 2 from any of the other teams you just listed.

 

[buc em]

The amazing Donovan Mitchell is 19/59 (32%) from the entire field for this series in case anybody was wondering any non-Sixers stats by the way.

5/22 (23%) from three.

 

[DeadsetAce]

The amazing Donovan Mitchell is 19/59 (32%) from the entire field for this series in case anybody was wondering any non-Sixers stats by the way.

5/22 (23%) from three.

i been telling @spacedoodoo that mitchell ain't ****

 

[D StaXX]

I disagree. you take the top player from those teams and they're trash as well. Also, Bron is at his best when he plays with players who depend on him for his playmaking ability.

KLove is the best option number 2 from any of the other teams you just listed.

I’d take Tatum, Brown, or Bozier over love as a second option.

 

[B Sox]

Light years.