What's new
By:

NON-JAZZ NBA PLAYOFF thread

The Thriller said:
I’m sorry but I just don’t see it. I’m watching these playoffs and am blown away at the talent, shooting, length, and athleticism of our opponents. If we had played Phx, we’d be getting destroyed by them. Payne and Booker would be blowing past their defenders, collapsing our defense, which would result in endless Ayton dunks or wide open 3s. Like… it would be getting ugly.
Click to expand...
In two or three seasons I would agree. Aside from CP3, they have a very young core that is only to get better over time. Booker, Ayton, Bridges, Johnson. Same cannot be said about Bogey/Favs/Jingles. Even Rudy,JC and Royce are like 28 or 29. Won't expect much improvement coming out of them. This year was supposed to be our year. It just didnt happen. And now it's all down hill from here.
 
jom2003 said:
In two or three seasons I would agree. Aside from CP3, they have a very young core that is only to get better over time. Booker, Ayton, Bridges, Johnson. Same cannot be said about Bogey/Favs/Jingles. Even Rudy,JC and Royce are like 28 or 29. Won't expect much improvement coming out of them. This year was supposed to be our year. It just didnt happen. And now it's all down hill from here.
Click to expand...
We honestly weren’t even close either. The Clippers and Suns were better. A healthy Lakers and Nets were better than us too. And I honestly don’t see us getting past the 76ers.
 
The Thriller said:
We honestly weren’t even close either. The Clippers and Suns were better. A healthy Lakers and Nets were better than us too. And I honestly don’t see us getting past the 76ers.
Click to expand...
The Suns catch and pass us in a full 82 game season. Clips might too the way we were trending at the end of the year.

We may have been the third seed in the West over a full 82 game season.

Everything parted like the Red Sea for us this season, and we got snakebitten with injuries and roster construction errors came home to roost.

Even with all that, this was the best chance this core had. Ingles, Bogey, and Fav will only get a step slower, Conley’s injury issues will only become more of a problem, Royce is in his prime now and has likely peaked as a player, Rudy is in his prime now and has likely peaked as a player, Clarkson is in his prime now and has likely peaked as a player. Niang has likely developed as far as his physical limitations can take him.

Donovan is the only rotation player we have whose best basketball is in front of him. The only player currently on the bench who I have any hope of turning into a rotation-level NBA player is Doke.

Everything else is just a bunch of cruddy developmental guys that might be end of rotation material in a few more years of development. These bench guys are like 20 yr certificates of deposit at .00001% interest rate.
 
Last edited:
That was a helluva game. I wish we were playing the suns. I think we would beat them

Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using JazzFanz mobile app
 
Cam Payne, a player utah coulda had for pennies off the scrap heap years back, scores 29pts 9 ast 2stl 2blocks the Suns are on a 9 game win streak in the playoffs...
 
Weird. Terrance KD Mann has yet to score 40 pts in a game yet. Inconceivable!

What I don’t understand is how the Suns havent let the Clippers score 40+ in a quarter and 80+ in a half…
 
fishonjazz said:
That was a helluva game. I wish we were playing the suns. I think we would beat them

Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using JazzFanz mobile app
Click to expand...
The Suns have something that almost no other NBA team has - 4 or 5 legit athletic wings to throw at the other team on defense.

Also not really talked about - their bench has been oddly underrated by the media. James Jones deserves a lot of credit for getting Torrey Craig for cash from Milwaukee at the trade deadline.

Payne, Johnson. Craig, Saric is a very solid bench, and they had Abdel Nader who was playing well for them as well before he went down with a knee injury earlier in the season.

Phoenix's offense that Monty implemented, even without CP3, is nowhere near as reliant on 3s compared to most "modern" NBA offenses. All of their players are smart, are capable of handling the ball, and understand how to move off-ball to generate good looks.

I underestimated them severely. The only thing that has stopped Phoenix in the postseason offensively, has been absolute junk, garbage physical defenses that the Lakers played, and then the Clippers played last night that borderline on dirty/non-basketball plays.

They are in their first playoffs ever for most of their core, and just went up 2-0 without their most important player!! That is absolutely impressive.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top