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reignman40 said:
Are you talking about Phoenix?? Because the jazz and clippers were the teams with injuries. DM was on one leg by game 5 and Conley was out until game 6.

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CP3 had covid and was due to miss the start of the next series (he did). The Jazz won't have a better opportunity to win in decades. I want to say they blew it, but the combination of Quin + our perimeter defenders simply aren't capable of producing a defense that isn't league worst in the playoffs. Quin won't adjust, and the players won't defend better. Can't blow it if you're just bad and can't get better.
 
The Celtics had a horrible start and looked dead in the water. Smart was one of the most talked about players on the trade markets, and people began to suspect that they might have to breakup the J's. Now they're looking like the best team in the league.

They have a coach that was willing to make changes to the way they played, a FO that was willing to make necessary moves to improve, and instead of complaining about the "*******" on the team Smart's personality rubbed off on the rest of the team and they all started playing harder.
 
Philly takes advantage of the worst rule in sports: you can stop the game with a timeout when you are in trouble. Philly was gonna turn it over but the bench called timeout. Then embid drilled the 3 ball on less than 0.9 seconds.

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If I'm rooting for anyone outside of the Jazz it's Phoenix. Not that I like CP3 or anything, in fact I can't really stand the guy. But hell, they've put together something special, and they've never won it, just like us. It's about time we get a string of teams win the ring who've never been there before. It's good for the league, and the game overall. And I can't stand seeing the same teams with the rings every ****ing year.
 
Crazy shot by Embiid.

Also, kind of funny how people thought Niang was incapable of playing well in the playoffs because he had one bad run after playing well the year before lol.
 
Someone fill me in here… Philly is the 4 seed and Toronto is the 5. Why we’re the first two games in Toronto?

ETA: NM, this was game three but they hadn’t updated and said Philly was up 2-0.
 
LogGrad98 said:
If I'm rooting for anyone outside of the Jazz it's Phoenix. Not that I like CP3 or anything, in fact I can't really stand the guy. But hell, they've put together something special, and they've never won it, just like us. It's about time we get a string of teams win the ring who've never been there before. It's good for the league, and the game overall. And I can't stand seeing the same teams with the rings every ****ing year.
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If Phoenix wins Friday, they'll close this out in 5, but if the Pelicans win, that series is going 7 IMO.

And for those of you wishing to face the Pelicans... that ain't your regular 8 seed. Ingram and McCollum are 2 elite scorers. And they play great defense.

We need to worry about getting past the Mavs.
 
KqWIN said:
The Celtics had a horrible start and looked dead in the water. Smart was one of the most talked about players on the trade markets, and people began to suspect that they might have to breakup the J's. Now they're looking like the best team in the league.

They have a coach that was willing to make changes to the way they played, a FO that was willing to make necessary moves to improve, and instead of complaining about the "*******" on the team Smart's personality rubbed off on the rest of the team and they all started playing harder.
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Celtics also have an incredibly versatile team that a coach can do a lot with and their FO has consistently been ahead of the ball in terms of managing their assets so they had the firepower to nab a guy like White
 
Jingled said:
So many injuries to star players early in the playoffs.


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I think one of the dumbest things about American sports is that we have turned evey leagues regular season into such a grind that it hurts the playoffs. It's ****ing stupid too because especially in the NBA every analyst jokes about how unimportant regular season games are. Why are we playing so many games no one actually cares about?


*And yes I know the reason is money. Yet another thing American greed has ruined*
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I think one of the dumbest things about American sports is that we have turned evey leagues regular season into such a grind that it hurts the playoffs. It's ****ing stupid too because especially in the NBA every analyst jokes about how unimportant regular season games are. Why are we playing so many games no one actually cares about?


*And yes I know the reason is money. Yet another thing American greed has ruined*
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I could fully get behind shortening the season to 72 games or something and over the same time frame. Nearly eliminate back to back games. Reduce fatigue and strain on the players. Hell even be able to have the players play most of the games, unlike now when resting games are such a common thing. I am sure they still make money due to ticket sales and TV revenue, but it sure is a bummer when you buy some nice tickets to go see, idk, LBJ or someone and instead they sit their stars to rest for that game. Not a great fan experience. Or the national games where the stars are sitting.

But as long as the cash rolls in they will do nothing different.
 
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