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rockets raptors baby

cld def lose in the 2nd round with a healthy aside from steph team

if the raptors win the nba championship itd be pretty sweet

considering all the other injuries they have

― lag∞n, Saturday, March 24, 2018 2:03 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the klay/kd injuries are shut-it-down-for-a-while injuries imo, not serious. Draymond is really the one to keep an eye on imo, if he doesnt have the ability to turn it up to 90-100% in those games when they need him to do that then that will mean trouble, or at least long series that shouldnt be long. the warriors defense when curry sits out is incredible, and the offense hovers around 10th in the league (they sink when KD sits tho). with KDs minutes likely on the rise in the offs, they really should be able to beat anyone w/o curry except the rockets.

they gotta sign quinn cook should be their number 1 priority right now tho

yeah idk there are just a ton of teams playing really good basketball rn and those shut it down for a while injuries often linger

i wldnt want to see okc beating up on my shorthanded small team if i were the dubs

paul george running around harassing kd, it cld get ugly

also the jazz i wld be scared of the jazz, the other matchups are prob fine, tho portland is flammable

yeah dubs want no part of okc tbf. they would prob win but would take a beating in the process.

they r brutes 4 sure

the jazz ability to force a halfcourt game wld be bad for the dubs especially if theyre down to only one guy who can really break the D down

those games would be some defensive slugfests

basically these playoffs just got a lot more interesting

if it happens to line up jazz-okc-rockets-toronto for the dubs that wld be a fn epic journey

every one of those series would be great except for the finals

toronto......might be good

i want to believe but i'm not gonna fall for it again.

yeah im def in prove it mode, but i like what theyre done this year theyve been blatantly better than those past teams that fizzled out

maybe they can win a first round series in less than 7 games

a reasonable expectation imo

their real improvement is their bench, who are obv very unproven, and a deep bench doesnt mean much in the postseason. derozan's 3p shooting is p much smoke n mirrors imo.

idk they switched their offense up a bunch, much more ball movement much less iso that tends to bog down in the offs

yeah agree on that. everything on paper points to them winning the east...

https://www.actionnetwork.com/nba/article/nba-impact-steph-currys-knee-injury-2018/

ben w/ another triple double

when is jimmy back

melo's game has devolved into such trash it's really kind of hard to watch at this point

he has looked borderline unplayable

we might see a lot of russ-PG-jerami grant-brewer-adams in the playoffs

i feel like everyone knew this was his destiny but then it happened overnight

warriors getting blown out at home by the jazz. entirely expected given their starting lineup was looney- mcgee - nick young - mccaw - quinn cook

ha wow rough

melo had 6 points on 13 shots tonight, including three bricked threes in one possession in the clutch

Royce Young
ESPN Staff Writer

Tough finish for Carmelo Anthony: He missed three straight potential dagger 3s with OKC up three and a few minutes left, then with OKC down two with 20 seconds left got trapped in the corner with no timeouts and threw the ball away on a drive. Aminu split free throws and Melo had a chance to atone on a pull-up 3 but missed long.

i feel like everyone knew this was his destiny but then it happened overnight

― lag∞n, Sunday, March 25, 2018 10:12 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark

i definitely thought he'd be pretty ok at catching passes off drive and kicks and hitting 3 pointers

he really shd be but his legs are just gone

i've rarely seen five minutes of basketball much worse than melo in the last five tonight

maybe he worked out in his hoodie too much last summer

with OKC down two with 20 seconds left got trapped in the corner with no timeouts and threw the ball away on a drive

this was particularly nuts, like a talented high school player who never had to learn how to pass out of a double team

happier times

https://images.complex.com/complex/images/c_limit,w_680/fl_lossy,pg_1,q_auto/y8cmh4bs0bnpt7seesbb/derrick-rose-carmelo-anthony

I don't see how the rockets aren't the clear favorite at this point to win the finals

because the regular season is not the playoffs?

labron's March has been unreal

Things getting spicy in OKC 👀🔥 pic.twitter.com/RDoSJfMT27

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) March 26, 2018

okc should have to play every team in the playoffs

heh yes

thought this celtics-kings video re the police murder of stephon clark was interesting, it starts out pure insubstantial corporate marketing boilerplate with the it doesnt mater what color you are we are one etc but then the say his name part is quite strong, of course mentioning what the problem at hand is is a bridge too far

the fact that it happened at all is pretty strong contrast to the nfl and generally to big corporate entities everywhere

Thank you to the Kings & Celtics for leaning into this moment instead of away from it - which is what the NFL did for nearly two years. #StephonClark was an unarmed, non-violent 22 year old Black man shot at 20 times & killed by @SacPolice in his own backyard.

We need justice pic.twitter.com/J5rrTg75H9

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) March 25, 2018

a lot of it is focusing on their right to speak, i think its good that theyre encouraging each other but it also feels a little meta and apolitical for the seriousness of the topic at hand, exercise yr right to speak just by speaking

RIP to g leaguer Zeke Upshaw. Horrible.