2024 NBA OFFS AND INS

i'm a suns fan tbc, but is it good in the playoffs to have the worst 4th qtr point differential in the league by a huge margin? seems like it's not good: https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat/average-4th-quarter-margin

the team thats really getting the pundit love due to a late season run is dallas, people seem to believe that their defense is just actually very good now which doesnt make much sense to me but i guess well see, hope kawhi plays

I like Dallas's chances to get beat by OKC

i want another barn burner clips-mavs where luka averages a 30pt tripdub and loses

just read something that said kawhi got a shot in his knee two weeks ago aiming to be ready for the playoffs crossing my fingers

I like to watch james harden play in the nba postseason he does funny stuff very excited

kyrie guarding him could be a real test of his desire to play as bad as possible in the playoffs

Lol yeah can’t believe we’re about to get a kyrie harden face off. what an insane thing the superstar shuffle of the past decade has been

Fun matchups all around I feel. Hoping kings make it cos I’d rather see Fox than a Zion less Pels squad. If Zion is ok then they are pretty fun to watch

yeah feel like only the 1-8 matchups and nugs lakers have strong faves, the nbas parity era is good

Now we’re talkin

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— Antonio (@ayyrod_) April 18, 2024

that’s just math baby

kev, please tell the Nuggets to strangle the Lakers in 4 uncompetitive games. Thanks.

cant wait to meet this "locked in ad" fella

Rui>MPJ [citation needed]

convenient how "ad is locked in" and "ad won't bend the knee" could mean he badly wants to be a champion or that he has injured knees

what if jokic is locked in too, what if other guys are locked in it could swing the series

Top Gun taught us that locking in is not always even necessary

Tonight is Jonas Valanciunas' *eighth* play-in game. He has been a part of the play-in all five years it has existed.

— Christian Clark (@cclark_13) April 19, 2024

this feels spiritually correct

he likes to play in

"lets play it in" --jonas valanciunas

jonas val-"in"-ciunas

heat up big

on the halftime show michael wilbon makes the point that the celtics were the only team michael jordan never beat in the playoffs. no idea what this has to do with anything. great stuff

is mj going to make some noise in the playoffs finally this year

if mj cant do it no one can which is why the celtics have never lost the playoffs

were down by 30 to a team without their best player

A lot of Bulls big wigs in the house tonight ... they know the magnitude of this.

— Joe Cowley (@JCowleyHoops) April 19, 2024

is it somehow a greater magnitude than last year when they had the same finish with the same roster?

bulls shd be incentivized to blow it up next year bc they lose their pick if it's out of the top 10 next year

bulls bigwigs realizing the bulls are bad

this commercial that pretends that market price on a restaurant menu means they wont tell you how much the dish is if you ask is driving me crazy they cant get away with it

will be funny if both teams thatre missing their best players win tonight

lol i was perplexed by that commercial too thats not how it works

death by alvarado has to sting especially bad

kings are, sadly, still not a serious team

feel like they should not be losing to the Pels minus Zion

they’re pretty banged up, they’re being forced to play guys on the perimeter who shouldn’t have this level of responsibility in a de facto game 7. pelicans have lots of guys to throw at the one kings player who can dribble (fox)

i really do not enjoy playoff sabonis tho like you have to have more to your game than just bashing your shoulder into a brick wall on 30 possessions per game

yeah I know this is a settled question at this point, and I know there are a few similarities, but a playoff setting really exposes the lack of variety of his offense that puts him 2 or 3 planes below jokic

one of the many roster holes the kings should be looking to plug is backup center. im sure a more defensive minded player of at least average backup quality would end up closing a lot of games for them

it playoff time folks kicking off with the series everyone loves magic-cavs

yeah I know this is a settled question at this point, and I know there are a few similarities, but a playoff setting really exposes the lack of variety of his offense that puts him 2 or 3 planes below jokic

― brony james (k3vin k.), Saturday, April 20, 2024 1:29 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean he is baby jokic and adults are generally better at basketball than infants

welcome to the offs my friend

cavs & magic getting chippy already which is nice because the basketball is not very good

orlando is getting bullied in this half they do not look ready for prime time

Gotta settle in for sure

Increasing doubt about Kawhi Leonard’s availability for start of Clippers’ playoff series vs. Mavericks on Sunday. https://t.co/6YUC2kSvFn

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 20, 2024

jfc man

just looked up jalen suggs' 3 pt % over his career
21-22 .214
22-23 .327
23-24 .397

man this game is brutal lol