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[mikemiller1955]

If Houston can shoot threes like that, the Lakers are in trouble. I don't think they can keep that up. Ayton was the only guy on the Lakers who played well. Smart was awful. Kennard was awful. Too many turnovers again and they couldn't hit the threes.

Doug...I'm delighted the Lakers advanced...such a strange game for Houston...I don't think I have ever actually seen a 27-3 run in basketball...seems like the Rockets were stuck in the 30's the entire 2nd quarter and some of the 3rd...18% from the 3 for the Rockets...the old "live and die by" the 3 pointer game plan just didn't pan out for them...with no clear or significant progress yet for a potential return for Doncic...the OKC series is gonna be very hard to watch...I don't think the Lakers will even make it competitive getting swept embarrassingly in 4...unlikely to replace Doncic's 33 points per game...

 

[Warrior]

Jason...

why did I become a Laker's fan?

I fell in love with the razzle dazzle fast paced offense in the early 80's that came to be known as "Showtime"...

I had never seen anything like it before in the NBA...everybody running full speed...
Cooper inbound pass Worthy...he would pass Wilkes...who would pass to Magic who would pass behind his back to Jabbar...then a dunk...

nobody even dribbled the ball...the ball never even touching the court floor...never saw anything like that before in my life...
that run and gun...flashy...high speed offense just amazed me...

I loved watching their championship games against the Celts...76ers and Pistons...

to me...those 80's Championship games between the Lakers and Celts were the unparalleled standard and epitome of great basketball to me....

I even named one of my dogs Magic...

Never have been a Rockets fan even though Toyota Center is only 1 hour from my house...

In Texas...you pick your teams...basketball/baseball/football...

I live close to Houston...but am not a Texan's fan...I'm a Cowboy guy...

I was born in Dallas and went to SMU...but am not a Ranger's fan...I'm an Astro's guy...

never cared for the Mav's either...

Modern NBA teams wouldn't have a clue how to run a fast break; NBA point guards are a thing of the past, just like for the most part centers are, the NBA is all about 3 point shooting now, period, full stop.

Look no further than the Celtics/76er's game the other night; Embid gets the ball at the top of the free throw circle and Pritchard, a midgetous guard is guarding him, Embid starts to back his way towards the basket, I'm thinking "He's either going to shoot over him or drive to the basket"; what does he do?

HE KICKS IT OUT TO A GUY ON THE WING.............who heaves up a 3 point shot that clangs off the rim...........the stiff who shot it was 3-20 at that point in the series........what are we even doing here?

I got a gold laugh from the Saturday morning sports talk radio host this morning ranting and raving about the Celtics/76er's series; "People are pretty negative about the Celtics now and who can blame them, look at all the success Embid and the 76er's have had the past several years, all those trips to the finals, all those championships, no wonder Celtics fans are worried"............

I still think they are going to lose, but he's right; what a completely underachieving stiff Embid is.

And Paul George too, another underachieving stiff who's won exactly nothing his entire career.

 

[mikemiller1955]

Modern NBA teams wouldn't have a clue how to run a fast break; NBA point guards are a thing of the past, just like for the most part centers are, the NBA is all about 3 point shooting now, period, full stop.

Look no further than the Celtics/76er's game the other night; Embid gets the ball at the top of the free throw circle and Pritchard, a midgetous guard is guarding him, Embid starts to back his way towards the basket, I'm thinking "He's either going to shoot over him or drive to the basket"; what does he do?

HE KICKS IT OUT TO A GUY ON THE WING.............who heaves up a 3 point shot that clangs off the rim...........the stiff who shot it was 3-20 at that point in the series........what are we even doing here?

I got a gold laugh from the Saturday morning sports talk radio host this morning ranting and raving about the Celtics/76er's series; "People are pretty negative about the Celtics now and who can blame them, look at all the success Embid and the 76er's have had the past several years, all those trips to the finals, all those championships, no wonder Celtics fans are worried"............

I still think they are going to lose, but he's right; what a completely underachieving stiff Embid is.

And Paul George too, another underachieving stiff who's won exactly nothing his entire career.

George...

Boston will win by 20+ points...I guarantee it...

 

[Warrior]

George...

Boston will win by 20+ points...I guarantee it...

As my best friends Son said last night while we watched the Bruins season go up in smoke "We'll know within the first 5 minutes of the game who's going to win" and he's right.

If Embid goes off, if Maxey keeps driving to the basket/hitting shots off of those illegal Embid screens/if the Celtics are heaving up 3's and they are clanging off the rim, they're toast.

And it will 100% be time to break up the J's, losing to a sh$t Miami team in the ECF in the bubble in that fraud of a season in 2020 and again in the ECF in 2023, losing to a aging/basically toast Golden State team in the 2022 finals when they were up 2-1 at home and leading in the 4th quarter only to blow the game and then lose the next 2 to losing to a mediocre at best Knicks team last year, blowing not one but two 20+ point leads in games 1 and 2.

They combined for exactly one title; not good enough, one of them has to go.

 

[Combat]

Doug...I'm delighted the Lakers advanced...such a strange game for Houston...I don't think I have ever actually seen a 27-3 run in basketball...seems like the Rockets were stuck in the 30's the entire 2nd quarter and some of the 3rd...18% from the 3 for the Rockets...the old "live and die by" the 3 pointer game plan just didn't pan out for them...with no clear or significant progress yet for a potential return for Doncic...the OKC series is gonna be very hard to watch...I don't think the Lakers will even make it competitive getting swept embarrassingly in 4...unlikely to replace Doncic's 33 points per game...

A nice win. The LA Times had the Lakers going to the championship game when they were up 3-0. After they lost two games, it was the end of times. They were going to be the first team to blow a 3-0 series lead. And so forth. It does amaze me how different these teams looked from game to game. Houston couldn't miss a shot in game five. They couldn't hit a shot last night.

 

[Panzer ace]

George has often said that hockey players are just different/better than any other athletes in any sport.

Connor McDavid played in the first round of the NHL playoffs with a fractured bone that connects his ankle to his foot.

One doctor said that sleeping with that type of pain is terrible, walking on it would be excruciating and skating on it is nearly impossible.

Yet Kevin Durant sat out multiple crucial elimination NBA playoff games with an ankle bruise.