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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 22:26:56 GMT -5
OG with a thunderous dunk on an apathetic Embiid.
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 22:13:02 GMT -5
Does Jalen Brunson ever miss shots?
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 22:07:32 GMT -5
This is shaping up to be a classic either way it goes.
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 22:01:13 GMT -5
And we’re getting a game 7 in Boston Marchand and Pasta just rolling over I take it?
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 21:55:52 GMT -5
Thibs rotations are a thing of nightmares, which is why Randle ain't out there in the first place. He's incapable of evolving, despite everyone knowing what his downfall is. What can go wrong playing my star players up 25 with 3 mins left "I'll have you know that many of my former starters have loved their workload. Their nonexistent knees could be due to any number of other factors." -Thibs, probably.
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 21:50:04 GMT -5
He is f***ed if the Knicks lose this series The old heads will talk about how great he is with grittiness and toughness, but this is exactly why Thibs has a reputation of not being a champion head coach and wearing out his players in the long term. Being stubborn about a seven man rotation in spite of what happened in Game 5 is f***ing wild. Thibs rotations are a thing of nightmares, which is why Randle ain't out there in the first place. He's incapable of evolving, despite everyone knowing what his downfall is.
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 21:45:12 GMT -5
This series has been the lone bright spot in a largely terrible round 1. It's not perfect basketball, but it is very competitive and has the swings of momentum playoff ball is known for. Lakers/Nuggets was pretty good too, if one-sided result-wise.
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 21:41:26 GMT -5
I think Doc getting the blame on Twitter is not fair? He was missing his best player so he probably gets a pass. Yeah, I don't know how they were supposed to win down their two best players. Indy wasn't a juggernaut, but I thought Doc had them playing better without those two than I thought they could.
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 20:18:10 GMT -5
Isn't Philly supposed to be this hardcore fanbase? I know this is the best Knicks team in a while, but Philly shouldn't have to resort to ownership buying swaths of tickets. Tickets were overpriced as f*** too which didn't help Yeah, that's resale market and playoffs for you. Knowing that NYC is traveling distance only ups that.
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 19:46:58 GMT -5
The Heat, who were mostly an alsoran this season, without their 2nd and 4th best scorers on a team (also their 2nd and 6th best 3 point % players) who were already thin on scoring, lose to the most talented team in the East by a mile and it's because Mazzula pantsed Spo? In what world? A team with the best record in the league vs. a team in a 3-way tie for the 17th best record down 2 starters? The Heat shot 30% from 3 most games. In their lone win they shot 54%. If your gameplan is to replicate shooting over 50% from 3 on high volume, you are f***ed to begin with. The last 2 games the Heat shot 12/62 from 3, and you think it's a coaching failure to not shoot MORE threes and that they got baited into throwing the ball into their only All Star left against a team that has great perimeter defense with Jrue, Brown, and White? This hurts my brain it's such a bad take. If anyone got pantsed, it's the other GMs for giving away a great fit in Jrue and Porzingis for damaged goods and Marcus Smart, which is why Brad Stevens is the exec of the year. This is, AGAIN, my issue with the NBA. This culture of throwing the coach under the bus when you have so many factors going against you. What does Spo do to take two games off Boston? What does Vogel do when the team is built top-heavy with almost no defense and the Suns are prone checking out when things get tough? Where does it end? We're gonna pin a result that was a given on a guy on the bench. I said it and I stand by it - Erik Spoelstra didn't adjust his gameplan and whatever minute hope Miami had of making it a competitive series went out the window with it. They had one game where they mixed it up, changed the pace, and put the Celtics on their heels by focusing on shooting from downtown, and instead of continuing to capitalize on that, they went back to the clogged toilet offense of dumping it in to Bam Adebayo on the post, letting him back down his man, and put up a shot with 6 or 7 seconds left on the shot clock. That's not the way to beat Boston and Joe Mazzulla knew it, and he was more than glad to oblige to the Heat's gameplan. Haha, baited into the ol "play a way better team and lose" trap. Seen it a hundred times. Nobody can beat a team raining 3s. That's why the 2003 Celtics won the NBA title.
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 15:44:24 GMT -5
Matthews out tonight as well I really don't understand it at this point. He was shown skating, he's again listed as out well in advance. Is it a concussion issue that they're intentionally mislabeling as an illness?
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 15:41:05 GMT -5
76ers ownership bought over 2k tickets from secondary markets to block Knicks fans from packing their arena. Gotta say that's some charmin ultra soft from the Philly side. What can't handle the adversity of other fans showing up. I'll give yall at least one thing the owners are giving those tickets to first responders, and health care workers. Still makes yall look soft but at least they're not going to waste Isn't Philly supposed to be this hardcore fanbase? I know this is the best Knicks team in a while, but Philly shouldn't have to resort to ownership buying swaths of tickets.
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 15:36:34 GMT -5
Bill Romanowski has to file for bankruptcy after apparently not paying over 15 million in taxes. Couldn't happen to a nicer POS. The original Romo was a juiced up asshole and it's karma to see him fall on his face via his own actions catching up with him.
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 13:24:39 GMT -5
So many examples are guys who were big in one promotion and then mid card or lower once they got to WWE. Are there any examples of the opposite? Big in WWE, but lesser elsewhere? I’d assume once you make it in WWE you instantly have credibility everywhere else. Trying to come up with one and none are coming to mind Bossman and Virgil come to mind. Bossman had a pretty good run early on with WWF, a largely forgettable run in WCW (positioned ok sometimes but never got over), and then a run in WWF where he was a big part of The Corporation in a huge angle. Virgil got positioned really well as DiBiase's bodyguard and was in the mix in big matches and angles before the split with DiBiase which was the height of his career. In WCW, he quickly slid down to jobber status and lower end cannon fodder for whoever was going up against NWO.
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 11:58:58 GMT -5
Standing ovation for Mike Gorman as he finishes his final game. What a way to send him off. It was the way he deserved to end his career - calling a blowout Celtics playoff win in Boston. I know the name Mike Gorman probably means little to fans outside of New England, but he's a basketball institution. He was the voice of The Big East in the 1980s, his resume includes the NCAA Tournament and multiple Olympics, and he's been calling Celtics basketball since 1981. For generations of Celtics fans, he's the voice they recognize when they think of Celtics basketball, neck-and-neck with - if not entirely supplanting - Johnny Most. As for the series itself, there's really not a lot to say - Boston was far and away the better team even before Miami lost Jimmy Butler, Terry Rozier, and Jaime Jaquez Jr. Those three might have combined for one more win, but the Heat were never pushing this to seven games. Also, for all the plaudits and praise he receives, Erik Spoelstra really got pantsed in this series by Joe Mazzulla. Sure, the talent gap alone was going to be too wide for an undermanned Heat team to overcome, but I'm astonished that Spoelstra took nothing away from Miami's lone victory in Game 2. In that game, the Heat shot 43 three-pointers and hit 23 of them. With the talent disparity, that was the only way they had a chance against Boston - stand behind the arc and let it fly. And they completely abandoned that gameplan for the remainder of the series, shooting 28 threes in Game 3, 33 in Game 4, and 29 last night. Now, some of that might have just been that Miami was really lucky in Game 2, considering they went 3-for-29 from downtown last night, but they did nothing to try to replicate the success of their lone victory. Mazzulla and the Celtics' defense baited Miami into dumping the ball into the post and giving Bam Adebayo every shot he wanted, and the Heat gladly went along with it. The Heat, who were mostly an alsoran this season, without their 2nd and 4th best scorers on a team (also their 2nd and 6th best 3 point % players) who were already thin on scoring, lose to the most talented team in the East by a mile and it's because Mazzula pantsed Spo? In what world? A team with the best record in the league vs. a team in a 3-way tie for the 17th best record down 2 starters? The Heat shot 30% from 3 most games. In their lone win they shot 54%. If your gameplan is to replicate shooting over 50% from 3 on high volume, you are f***ed to begin with. The last 2 games the Heat shot 12/62 from 3, and you think it's a coaching failure to not shoot MORE threes and that they got baited into throwing the ball into their only All Star left against a team that has great perimeter defense with Jrue, Brown, and White? This hurts my brain it's such a bad take. If anyone got pantsed, it's the other GMs for giving away a great fit in Jrue and Porzingis for damaged goods and Marcus Smart, which is why Brad Stevens is the exec of the year. This is, AGAIN, my issue with the NBA. This culture of throwing the coach under the bus when you have so many factors going against you. What does Spo do to take two games off Boston? What does Vogel do when the team is built top-heavy with almost no defense and the Suns are prone checking out when things get tough? Where does it end? We're gonna pin a result that was a given on a guy on the bench.
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Post by sfvega on May 2, 2024 11:05:12 GMT -5
In watching this, I agree with the umpires Oh, absolutely. The Brewers were starting shit the whole sequence, all over a pause after a HR. Jomboy is doing the lord's work by making the minutia of baseball entertaining. A HBP and a bunch of badly missed punches, and he's funny throughout.
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Post by sfvega on May 1, 2024 21:09:22 GMT -5
I'm noticing something about the 3 pt %. It was just a dream, Spo. There's no such thing as 2.
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Post by sfvega on May 1, 2024 21:01:26 GMT -5
I'm noticing something about the 3 pt %.
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Post by sfvega on May 1, 2024 20:57:38 GMT -5
May didn't need that much offense in the match. Should have been a clinic put on by Deeb, because I think she deserves a belt at some point.
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Post by sfvega on May 1, 2024 20:49:11 GMT -5
Miami/Boston series was a travesty Eastern series in general besides Knicks/Philly have been horrendous SO bad. I'm ready for round 2. Round 1 has been ass except for a few games.
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