NBA 2021-22: Ben Simmons and Kyrie Walk Into A Bar While Talking About The Lakers

[Hewson]

Originally Posted by mikal

Congrats Hewson. Bucks just ran out of steam. Probably would have won in 6 if Middleton was healthy but hard to complain because the Bucks benefited by some injury luck last year.

Celtics are ballin. I think they win it all.

No question missing Middleton hurt a lot.
Going forward I think the Bucks need to add some younger legs to their rotation though.
Lopez looked good today, but overall his age is showing and Matthews just looks cooked.
Grayson Allen just sucks, but man Jrue Holiday can play. Tough SOB.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Game 7 Western Conference Finals Half Time Score

Phoenix 27
Luka 27

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Originally Posted by Hewson

However, my remark about the fire Ime movement was a harken back to the previous season when the fire Budenholzer talk began leading to an eventual title for the Bucks. It was the turning point of their title run.

Fire Showalter & Daboll.

[DaveC]

the mavs had a 99.7% win probability at halftime lmao

[Headache in a Suitcase]

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[iron yuppie]

Hopefully this is the definitive end of all the "Point God" talk.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

He has how many points?

[phanan]

What a beatdown.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

https://twitter.com/BallsackSports/s...xEkq5NKxg&s=19

[Headache in a Suitcase]

https://twitter.com/samesfandiari/st...O0Wf5c1Ng&s=19



Ok I'm done now

[Hewson]

Man on your home floor to be suffering this kind of blowout in a game 7.
Paul is never getting a ring.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Okay actually just one more

https://twitter.com/statmuse/status/...PfUv4gKyA&s=19

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Christopher Paul lol

[mikal]

Originally Posted by Hewson

No question missing Middleton hurt a lot.
Going forward I think the Bucks need to add some younger legs to their rotation though.
Lopez looked good today, but overall his age is showing and Matthews just looks cooked.
Grayson Allen just sucks, but man Jrue Holiday can play. Tough SOB.

Agreed. I think they would have repeated had Middelton not gotten hurt. He's that good and would have covered for the Bucks' cold stretches this series, but him being out for sure did expose an issue that the Bucks need to address this off season. Their big 3 simply aren't enough. Portis is ascending so that will help, but literally the rest of their team is old. George Hill had no issue being in the game. Grayson will hopefully rebound but yeah, sucked this series. The rest of the team needs a younger makeover at this point.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Milwaukee had no business even getting to a Game 7 without Middleton.

I wouldn't overreact to losing to Boston that much. Do they need some changes? Sure. But they didn't have their second best player and got to a Game 7 and, let's be honest, blew a chance to close it out at home in Game 6.

George Hill has been toast for a few years... I'm not sure why they even brought him in. Allen performed well all year. Brook Lopez is who he is - he's a useful piece in the regular season, but there are certain matchups that render him useless. That's more or less the life of an NBA big these days. Not having Williams probably helped the Celtics in that regard - as it made Boston go primarily with lineups that caused issues for Lopez. And Milwaukee really missed PJ Tucker. Speaking of...

I give a slight nod to Miami in this series - but that's very slight and if Boston wins it wouldn't shock me at all. I think it's a 6 or 7 game series. I'm going with Miami only because they'll have home court if it does go to Game 7.

Western Conference? Who knows. Golden State is better on paper, but the way Luka is playing right now? Sheesh - you can't rule that guy out. I know this - Steph and Klay? They may have games where they're missing shots - but they're not going to have a game where they fail to even compete like we saw last night (and have seen over and over again from Christopher Paul).

So I expect Golden State to return to the finals.

Miami over Boston - eh, that's like 51/49 in favor of Miami. If Boston had home court I'd flip that.

Golden State over Dallas - I'm 60/40 in favor of the Warriors.

[LuckyNumber7]

Wow the NHL and NBA done fucked up.

Number one seed Panthers and Heat play every game at the same time and both on TNT, do I understand that correctly?

Like, they could at least try to not have them on the same network? Wtf?

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Originally Posted by LuckyNumber7

Wow the NHL and NBA done fucked up.

Number one seed Panthers and Heat play every game at the same time and both on TNT, do I understand that correctly?

Like, they could at least try to not have them on the same network? Wtf?

that would be impossible - and i looked it up, and, yea, impossible.

eastern conference finals are on espn/abc. western conference finals are on tnt.

[LuckyNumber7]

Originally Posted by Headache in a Suitcase

that would be impossible - and i looked it up, and, yea, impossible.



eastern conference finals are on espn/abc. western conference finals are on tnt.

I’m confused, why would it have been impossible? They have the games Tuesday Thursday concurrent and home.

Do you mean it would be impossible to air two different shows on TNT? If so I mean yeah, I obv didn’t think about that. They could on ABC though, right?

Either way my point was more about the NHL and NBA slotting all the Heat and Panthers games on top of one another.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Originally Posted by LuckyNumber7

I’m confused, why would it have been impossible? They have the games Tuesday Thursday concurrent and home.

Do you mean it would be impossible to air two different shows on TNT? If so I mean yeah, I obv didn’t think about that. They could on ABC though, right?

Either way my point was more about the NHL and NBA slotting all the Heat and Panthers games on top of one another.

Well yes I was referring to the impossibility of having two games on the same network at the same time in the same market.

It's not ideal scheduling but there is some staggering... Panthers start at 7, Heat start at 8:30. On the weekend the Heat play Saturday while the Panthers play Sunday.

Then yes, the last four games (if necessary) are Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday. All the Heat Celtics games are scheduled for 8:30. I would assume the NHL would slot that Sunday game into an afternoon timeslot to not directly compete.

Not ideal. I'm sure the bars will be happy though.

[Hewson]

What in the F does Al Horford do in his free time?
This is the 3rd time for him in Covid protocols this season.
Get yourself vaxxed and don't go out socializing during the playoffs you eejit.

Game 1 is a lock for your guys Chris.
Hopefully Smart can be back Thursday cause Average Al won't be.