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Posted: Sat May 25, 2024 10:44 am Post subject:
Indiana might be the worst team to make a Conference finals in recent memory. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
They might have pulled a rabbit out of the hat vs Denver, but I have my doubts they can tempt fate again.
Why is wolves defense unable to keep Mavs under 100 like they did Denver? Luka and Kyrie? Wolves better at rim protection than perimeter defense?
From what I'm seeing, they are generating mismatches and forcing switches on the perimeter, while guys like Lively and Gafford roll to the paint and stay as perpetual lob threats. That gives Luka a lot more to work with than he had last season. Dwight Powell is practically out of the rotation. I bet Mavs fans are so over him.
Oh and Luka is finally playing like a leader and role players are feeding off of his energy. He's playing some level of defense, too.
Heck even Kyrie is playing defense. I haven't really watched their games this season other than highlights but watching in the playoffs...I had to do a double take when I saw Kyrie cut off passing lanes, hustle and stick to his man like glue. _________________ KOBE
They might have pulled a rabbit out of the hat vs Denver, but I have my doubts they can tempt fate again.
Why is wolves defense unable to keep Mavs under 100 like they did Denver? Luka and Kyrie? Wolves better at rim protection than perimeter defense?
From what I'm seeing, they are generating mismatches and forcing switches on the perimeter, while guys like Lively and Gafford roll to the paint and stay as perpetual lob threats. That gives Luka a lot more to work with than he had last season. Dwight Powell is practically out of the rotation. I bet Mavs fans are so over him.
Oh and Luka is finally playing like a leader and role players are feeding off of his energy. He's playing some level of defense, too.
Heck even Kyrie is playing defense. I haven't really watched their games this season other than highlights but watching in the playoffs...I had to do a double take when I saw Kyrie cut off passing lanes, hustle and stick to his man like glue.
That might be it, Jokic and the nuggets front court players were playing well (I think they outrebounded wolves more games) but AntMan was outplaying Murray. Kyrie has been outplaying AntMan and on top of that, both Kyrie and Luka are dependable at end games situations. Let see if wolves can flip the game into inside out and not outside in _________________ “The main goal for the Lakers is to win a championship. All I care about, all we care about, is to raise another banner in the rafters.“
NBA Finals, Luka's gonna get hurt basically handing Foston a literally uncontested 18th championship. Such championship deserves many asterisks imo. _________________ #SellTheLakers
Indiana might be the worst team to make a Conference finals in recent memory.
They never deserved to be there. They were only there because The Knicks ran out of bodies. _________________ How NBA 2K18 failed the All-Time Lakers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxMBYm3wwxk
Indiana might be the worst team to make a Conference finals in recent memory.
They never deserved to be there. They were only there because The Knicks ran out of bodies.
They were the In-Season tournament runner ups then added Siakim
Came back to edit just in case some missed it…this is sarcasm! _________________ “When it looks as if it is a realistic possibility, I want to focus on winning a ship like it’s a goal that can’t be denied. I didn’t see that this off season.”
NBA Finals, Luka's gonna get hurt basically handing Foston a literally uncontested 18th championship. Such championship deserves many asterisks imo.
If Dallas sweeps Minny then they'll have a week before the finals start. Plenty of time for Luka to get to at least 80% percent. _________________ Yi Jianlian Fanboy. Respect The Chair.
Starting anew. I'm retiring my main.
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Posted: Sat May 25, 2024 1:01 pm Post subject:
CandyCanes wrote:
Indiana might be the worst team to make a Conference finals in recent memory.
I mean… They were close in game one obviously they should've won game one but they went full stupid. They could come back and win the next two games like the Nuggets did you know.... And the nuggets were on the road when they won those next two games Pacers will be at home so I mean you know... **TDRock trying to remain optimistic ** _________________ #Welp
Indiana might be the worst team to make a Conference finals in recent memory.
I mean… They were close in game one obviously they should've won game one but they went full stupid. They could come back and win the next two games like the Nuggets did you know.... And the nuggets were on the road when they won those next two games Pacers will be at home so I mean you know... **TDRock trying to remain optimistic **
From your keyboard to god’s ear… buck foston _________________ “The main goal for the Lakers is to win a championship. All I care about, all we care about, is to raise another banner in the rafters.“
They might have pulled a rabbit out of the hat vs Denver, but I have my doubts they can tempt fate again.
Why is wolves defense unable to keep Mavs under 100 like they did Denver? Luka and Kyrie? Wolves better at rim protection than perimeter defense?
IMO Mavs shooting neutralizes Gobert.
And for the people saying the TWolves beat Boston, Boston have 5 players (once KP gets healthy) who can camp out at the perimeter and shoot not only affectively drawing Gobert out to the perimeter where he's useless but emptying the paint. Boston shot 39% from 3 this season as well.
And yeah a fit TWolves can win, but Ant is gassed. Ant had to drop almost 40 for the TWolves to win their previous encounter.
But expect Boston's attack against the TWolves to look something like this, everyone around the perimeter and Gobert affectively neutralized:
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Posted: Sat May 25, 2024 2:54 pm Post subject:
drae wrote:
CandyCanes wrote:
governator wrote:
lakersken80 wrote:
Hammett wrote:
Wolves have lost 4 games at home now.
They might have pulled a rabbit out of the hat vs Denver, but I have my doubts they can tempt fate again.
Why is wolves defense unable to keep Mavs under 100 like they did Denver? Luka and Kyrie? Wolves better at rim protection than perimeter defense?
IMO Mavs shooting neutralizes Gobert.
And for the people saying the TWolves beat Boston, Boston have 5 players (once KP gets healthy) who can camp out at the perimeter and shoot not only affectively drawing Gobert out to the perimeter where he's useless but emptying the paint. Boston shot 39% from 3 this season as well.
And yeah a fit TWolves can win, but Ant is gassed. Ant had to drop almost 40 for the TWolves to win their previous encounter.
But expect Boston's attack against the TWolves to look something like this, everyone around the perimeter and Gobert affectively neutralized:
Boston is gonna be in for a shock in the finals. The level of competition is gonna jump up dramatically. They’ve been able to sleepwalk up until this point but it may be their undoing in the next round
Indiana might be the worst team to make a Conference finals in recent memory.
Stop taking from the IST champ and let Laker fans enjoy what little accomplishment the Lakers have achieved this season. Didn't Indiana almost beat Foston in game one when Haliburton was still healthy though?
Foston is a such (bleep) joke. If any of Miami, Cavs or Indiana was fully healthy, Foston might have been eliminated imo. Foston just has an inflated record due to playing against too many g-league teams. They're actually not that good. _________________ #SellTheLakers
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