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  1. Euclis20

    2024 Playoffs Western Conference First Round: (4) LA Clippers vs (5) Dallas Mavericks

    For the Clippers, anyway. Anytime you're in a club whose only other members are Lebron and Kareem (finals MVP for more than one team), your legacy is in good shape. The glass half full view of the Kawhi news is that he hasn't been ruled out yet, and if he plays, I expect him to be great (for...
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    2023-24 Celtics

    Agreed. I think a reasonable finals loss to Denver (i.e. not blowing a 3-0 or 3-1 lead) is the only thing that has them regarded differently than the above.
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    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers

    Speaking of Hield, he finally gets off the top of a pretty rough list: Most minutes among active players (and 2nd most all-time) without a playoff appearance. The new #1 among active players (and 10th all-time) is Lauri Markkanen. The Knicks have a ceiling aside from Randle's loss (which...
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    2023-24 Celtics

    If you told us before the play in last year that the Celtics would get Atlanta in round 1, Philly (with a hobbled Embiid) in round 2 and Miami in round 3, that would look like a pretty sweet track to the finals. 2022 was the brutal path (Kyrie/Durant Nets in R1, defending champ Bucks on R2 and...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    Embiid is just an impossible variable here. On one hand, he looks incredibly slow (especially on defense). On the other hand, he still averaged 30/9/5 with a TS% of .641 after coming back in the regular season, and Philly has won 9 straight games (and they might have needed all of those wins...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    Regular Season Jimmy really let Playoff Jimmy down.
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    DNP-CD. He scored 10 points against Houston on April 5th, that's the only time he's been in double digits in the past month (.222 from 3 over that stretch). He'll certainly play tomorrow now, especially if Rozier is still out as their only hope really is that he gets hot. I'll rarely root for...
  8. Euclis20

    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    "Stepped on his foot" is that what we're calling this? View: https://twitter.com/30problemz/status/1780784998209012204 That's about as fluky an injury as it gets. Caruso played 71 games this year, which was a career high - this is the sort of bad luck that only seems to hit guys already...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    I'd like that. There are a lot of really good series, good for them not to get lost.
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    This is the is optimistic view. The pessimistic view would be...Playoff Heat.
  11. Euclis20

    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    It's a good question. The Athletic did their top 75 all-time NBA player list a few years ago (and ranked them, unlike the official NBA list), and Elgin was the 23rd best player of all time, 3rd best not to win a title (behind Barkley at 22 and Malone at 16). Embiid has been one of the very...
  12. Euclis20

    2024 NBA Awards

    If it hasn't already been posted elsewhere, here's the award tracker: View: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KMzwRcilLDej0BWl7eYE_OYC9Tx9olI_Ptn-nHjKfpQ/edit Real early, but a couple of things so far: -Jokic has finished first on 15 of 18 MVP ballots -Jokic/Doncic/SGA have been on...
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    Team USA 2024

    I don't know if uninspired is the word I'd use, but he's just about the most unpredictable superstar playing today. You put up with that because he can be the best player on a title team, but do you put up with that when he's one of like, 6 superstars on an olympic team in which everyone is...
  14. Euclis20

    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    This is a pretty nice break for OKC. They certainly deserved it by getting the 1 seed, but just last week there was a great chance that the 8 seed was going to be one of Durant/Lebron/Curry. They've got a playoff experience deficit no matter who they face, but it barely matters now since...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    The Reaves one was borderline, but the LeBron call was easy. Don't reach across a guys body when he's driving, because any smart player will just raise their arms for the obvious foul.
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    Tatum or Ant?

    The baffling part is that his playoff resume isn't like Chris Paul's (prior to going to Houston). Like Embiid, CP3 was a top 5 player who for whatever reason couldn't get out of the 2nd round. Unlike Embiid, CP3's personal playoff stats were similar (or better) to his regular season totals...
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    Tatum or Ant?

    Both the stats and the record were influenced by when and where Embiid (and the Sixers) chose to play him. Remember when the entire NBA public was blaming him for ducking Jokic and the Nuggets in Denver? That didn't come out of nowhere. 24 of his 39 games this season were at home. Before his...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    Somewhat off topic, but if Siakam has turned Indy from a terrible defense to an ok defense and OG Anunoby has turned the Knicks from an average defense to a great defense, how was Toronto (with a good coach and another solid defender in Barnes) so average defensively the last few years? 25th...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    That was one game, that they lost (and Boston really let up after grabbing a big lead and no Giannis). Milwaukee is a pretty solid 3 point shooting team in general (11th in %, 5th in attempts), but unless Giannis was singlehandedly dragging down their entire average, they will likely be worse...
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    Who are you rooting for in the Play In Games?

    I'm rooting for the Kings over the Warriors, but really that's only because I expect the Lakers to make quick work of the Pelicans. If today the Lakers lose and the Warriors win, they face off on Friday in what would instantly be the most compelling play in game in history (such as it is)...
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