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the rules don't suggest they should either!
given how dead the end of the season often gets, a play-in has the potential for a little spice; i diggit.

memphis was already relevant is what i meant, the play-in just adds 1-2 more bubble games

Alvin Gentry gone

imo, Gentry is good enough to hover above the cutoff line and find a team to hire him, but once hired he's not quite good enough to squeeze more wins out of his players than a dozen others could have achieved with the same group.

Yeah. Pels never looked like they knew what they were doing in half court offense. Especially at the end of games.

Pelicans have “bad organization” vibes rn

mostly attributable to bubble performance tbh

pels have had those vibes for ages, remember when the entire team got injured by december every season

"Bad organization vibes" would have been retaining Gentry another year after how unmitigatedly awful he's been for basically all of his tenure in New Orleans save 1 lone year. Just two seasons of winning more than 40 games in 16 years as a head coach; both those seasons he had MVP candidate superstars carrying his rosters. Gentry's a nice and affable man but that clearly has never translated to consistently winning basketball games in the NBA. At least in the head coaching spot as opposed to as an assistant.

gonna give griffin a chance here he hired the suns trainer and fired gentry both good moves imo

see who he hires now

Lue would be an obvious pick since they worked together before but I think Lue's a decent coach

feel like lue is more of a vets coach u need a teaching coach for their roster

The Pelicans aren't as bad as the Knicks, Cavs, or Timberwolves, but they are in the bottom third in terms of obvious organizational flaws.

I will coach the pels

solved

big day

Damian Lillard has been named Bubble MVP

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) August 15, 2020

Does he get to wear a big sash with that printed on it, or is it just a merit badge?

he gets one of these

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lol, no one is feeling the first round upset

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29662426/nba-playoffs-2020-experts-predictions-every-opening-round-series

doesn't look like it's gonna happen for the grizz today

nuggets are the only one of the 1-3 seeds that are at all vulnerable in the first round but the jazz kinda suck

absurd back to back plays in the paint by slomo

time for david griffin to earn his money. i *think* he’s pretty good but you always have to watch it with guys who work the media.

Dame and Nurkic playing great hoops. Blazer bench looking like a trash fire, unless you count Gary Trent, Jr. as a bench player, which is not exactly true rn with CJ's fractured back.

yes dame and nurkic chemistry is amazing

ja and dame trading punches *_*

nuggets are the only one of the 1-3 seeds that are at all vulnerable in the first round but the jazz kinda suck

Grayson Allen just a rock solid backup now, underrated part of that trade

portland doing that thing they've done for years of playing at the *exact* talent level of their opponent which i guess keeps things interesting

Great call there

technical foul on grayson allen in the 4th quarter of an elimination game

Honestly... it seems like Grayson maybe doesn’t get the calls. He earned it but

Clean block, pretty reasonable reaction to the bad call

allen absolutely had all ball there but otoh lol at grayson allen

you’re just very rarely going to get the benefit of the doubt when you swipe down like that in midair

He didn’t swipe down

Also yet another awful example of coaches not using their challenge

Two players jumping up and down, absolutely sure it’s a bad call

ok, across. you know what I mean

So a block basically

it’s a bad call but one you don’t expect to get the benefit of the doubt on, which is why players are taught not to do that

some real garbage ball going on out there!

I don’t think players are taught not to block shots

carmelo anthony isoing on anthony tolliver, it’s the NBA on ANC!

matt

The alternative there is to let him dunk. Skeptical that this is the coached alternative

Iguodala swipes down on people all the time btw

that should be a rip through on nurk?

some goofy assed basketball going on here