2015 NBA 'OFFS

wiz/rap is the series i have no fucking clue about tbh

totally even

wiz/raptors is a series i'm very happy is on the hawks side of the bracket

raps can score a lot and the wiz don't defend well, honestly the raps don't do much BUT score but the wiz can't score enough to keep pace really I don't think

the wiz seem in a bad funk that could lead to really depressing series -- like sweep or 4-1 -- on their end if a few breaks go in the other direction

hope you're back to regular posting for the playoffs, j0rdan

Westbrook was far less fulfilled with his newly-minted scoring crown.

“Shit,” Westbrook said when asked what it meant. “It doesn’t mean nothing. Good job. Hooray. I’m at home, watching other teams play. It doesn’t mean nothing.”

the purge begins https://twitter.com/wojyahoonba/status/588677161923543041

wiz/raps has felt so depressingly inevitable all year, it's totally the 2015 version of those awful hawks/magic series that would go straight to NBATV

nets unis in 1st post are so hideous

can't believe the mavs ended up with Houston in the seeding it's a tax day miracle.

lookin back on the preseason thread, goon had the warriors winning it all

― J0rdan S., Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:49 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

B-)

hey matt how much did melvin hunt cost you last night?

in an alternate universe, wes matthews is healthy and the blazers have a decent shot at a deep run. as it stands, if the blazers survive the grizz it will be because aldridge turns unstoppable.

am i allowed to skip the hawks/nets series?

no, sry

dang

hox

warriors in 5
rockets in 6
spurs in 5
grizz in 7

hawks in 5
cavs in 4
bulls in 5
wizards in 7

warriors over spurs
cavs over hawks
warriors over cavs in 5

dubs over clips
hawks over cavs
dubs over hawks

you really see the clippers beating the spurs? you could make a lot of money with that opinion

idk i think they have a better shot than ppl are giving them

their only chance is to play their starters 40+ minutes a game

BUCKS OVER BUCKS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5w21_Vphbg

their only chance is to play their starters 40+ minutes a game

― k3vin k., Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya just assumed thats what theyll do

HAWKS
CAVALIERS
BULLS
RAPTORS

HAWKS
BULLS

BULLS

WARRIORS
ROCKETS
SPURS
GRIZZLIES

WARRIORS
SPURS

SPURS

SPURS

bucks over bulls is the only weird outta nowhere upset I could remotely see happening. I just have no faith in the bulls anymore idk.

I watched 100+ games this season and I don’t know shit.

their only chance is to play their starters 40+ minutes a game

― k3vin k., Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya just assumed thats what theyll do

― lag∞n, Thursday, April 16, 2015 11:31 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah same, rotate in jamal and maybe Hawes and thats it

thinking we might see more of jamal to discourage the spurs from switching kawhi/green onto cp3, p interesting matchup, shd be a ton of points scored

bucks over bulls is the only weird outta nowhere upset I could remotely see happening. I just have no faith in the bulls anymore idk.

― Clay, Thursday, April 16, 2015 11:34 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bucks have not been great since the trades 11-18 since asb

they have a knack for pulling games outta their asses at the end, especially if they can keep things low scoring with their defense

hm yeah guess i haven't been paying attention. prob just want something interesting to happen. xp

thats really their only weird upset chance against a healthy bulls though.

also idk why people think the rockets are so much a lock to get out of the first given their current handicaps

yeah bucks struggled down the stretch. bulls out of the east is interesting.

mavs suck at offensive rebounds and houston is strong at defensive rebounds iirc

thats true but they're missing two notable defenders and there are ways around dwight (if he's even all the way back? keeps being in and out)

bucks over bulls is the only weird outta nowhere upset I could remotely see happening. I just have no faith in the bulls anymore idk.

― Clay, Thursday, April 16, 2015 11:34 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bucks have not been great since the trades 11-18 since asb

MCW has been looking less awful lately tho

Hey guys, remember when Roy Hibbert was good?

hey matt how much did melvin hunt cost you last night?

Presuming Gallo has the same production, about 10 grand.

Gallo's first half was strong enough that I just needed something like 10-4-2 (20 fantasy points) for first. Not the worst beat I had this year tho.

ten grand, jeez

Hey guys, remember when Roy Hibbert was good?

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:49 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i definitely remember when he was the gobert/sanders of years past, yeah

haha

Sometimes players get worse yeah

Btw that was a really impressive performance by Gallo, he scored on draymond one on one like it was nbd

hibberts collapse last year was monumental. he was so shook for so long

Hibbert is an odd duck, a total overachiever who is also a headcase is a rare combo

feel like a lot of what was attributed to hibbert was just great pacers team D

he was the official GM at the end but he helped out the front office before im pretty sure

regardless

kerr was generally panned as a gm iirc

like i think he's pretty much admitted he was bad at it

http://hoopshype.com/general_managers/steve_kerr.htm

looks decent to me

https://vine.co/v/ebrVu91Qplu

the shaq thing was just so huge it's v hard to judge appropriately

riley curry is a star

Kerr had to do some horrible things under financial pressure from Sarver.

David Griffin and D'Antoni probably deserve the most credit for building the Suns.

NBA on ESPN ‏@ESPNNBA 1m1 minute ago
Steph Curry will become 1st player NBA history to face each of other 4 members of 1st-team All-NBA in same playoffs.

this is totally crazy to me btw

not that it's the first time but that it could plausibly even happen and it did

its cool cause hes the mvp too

also each of them are on a diff team

its like some street fighting tournament

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGEPBUYUEAI0IbL.jpg

hmm

Scott Howard-Cooper
‏@SHowardCooper
#Warriors say Klay Thompson began to show concussion-like symptoms after the game, after not showing any when originally hit in the head.

Got popped in the jaw and said he was dizzy. I bet he's concussed. Lucky there's like 2 months til the next game

going to be sweet to see the two best players in the game (curry & dellavedova) playing each other

Cavs in three (Warriors say No Más before game four)

lol

The Cursed of the Based God is real. :o

you might say it was cooked up

mjax gonna deeply resent kerr for the rest of his life for this for sure

― Clay, Wednesday, May 27, 2015 11:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sometime after klay got rocked by Ariza's knee, mjax mixed it up and said something like "you wouldn't know this from outside but after green, curry and Thompson are the toughest guys on the team"

Like he was ready to grab a sandwich board with I USED TO COACH THIS TEAM REMEMBER written on it and parade around oracle

NBA on ESPN ‏@ESPNNBA 1m1 minute ago
Steph Curry will become 1st player NBA history to face each of other 4 members of 1st-team All-NBA in same playoffs.

this is totally crazy to me btw

― Clay, Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:51 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is the wildest thing also because it requires exactly one (1) player from the opposite conference to be on the first team, then also make the finals

nah all 4 could be on the team he plays in the first round

I was thinking Bird would have done this, but it looks Bernard King screwed it up for him in '85.

Also fact that they lost championship that year probably didn't help.

given how much a team's performance is tied to superstar players, I'm surprised it hasn't happened before - though the fact that Curry is getting exactly one per round and (most likely) beating them all really is something cool

Leandro Barbosa ‏@TheBlurBarbosa 3m3 minutes ago
It has been a long journey coach! #WeWantMore #CongratsToAllStaff 🏆#TeamWork #SatisfyingMoment #WarriorsFamily

followed by this photo https://instagram.com/p/3PRVDOHnrt/

nah all 4 could be on the team he plays in the first round

― k3vin k., Thursday, May 28, 2015 3:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh yeah whoops, I somehow read into it the thing that is also happening where he is facing one per round mortal kombat style