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melo bison

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Happy the blazers won cos they have a chance to make it interesting vs the lakers. Gary Trent jr is so good seems like he’s just one of those guys that does the right thing every play. Melo was pretty bad this game but they have no other options so he gets enough burn to make a shot or two when it matters. At least you know you’ve got a guy out there who isn’t afraid of the moment.

Really impressed by the Grizz. They are set up for a long time and way ahead of schedule. They add justice Winslow next season too, would be nice if he could play more then 40 games in a season.

I stan Dame and co but I think LA is going to absolutely steamroll the blazers, who’ve spent the past week winning exhausting nail biters vs teams who were either crippled or had nothing to play for.

yeah that team is gassed and broken going up against bron who has been on vacation this whole time

even if they were well rested i dont see how they start to defend bron or brow

like who are the guys they even start on them

It’s pretty crazy that they didn’t replace their wing defenders at all. Not even just a cheap role player. Like Torrey Craig would probably be playing 30 mpg for them against the lakers

sadly otm on the blazers, they're gonna need to score 160 a game the way they're defending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgFTNN0ZCzE

if they had ariza with them that would have helped but the lakers are just a bad matchup for them.

carmelo vs lebron, baby!

Melo shouldn't guard LeBron more than five minutes a game, and then only if they run lots of screens to switch Melo onto him deliberately. Ariza will be sorely missed.

Ariza, harkless, aminu... they needed a guy like that

i've already forgotten that they were in the conference finals last year

Curry torched em

So apparently Jimmy Butler wasn't kidding about the up-charge for the use of his French Press at Disney. (From Meyers Leonard's Twitter): pic.twitter.com/1s1em6flRG

— Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) August 15, 2020

good old Jimmy, doesn't care about the attention, just wants to win

I like to imagine jimmy is preparing the coffee for you

CJ McCollum has a vinyard now. Shooting guard beverages.

apparently he's keeping the ambient temp in his hotel room at 54 degrees so he can store all the wine he brought

lol!

Too bad Popovich isn't in the bubble now for CJ to swap wine talk with.

first thing to talk to him about is a wine fridge

had to look up what a red eye is. its an abomination

which team do you guys think should sign J. Cole for the playoffs?

charlotte

Conley out of the bubble for the birth of his child. Thought the Jazz were going to be hard pressed to keep that series close to begin with, now it’s really hard to figure how they keep pace offensively unless Mitchell does a Dame impression

Barton and Harris still not back but they’re probably less important than Conley

i guess he'll miss 2 or 3 games? tough sledding for utah.

bojan out too

conley had a seriously garbage reg season, did he turn it up in the bub?

his stats don't look amazing but i did hear a few media people saying he looked better/more comfortable. i just think it has to be all hands on deck for utah at this point.

idk what changed, but conley played a lot better once he came back from a hamstring strain in january. it was mostly those first two months that were really bad.

if either team wins the series handily it will be denver but i still see a pretty hard fought 6 or 7 game series. mitchell will be the best player on the floor in at least a few of the games imo and it should be a series where gobert can stay on the floor the whole time. will be interesting to see how they deal with jokic playing out of the high post and how much that draws gobert away from the rim but there’s not many guards on denver who can put pressure on him off the dribble or on switches. i would still take denver in 6 prob but i don’t think they have an extra gear they’re gonna hit or anything.

will also be curious to see how much impact porter jr has with an above average wing defender checking him every game

its the playoffs baby

Denver swept the Jazz this season and Jokic pretty much dominated so I don’t see the Jazz doing this

Honestly don’t see the Jazz being able to do too much to guard MPJ

I presume they put O’Neal on him most of the time

presumably. if porter jr blazes thru the series that would be impressive. he will no doubt get some buckets in games but i'm curious to see how he holds up w/ teams strategizing how to attack him on both ends

I fuckin love MPJ

the only reason the jazz are in this game is because jordan clarkson hit two ridiculous shots at the end of the first quarter

ok that donovan mitchell dunk was one of the most impressive I've ever seen

Jamal Murray makes it impossible for me to believe that the hot hand doesn’t exist

it exists until it doesnt... ergo it doesnt exist

double clutch dunk was insane

Bubble officiating...

Swipe block from Millsap there

gobert looks like he doesn’t belong out there

theres always been an awkwardness and clumsiness to his game, not a fan at all. aesthetically the worst player in the league to watch.