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Pacers gave a pretty good account of themselves all things considered. Sabonis is their most important player.

jeremy lamb isnt nothing either. pacers have their entire core under contract next season so they could take the 3 seed if health is on their side. there may be potential for trades also if other teams panic under the cap crunch

not a great start from the blaze

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That lineup was all wrong for them

i think we're also going to find out at the end of all this that having the playoffs in home arenas makes series go 1-2 games longer than they would if played on neutral courts

Another thing about these series is that an every other day schedule leaves less time for adjustments, less time for players who are banged up to get right etc

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― Matt Armstrong, Monday, August 24, 2020 9:32 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

i think we're also going to find out at the end of all this that having the playoffs in home arenas makes series go 1-2 games longer than they would if played on neutral courts

― J0rdan S., Monday, August 24, 2020 9:39 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Another thing about these series is that an every other day schedule leaves less time for adjustments, less time for players who are banged up to get right etc

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, August 24, 2020 9:40 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah stands to reason

lovin the quick sched from a view perspective tho

blazers getting reffed tf out

sadly inevitable i'm afraid; there's no way the nba is going to allow lebron to get knocked out in the first round... or perhaps at all!

blazers have been complaining about the refs since game 3 ended, not surprising it would blow up in their face

That 13 - 0 run to start had nothing to do with the refs

i think it's ok to say it's been a good run for the blazers but they're not a competitive team right now

i'd love to say the blazers have a bunch of interesting decisions to make in the offseason but i'm pretty sure owing dame and cj 85 million in 2024 means this is prob the peak of this roster for the next half decade

yeah, unless they trade cj and/or strike luck through the draft, this is as good as it gets for a bit

they found a good player in trent. zach collins will get healthy. maybe simons figures something out? there are small rays of light but this is the point where roster building gets hard.

They absolutely need to trade cj

wait they essentially made this an extra lakers "home game" in honor of national kobe day? my apologies but that is shenanigans

i'm far from the biggest cj fan but it will be tough to find a trade for him that's worth making

cj is giving all he's ever gonna give ya and he and dame just never made sense whatsoever, even moving cj for spare parts and expirings and punting a year would be better than being a 7th seed until dame is well on the backend of the talent parabola

It’s hard for me to imagine the lakers winning the title with 2 players but I guess it’s possible

They play some intense defense when they want to

AD learning to do the floppy midair leg kick thing to draw a foul is gonna get someone badly hurt

(possibly him)

I constantly feel like he about to break

The thing with dame... he’s still barely a 40% shooter for his playoff career and if it wasn’t for a couple of series winning shots people would probably bring that up a bit more.

Brow does look fragile yah

Leborn Jeams

he's a good player!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y_cl3WIO6A

Dwight's getting some nice effort put backs

AD +37 last night

in 18 minutes

Maybe the jazz will just shoot 50% from 3 the whole playoffs

thats what i would do

Fucking unreal from Jokic, one of the greatest quarters you’ll ever see

Lol what is this??? pic.twitter.com/d5VPcU4ctp

— Leigh Ellis (@LeighEllis) August 25, 2020

21 pt 1st q. 8-8 fg 5-5 3p

Insane

going 8-8 is the way to go

also hit a ludicrous buzzer beater

Giannis Antetokounmpo is the 2019-20 NBA Defensive Player of the Year 🇬🇷 pic.twitter.com/6VlW9fI1zb

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 25, 2020

if lebron wins mvp...

Millsap is cooked, sad to say. He probably won’t retire but how much can you pay him after this bubble

jazz are playing with the confidence that they have denvers offence completely worked out

lmao the eurostep 3

the nuggets look done. malone firing imminent right?

millsap could work for a few teams on the veterans min or MLE. he should prob only be playing 15-20 mins a game now