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    Celtics vs Da Culture - Round 1 (FIGHT!)

    This is where I'm at. The dirty secret of the past few postseasons (including Udoka's last year) has been the C's coaching staff giving away a game here, a game there. I'm watching Nuggets-Lakers hoping LA can take a game or two so we can face a slightly more rundown Denver team in the Finals...
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    Celtics vs Da Culture - Round 1 (FIGHT!)

    The thing is, shooting 46.3% from two and 37.5% from three as a team with 13 turnovers should be enough. It's playoff basketball. 101 points wins most of the postseason games played so far this year. As you say, part of the problem is taking only 32 threes at that clip leaves you 10-11 threes...
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    Celtics vs Da Culture - Round 1 (FIGHT!)

    This is what stood out to me, too, from the highlights (didn't get to watch live as it aired in middle of the night here). It felt like they spent the last few days watching video of the 4Q stretch in G1 where Miami got easy layups and over-corrected to that. Or maybe the coaching staff simply...
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    2024 Playoffs Western Conference First Round: (2) Denver Nuggets vs (7) LA Lakers

    It will be a useful test-case if we get to see Denver vs. OKC, since— by god— there's a team with a stretch 5 but with no big body at all to put on Jokic. The Thunder took 3 of 4 from Denver in the regular season, but one game was by a single point and the other had no Jokic, so let's see...
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    2024 Playoffs Western Conference First Round: (2) Denver Nuggets vs (7) LA Lakers

    I could see potentially putting Tillman on Jokic in very-late-game situations when (a) you have the chance to rotate offense-defense with timeouts and fouls and (b) it comes down to a single possession or two where you really need a stop. What we saw last night is that whoever is defending Jokic...
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    The Bill Simmons Thread

    Well done :)
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    The Bill Simmons Thread

    I agree with the general assessment, but can we stop using Only Child Theory as a key to understanding Simmons? It's beneath the collective intelligence of this board. There is no evidence of an "only child" personality type— it's junk science. And, yes, I'm an only child and that's why it...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    Good question. Clearly, for both, a case of respondents interpreting the question as "Who was your favorite player growing up?"
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    2024 Playoffs Western Conference First Round: (2) Denver Nuggets vs (7) LA Lakers

    People are reacting to LA getting only one stop in the last 10 Denver possessions (on a jump-out steal by Lebron no less, which was a great play but not a conventional 'guarding someone and making them miss' sequence). To the "random heater" part: LA will be in every game this series where...
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    2024 Playoffs Western Conference First Round: (2) Denver Nuggets vs (7) LA Lakers

    Jeez. Those two are the Miguel Tejada and Eric Chavez of not talking to the press after tough losses.
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    2024 Playoffs Western Conference First Round: (2) Denver Nuggets vs (7) LA Lakers

    In the final minutes, the Lakers had Lebron and AD interchangeably on Jokic and Murray— a good tactic, since you know Denver is going to switch constantly anyway. I thought AD contested the final shot from Murray really well— it was a case of "good defense, better offense." LeBron mostly held up...
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    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers

    My anecdotal observation is that the refs are letting stuff go to an almost violent degree when it's a guy driving to the basket or in a crowd getting hacked. But then they're still calling stuff relatively tight when it's a one-on-one situation in open space. I can see why the lack of...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    I'll stick my neck out: I like the approach taken by Michael Pina, Zach Lowe and others of putting Brunson 5th on the MVP ballot ahead of Tatum while giving Tatum the All-NBA first team nod over Brunson. There's a subtle difference between these awards that this approach recognizes. Tatum is...
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    2024 Playoffs Western Conference First Round: (2) Denver Nuggets vs (7) LA Lakers

    That was amazing. He looked like giraffe falling into a swarm of giant ants. Fanduel has odds already on specific matchups. Celtics favored overall to the win title because they are seen as more likely to reach the Finals. But they have Celtics over Nuggets at +410 and Nuggets over Celtics at...
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    Celtics vs Da Culture - Round 1 (FIGHT!)

    Agreed. But Miami must be at least thinking about trying to force-feed him in G2 under the rationale that (1) it was their best offensive matchup AND (2) they have the chance to get KP in foul trouble and off the court. That's potentially a huge win-win for them.
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