2023 NBA Playoffs
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Was probably hesitant since he didn't get a call on his drive right before where I'm pretty sure he got hacked.
Huh, they said that as the Knicks brought the ball up. Shame on me for trusting announcers ha
The chances of the Lakers losing just went up. Why would the NBA settle for one game 7 if they can have two?
Oh I know I wasn’t directing that at you. Point being the commentators who will inevitably say that are wrong.
Wow, a Miami-based 8 seed makes the Eastern Conference finals. I bet we won't see that again for, I dunno, several minutes at least.
It's an embarrassment to the league a team as talentless as the heat made the conference finals.
I dont want to hear shit about the eastern conference being better than the west for a long ass time. Garbage roster almost top to bottom just made the east finals.
I dont want to hear shit about the eastern conference being better than the west for a long ass time. Garbage roster almost top to bottom just made the east finals.
The way the refs called the beginning of the 4th quarter I was thinking they wanted to will the Knicks to a game 7, but it was not meant to be.
The flagrant-1 standard of "unnecessary contact, regardless of intent", is just so stupid and fungible. Isn't all contact resulting in a foul call, by definition, "unnecessary"? Like, they already called a foul. The officiating expert they got out there just confidently asserts it is or isn't, with no standard or even some guidelines to go on. Do YOU, sir, find it to be unnecessary? Why yes, I do! Therefore it's a flagrant.
Despite tonight it was a good Knicks season (sadly) but they have some work to do with the roster.
Embarrassment? They're playing well at just the right time, and they've earned it. Jimmy Buckets is a playoff monster.
Coach Spo would build a dynasty in Boston with our current roster, just unbelievable what he does in Miami.
Butler and Adebayo are pretty good.. Lowry too at times. I think they did just happen to run into a hobbled Bucks team and an inexperienced semi talented Knicks team. I think the Sixers and the Celtics are both better.
Grande:
By the way, we're now halfway home to reprising the 2020 Bubble Conference Finals. Miami Boston Denver LA Lakers
By the way, we're now halfway home to reprising the 2020 Bubble Conference Finals. Miami Boston Denver LA Lakers
3 championships and 8 conference title appearances since 2006. The fans suck and Pat Riley is the devil, but the franchise has been top tier for awhile now.
miami just has a top 5 coach that all but jimmy buiter is crazy good in the playoffs
I hate the Heat, but generally speaking, when teams make long playoff runs and overachieve their talent level it's not really something that rises to the level of being an embarrassment.
If I am a Knicks fan, I am simultaneously disappointed and also kind of stoked on the future. They are relevant again and the NBA needs that.
On the other hand, New York, all of its sports teams and fans are trash people - they deserve nothing but sports misery.
On the other hand, New York, all of its sports teams and fans are trash people - they deserve nothing but sports misery.
Someone make a meme about 3:30 Mother’s Day game on the east coast -> so we’re really doing this aren’t we?
Taunting?
Edit- not saying I agree, but I would argue that was the reasoning. Like a DB in football standing over a WR and shouting down at him.
Edit2- loved Van Gundy calling out what we all have been saying.
It was Josh Hart though and as Brunson knows better than everyone else in the world, Hart is somewhat inexplicably scared to shoot most of the time in the halfcourt. He does like the big threes at the end though, really a shame that Brunson couldn't get it to him.
The Heat had a better regular season record than the Warriors and were one win better than the Lakers.
Was listening to Joe Beningo sp? yesterday.. as he was talking about the teams he follows.. he's a Knicks, Jets and Mets fan I believe.. in any case... he's 70 now. Jets won a championship when he was 15 and I believe he said they've hosted seven playoff games since then. Seven. And won the division twice since then. All his teams won in 68-70..and have basically done nothing since (other than that one in 86).
Since then, the Lakers have got healthy and the Warriors have got Wiggins back. The Heat have lost their 3rd best player.
Situations really aren’t comparable
Thank you!
This is exactly the sequence that NY went out on the last time they got to the second round, in 2013, the Melo/Chandler/JR Smith #2 seeds. They also had home court in that series (against #3 IND and George/Hibbert), lost game 1 at home, the next 5 were all won by the home team with a tight game 6 on the road to eliminate them. Still an amazing year, I thought getting the #5 seed behind 4 clearly better teams was an achievement but they destroyed CLE and at least pushed this to six, Quickley has been such a key piece for them all year.
Do we know if Herro has any chance of coming back? This MIA team is legit, so smart and well-coached and Butler and Adebayo are playing incredible, and all the role players make the right play every time it seems.
Boston. You don’t give up Pritchard and GWill in the same deal unless Giannis is coming back
