Game Thread 2021 NBA Finals - Suns vs Bucks!

[Tince]

I understood what you meant, just wanted to be factual. Bud is a good coach and I don’t even know their GM other than he crushed it.

Good for the Bucks but Dame isn’t Giannis, he’s small, and he needs help on defense. It puts the Blazers in a hole.

Most Bucks fans have turned on Bud. I've even read people here who no longer think he's a good coach. Only a matter of time I guess.

PS- Appreciated the correction; I want to be factual!

 

[stampedehero]

I bet the Suns to win it all back on March 11th (+3500) and hedged it a little with the Nets & Bucks (+400) before their Game 7.

Worked out pretty well, but am still heavy on the Suns side.

Me too.. Count me in .

 

[Wizard Mentor]

The NBA clearly wants their advertising star/union president to win it all...
and it is straight up sickening.

I'm somewhat afraid to watch, actually.

 

[TBpup]

So enjoyable to see so many young players for the Suns contributing in a positive manner. Great development by their staff and the whole organization.

Fun to watch the entire game as the announcers can't slob all over some big market prima donna.

 

[JoshuaHall]

cant play b Lopez

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Bump

 

[KSF-ERIC]

The NBA clearly wants their advertising star/union president to win it all...
and it is straight up sickening.

I'm somewhat afraid to watch, actually.

If they were true, why didn’t OKC win it all last season?

 

[Chris Craig]

Bucks too tired

 

[KSF-ERIC]

Maybe the Suns did draft the right guy in 2018.

 

[KSF-ERIC]

$100 bet was worth $1100 if Ayton got exactly 19 rebounds tonight

 

[handiman]

I wasn't sure which team I would be rooting for, but after witnessing Phoenix fans' remedial math skills, I have to pull for the Bucks. You start a 10-second count at zero, not at one, and you don't keep counting for two seconds after the ball is released. Dumb asses. Even then, they had to speed up the count to reach 10 most of the time.

 

[Natebishop3]

I wasn't sure which team I would be rooting for, but after witnessing Phoenix fans' remedial math skills, I have to pull for the Bucks. You start a 10-second count at zero, not at one, and you don't keep counting for two seconds after the ball is released. Dumb asses. Even then, they had to speed up the count to reach 10 most of the time.

Because it's meant to be psychological warfare? Who cares when they start counting? They're trying to get him to miss.

 

[Chris Craig]

Because it's meant to be psychological warfare? Who cares when they start counting? They're trying to get him to miss.

It's stupid

 

[Pinwheel1]

Because it's meant to be psychological warfare? Who cares when they start counting? They're trying to get him to miss.

Did they do it for everyone? 56% as a team from the line. Ouch
The Suns shot 96% percent.

 

[TBpup]

Trade CJ to the Cavs for Love and the #3 pick and get Dame a Booker. Maybe the way he wins a title is as the grizzled veteran with a young stud helping carry the load.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Trade CJ to the Cavs for Love and the #3 pick and get Dame a Booker. Maybe the way he wins a title is as the grizzled veteran with a young stud helping carry the load.

Cavs owner loves the draft, he ain't giving up that pick.

 

[handiman]

Because it's meant to be psychological warfare? Who cares when they start counting? They're trying to get him to miss.

Giannis doesn't need help with missing at anything other than dunks.

 

[Natebishop3]

It's stupid

It's pretty harmless compared to some of the violent drama earlier in the playoffs.

 

[BBert]

So enjoyable to see so many young players for the Suns contributing in a positive manner. Great development by their staff and the whole organization.

Fun to watch the entire game as the announcers can't slob all over some big market prima donna.

Bets they'll still talk about them? Might make a good drinking game.

 

[BonesJones]

Trade CJ to the Cavs for Love and the #3 pick and get Dame a Booker. Maybe the way he wins a title is as the grizzled veteran with a young stud helping carry the load.

The Cavs laugh at that and so does Dame.

 

[Fairly-Hard]

Does this series go 7? Not sure?

 

[Hoopguru]

To me, if you have an inconsistent offense and guys that cant shoot FT’s its going to he tough to win it all in the game as played today.

 

[handiman]

Does this series go 7? Not sure?

Game 2 is always a lot more telling than Game 1. The young, energetic, more rested, healthier team got high-level production from everyone and won the first game at home. Let's see if they maintain that energy and focus.

 

[Fairly-Hard]

Game 2 is always a lot more telling than Game 1. The young, energetic, more rested, healthier team got high-level production from everyone and won the first game at home. Let's see if they maintain that energy and focus.

We will see if that rolled ankle and wrist injury messes with Chris Paul. When the trainer is hiding what he is doing with a towel it obviously is real.
Chris Paul's answer when questioned? "I don't know what you are talking about". Sure you don't.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Yeah, you would think that the Bucks will do a better job defending a 36-year-old 5'11 point guard.
Once he decided to take over, he did.

 

[handiman]

We will see if that rolled ankle and wrist injury messes with Chris Paul. When the trainer is hiding what he is doing with a towel it obviously is real.
Chris Paul's answer when questioned? "I don't know what you are talking about". Sure you don't.

I don't have a problem with CP's answer. You could tell he was having a bit of fun with it while taking the warrior approach of admitting no pain or weakness.

The trainer's response regarding the towel was weird. It didn't seem like he was hiding something so much as hiding that they were doing something, which was obvious as soon as CP left the court. That was some very animated gesturing for no apparent reason. Fight doctor secrets, I suppose.

The ankle didn't seem like it bothered him enough to be a next day concern. Those things always result in an alarmed expression and response at the time, no matter how severe they are.

 

[SIeepwalker]

$100 bet was worth $1100 if Ayton got exactly 19 rebounds tonight

That's terrible odds

 

[KSF-ERIC]

I don't have a problem with CP's answer. You could tell he was having a bit of fun with it while taking the warrior approach of admitting no pain or weakness.

The trainer's response regarding the towel was weird. It didn't seem like he was hiding something so much as hiding that they were doing something, which was obvious as soon as CP left the court. That was some very animated gesturing for no apparent reason. Fight doctor secrets, I suppose.

The ankle didn't seem like it bothered him enough to be a next day concern. Those things always result in an alarmed expression and response at the time, no matter how severe they are.

All I could think was it was to prevent us from reading lips.

 

[handiman]

All I could think was it was to prevent us from reading lips.

And yet, all it did was prevent us from reading cheeks, so to speak.

 

[Chris Craig]

I don't have a problem with CP's answer. You could tell he was having a bit of fun with it while taking the warrior approach of admitting no pain or weakness.

The trainer's response regarding the towel was weird. It didn't seem like he was hiding something so much as hiding that they were doing something, which was obvious as soon as CP left the court. That was some very animated gesturing for no apparent reason. Fight doctor secrets, I suppose.

The ankle didn't seem like it bothered him enough to be a next day concern. Those things always result in an alarmed expression and response at the time, no matter how severe they are.

Probably gave him a shot of pain killers