NBA Playoffs Thread - Play-in and 1st round edition

[HansenYang]

So which team would you rather be? A 10 seed that loses in the play-in? Or the team with the 5th best odds in lottery?

This year with Wemby -> the team with the 5th best odds.

With a draft class like 2013 -> the 10th seed.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Looks like I got picked up for a 16-Day contract with Ballmer and his boys! Their money is as green as it gets FAMS!
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Super happy to here this

 

[Mediocre Man]

So which team would you rather be? A 10 seed that loses in the play-in? Or the team with the 5th best odds in lottery?

Depends on the trajectory of the team. If the Blazers, with Dame, Nurk, Grant etc we’re 10th and out I wouldn’t want that, but if the team is filled with 1st and 2nd year young studs and multiple high picks coming, I’d be super excited with 10th and out

 

[TBpup]

This series I think will be amazing. Probably rooting for LA over PHX though. I’ve never been a CP3 or Booker fan. SideNote: I saw PG13 in the back hallway after our game down there this past weekend. Wearing a hug brace on his knee and super limping. I don’t know anything, but he looks like he’s nowhere near returning.

CP3 hurt for the Playoffs? No way!

 

[Samuel]

So which team would you rather be? A 10 seed that loses in the play-in? Or the team with the 5th best odds in lottery?

therein lies the issue. The play-in is a narrative clusterfuck.

the Thunder, for example, got a polite golf clap and pat on the adorable head last night by the nba community. Good OKC, good!

the bulls were respectively shamed for even trying, ‘the bulls should have blown it up and tanked this year, what were they doing?!’ Bad Bulls, bad!

 

[Pinwheel1]

OKC IMO showed their youth in both games. Even in the game, they won they made a lot of dumb plays. I assume they will get smarter with experience.

 

[KingSpeed]

THE Chris & Eric from “Around the NBA with Chris & Eric.”

 

[wizenheimer]

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yikes!...your expressions look like you're in the waiting room of your proctologist just prior to your annual exams

try smiling a little...or at least sneering

 

[Chris Craig]

Boring

 

[Mediocre Man]

yikes!...your expressions look like you're in the waiting room of your proctologist just prior to your annual exams

try smiling a little...or at least sneering

Great joke here. Just know that it’s brilliant

 

[wizenheimer]

 

[Chris Craig]

I don't thought the playoffs were supposed to be exciting. Fail.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

Knicks/Cavs looks like a good game.

It's cool to watch mobile big men that actually play like big men, dunking and finishing strong, instead of falling down every other play and whining to the refs.

 

[SIeepwalker]

Hart is playing well for the Knicks

 

[SIeepwalker]

Some pretty undeserved Ref You Suck chants

 

[SIeepwalker]

Knicks choking

 

[Fairly-Hard]

8 point lead and turn it over 3 straight plays kills your lead.

 

[SIeepwalker]

Big 3 by Hart ! He's done a lot

 

[Tince]

Hart is playing well for the Knicks

Great 2nd half for Hart

 

[SIeepwalker]

Great 2nd half for Hart

1st half too

 

[SIeepwalker]

The Knicks have killed Cleveland on the board

Hart 17/10 (half those boards offensive !) on great splits, and has done all the little (and not so little) things too

 

[Tince]

Cleveland seems far more talented than the Knicks.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

Josh Hart is a keeper. D'oh!

 

[blazerfan11]

Cleveland seems far more talented than the Knicks.

Not the bench. Hart, Hartenstein, Quickly and Topin are better than Rubio, Wade, Osman and Levert.
The Knicks bench has been key in a lot of victories this season, including the one in Cleveland in the regular season.

 

[Whyachi]

JOSH HART RULES

Cronin needs to trade himself off the Blazers

 

[Fairly-Hard]

I’m assuming most of us are pulling for the Kings?

 

[Strenuus]

Josh Hart is a keeper. D'oh!

Yeah that really sucked to let him go.

 

[Predator]

I’m assuming most of us are pulling for the Kings?

The warriors are gonna give the kings the business especially with Wiggins back

 

[Chris Craig]

Now this is a playoff game!

 

[Tince]

Not the bench. Hart, Hartenstein, Quickly and Topin are better than Rubio, Wade, Osman and Levert.
The Knicks bench has been key in a lot of victories this season, including the one in Cleveland in the regular season.

Agreed the Knicks bench is better. I still think the Cavs are the more talented team.