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Im thinking with a healthy decent Nurk, and CJ at near his early season form, we could surprise come playoffs. The Jazz and Lakers healthy would be trouble, unless we are shooting threes at a high percentage, protecting the rim and some help from an improved bench. The rest of the teams in the West 3-8 are close imo. Whomever his healthy and hot can surprise. Thats what happen to Miami last year and I still think they will be rolling right around playoffs and could again surprise.
This could be all true, but unless you think the return of Nurk will dramatically resurrect the defense, they will not be surprising anyone as the 29th ranked defense in the league.

Miami was the 12th ranked defense in the league last season.
 
Im thinking with a healthy decent Nurk, and CJ at near his early season form, we could surprise come playoffs. The Jazz and Lakers healthy would be trouble, unless we are shooting threes at a high percentage, protecting the rim and some help from an improved bench. The rest of the teams in the West 3-8 are close imo. Whomever his healthy and hot can surprise. Thats what happen to Miami last year and I still think they will be rolling right around playoffs and could again surprise.

Blazers are nice little reg season team but won’t do shit in the playoffs
 
Denver down 2 on a 4 on 1 fast break and they all stop at the 3 point line and missed LOL
 
Nuggets loose again to wizards and sweep the nuggets! Hahahaha Hahahaha. Spurs Clippers suns mavricks all lost . We beat lakers tmrw we back

what seems to happen nightly in the NBA is the night your team doesn't play, you'll see a team, or two, they are in a race with lose games they shouldn't have. You'll say "allright, we gained half a game sitting idle". The next night, your team gets boat raced by a contender or loses to a team they shouldn't have. You'll say "what the fuck is wrong with these guys?"

Portland won 6 in a row; by this time tomorrow night they could be losing their 4th in a row. So far this is a two-steps-forward-two-steps-back type of season
 
Anybody watch this game? That shit was entertaining! These two went at each other!
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Was Ingram oblivious that they were down 3?

I think the craziest part was the Bucks having all 5 defenders focused on the 2 Pelicans' inside the 3pt line, despite a 3 pointer being the only thing they should've been worried about. And trying to take a charge was super risky too. Who gives a rip if Ingram get a layup with 2 seconds left.

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Nuggets loose again to wizards and sweep the nuggets! Hahahaha Hahahaha. Spurs Clippers suns mavricks all lost . We beat lakers tmrw we back
If we had won our last 3 games, we'd have the 2 seed now. Just wait til we get healthy!
 
what seems to happen nightly in the NBA is the night your team doesn't play, you'll see a team, or two, they are in a race with lose games they shouldn't have. You'll say "allright, we gained half a game sitting idle". The next night, your team gets boat raced by a contender or loses to a team they shouldn't have. You'll say "what the fuck is wrong with these guys?"

Portland won 6 in a row; by this time tomorrow night they could be losing their 4th in a row. So far this is a two-steps-forward-two-steps-back type of season
Actually, 6 steps forward, 4 steps back if we lose to Lakers. Work on your math skills.
 
Denver down 2 on a 4 on 1 fast break and they all stop at the 3 point line and missed LOL
That was brutal...why Murray picked up his dribble and why MPJ ran to the corner? Have to know time, situation and score. Where is the BBIQ?
 
I really dislike that guy. I don't know why. Just something about him irks me.

If you watch Tavarish on youtube, it has a similar vibe. Not sure what it is, but he has a punchable face.
 
Those teams did not have the depth we have now. We've never had Nurkic AND Kanter in a playoff game. And CJ has upped him game greatly this season. And don't forget Game 7 vs Denver.

1) the 2018-19 team had as much, if not more, depth than this team

2) last year, they had Nurkic and Whiteside

3) it's way too optimistic to expect that 12 games of CJ this season is more predictive of what he'll be than the previous 530 games of his career

none of that really matters....if a team is good enough defensively to limit Dame and shut-down his favorite moves, Portland wilts. That's happened for 7 straight playoffs. CJ/Nurkic have had two chances to make teams pay for a Dame-centric defense and they've failed. CJ has had 5 chances and it hasn't mattered
 
CJ took us to the WCF and has performed decent in playoffs. Want to get rid of both of them too?
CJ puts up such great numbers in the playoffs because teams sell out so hard on Dame that they are daring CJ to beat them and he simply hasn't been able to get the job done to this point. Maybe if CJ comes back and plays like he did at the beginning of the season he'll buck that trend. It was teams selling out on Dame that took us to the WCF and some fortuitous injuries to players far more crucial to our opponents than the ones we were missing.

I'm not saying that CJ isn't fantastic and that he doesn't do his part but when teams trap Dame or play ball denial on him, if CJ played like he does when Dame is out instead of his usual, then we would have a better chance. The two of them are still going to almost always cost us too much playing as a defensive back court but maybe we'll have a chance if CJ can changes his ways (or keeps them if those first 12 games were his knew ways). However, great offense rarely covers for bad defense, just ask Mike D'Antoni.
 
CJ took us to the WCF and has performed decent in playoffs. Want to get rid of both of them too?

CJ didn't "take" Portland to the WCF. There wouldn't have been a game 7 if it wasn't for LIllard, Kanter, and Hood. CJ performed well in game 7, but he followed that up by playing like shit in the WCF against single-coverage while the Warriors trapped and doubled Dame all over the floor. If CJ was the answer for when Dame is the focus of the defense, that wouldn't have happened. And the Pels series wouldn't have happened either

I get that everybody wants to believe things will be different this year. That the same players will be able to defeat the same defense they haven't defeated before. I don't think that's realistic. But sure....it's possible something is different

Actually, 6 steps forward, 4 steps back if we lose to Lakers. Work on your math skills.

actually, Portland was 3 games over .500 six weeks ago; if they lose tonight, they'd be 4 games over .500....twenty games after they were 3 games over. That's not two steps forward; that's moving up 1 game over the course of 28% of the season; that's not even a baby step forward.

But it was pretty clear I was talking about the NBA this year....how few teams are playing consistently good. Good wins followed by bad losses. Look at the last 10 games for WC teams (last column):

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for chrissakes, 11 of the 15 teams lost their last game....that's what I was talking about
 
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