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The bubble really did not help the elite teams. None of them look good, aside from Toronto. LAL, LAC and Mil all look very shaky.
But, how long does Giannis have before we can start questioning his ability to win when it counts, and truly be a top3 player?
Bucks got a needed wake up call today.
Lakers got a watch out wake up call they shouldnt need after watching bucks get embarrassed. Blazers are legit and no 8 seed.
Raptors will cake walk to ecf finals due to injuries to 76ers and Celtics imo.
Lakers got a watch out wake up call they shouldnt need after watching bucks get embarrassed. Blazers are legit and no 8 seed.
Raptors will cake walk to ecf finals due to injuries to 76ers and Celtics imo.
I expect Lakers to take care of business tonight. Portland living on borrowed time.
I think you have to give the odds to Toronto right now. I think the health of the teams in their way give them the slight edge. And LAL, LAC and MIL just not playing great. This is not the last 5 years of the NBA, where GSW and a younger Lebron could just sleepwalk to the finals.. I think there's going to be some real problems for the big teams.
Meanwhile, the Rockets really just need to weather this first week of games.. try and get Westbrook back for the end of the OKC series and close them out.
Jesus christ.. Houston up 22 with like 3 and change left.. how did I know they'd do some bone headed ****. OKC has their offensive lineup in.. just stall ball a bit and go up by 20 at the half.. Harden with several bad mistake.. limp-wrist pass that leads to a foul and a TO, rushed shots, unnecessarily difficult passes..
For certain.. but I've just seen this too many times. Harden will just go dumb. Game 1 of the WCF a few years back comes to mind.
I will be amazed if Houston finishes this season with all 3 guys intact, too. Harden almost went down there.
Lol @ CP3 being SOO about the HBCU schools that he was the first in his family to.. not attend one? While I would never let a players political opinions affect my love of the sport, I'm certainly going to call out BS and virtue-signaling.. and Chris Paul taking this stance while going to Wake Forest rings hallow..
Eh he was 17 or 18 when he made that decision. You grow and learns a lot between then and his age now.
That might make sense if he didn't make this stance within the last 2 months... It's not like he's been on this crusade since he was 22 or something.
I'd bet CP3 didn't even knew what the acronym HBCU stood for a year ago. Which is fine. That's what's important to him now. But idk, just feels a bit too on the nose in 2020.
he recently saw it on social media, it was then important to him
I still like Wenyen I don’t really care much about what’s going on with him and Cal. I do think Cal’s system is not much for allowing certain types of players to develop and shine but he wins more than anyone with it and I can’t hate thought I will say it’s been pretty bland the past 2-3 years. Wish we’d stop playing 2 bigs constantly.
Wenyen getting the last laugh w/ most of our fans who trashed him relentlessly for leaving early.
Games on in the background.. Wenyen is apparently killing it..
4 points, 2 fouls? A guy who most on LAL didn't even know existed before today?
Let's wait and see on Wenyen.. if you follow the NBA, you know that almost every week some g-league type player makes a splash because no one on the other team knows who he is. He's like the 8th most important player on Portland.
4 points, 2 fouls? A guy who most on LAL didn't even know existed before today?
Let's wait and see on Wenyen.. if you follow the NBA, you know that almost every week some g-league type player makes a splash because no one on the other team knows who he is. He's like the 8th most important player on Portland.
Dame hasn't really been supernova hot and their X-factor in the bubble, Gary Trent, just now checked in the game. Nurkic has been the best big on the court early on and Danny Green is barely hitting the rim. Lots of game to go, but I don't think LA can outscore Portland. They need to impose their will defensively and ugly the game up a bit.
Pretty concerning for LA that Portland has been able to get away with playing Nurkic and Whiteside together for extended minutes.
Pretty concerning for LA that Portland has been able to get away with playing Nurkic and Whiteside together for extended minutes.
It's annoying that home court advantage is basically zilch. Rockets ended with +5 fouls that likely don't happen IN Houston..
I thought the Lakers would step up. Wrong! I’m sure Barkley cashed a big bet tonight.
This Lakers team isn't winning anything this year. They are straight trash outside of AD and James. The ghost of Danny Green? KCP? Kuzma? These guys aren't the players that are going to be positive contributors that show up consistently throughout the course of a series for a championship caliber team. The West looks like an easy route for the Clippers.
This is from 2018. I don’t know why people assume these players aren’t aware of things like this.
https://hbcudigest.com/nba-star-chr...people-in-my-family-that-didnt-go-to-an-hbcu/