From what I observed last night, it appears that the heat are not frauds but the suns are ultra fraudy, or at least that is what my notes say
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the Draymond special I see. at least he ain't kick Adams in the dick
I respect that. I'm not saying you're wrong, it's just that for me personally, Kyrie isn't the caliber of black man I will go to war to protect. Dude is leading kids in the wrong direction, and I hate that. I work in mentorship and his any-vax bs is something I have had to deal with, so it just goes to a different place for me.
On the subject, I draw a line between players getting yelled at during games and being harassed after the fact, that's all. If the heckling crosses certain lines (e.g. racial, threats of violence, attacking family) the fans should be dealt with, but no one has said it did, so he needs to eat it and not react so harshly.
A finger isn't the end of the world honestly, it's not like he pulled a Ron Artest and went WWE in the stands, I'm just not shocked by the fine because flipping the birds multiple times on our Puritan/Christian live TV is gonna do that.
Kyrie getting fined for telling people to go fuck themselves and not for encouraging people to endanger their health is basically a perfect description of modern society.
It's almost entirely ESPN and hot take pundits feeding off their own speculation and treating the speculation like fact to generate more content.
Zion's dad was on local radio just the other week laughing and talking about the craziness of all the BS rumors and that they hate New Orleans and the team. How couldn't be further from the truth. Contrast that with AD's family that reportedly was constantly miserable in NO, and wanting out.
I think the truth, by all accounts, is closer to how most Star players think when they are on a losing team in a small market, which is, "well this sucks, if I have to be losing rather be somewhere glamorous."
Game 1:
Game 2:
His advanced stats for the season actually look pretty good, other than the "________ Wins Added" ones (which are always partly a function of playing time):
Game 2:
"...With Paul Reed on the court, Philadelphia has outscored Toronto by 12 points in 22 minutes through two games. The Sixers' ran away from the Raptors with a 15-4 run to open the second quarter in Game 2. That happened with Embiid sitting comfortably on the bench and Paul Reed bringing his unique brand of chaos to the middle of Philly's defense... After years of failed experiments in the backup center roles — Amir Johnson, Greg Monroe, Mike Muscala, Al Horford — the Sixers have finally tasted competency at the backup center spot. First in the form of Andre Drummond, but he was traded. Now in the form of Paul Reed, the 22-year-old NBA sophomore and reigning G-League MVP who just plays too hard to fail...
It's important to emphasize just how wild it is for Philadelphia to win the non-Embiid minutes, especially given their prior experience with Toronto in the playoffs. The Sixers have traditionally crumbled to dust whenever Embiid sniffs the bench, almost regardless of who's on the court without him. A big reason for the second unit's success is that James Harden and Tyrese Maxey now take turns running it, but replacing Jordan's turnstile defense with Reed's lightning-in-a-bottle intensity has flipped the switch. There's no excuse to move away from Reed now. He will continue to get the fouling in check over time, but that almost doesn't matter — he's in there for 10 minutes a game, and the Sixers will gladly exchange a couple fouls for a couple forced turnovers. This is Paul Reed's time. Hopefully Doc Rivers embraces the victory tour, does away with Jordan, and puts Philadelphia's best foot forward every night...."
Sixers: Paul Reed has run away with the backup center job
The Sixers have found their backup center of the future in Paul Reed. He's tearing through the Toronto offense with his aggressive defense.thesixersense.com
His advanced stats for the season actually look pretty good, other than the "________ Wins Added" ones (which are always partly a function of playing time):
Woke up expecting the Suns to win, looked like one of those games Book would finish with 40. This loss is only gonna further that ref conspiracy thingy though, before the game I saw on Reddit that the ref that supposedly hates Chris Paul and is undefeated in games he refs in was doing the game.
He was going to finish with way more than 40 if he didn't get hurt... :)
Fell asleep like midway in the 2nd. Didn't know he got hurt. Is it serious or just something minor.
Can't imagine them having a crazy year only for it to be derailed with Book being out.
You mean the commentators during the game or the TNT Inside guys? If it's the latter they always do stuff like that, if it's the former I agree, I've never seen that during an actual game.
What did they say?
I listened to the local Pels broadcast(for sanity and quality purposes).
Man, my predictions were wrong . Hey NBA era , can I get my post from the nba regular season and remediated some of my predictions because I mess up bad .
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That was an incredible performance by the Pelicans. It seemed like everybody was hitting tough, clutch shots. While that may not be repeatable for the rest of the series, if they continue to push the pace like they did in Game 2, this series can get really interesting with Booker's status in limbo.
I do think the suns pull it out for the series even with booker's injury but it would be wild for the future of the play in and fringe play in competition if the pels could take it to 6/7 games or even,…. Gasp! Pull off the series win (they won't)
Suns fans never shut up about 2000s Spurs, I cannot imagine the terror they will inflict in nba circles and Pelicans fanbase if the pels did pull off the upset with a 36-46 record
(Also not trading Kawhi for Ingram in 2018 continues to haunt us lol)
Suns fans never shut up about 2000s Spurs, I cannot imagine the terror they will inflict in nba circles and Pelicans fanbase if the pels did pull off the upset with a 36-46 record
(Also not trading Kawhi for Ingram in 2018 continues to haunt us lol)
Yeah I was surprised when I heard that from Kevin last night and nobody else picked up on it. He said there's no documentation of a broken leg or something to that effect, right?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised by Tsai, but pushing to have Morey fired is such a horrible look. I guess he wants to make sure he never ends up like Jack Ma, so he overcompensates?
If the suns had Crowder come off the bench and started Cam Johnson then they'd be in good shape but Monty won't change the lineup and probably start Landry lol
The Suns should still win, but could you imagine if they lost both games in N.O. and Booker still wasn't ready for game 5?
All that work just for Space Jam 2 to bomb and get awarded the razzy for worst actor
Suns had an uncharacteristically bad defensive performance last night. If they shore that up, they have a decent shot at handling NO even without Booker
I genuinely think Simmons can succeed really well on this nets squad, but him targeting game 4 just seems like such a bad idea. The series already has the feel of a late round game 3-4, so coming into that game after not playing a year and having serious back surgery, just seems like an impossible situation in which to succeed.
Shoutout to the CCP, the russian guy who previously owned the Nets, Joe Tsai, and Lebron. Truly, the finest of people, owners, and governments. I wish every league could be so fortunate.
I hear that Russia buys a lot of shoes and probably liked Space Jam.
He was to understand that his role coming into the playoffs like this will be extremely limited. That's really the only way it can work. Basically just be an extra body on the court & do well on defense.
Kobra gonna follow in Mamba's footsteps and take the Suns to the brink but Pelis will probably collapse.
I can't believe pick Toronto to beat Philly . I was wrong , and the series was in 6. should've pick Philly in 3.
Probably tricked by all the Raps talk in this thread lol
You do realize New Orleans doesn't have its best player either, right?
You're not wrong
You're not wrong as well as I'm starting to come to an epiphany. That Playoffs basketball is way different than regular season ball.
Love derrick but dont know if he's earned it. He needs to be shooting better.
Shooting 46.6 over the last 10 games, I stand corrected. For some reason, every time I catch a celtics game I think I see him shooting like crap.
Yeah, he's shooting 45% from 3 over last ten games. I just think his driving, passing, and attacking is worth a lot against this Brooklyn D which doesn't guard second and third actions well. Worth more than playing a second big for rim protection or defense, at least against this team.
Yeah. It happens at times. You of course know well that gs had 30 or kd missing a lot of round 1 games and entire series almost every year since like 2015. And many other team examples. That's the good thing about dominating enough for to be a 1 or 2 seed.
booker out a bit, but they had a good enough regular season to avoid a team that will 100% send them home. I.e. If lal was a high seed last year, they maybe get a team they don't need AD for. So it can literally change everything.
So the thing now is just handling business until your star is back. Doncic out too but his team isn't as good
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