2019 NBA Playoffs thread

[Shanemansj13]

Cmon man. You are facing a guy a foot shorter than you and the 8 seed LOL What a joke.

 

[bksballer89]

Sources: Lue meeting with Lakers about vacancy

 

[tlance]

Cmon man. You are facing a guy a foot shorter than you and the 8 seed LOL What a joke.

In fairness,

Beverly is also an elite defender. Top 3 perimeter defender in the NBA.

And in the games KD struggled, Beverly was allowed to drape himself all over KD any time he was away from the ball.

But yes. Durant should be able to get any shotnhe wants against Beverly. And he did last night.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Sources: Lue meeting with Lakers about vacancy

Shouldn't they be looking to get a GM before hiring a head coach?

 

[tlance]

Ok, so what series do you all think go past 5 games?

I think these do:

Brooklyn/Philly
Denver/San Antonio
OKC/Portland

Maybe Toronto/Orlando

Rest should be done in 5 or less, IMO.

 

[Wamu]

Shouldn't they be looking to get a GM before hiring a head coach?

I think Lavar Ball should get serious consideration for any Lakers front office job.

 

[Shanemansj13]

In fairness,

Beverly is also an elite defender. Top 3 perimeter defender in the NBA.

And in the games KD struggled, Beverly was allowed to drape himself all over KD any time he was away from the ball.

But yes. Durant should be able to get any shotnhe wants against Beverly. And he did last night.

No question he is a great defender and he needs to fight through contact. He was just tentative either way in those first 2 games. Like I said before when the W's actually need him he will step up, he will. He can pretty much just sit back and let his teammates do work at times. Life is easy lol.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Ok, so what series do you all think go past 5 games?

I think these do:

Brooklyn/Philly
Denver/San Antonio
OKC/Portland

Maybe Toronto/Orlando

Rest should be done in 5 or less, IMO.

I think Denver will win another one maybe two.
OKC I think they split the next two games. So that one is tough. I think OKC will fight.
You think Brooklyn can take one more? Going to be tough, their defense looked like shit.

Toronto wins in 5 most likely.

 

[tlance]

No question he is a great defender and he needs to fight through contact. He was just tentative either way in those first 2 games. Like I said before when the W's actually need him he will step up, he will. He can pretty much just sit back and let his teammates do work at times. Life is easy lol.

He was tentative.

I really didn't like how weak he was with the ball when Beverly got up in him too. He had 3 or 4 uneccesary throw aways in game 2 like a JV player who had never seen real pressure before. Game 3 was obviously much better for KD.

 

[tlance]

I think Denver will win another one maybe two.
OKC I think they split the next two games. So that one is tough. I think OKC will fight.
You think Brooklyn can take one more? Going to be tough, their defense looked like shit.

Toronto wins in 5 most likely.

I do think Brooklyn gets one, maybe 2.

Philly's defense doesn't really look much better to me. First team to 125 wins!

 

[dtgold88]

Shouldn't they be looking to get a GM before hiring a head coach?

Pelinka still the GM, isn't he?

 

[dtgold88]

I do think Brooklyn gets one, maybe 2.

Philly's defense doesn't really look much better to me. First team to 125 wins!

No one looks to be playing D, but they might have blown their shot at home and Philly with no Embid. Unless he keeps sitting out, of course.

 

[trojanfan12]

Shouldn't they be looking to get a GM before hiring a head coach?

They have a GM. They need a Prez-O-Dent and a coach.

It's being reported that they already have someone targeted to be President, but they can't announce anything because his team is still in the playoffs.

It's been said that he is the one who is okaying the coaching interviews.

 

[bksballer89]

Ok, so what series do you all think go past 5 games?

I think these do:

Brooklyn/Philly
Denver/San Antonio
OKC/Portland

Maybe Toronto/Orlando

Rest should be done in 5 or less, IMO.

Brooklyn/Philly
OKC/Portland
Toronto/Orlando
Denver/San Antonio

 

[wildturkey]

Sources: Lue meeting with Lakers about vacancy

Of the 3 they are locked in on, and it appears they aren't going to bother with anyone else, he's the best of the bunch imo.

 

[tlance]

2 early games today should be good.

No interest in watching the late games tonight.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Ok, so what series do you all think go past 5 games?

I think these do:

Brooklyn/Philly
Denver/San Antonio
OKC/Portland

Maybe Toronto/Orlando

Rest should be done in 5 or less, IMO.

I was thinking it may end up pretty tricky for the schedule makers

 

[tlance]

I was thinking it may end up pretty tricky for the schedule makers

Didn't think of that. But you are right.

Because all 4 of those series that look most competitive are going to match up with each other in round 2.

It will mean lengthy layoffs for the teams that end early even if both in the matchup are done. Pretty sure they won't start any round 2 series until at least game 7 day of the last round 1 series.

 

[tlance]

Also crazy that to this point, 2 of the 3 least competitive series have been 4/5 matchups.

Probably unfair of me to say Boston and Indy has been uncompetitive. Games have been close. But watching them I never really felt like Boston was in real danger of losing.

 

[dtgold88]

Also crazy that to this point, 2 of the 3 least competitive series have been 4/5 matchups.

Probably unfair of me to say Boston and Indy has been uncompetitive. Games have been close. But watching them I never really felt like Boston was in real danger of losing.

Definitely looked like they could lose Game 2, but never thought they were in danger of losing the series......or even going past 5 games.