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The 2023-2024 NBA Season

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Resting your starters excessively to dodge the 7 and 8 seeds yes.
It’s not for you to say what’s excessive, the Thunder had pushed harder than anyone throughout the season. Hilarious to me when anyone acts like think they know what Presti is doing. I doubt his wife knows.
 

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It’s not for you to say what’s excessive, the Thunder had pushed harder than anyone throughout the season. Hilarious to me when anyone acts like think they know what Presti is doing. I doubt his wife knows.

It seems pretty clear what we are doing here lol

I appreciate their swag that they are that confident against Denver though
 

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It seems pretty clear what we are doing here lol

I appreciate their swag that they are that confident against Denver though
They are confident against anyone when their guys are healthy. I do think it makes sense while getting guys healthy to try to give yourself options. The Thunder are not out of the mix for the 1 or 2, the other 2 still play each other.
 

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It’s not for you to say what’s excessive, the Thunder had pushed harder than anyone throughout the season. Hilarious to me when anyone acts like think they know what Presti is doing. I doubt his wife knows.
I doubt the primary objective is trying to slot at 3. The primary objective is making sure that their two best players are rested and healthy for the playoffs.
 

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He played 1 of their last 5 and had a very unlike SGA game in the 1 game he played
 

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Resting your starters excessively to dodge the 7 and 8 seeds yes.

Not sure they're really "tanking" to get the 3rd spot (although it would be smart). Typically, with a team this young, you want to finish as high as possible to secure as much HCA as possible.

I do agree that the timing seems a bit suspect and finishing 3rd wouldn't exactly break their hearts, but I don't think that's their goal.
 

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The Kings visions of missing the play in are vanishing

...and the Rockets dreams of making the play in have vanished along with that win streak once they started playing better teams.
 
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