Wembanyama with a triple double the hard way. 11 pts. 15 reb. 12 blks.
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Wembanyama with a triple double the hard way. 11 pts. 15 reb. 12 blks.
wow I fell asleep early in this one, that is wildQuote:
Originally Posted by texasdave
at least 4 of the blocks were goaltending and another was a foul.Quote:
Originally Posted by texasdave
it has been this way all season.
That was one the Sixers likely needed to keep this series interesting. Knicks played horribly, no Mitch, Towns misses most of the first half. Sixers were getting all of the calls. Not sure how the Knicks won tonight tbh.
Any team that puts up 12 points in a quarter deserves to lose, and the Sixers will likely lose the series because the Knicks are the better, deeper team, particularly without a healthy Embiid on the floor. But don't get started on some narrative that the officials somehow were a disadvantage to the Knicks last night. Elbow to Drummond's throat, and Towns (who should have fouled out early) gets free throws. Hart, who whined all night, grabs George's jersey multiple times to pull him away from the ball, and the Knicks benefit from a backcoart violation. Multiple flops, uncalled push-offs and blocking fouls to benefit Brunson (who can't be breathed on without the opposition drawing a foul); completely on-brand. 20 total fouls called on the Knicks, for whom the officials ate their whitles in the second half, versus 23 called on Philly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mitri
If anyone has any insight into the OKC stuff please speak it. I’m at a complete loss of words at this point.
I love the NBA but this isn't fun to watch. I might become even more of a casual if the meta is going to be playing ref ball 24/7.
I would like to see the players call their own fouls. Now, that would be entertaining. LOL.
Today is the best day for the Jazz since they drafted Donovan Mitchell.
It wasn't such a good day for the Pacers as they fall completely out of the lottery.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boston Red
The Bulls moved up quite a bit.
It's looking the Sixers and the Lakers are both going home pretty soon.
I kinda feel for Joel Enbiid. He was a terror when healthy. Events never quite lined up for him correctly. Embiid and George will be a year older.
They will pick 22nd, I believe.
Trust the process.
Welp, sometimes you get a team on a serious heater, which is certainly where the Knicks have been living since being down 2-1 to Atlanta. Make or miss league, after all.
Leagues always need bad guys, someone to root against. Looks like the NBA might have a candidate for the position.
Victor Wembanyama. The windup and the elbow. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d5INF9Ry0Cg
That crap should be a multi-game suspension.Quote:
Originally Posted by texasdave
It's not surprising that this happened. The NBA created the situation by letting Wembanyama get away with anything he wants to do. It's been a joke. It's like when Giannis was allowed to take 6 steps before shooting. When they get that much freedom, they think they can get away with anything.
Heaters or not, this is when the sixers season ends. This is the norm for the sixers. They are what they are. Six out of the last nine years they have lost in the conference semis.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteelSD
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...n-series-spurs
Anthony Edwards scored a game-high 36 points to temporarily rescue a Minnesota Timberwolves season that was teetering and, afterward, gave a nod to his late mother for the performance.
"Today is Mother's Day," Edwards said, redirecting the first news conference question. "I just wanted to win for my Mom. It was that simple."
Edwards' mother, Yvette Edwards, died of cancer in 2015, and his grandmother, Shirley Edwards, died of cancer eight months later. Edwards has said that he wears the No. 5 because they both passed away on the fifth of the month, and he had portraits of them next to him the night the Timberwolves selected him first in the 2020 NBA draft. "For sure," Edwards said when asked whether he was thinking about his mother Sunday. "I couldn't lose this game for her."
Yeah every year, it has became a tradition for you to make excuses for the 76er’s, like clock work. This cracks me up every year. Embiid has never and will never be that guy. Never even a conference championship in the east.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteelSD
Um...Knicks were a better team, with a better roster and deeper bench, who played better defense, got more rebounds, and made more shots while on an historic offensive playoff run. You don't even follow the NBA, and you're angrily responding to imaginary posts. At least I know that Betterread's posts are driven by fever dreams of Embiid and Co. repeatedly torturing the Timberwolves and abusing a player (Towns) who isn't still on his team. Heck, his PTSD goes all the way back to the days of Ben Simmons, so I cut him a little slack. You? You're just a weird kid who needs to calm down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rdirtypirates
The Spurs have really rallied around their guy and blamed the officials and other teams for Wemby having to launch his elbow at Reid.Quote:
Originally Posted by texasdave
Yeah I know it has got to suck. I would rather be a weird kid than whatever you are sir. Another year another predictable loss and you crying and making excuses. I do follow the NBA at least to know not to bet on the 76ers or the great Embiid. Take care steel go yell at some more kid fast food workers. Do what you enjoy doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteelSD
If he feels the need to retaliate, he needs to be a bit more subtle about that. He may as well have dropped the ball and nailed Reid with a right cross. IMO, he needs to sit a couple of games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boston Red
All of what you just typed is 100% between you and you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rdirtypirates
I think I am a prophet on this one - wish I was a gamblin man.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedTeamGo!
Good call. Kudos :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by RedTeamGo!
No way the Cavs can win again tonight at home?Quote:
Originally Posted by RedTeamGo!
The Pistons do seem better for sure. Cade still doesn't seem to get enough hype for some reason.
I don't see itQuote:
Originally Posted by Redsfaithful
I love the Spurs' Coach's father, but he has to two-step the San Antonio way like all before him, and it puts the same bad taste in my mouth that I always got from Popovich. Spurs players never foul and never get preferential treatment from the refs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boston Red
James Harden will go back to normal ****ty playoff Harden and the Pistons will shoot better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Redsfaithful
Ainge has the ammo to trade up to #1. It’s time to start cycling assets anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boston Red
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The Pacers are in win-now mode anyway, which is why they made the trade for Zubac. They were not going to land an immediate difference-making center in the top 4.Quote:
Originally Posted by texasdave
Yes, that trade COULD come back to haunt them, but the following must be considered:
- Mathurin is RFA, the Pacers couldn’t have kept him as well as pay a lottery pick.
- I. Jackson has been effectively replaced as a backup center with the floor- stretching Jay Huff.
So, basically, it’s two redundant players - one a RFA - a lottery pick and a 2nd round pick for a center that compliments the Haliburton core better than Myles Turner.
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How can Victor Wembanyama have played 3 full seasons in the NBA, and not know what a Flagrant 2 foul is? How is that possible?
1. That Zubac trade is looking really bad today.
2. Trading into the top four isn’t happening, but I could see Giannis being involved in some sort of top-10 deal. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Utah trade up to get Dybantsa, but tbh Peterson is a better fit for them. Same goes for AJ to Wiz. The Boozer/Wilson debate will be more interesting.
3. Relative noobs criticizing SteelSD for his Sixers takes need to gtfo. As a Knicks fan, I can attest that SD is an extremely knowledgeable NBA guy who is passionate yet even-keeled about what is likely the most frustrating team of recent memory. And he’s been mellow in this thread. Don’t be dumb.
4. I’m a dummy for saying, about a year ago, that we needed to wait to christen the Thunder as a juggernaut. They may just trade J Dubs to move up, get cheaper and younger and probably better. Rinse, repeat for the next 8 years? Ugh.
5. Go Knicks.
Good points on the Knicks high level of play, “heater” comment. I mean, when Hart goes 4-6 from 3 pt range, you know it’s not your day. AND brunson shared the ball!!! You know that’s a temporary deviation.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteelSD
Also your point on my personal goals for KAT that never reached fruition are true. At an early part of KATs career I thought he would be better than Jokic or Embiid. That turned out to be exuberantly optimistic.
But I thought a healthy 2026 Sixers team had as much talent as any team in the east. In 2 games in the regular season the Twolves they played great. I really thought a NYC - Philly series would be a war. I was disappointed in the 4-0 sweep.
Cleveland has outscored Detroit in the third quarter 23-0 and counting.
3. I have read the site sense its inception. It is the same every year with the guy. He is a grown man, he can stick up for himself. Just because I don’t post thousands of times a day doesn’t mean I am a new poster. I am not going to ruin this thread, but you aren’t privy to our past or the foul things he says, so I suggest staying out of something that has nothing to do with you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mitri
No one is beating Oklahoma City anyways.
Well I’m not a prophet afterall
Whatever the issue is, it needs to be handled privately or not at all, but definitely not in the manner that was done above.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rdirtypirates
Well, you had a higher level of hope for Philly than I did coming into the Knicks series. I am not at all surprised that they were swept. Even fully healthy (whenever that is), Embiid is about 70% of his MVP-self. Guys knees are shot. Not nearly the defensive menace he once was, and he can't constantly bang in the post lest he exacerbate those issues, and if he isn't hitting threes (and he didn't) at a reasonable clip, that's a problem given the amount of time spent playing two-man games with him as a focal point. It's great that Embiid was able to come back early from an emergency appendectomy to help with an epic comeback in the Celtics series. Good story. But damn. I mean, the random issues he goes through are just bizzare when taken as a whole. I can't point at a guy who goes through two freak fractured orbitals and an appendectomy and say, "Injury prone!", but I've had about all the bad luck I can stomach. I dunno' how Embiid keeps doing it, honestly. Mitri mentioned "frustrating" and that's it in a nutshell.Quote:
Originally Posted by Betterread
That all being said, the Sixers brass has been putting all their eggs in the highly-paid "star-hunting" basket for too long, and making bad decisions while doing it. First, it was paying Harris instead of Butler. Poo. Then it was Harden. Yeah, they got away from Simmons, but the cost...double poo. Now Paul George, who lit it up this postseason, but even doing so, he faded into the background ala Tobias Harris (Sixers version). Only averaged 12-13 shots per game. That's either a usage issue, or a Paul George issue. The former can be fixed, it the latter, it's unfixable. But both are poo. Oubre is a solid bench player, but miscast as a starter. Edgecombe is a rook- a very good rook, but a rook. Quentin Grimes was supposed to be the guy off the bench, but may have played himself out of a bigger payday this offseason. Sometimes that isn't a problem if you have the kind of depth the Knicks do, but Philly dumps players like last year's first rounder, Jared McCain, to manage to the salary cap. You have no idea how frustrating it is to see guys like Isaiah Joe and McCain produce (and McCain has barely played this postseason) for a franchise like OKC. Solid depth just given away, and too much counting on one-dimensional dudes like Adem Bona who don't really have much chance of developing a well-rounded game. Overall, the team is smallish, which explains the constant difficulty with keeping other teams off the offensive glass. They don't shoot that well overall, and don't/can't/won't (pick one/all) consistently take enough threes. They're not as physical as they need to be come playoff time, are prone to terrible quarters, and don't understand that trying to come back two points at a time when down is a death sentence. During games they use last-decade solutions, like trying to get opponents' bigs in early foul trouble, to new-age problems. I mean, battle won, war lost. That type of crap. Also firmly frustrating.
I'm sure at some later date, I'll have some thoughts on how to fix it. But right now, they're mired in salary cap hell, so the first step would probably be to figure out how to get out of that without dealing either Maxey or Edgecombe. Everyone else is fair game.
lol me neither. Spida was bonkers in that second half.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedTeamGo!