Around the NBA - the 2020 Playoff Edition!

Jokic is a great player. He truly makes his teammates better. (Although he still travels on a lot of plays)
Murray can shoot no doubt. But they will get beat the same way we did by the Lakers.

Paul George is still overrated. He is good, just not great. But he is not mentally tough IMO.
Not sure what happened to Kawai. I have never seen him shoot so bad.

I wanted the Clips to win because they had the best chance to beat the Lakers. But I do enjoy watching PG, Doc, and Beverly lose.
How good would Toronto be again this year with Kawhi?

 

OK maybe they can win 2 games. Maybe.

 

All of that being said, you've got the Lakers beating the Nuggets right?

 

LOL at the Clippers. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving group of guys

 

They lack a true leader. Toronto had leaders so Kawhi did not need to be. PG is definitely not one.

 

Facts: Denver will demolish us next season until we sign or trade for some players that will help Dame.

 

Pat Beverley needs to be gone from that team. Paul George isn’t a second on a title team, and when he was laughing at Dame with Beverley after the FTs it was obviously something you shouldn’t do as a real threat for a title.

Bob Whitsitt didn’t believe in chemistry, either.

 

It’s time to consolidate everything for another star. You get 2 real stars and other serviceable players will come. I’d offer Nurk, Collins, CJ, Trent and 2 1s for Giannis.

I’d like to give Dame a real chance.

 

Lou was MIA all series. That has nothing to do with chemistry it's about making layins.

 

I'm so conflicted.... I hate Nuggets fans..... but I don't want LeBron/AD to get the Lakers another ring. I guess I will root for Denver and then ultimately whoever comes out of the East.

 

We coulda had this guy over Zach Collins since Olshey wanted a big so damn bad

 

I wish the Blazers had a coach like Mike Malone. Get me a coach who will run our entire offense through Nurk. Until we do, we won't see the full potential of the Blazers.

 

I’m willing to bet having Dame and Giannis on our roster would make filling out the rotation pretty easy. It would create the most interest in our team from FAs maybe ever.

 

We need to find that one coach who could beat the great Mike Malone in an elimination game. Malone has been superior to Pop, Rivers, and Synder head to head in elimination games. What coach out there has the chops to take him down in a Game 7 even when his best player doesn't have a great game?

 

Kyle Lowry?

 

Well, if they did that trade I think what we would get coming back to us, to make salaries match is Giannis (obviously), Brook Lopez and George Hill. That would mean we would have Dame starting at PG, we would probably need to use the entire MLE to get a starting SG, Ariza would likely start at SF, Giannis PF, BroLo C, Hill off of the bench at both guard spots, hopefully Hood to backup on the wing, maybe Wenyen backing up Giannis, hopefully we get some contributions from Nas and Ant, maybe as some in here have said Melo would come back at the vet min plus the non-bird exception (an additional 25%) giving us some quality offense off the bench at both forward positions and then the rest of the team would get filled with ring chasers willing to take the min. Oh and I guess since we'd be desperate for quality off of the bench, we might even go into the tax by using our bird rights on Hassan (although that might be tricky because that would most likely mean we could only use the tax payer MLE instead of the full one to get a quality starting SG unless we just went small with Dame and Hill). After all of that we better hope that we make a serious run at a championship and that Giannis and Dame become besties so we get to re-sign Giannis to a super max.

 

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If the Heat let him go, let's bring him on! Until then, let's stick with the one coach who could beat Malone in an elimination game.