OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA THREAD -May 2021

Knicks have been bad on offense all year

Lakers have been too, but at least they have the excuse of missing lebron and Schroder

I still don't think any teams really fear playing the Lakers enough to try and finesse their seeding. Lakers looked dominant most of last season. They've looked dominant this year for about two weeks and that was more than 3 months ago

 

If LeBron comes back tomorrow and is playing even at 80%, we'll be headed to the play-ins. With LeBron added to the team that just beat the Knicks why should we think they'll lose to any of the weak ass teams they have left to play and at the same time, why should we think we'll beat two out of the three tough teams we have left?

 

I’m being 100% real about the positive. You’re being 100% about the negative. Who’s having the most fun?

 

Three way tie we get the 6th seed

 

No. We’re 6th in 3way tie since we beat Lakers.

 

Common sense like all the people who said we’d be 10 seed? Was that 100% real?

 

Dude, he’s played full game in the last two months (a loss to injured Kings) and he’s hardly played with Drummond at all. I don’t think it’s as easy as you think, esp against a desperate team like Indiana.

 

Got it, I saw something before the Lakers game that showed us 7th if a three way tie. Didn't realize it was before that Lakers win.

 

if its a 3 way tie, Blazers get 6th seed...best winning% among tied teams is 2nd tiebreak after division winner. Good thing because lakers have better conference record than Portland

 

Flip won 2 Western Conference finals games with the Wolves in 2004 against the Lakers.

 

People thought it was common sense to think that way.

 

I don't know, I'm having a lot of fun. Like I said, this isn't my life and I'm under no delusion that our team is going to win the whole thing this season. So maybe what I think will happen happens and we go out in a bad way in the first round and I get to believe I know some shit about this game, maybe it goes more your way and I get to hang out and watch our team make some kind of run or maybe it goes worse and we end up actually thinking about guys in this draft or using a first rounder to upgrade a guy who's already on the roster.

I love this game and this team but I only really get completely wrapped up in it when we have a realistic shot or games are on the line. So for me it's just game to game until we actually have a legit contender... which we don't currently have. Sorry.

 

no doubt because if we've learned anything over the past 18 seasons is that it's safe to bet against Lebron

 

You’ll see.

 

3 of those seasons he didn’t make playoffs and he’s pretty old now. Something is seriously wrong with him. If he could play, he would’ve played the game against us.

 

maybe

the more realistic thinking is: Lakers desperately want that week off much more than they are worried about the Clippers. And...NOBODY wants to have a 7/8 play-in game against Curry and the Warriors

 

We'll all see, that's the beauty of it and even though I think you're kidding yourself and you think I'm 100% negative (which is funny because I'm a pretty big homer) neither of our predictions mean anything because we'll see definitive results.

 

I don’t make predictions. I just call shit like I see it. Chris is the prediction guy. He had us at 11-3 to finish season. He might be right.