The OFFICIAL 2013 NBA Playoffs Thread

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  1. KingSpeed

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    What's disheartening is that we'd be in the playoffs if we picked up Chris Anderson and Kenyon Martin who were sitting around all season waiting for someone to sign them.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Yeah... and then we'd be swept out in the first round, we'd have no draft pick, and we would only have two weeks more of a shitty season that needed to end.
     
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  3. KingSpeed

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    I disagree. With guys like that, we could've gotten the 6th seed and competed like the Warriors are doing right now.
     
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    Meanwhile, Harrison Fucking Barnes is flourishing in the playoffs tonight.
     
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  5. KingSpeed

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    It wouldn't have been a shitty season if we had depth. We were 20-15 early in the year with no bench. If we had a bench, we would've kept playing like that. Plus Anderson would solve our interior defense problems.
     
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    Neither the Clippers or Warriors would've made the playoffs with our bench.
     
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    NOVoodoo Kickin it in 2525

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    I see you on the reverse Barnes...

    20 pts on 8-12 FG, 4 rbs, 2 dimes, 0 TO's

    Impressive for his second ever playoff game.

    EDIT:

    Final line for Barnes - 24 pts (9-14 FG), 6 rbs, 2 ast, 0 TO's
     
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    Funny I was thinking just the opposite. I turned the game on half way thought the 3 qt and never saw one for Denver play. Here Denver has 3 centers on their team and because of match ups, (and the score) couldn't get them back in the game.

    Hmm I wonder if they intentionally tanked this game.
     
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    Tanked? Their opponent shot 51-79, including 14 threes. The Warriors just couldn't miss.

    Even the Thunder or Heat would have lost to the Warriors in this one tonight. The Nuggets only lost three games all season at home. They're still probably going to win this series, and they're going to be a tough out in the playoffs, largely because of that size, as well as their depth, but Thompson, Curry, and Jack were just unconscious from the perimeter tonight.
     
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    I was joking. The Blazers were accused for tanking their last game against the warriors because they did not put LMA back in the game in the 4th.

    In a similar situation, Karl also never put his two bigs back in the game after mid way through the 3rd qtr
     
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    Gotya... guess that's the kind of subtext I miss out on posting on a Blazers forum as a fan of another team...

    If I were a Spurs fan though, I'd really be rooting for the Warriors right now. The Nuggets are a bad matchup for the top teams in the West, and it just so happens that they drew a team that can get hot from the perimeter and take them out before they get to the top seeds.
     
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  12. Run BJM

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    I like my chances as a Dubs fan. I know the Nugs only lost 3 at home all year. But they preyed a lot on tired teams on long road trips and back to backs. The W's BARELY lost the first game and whooped ass in Denver in the second game. Its a bad matchup for Denver for a few reasons. Firstly, Denver is highly successful because they're a very good rebounding team. However the Warriors are the #1 defensive rebounding team. They're not going to get killed too bad on the offensive glass and it takes away part of Denver's strength. Lee's absence hurts, but Faried being injured/out neutralizes that.

    Secondly, Denver loves to run. GS doesn't have athletes like Denver, but I've yet to see a team this year whose strategy was to run, run, run against us. Golden State is a jump shooting team, but its not necessarily a condemning trait like it may normally be because they're just so fucking good at jumpshooting. GS shot 65% tonight partly because they sprung their outside shooters on the break. Typically the opposition tries to muddle the game, if Denver wants to run because thats "their game", thats perfectly fine by me.

    The Warriors shot great tonight, but IMO the elite defensive teams wouldn't let them shoot that well. This was a road game in Denver. They're a great shooting team, but they're not that good. Denver wants to run, and that plays to GS's advantage just as much as theirs. They think they can still pound us in the paint, but so far that has not been the case at all. We'll see if they do any better in Oakland.
     
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    Good points all around. Don't really have a dog in the race myself, except for the off-chance that the Grizz make it out alive and wind up playing Denver, that'd be our worst nightmare. Like I said (or was trying to allude to I guess), Denver is probably the worst match-up for the top seeds, for the reasons you've mentioned, and Spurs fans should be rooting hard for ya'll.

    As far as the defensive rebounding statistic goes though, doesn't that take a huge hit once you take Lee out of the lineup? The small ball worked well tonight because the shooting was unreal (and I wouldn't even say that an "elite defensive team wouldn't let them shoot that well," because these guys were just draining difficult shot after difficult shot), but do you think that's going to be sustainable in a seven game series once Denver makes adjustments heading into Oakland? I mean, McGee, Koufos, and Mozgov played a combined 28 minutes tonight, and it obviously didn't work. It should be interesting to see how they approach game three match-up wise.
     
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  14. Run BJM

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    They won't shoot like that every night, that's true. Klay's been on a steady tear lately. Curry ended up having one of those games after a slow start. Shit Draymond and Richard Jefferson got 3's in this game. But if Denver wants to keep running, which is their game, the Warriors' FG% will be good. Maybe not 65% but high.

    Gotta mention that after winning the head coaching matchup in game one, Karl really baffled me a few times in this game. He continued to run and not play bigger lineups even when it wasn't working. I kind of get that. Denver is the favorite and its their game, hes not going to shy away from his teams style of play. Faried gets in the game but it wasn't until late in the 3rd IIRC. Why put him in at all if you're not going to use him until then? And then one play in particular where Barnes had the ball on the wing about 19 feet from the hoop, this wasn't even a true iso, and they throw a double team at him before he even puts the ball on the floor. He escapes baseline, barely, and on the far corner is Curry literally with no one within 15 feet of him and Klay is at the elbow with a defender about 10 feet away. I get that he wanted to be aggressive and maybe surprise Barnes, it almost worked, but you leave Steph Curry and Klay wide fugging open for spot up attempts because you wanted to double Harrison (fucking) Barnes? WTF kind of logic is that?

    We'll see how the rebounding plays out. First game we outrebounded them but that was +David Lee and -Faried. We outrebounded them tonight, but they were smallish and didn't have a lot of chances to get boards given the way we shot. Like I said, so far we haven't gotten murdered on the glass. I applaud Mark Jackson for actually going small with the starting unit by inserting Jack instead of Landry. The Nuggets were still starting Chandler and it looked like the Faried returning report was a bluff (Karl's been sort of sheisty this series). Bogut vs. Koufos is a fugging win for us, Barnes can handle Chandler and then its Lawson/Fornier/Iggy vs Curry/Jack/Klay. I'll those matchups rebounding and defensively. Then off the bench its LAndry vs. Faried and Ezeli vs. McGee. Again, I trust those guys to be competitive on the glass, though I don't expect them to outboard these dudes.
     
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    I think the Warriors will take this series. David Lee may be out, but Denver is still more banged up than Golden State.
     
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    Coach Karl must have one of the worst playoff records. I maybe wrong, but it always seems he never does well in the playoffs.
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    In fairness, he had CarMElo for several years. He did OK in Seattle and Milwaukee.
     
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    Golden State "losing" David Lee has turned the series in their favor.

    Should we have taken Festus Ezeli instead of Meyers Leonard?
     
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    Ironically he did well as Golden State's head coach too in the playoffs. (The Sleepy Floyd year.)
    I believe they upset the Jazz that year.
     
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