2018-2019 NBA Season Thread : The One Where the Spurs Miss the Playoffs

[Andalusian girls]

i don't think the game of thrones finale is going to live up to this game

[archibaldcrane]

Bleh

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[Krandor]

Meyers Leonard is an offensive machine.

[Moss]

Meyers Leonard is an offensive machine.

The fact that he is relevant in the conference finals against one of the best teams of all time makes me unspeakably happy

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[Krandor]

[Andalusian girls]

Meyers Leonard is a big dumb lug and I don't trust him

[Andalusian girls]

good game tho

[Krandor]

Draymond draining a 3 is just so demoralizing

[Krandor]

Props to the Blazers. No one even saw them making it past OKC after Nurkic went down, just reaching the WCF was big.

Three straight blown big ass leads tho, ouch.

[KuroTsuki]

Holy fuck, my brother and I chose the wrong game to go to lol. We went to game 3 and we would've had section 1 seats for this one. Anyway, great game, and first time in NBA playoffs? for teammates to get a triple double in same game.

[Andalusian girls]

Props to the Blazers. No one even saw them making it past OKC after Nurkic went down, just reaching the WCF was big.

Three straight blown big ass leads tho, ouch.

big ups in getting swept by a team missing their best player and starting center you did exponentially worse than the Clippers one love

[Akiyama]

They're the same team, it feels like, as they were pre-KD too, where big leads should be non-existent because jesus christ their firepower just goes off. Only way to win, at this point, as it was, is if Klay/Steph just go ice cold.

I assume they may get KD back for the finals and Imma be real; I kinda don't want him to come back bc this version of the team is far more fun to watch.

[Krandor]

KD in isolation is one of the most devastating offensive weapons in maybe the history of the NBA, but the Dubs are just so much entertaining to watch when they unleash the the Steph/Dray PnRs and wild out on the ball movement.

[Akiyama]

Yeah, I see folks trying to undermine how good KD is, and he's great, but the Warriors don't seem to lose much without him, given their overall record without him is something like 32-1? I don't know where I heard the stat, but it's nuts.

[Melena]

An even more bizarre stat imo is the fact last nights overtime win was the first OT win for the Warriors this season. They were 0-6 in OT games including playoffs prior.

[Krandor]

The wins without KD stat is a little skewed because a good chunk of those games are either A) he's resting because they're playing a bad team, or B) it happened during the Toaster streak.

Some other fun stats - Steph set the record for points scored in a best of 7 sweep (146 points, Shaq had the record at 145)

Also for the first time since the 84-85 season, the top 5 picks in the draft made up the All Rookie first team.

[Moss]

Huerter on the second team LEGGO

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[Andalusian girls]

robbed Mikal's spot smdh

[Krandor]

All-NBA

First team: Stephen Curry, James Harden, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Nikola Jokic, Paul George.
Second team: Damian Lillard, Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid, Kawhi Leonard, Kyrie Irving.
Third team: Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin, LeBron James, Rudy Gobert, Kemba Walker.

Giannis, Dame, and Kemba are Supermax eligible now, and notably Klay Thompson and Bradley Beal are not

Edit : the contract the Bucks could offer Giannis next summer would be 5 year, 247.3 mil. Like goddamn.

[Krandor]

Also Marvin Bagley and D Wade got All-NBA votes, which is hilarious.

Edit : lol and Jordan Bell. Also Embiid was on 101 of the 100 ballots.