2024 NBA Playoffs: First Round

[daddywags]

The difference is significantly more stark when adjusting for efficiency.

Kyrie scores 1.47 per shot
Don 1.15

IMO that's part of the problem. Why is Garland taking only 11 shots in a playoff game? And then he says we need to push the pace more! If we want to win in the playoffs Garland cannot just be a guy who dribbles around a lot looking for fancy alley-oop opportunities.

 

[foucault87]

The game is considerably easier when u have luka or lebron setting you up

 

[Deezus]

Hard not to like this team.

Hard disagree.

 

[Deezus]

They blew the 31 point lead, rebuilt an 11 point lead in the 4th, lost that too, then won pretty easily. Mavs have no answer for Harden

"This Harden" will exist for a small subset of games, then fade out or get injured as he always does. Mavs will win this series. If (Big IF!) Harden stays healthy and they beat the Mavs, I still think LAC lose to OKC, Denver and T-Wolves. So... in my book they are, at best, the 4th best team in the west, maybe 5th.

We saw what happened when Kyrie was the #1 in Boston like Mitchell was in Utah and it wasn't good. Don would look phenomenal if he played with Doncic or KD or LeBron.

Just for clarity - Are you arguing that Mitchell is better than Irving right now?

 

[bushwick_bill]

This must have been a wild train ride back to Manhattan...

 

[Pierre Pan]

Pacers up 14 with 7 minutes and change left over a Milwaukee squad without Giannis, Dame and Portis who got ejected early

 

[Tlyons]

Yall comparing a Mitchell who is clearly nursing a knee injury with a healthier Kyrie is weird.

 

[Tlyons]

I'll be enjoying KD getting swept again tonight.

 

[daddywags]

Even missing their two best players, Milwaukee still has two guys with 25+ points tonight. In four games the Cavs haven't had two players with 20+ points even once. That's not all on the coach.

 

[CBBI]

It's kind of crazy that New York is shooting just 43.0% for the series so far and is still up 3-1.

The Knicks have just absolutely murdered Philly all series long on the offensive glass. 61 offensive rebounds in 4 games is just an absurd total.

 

[bushwick_bill]

 

[bushwick_bill]

 

[2 For The Brew]

It's kind of crazy that New York is shooting just 43.0% for the series so far and is still up 3-1.

The Knicks have just absolutely murdered Philly all series long on the offensive glass. 61 offensive rebounds in 4 games leading to over 19 second chance points per game,

Embiid is nowhere near 100% and Tobias Harris sucks. They really don’t have a big or any rebounder at all outside of Joel.

 

[daddywags]

It's kind of crazy that New York is shooting just 43.0% for the series so far and is still up 3-1.

The Knicks have just absolutely murdered Philly all series long on the offensive glass. 61 offensive rebounds in 4 games is just an absurd total.

Isaiah freaking Hartenstein has 14 of them.

 

[MirORich]

Fuck the Suns but people making this content need to be honest about the difference between and owed pick and a pick swap.

The Suns will absolutely have a first round pick every other year during that period. It’s just a question of whether it’s their owns or another teams.

Same as the Cavs with Utah. We didn’t trade them 5 consecutive firsts, leaving us with zero firsts.

We have our own first this year + either our first or Utah’s first in 2026 and 2028