NBA Thread: Time to Get Buck

Am I stupid thinking Aaron Gordon is really fucking good and maybe a borderline top 30ish player in the league

 

Same trend w Jimmy two years in a row . Terrifying to see in the first round where he looks like a Top 3 player but gets worse every round

 

I think they’re fine the way it is.

 

He played one of the greatest finals games in history in the bubble

 

dp

 

???????? He had 46 in game 6 in the ECF and followed that up with 35 in game 7 in 2022.

 

One more.

Nugg

 

It definitely is, it takes some amount of skill/reactions to stop the pass with a kick, so I think they should just leave it in the game.

 

Probably a stretch but he's fucking elite at his role. He embraced it and it's paid off huge for him

 

What's gonna mean more, your basketball team winning it all in 2023 or your basketball team winning it all in 2016?

 

hard to tell but perfect fit alongside Jokic , gets easy looks

 

Not stupid, but that's more than a bit much, IMO. I think he's borderline top 50. And that's fine.

 

He was 5-21 in Game 6 with 24 pts
He had 28 in game 7

 

I was referring to ‘22

 

Weird Murray game. 5-17 and seemed like he forced a lot of those trying to get himself going, but 12 assists and 0 turnovers while being hounded and doubled the entire game.

 

Gotcha

 

They sold out to stop him and other guys stepped up. He also missed some looks he's been making but overall he was fine imo

 

I think the Heat fans that aren't known trolls are fine, upstanding contributors to the NBA thread. And the known trolls are pretty easy to ignore if you want to.

 

That's like asking to pick your favorite child

 

I thought he was really good. Just a kind of a weird performance and normally when guys get frustrated a bit and force some of the shots he did, it also shows up in turnovers but he was money in the playmaking area all night. Especially fighting through all the contact he faced.

 

Series isn't over but I'm in disbelief that this is happening

 

brilliant move, posted in the 3rd that the MPJ minutes would decide if they can close this and Malone didn’t give him a chance to screw it up

 

Malone has been lights out this playoffs. So happy he's proven to have the chops because he seems like a great dude

 

Jokic was fucking great on defense tonight

 

I think the more telling thing was Green played instead of MPJ during the entire stretch with Jokic on the bench in the fourth.

And I thought MPJ was fine tonight. He adjusted and made himself more available and got a bunch of good shots. They just didn't go in. He was also a factor on the glass even though the rebounding total doesn't show it.

 

That’s been the move for 3 games now tbh

 

Yeah, that tweet's a bit much. Brown has played 27, 29 and 30 minutes the last three games. MPJ has played 26, 21 and 23.

 

I think it doesn’t matter that much because the better team keeps blowing out the Heat.

 

Going back to this, the combination of Gordon's makes and Bam's 6 foot floater misses felt 5-6 point swings sometimes tonight. Just back breaking stuff for Miami all night.

And I feel for Bam because he's basically the only reason Miami is getting any of the stops they get on D, and he's having to then go the other way and take 20 shots and create a ton of offense for them, too. Don't think anyone else in the series has more on their plate than he does and he's just not quite good enough offensively to pull it off. And I'm not sure who could be, to be honest.

 

Unless Miami burns the nets from 3 in game 5, it’s over.

It’s telling that if the four possible outcomes in a game -blowout or close win by either team - the most likely in this series were.

Denver blowout


Miami close W





Denver close W







MG2 posting positively about Lebron/showing emotion






Miami blowout

I wish we could have traded Struss and Gabe after the ECF

 

but the timing w the closing lineup . In Game 3 it was Braun getting extended minutes that were very impactful

 

I can think of one person

 

Miami blowout too low, IMO.

 

Not really getting the Jimmy criticism. His ankle is the size of a grapefruit right now.

 

Probably stuffing his sock or wrapping his ankle heavy.

 

Nah

 

Why would you even be happy for the refs fucking the Nuggs? Don’t you want the Spo coached Heat to lose?

 

Vehemently disagree

 

when you die your tombstone will read "flopping apologist"

 

Strus has been comically bad

 

Aaron Gordon has guarded KAT, KD, LeBron, and Butler in these playoffs. Dude is fucking legit as a defender

 

Flopologism is my religion