24 minutes ago, TheDeuce said:

Woke up to LeSwept missing a game winning shot AND crying about the officials in the press conference... LOL

LeBron was frigging balling in the fourth quarter. He then missed as wide-open of a shot as he had all game and that was all she wrote. You get an A game from LeBron, AD, and D-Lo, and it is still not enough. That has to be psychologically demoralizing with it now being 10 in a row the Lakers have dropped to the Nuggets. Hamm and LeBron both complaining about the refs. Rich, coming from the team that gets to the line as much as they do. It wreaks of desperation because as the Denver faithful like to remind the Lakers, they are their daddies.

Jokic is a blast to watch. AD had as much success as you can against the Joker, but in each game he breaks the code and finds a way to win. I hope people are appreciating the greatness we are witnessing with his game. 27, 22, and 10 last night. Ho hum.

 

22 minutes ago, bugatti said:

LeBron was frigging balling in the fourth quarter. He then missed as wide-open of a shot as he had all game and that was all she wrote. You get an A game from LeBron, AD, and D-Lo, and it is still not enough. That has to be psychologically demoralizing with it now being 10 in a row the Lakers have dropped to the Nuggets. Hamm and LeBron both complaining about the refs. Rich, coming from the team that gets to the line as much as they do. It wreaks of desperation because as the Denver faithful like to remind the Lakers, they are their daddies.

Jokic is a blast to watch. AD had as much success as you can against the Joker, but in each game he breaks the code and finds a way to win. I hope people are appreciating the greatness we are witnessing with his game. 27, 22, and 10 last night. Ho hum.

 

Joker is a beast and I don't think the masses really realize how good he is. 

42 minutes ago, TheDeuce said:

Joker is a beast and I don't think the masses really realize how good he is. 

The guy looks like he can’t jump over the Maysville phone book.  And is the most complete player in the game. 

10 minutes ago, mcpapa said:

The guy looks like he can’t jump over the Maysville phone book.  And is the most complete player in the game. 

Maysville probably still has a phone book, doesn't it? LOL

3 hours ago, bugatti said:

LeBron was frigging balling in the fourth quarter. He then missed as wide-open of a shot as he had all game and that was all she wrote. You get an A game from LeBron, AD, and D-Lo, and it is still not enough. That has to be psychologically demoralizing with it now being 10 in a row the Lakers have dropped to the Nuggets. Hamm and LeBron both complaining about the refs. Rich, coming from the team that gets to the line as much as they do. It wreaks of desperation because as the Denver faithful like to remind the Lakers, they are their daddies.

Jokic is a blast to watch. AD had as much success as you can against the Joker, but in each game he breaks the code and finds a way to win. I hope people are appreciating the greatness we are witnessing with his game. 27, 22, and 10 last night. Ho hum.

 

The Lakers can't play any better than that, and they still lost.

On 4/17/2024 at 9:30 AM, bugatti said:

This morning I bought tickets for game 2 of the Suns/Wolves series.

Update. It was awesome.

The refs took it to the Lakers again last night, causing them to lose a first-half double-digit lead.

Despite Jokic picking up two fouls five minutes into the game, you could feel by mid-second quarter the inevitable was going to happen. It was cracking me up before the series started people were giving LAL a legitimate shot to win this series. Did people not watch these teams throughout the year? The cohesiveness of that starting five is on a whole different level than anything else in the league. I could see the Lakers stealing game 4 with a hot shooting effort with no pressure on the line. But if they exchange haymakers early on, the Lakers will fold like a cheap tent and it'll be 1-2-3-Cancun and LeBron will arrive at the press conference in a cast and float his retirement.

Knicks D at the end of this game has been worse than Ky, NO way this game should’ve got to OT!!

1 hour ago, 16thBBall Fan said:

Knicks D at the end of this game has been worse than Ky, NO way this game should’ve got to OT!!

Same thing happened to the 76er's in one of the earlier games in the series that they lost.

10 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Same thing happened to the 76er's in one of the earlier games in the series that they lost.

That is correct. It should be 3-2 Knicks and it is. However, the officials played a role in game 2 in the Philly loss and this one last night was pretty much on the Knicks players and coach.

2 hours ago, 16thBBall Fan said:

That is correct. It should be 3-2 Knicks and it is. However, the officials played a role in game 2 in the Philly loss and this one last night was pretty much on the Knicks players and coach.

I give all the credit to the 76ers on that win. The Knicks didn't lose that game. Philly won it by making big plays at the end.

36 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

I give all the credit to the 76ers on that win. The Knicks didn't lose that game. Philly won it by making big plays at the end.

We will agree to disagree once again. McBride for the Knicks was right beside Maxey all the way up the court and had about 3 to 4 seconds to foul in the back court before Maxey hit the 35' three pointer to tie the game. It was a very tough shot but it is not harder than hitting the first FT then intentionally missing the 2nd one and then getting the rebound and scoring to tie the game that way. 

12 minutes ago, 16thBBall Fan said:

We will agree to disagree once again. McBride for the Knicks was right beside Maxey all the way up the court and had about 3 to 4 seconds to foul in the back court before Maxey hit the 35' three pointer to tie the game. It was a very tough shot but it is not harder than hitting the first FT then intentionally missing the 2nd one and then getting the rebound and scoring to tie the game that way. 

I would be interested in seeing the foul or don't foul stats for the NBA with timeouts allowing teams to advance the ball to half court and other factors. My guess is foul with 4 seconds or less up by 3, versus 8 seconds in college.

Hum the Knicks did not take any chance for Maxey to hit another 3 tonight and fouled for sure this time. Coach Tibs in his presser yesterday said he told them to foul Tuesday but was not communicated properly. 

37 minutes ago, 16thBBall Fan said:

Hum the Knicks did not take any chance for Maxey to hit another 3 tonight and fouled for sure this time. Coach Tibs in his presser yesterday said he told them to foul Tuesday but was not communicated properly. 

Fouled at 11 seconds. Did not foul the next two times the 76ers touched the ball. Again, mistake by the players because the coach wanted them to foul.