2015 NBA 'OFFS

Beal stayed in

that 4th quarter collapse was very celtics-esque :[

Paul Pierce isn't soft either, it's more about being really dramatic

oh I guess Beal came out with like 30 seconds left whatever

"The Grizzlies and The Spurs come up next," man Reggie Miller was right about this being the most unpredictable playoffs

ugh ... mark jackson again?

warriors are gonna cruise to third round, memphis bout to be exposed

dubs have an answer for every attack it is a thing of beauty

Z Bo, what an artist

It's hard to believe he's the same guy who played on the Knicks

ugh ... mark jackson again?

― polyphonic, Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:33 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like hes been more subdued recently wonder whats going on in his life

yeah he seems p chill

okay now he's defending mayweather lol

Mark Jackson saying he's seen all of the greatest boxers in history.

Would love to hear Mark break down the Joe Gans vs. Benny Leonard debate

assertive tony allen!

they shd put tony allen on steph all series just to amuse us

I watch about 1000000 NBA games each season and just had to change the channel during a playoff game because of Mark Jackson

just mute it man!

haha this trollish tony allen booing is hilarious

ugh - hawks shooting was a big issue w/ the nets, chalked it up to horford and milsap injuries but was hoping they'd shook it off w/ game 6. hawks d i can't explain, losing thabo hurts yeah but he missed a huge chunk of the season when they were fine w/o him. i was hoping we'd at least make ecf cuz that would be the best the atlanta hawks have ever done and was ecstatic when the bulls ended up on the cavs side of the bracket cuz it would weaken whoever did make it to the ecf plus we owned the nets and wizards all season. now, not so much. this team was unlikely to win a championship as composed and i've been wondering what moves they could and should make. i love pg's and i love teague but i'll admit when i watched the clips and wiz play this year i was coveting pretty hard. paul esp haunting cuz that's the one time i found looking at past drafts over the past 30 or so years where the hawks really blew it (not counting cases where everybody blew it like the spurs w/ manu and parker or something), i thought maybe it was the case w/ the lebron draft cuz that draft was so crazy loaded and we traded our pick but even there we only would've gotten like tj ford or something. it was super well known the fans wanted paul and that team at the time desperately needed a pg even. anyway i'll be there for game 2, maybe we can turn it around.

losing thabo hurts yeah but he missed a huge chunk of the season when they were fine w/o him.

― balls, Sunday, May 3, 2015 8:34 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They were fine without him, but certainly not as good, right?

"By no means am I Dr. Benjamin Carson." - Jalen Rose, on his lack of medical expertise

they went 17-13 in games he didn't play... xp holy shit Jalen

yikes, didn't realize their record was that bad w/o him. could've sworn he went out around the time of the streak.

thabo played 20mins a game for the hawks for 50 games this season doubt he was v key either way

otto porter has turned into a professional basketball player

worth noting hawks are performing somewhere in the neighborhood of what most ppl wld prob guess based on their roster

ben carson btw is one of the most accomplished living physicians in the world and revered by the black community, no amount of bullshit conservative politics are gonna reverse that

thabo played 20mins a game for the hawks for 50 games this season doubt he was v key either way

― lag∞n, Sunday, May 3, 2015 8:51 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

their offense was almost exactly the same with him on the floor and their defense was dramatically better with him on the floor. We can try to find explanations for that which aren't Thabo based but it is what it is.

we can try to connect that to observations abt the winning % with or without him... or not :)

idk what you mean by that

youre making two observations
1.the hawks defense was better while he was in the game
2. the hawks record was better while he healthy

are those two things related or no

was thabos 20mins of good D a game the cause of the hawks going on an insane tear

maybe he shdve been starting

maybe he shdve been on the allstar team

personally i think they were just clicking and playing over their heads

nah, other than demarre who's really kept us alive the past few games i'd say the rest of the starting five is underperforming either due to injuries (horford + milsap), teams focusing on them + possible regression (korver), or who knows (teague). i still think sub out teague for wall and strengthen up the bench and this team is a legit title contender.

They were essentially the same on offense when he was in the game, significantly better on defense, and more likely to win the game when he was active. As I said there's ways to explain this without admitting that Thabo was important to them but it's an argument made from behind the 8 ball and would take some legwork.

he also had 2 significant injuries this season, so you have to argue that this coincidence happened twice.

so youre saying that thabo is the key to the hawks current slide or naw

his 20mins a game of good D

**drudge siren**

DAVID LEE SIGHTING

but it's an argument made from behind the 8 ball and would take some legwork.

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, May 3, 2015 5:06 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmaoooo

they're in the second round of the playoffs and just lost a close game, they aren't being demoted to the D League

they r playing a lot worse then they were earlier in the season

right but that decline almost exactly coincided with Thabo's first injury so that's a problem for your position that you actually have to come up with evidence to dispute beyond lmao

when it happened I was like whatever bazemore is fine but that hasn't panned out

whats that expression about coronation?

lol correlation