It is the years 2018-19 in the National Basketball Association (NBA) - The Regular Season

the rockets really are not losing to anyone but GSW in the west imo

they lost a bunch of wing defense tho, cp3 hasnt been healthy etc

i think anyone can lose to anyone this year no team has been dominant all have many ???

like literally the only team in the league that has played at a consistent championship level is milwaukee and their roster/style def has some playoff issues

does it?

having the best player in the league and a bunch of shooters seems like a good playoff formula

they're all hurt right now not a good place to be a couple weeks before the offs

brook lopez leads their team in 3pt makes prob unplayable in the offs, mirotic and brodgon are injured and mirotic cld be unplayable anyway, bledsoe is a coward

how is lopez unplayable in the offs?? where do you come up with this stuff lol

the injuries obv not the best timing but they’ll skate thru the first round anyway

youve watched the playoff before right

in the nba

he’s a totally different player now, the most deadly shooting 7 footer in the game and plays solid D, plus has giannis playing next to him

if theyre playing a team that can put him in the high pnr hes toast, over and over

thats just playoff stuff u have guy who gets big regular season minutes who cant see the floor due to matchup ups

for instance kyrie/horford wld just shred him until he sits, not every playoff team has the right combo of guys but its not that hard to exploit him

you’re really reaching, in all likelihood partly from homerism/wishful thinking which is cute, but not every player is andre roberson

only all nba players are playable in the offs now

i think most players are andre roberson

this literally the thing that happens in the playoffs every year man, player weakness get picked on i mean toronto def cld make it happen v lopez w any number of combos philly shd be able to but theyre kinda a mess, mirotic basically same deal

playoffs really favor well rounded players over specialists which is cool

also obvs half court O becomes more important as transition D tightens up

stacked rosters like the teams the bucks will see from the second round on are gonna be difficult for them, no place to hide guys

the good news for them is none of those teams have really been executing that well up to this point but still 7 game series playoff adjustments no one is safe

if giannis cld shoot might be a different story

i don't think the bucks are more explouitable than any other team the concern there is health

the health situation def compounds it but bucks have given a bunch of minutes to guys w big defensive weaknesses this year

like what wld they even do with embiid

prob have to put giannis on him, wld watch

i'd just let lopez and embiid bang in the post and see how it goes. the sixers don't run pick and roll with embiid so brook shouldn't have to move around much.

joel is so fast tho feel like he cld just face brook up from the elbow and its over

foul him out in the 1st half

however joel/sixers figuring that out is not a given

yeah maybe, joel hasn't really optimized his iso game.

embiid is sitting the next few games again. that team has only played like 7 games together with their new roster...

yeah i wld def not pick the sixers to beat the bucks they are a mess, but still from a roster pov its not very hard to scheme v the bucks, raps/celtics/sixers all have a ton of dangerous versatile players and the bucks do not, the bucks have the best player tho

middleton has low key been a chucker this year too

any one of the top four east teams wouldnt be a surprise to me in the least. i think coaching will play a big role and all the coaches have their issues. the gap between the best player on all four of those teams isnt that big imo.

philly i think doesnt have it, after that idk

i kinda like toronto but idk

i know i might seem insane for continuing to believe in the celtics but one thing i have factored into my calculations that other ppl itt may have not is when big horf starts yelling, it affects the whole formula

also keeping morris'/terrys minutes to ~15 each

feel like theyre about to go all in on the defensive baynes/horf/jayson/smarty/kyrie lineup which is a pretty left field late season adjust but hey the other stuff hasnt been working and i can see the logic

also feel like the offs have become even further detached from the logic of the regular season via teams resting guys all the time

philly's depth is just so bad. i don't think they can survive a series if their top 5 guys are all playing 40 minutes a night

what's the Jimmy being a weirdo factor lately or has he settled down?

He was on hot ones recently seemed normal. Seems to be saying all the right things and trying to fit into the team system. I reckon he’ll be good in the offs

they use him as "a closer"

Not a bad strategy really.

its pretty perfect considering embiid tends to get pooped at the end of games