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see a clearly not that good team just get hot from deep and win the chip sometime soon

I'm not worried about that happening at all, let alone soon. The playoffs have four rounds of seven game series. For a "clearly not that good" team to win out though all four series, including the Finals, they would have to be pretty good in reality, not just randomly 'hot'. The team might be a fairly low seed because of a poor regular season, whether it was due to injuries or just a failure to coalesce early, but you don't collect 16 wins in the playoffs against the best teams in the league without coming together as a good team, playing good hoops.

are there any examples of a "clearly not that good" team winning a championship? the 2011 Mavs sorta come to mind but they were legitimately great during the playoffs and Dirk was arguably the best player in every series.

I mean it happens all the time in football and baseball but I can't really think of a team winning a title in the NBA that wasn't one of say, the best 4-5 teams in the league

i think its more feasible than before for a Hot team to knock out a 1 seed and/or get to the conference finals which would be interesting enough

The dubs lost the finals in the same year they won 72 games. That was interesting. They were pretty clearly the best team, if you just look at everything leading up to the finals, but you don't win a chip if you don't win the finals. That's the rule and it's a good one.

kind of an interesting parallel between that Cavs team and the 2010-2011 Mavs, where LeBron/Dirk just stepped up their game to an all-time peak to impose their will on a superteam that by all accounts should've won without much of a sweat. But, the Cavs were one of the best 4 teams in the league that year, along with the Warriors, Spurs, and Raptors. I'm talking about stuff like, say, the rather mediocre Kansas City Royals making 2 consecutive WS appearances (winning 1), or the New York Giants getting in as a 6 seed and knocking off the 18-0 Pats

year they won 72 73 games

I knew I should look it up, but was too lazy.

3-point shooting for an entire team still seems to stabilize pretty quickly. going back through the 5 years of team playoff data on nba.com the best performance i can find is the 2016 spurs who sot 43.9% and got bounced in the second round by okc. when a team plays the 18-20 games needed to get through the finals they're probably not even going to shoot that. the 2017 cavs shot 42.4% over 18 games but that was an outstanding shooting team in general. so i don't know that an otherwise flawed team could go on a 3-point tear impactful enough to actually win 4 rounds.

my favorite baseball example is the 85 twins who won the world series with a negative run differential

well a team cld be good enough to win a couple rounds then only need to get hot for 8 games total or whatever seems doable for like the 4th or 5th best team to make it happen

87 twins sorry

Danny Ainge suffered a minor heart attack in Milwaukee tuesday night ?

that 8 seed knicks team made the finals in the lockout season and that was before hoisting gone wild

shorter season means higher variance for seeding though maybe they were good

i think the lockout just made things weird, lot of guys were out of shape not much time to gel and so forth, their roster def wasnt thaat good tho prob better than an 8 seed

well a team cld be good enough to win a couple rounds then only need to get hot for 8 games total or whatever seems doable for like the 4th or 5th best team to make it happen

― lag∞n, Thursday, May 2, 2019 2:53 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this could probably happen. i was more saying it's tough to see a team from the 6-7-8 portion of the bracket really making a run based on hot shooting.

Danny Ainge suffered a minor heart attack in Milwaukee tuesday night ?

He seems like the heart attack type.

plz dont die before acquiring brow and shepherding the team to multiple titles danny

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Unsurprisingly, Mike Budenholzer didn't commit to Malcolm Brodgon's status for Game 3. Bud said they will see how he responds to today's workout before determining if he plays. Sterling Brown said that Malcolm has "looked great" this week.

a.i. loving the sixers play on the sidelines

damn not cool ben

Cheap shot. pic.twitter.com/W4JbWEAnYK

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) May 3, 2019

oooh

Ben got undercut while in the air. He retaliated. Neither is cool.

not a wash when one guy goes straight for the nuts

ben stays a teen movie villain

hell get suspended right? no doubt lowry had it coming

yeah thats gotta be worth a game

tight playoff series prob not the best time for glaring nut punches

agreed gotta be more subtle

Maybe I’m way off base here but I would be shocked if he legit got suspended

he should be but i don't think he will

adam "let em play" silver

Kawhi could not be playing any better and it’s still not enough. Kinda hard to run an effective offense when you have two starters (Gasol and Lowry) who desperately don’t want to shoot

ha simmons just got a tech for some other bs too

Haha I guess that’s the makeup call

“teen villain” is the perfect description

siri, describe the ideal situation that causes kawhi leonard to leave the toronto raptors after this season

xxxp

raptors are off the rails

this game chippy

“teen villain” is the perfect description

― sknybrg, Thursday, May 2, 2019 10:11 PM (fifteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he literally sneers a good percentage of his waking hours lol, just an incredible aura of unearned hauteur

the smirk is very bond bad guy

its embarrassing that the raptors cant beat the sixers when al horford regularly sons them dolo

lowry, gasol & ibaka making $76 million this year combined... they have 16 total points tonight

folks, its a lot of money

they shd give it to me instead

folks, it's a dynamite opportunity to change how we think about "professional basketball player"

yeah i mean im not saying they shd let me play in the nba because lets be honest im not very good at basketball im just saying they shd give me that money because i want it

lowry, gasol & ibaka making $76 million this year combined... they have 16 total points tonight

― J0rdan S., Thursday, May 2, 2019 10:20 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not ideal

lmao these clips of jimmy out here coaching poorly demanding embiid shoot 3s

lmao at embiid's wrestling-ass antics out here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!