( ( ( ( ( nba bubble ball 2020 ) ) ) ) )

the western conference is full of talented basketball teams and players
-- mark jackson

You want characters? You want drama? You want talent? The western conference is a good start

stay melo folks

rock solid back up greyson allen playing the role of traffic cone on that play

melooooo

Admittedly Grayson didn’t block Lillard’s shot that time but coaches tell you not to do that

i'm very happy personally for the hall of famer and classic blazer player carmelo anthony who i always trusted from day one would be integral to the success of this team

this version of melo feels like a replacement level player which would be pretty great for the blazers next season

melo for that excellent three you get (1) new hat 🙂

everyone agreed he would be good on the blazers

Bubble melo seems better

That call on the blocked shot turned out to be the difference in the game. But again, he should have known not to block it.

career high 35 for ja in his first elimination game

blazers team love for nurk is very real and moving

Really hope the blazers beat the lakers

dont think they have the defense for it but yeah that would be very cool

ty matt. beat la!

bucks (1) v magic (8) -- bucks in 4
raptors (2) v nets (7) -- rapters in 4
celtics (3) v 76ers (6) -- celtics in 5
pacers (4) v heat (5) -- heat in 6

lakers (1) v blazers (8) -- blazers in 6 lol
clippers (2) v mavericks (7) -- clippers in 6
nuggets (3) v jazz (6) -- nuggers in 6
rockets (4) v thunder (5) -- thunder in 7

those predictions start at 4 and go to 7

https://i.imgur.com/yNp9to9.png

leastern conference lol

Really sucks that Sabonis and Warren aren’t healthy

It's enough for me that we have an NBA playoffs at all. The players will see to it they are worth watching.

nuggets will win the nba playoffs

that's the spirit!

btw here would be the 1-16 match ups this year

1. bucks vs. 16. magic
2. raptors vs. 15. blazers
3. lakers vs. 14. nets
4. clippers vs. 13. mavs
5. celtics vs. 12. sixers
6. nuggets vs. 11. heat
7. pacers vs. 10. jazz
8. rockets vs. 9. thunder

not that different actually... basically a question of whether you'd rather see rivalryish conference match ups or randomish funky cross conference match ups

second round match ups

1. bucks vs. 8. rockets/9. thunder
2. raptors vs. 7. pacers/10. jazzz
3. lakers vs. 6. nuggets/11. heat
4. clippers vs. 5. celtics

semi finals

1. bucks vs. 4. clippers
2. raptors vs. 3. lakers

the quality of the series all feel mostly the same to me in either format, it's mostly a question of which flavor you like. i don't buy that one way is necessarily more fair than the other. i like the conference rivalries aspect personally

pix
r1
lal v por, lakers in 5
lac v dal, clips in 5
den v uta, nugs in 4
hou v okc, thunders in 7

mil v orl, bux in 4
tor v bk, raps in 5
bos v phi, celts in 5
ind v mia, mia in 6

r2
lal v okc, lakers in 6
lac v den, clips in 7

mil v mia, heats in 7
tor v bos, raps in 6

r3
lal v lac, lakers in 7
tor v mia, raps in 7

finals
lal v tor, lakers in 6
AD FMVP

feel like a lot of people who push 1-16 may be in a post-fandom stage where they can't appreciate an awesome conference rivalry

yeah fr, i understand that years of letting eastern conf flunkies in at the expense of western conf 9th seeds who would be 3rd in the east or w/e was frustrating, but also those marginal WC teams got good draft picks and became gooder (ie denver)

m bison, do you realize you are predicting that Meyers Leonard will help take two different teams to the Conference Finals in two consecutive years?

not that different actually... basically a question of whether you'd rather see rivalryish conference match ups or randomish funky cross conference match ups

― J0rdan S., Saturday, August 15, 2020 7:17 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is conservative propaganda

Been thinking a lot about those two push off jumpers McCollum hit at the end of the game. How they were done so tastefully that you couldn’t call a foul. An art really.

hes crafty

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfgIVeoUwAADS7X?format=jpg&name=large

oh shit

greats of our time

melo bison

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Happy the blazers won cos they have a chance to make it interesting vs the lakers. Gary Trent jr is so good seems like he’s just one of those guys that does the right thing every play. Melo was pretty bad this game but they have no other options so he gets enough burn to make a shot or two when it matters. At least you know you’ve got a guy out there who isn’t afraid of the moment.

Really impressed by the Grizz. They are set up for a long time and way ahead of schedule. They add justice Winslow next season too, would be nice if he could play more then 40 games in a season.

I stan Dame and co but I think LA is going to absolutely steamroll the blazers, who’ve spent the past week winning exhausting nail biters vs teams who were either crippled or had nothing to play for.

yeah that team is gassed and broken going up against bron who has been on vacation this whole time

even if they were well rested i dont see how they start to defend bron or brow

like who are the guys they even start on them

It’s pretty crazy that they didn’t replace their wing defenders at all. Not even just a cheap role player. Like Torrey Craig would probably be playing 30 mpg for them against the lakers

sadly otm on the blazers, they're gonna need to score 160 a game the way they're defending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgFTNN0ZCzE

if they had ariza with them that would have helped but the lakers are just a bad matchup for them.

carmelo vs lebron, baby!

Melo shouldn't guard LeBron more than five minutes a game, and then only if they run lots of screens to switch Melo onto him deliberately. Ariza will be sorely missed.

Ariza, harkless, aminu... they needed a guy like that

i've already forgotten that they were in the conference finals last year