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rly tho the bucks most important guys have to be better

1. giannis has to make free throws. he can't win games by jump shooting so he will have to get to the rim in the half court which means he'll be shooting free throws.

2. middleton has to be an elite shooter all game... he was hitting tons of shots in rhythm in the first half but is going to have to make contested jump shots and off the dribble threes in crunch time

3. bud has to come up w/ ways to get both guys some shots they like, even just creative ways to get giannis in the post touches. didn't feel like much was going on w/ their offense in the second half

the bucks look so passive in games like this...they look like they're confused by what the other team is doing. it isn't news that you can't just let jimmy butler get to any spot he wants in the midrange.

then you get giannis dribbling into the paint with the ball an arm's length away from his body. shocking, but a savvy defender will steal that.

great shot

Eric Gordon to end the half! 😳pic.twitter.com/jaVmQEESOb

— Stadium (@Stadium) September 1, 2020

you said it magic

Jimmy Butler put on a show tonight scoring 40 and leading the Heat over the Bucks!

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) September 1, 2020

i’ve thought about it some and it’s hard to disagree

i think we all know earv always has his finger on the pulse of the league

quite the twist in the chris paul, james harden, houston rockets saga tonight!

russ out there making grade a end of game decisions as always

this series has been so bad i hate it both teams play like theyre completely exhausted at all times game seven baby

another fabled "Series Finale"

the basketball hasn’t been great. the rockets have one good player... the thunder have 2.5? there’s so much narrative drama tho that i still love it

cp at the end of the last few games has been fun to watch tho. he undressed covington tonight

yeah he won that game single handedly no one else could do anything

kinda wild how invisible gallo is in these games. it’s really just cp and schroeder. SGA has been downright awful.

Gallo has sucked this series but he had 25 pts in 28min on 52/44 shooting tonight

oh my fuckin god lol

Russell Westbrook with the game on the line pic.twitter.com/uzRYnO7854

— THIS LEAGUE (@thisleague) September 1, 2020

Russ had at least 4 passes this game that were as bad or worse than that. Harden relying on step back 3s to end tight games when he’s tired vs cp working that mid range was poetic.

Gallo had a really great 3rd q and kept okc in the mix single handedly for a spell.

On one hand I want the thunder to knock out the rockets for max drama but on the other hand I am way more interested in viewing a lakers vs rox series.

12 TOs for hardbrook

There was also this

Holding the follow thru on an Airball 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭pic.twitter.com/KVODwXt43J

— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) September 1, 2020

On one hand I want the thunder to knock out the rockets for max drama but on the other hand I am way more interested in viewing a lakers vs rox series.

lol lakers would eat this rockets team right now

Not so sure about that

They’ve been putting the clamps on gallo the whole series but he found a way to have two good games

gallo had a couple weird bad plays down the stretch last night first got covington up in the air and then just forgot to draw the contact but still took a shot like he drew contact which missed badly then got the ball at the 3pt line w a second left on the shot clock and took a shot like there was .25 seconds left on the shot clock and missed badly

feel like if the rockets beat the lakers the nba would have to close just on principle

the interesting thing about okc-lakers would be the fact that the lakers would have no shot of guarding chris paul and don’t have anyone great for schroeder either. it just seems like they’re hanging on by a thread tho being dragged by those two and it’s hard to see them winning more than a game off the lakers.

the math in a rockets-lakers series would be interesting. in games where green and/or kuzma couldn’t hit threes the lakers would be running uphill a bit. rockets would
ultimately need an effective westbrook tho to take advantage of the lakers guards and that person may have disappeared from the bubble

lakers play good team d with brow there to clean up mistakes i mean if they can contain lillard i think they should be fine w other lil guys i think it would take something pretty flukey for either of these teams to give them a run

lakers-clips could be pretty epic if it comes to that

pretty sure thats where this is going to end up but the lakers and rockets provides the most intrigue in the semis. we have never seen harden vs lebron in the playoffs and both teams philosophies are just so at odds. lakers are massive.

lakers rox cld be an interesting test of how good davis is actually he should be able to destroy them via playing big and physical but if hes passive they cld harass him into bad games

I just don’t want the clippers to win after the crap Morris pulled

honestly got no one left I want to see win title

guess maybe Miami would be cool

hah! a ring for Meyers Leonard!

i want anyone out of the east. just no lakers or clippers.

yeah LA cheating by having two teams to double their chances of winning must not be rewarded

i can't decide if the clippers having no fans would make it better or worse if they won

when the season started it felt the Clippers weren't clearly a team to root for or one to root against - some players and factors naturally pulling them to each side. But their midseason pickups tilted the scales towards making them a lot less fun to root for, alongside the lingering karma (and same coach) from the last few years of the CP3 era.

ultimately i think i like lebron too much to be truly hurt if he wins. i think i could even accept the temporary return of lakers superiority... that's not as bad to me as winning a title for dan gilbert. the lakers can't hurt me.

I would be in favor of kawhi visiting a new team every year he is in the league from now on and for that team to win a championship

starting w the spurs

uh no repeats, Spurs already go their Kawhiship

-got

its weird cos the clippers have no fans and kawhi and pg dont really have fans either. just a weird team. id just like to see someone new win it

maybe it's the perfect year for a team with no fans to win since nobody can gather anywhere to celebrate anyway

basically, every player is gonna have to step up

I'm so excited for Denver vs. Utah Game 7 & to see Jamal Murray vs. Donovan Mitchell! For Denver to win, Nikola Jokić, Gary Harris, Paul Millsap, or Michael Porter Jr. has to step up! For Utah to win, it's on Mike Conley, Jordan Clarkson, Joe Ingles, or Rudy Gobert to step up.

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) September 1, 2020