part two of the nba 2020-21 anything but regular season

if that team stayed healthy for a full normal season i think they could win 48+ games but i don't think there's enough top end talent to truly be considered a "contender"

ok matt, let's go--what's their ceiling?

56 games

no

for ppl not immediately going to bball-reference, pacers havent won more than 48 games since 13-14 when they won 56 with the world famous pg, lance, hibbert, david west, george hill starting lineup. the current pacers are not as talented as that team was in 14.

were talking ceiling here!

the ceiling is winning 82 games and the floor is winning 0 games, i checked real quick

lol

i mean that horford hawks team won 60 games these things do happen, everything going right and so forth, maybe it would be more instructive to talk about 90% ceiling idk, a stat i call not totally unlikely ceiling, but i agree with matt their roster is pretty good

its just not a contending roster, i think they could put together a solid second round team, depending on what the other teams are doing

Jordan 48 games is way below their ceiling. You hyperbolize things too much.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, May 6, 2021 9:33 PM (nineteen minutes ago)

you may notice the plus sign after the number 48 indicating that i don't think 48 games would be such a team's ceiling

lol reasonable point

i agree they could win in the mid 50s if everything goes perfectly but to the point that was made that's not really useful to talk about. they don't really have anyone even in shouting distance of being a top-20 player and that's most of what i need to know about how far they can get.

So are the lakers trying to win this game tonight?

they should try to win all their games imo but im not the lakers so idk

nets have lost 4 in a row

kyrie score 45 tonight too, but no one else could make the ball go in the ring

what if the nets supporting cast just totally shit the bed in the playoffs, underrated scenario imo

also what was up with these faces kd was making

As a defender, this is the exact expression you hope your man has on his face pic.twitter.com/r10HP4meNQ

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) May 2, 2021

the state of the race to not play one of the east big 3 in the first round and also to stay out of the play in tournament

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

these poor raptors, I wonder what the record for close losses in a season is

oof yeah their point differential is better than the next five teams ahead of them

yeah, a barely positive point differential and they're 27-40

I do not trust siakam in the clutch, ever

yeah i like siakam a lot but hes just not nearly a #1 option

hes more of a running around guy and thats fine but the raps kinda need him to be more which is not his fault

he gives you a lot and seems like a great person, but yeah

yeah awkward, you'd like to have one really good scoring guard with siakam but instead they have lowry whos aging out and van vleet whos not good enough

So are the lakers trying to win this game tonight?

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, May 6, 2021 9:59 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

no

Paul George drops Alex Caruso and nails a 3-pointer 🔥pic.twitter.com/COFaeVMZzY

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) May 7, 2021

everythings chill tho

The Lakers have a game less than 24 hours from now in Portland, the team they’re about to be tied with at the play-in tournament cut line. https://t.co/RknafKhyT5

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) May 7, 2021

they just need to figure out how to get lebron and AD in as good shape as they can by the time the play-in starts.

if steph can knock the lakers out of the play in that would be nice

I'm so scared of the lakers ruining the suns season

lebron has typically never cared about playoff seeding and i can’t imagine he’ll start now especially given what the top of the west looks like, but i bet they push at the end and get to 6

Frank Vogel said that LeBron's absence from the Lakers' last two games against Denver and LAC was not medically related. When asked for the reason James was not present, Vogel said, "He's just not here." Added that James was at shootaround Thursday but will not join team in POR

— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) May 7, 2021

...

Wtf

he got covid probs shoulda got that vax bron

This is depressing

Warriors forward Damion Lee reveals that he became one of the rare people who is fully vaccinated and still tested positive for COVID-19. He explains all the symptoms he went through and is still experiencing, like "brain fog", in this clip pic.twitter.com/Iap6wmq4Rd

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) May 7, 2021

More weird player coach interactions

Greg Foster yesterday... OKC Coach Today pic.twitter.com/aDEDQxQ8PU

— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) May 7, 2021

bron wtf

also the fact that vogel didnt cover for him what is going on

More weird player coach interactions

🐦[Greg Foster yesterday... OKC Coach Today pic.twitter.com/aDEDQxQ8PU🕸
— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) May 7, 2021🕸]🐦

have to think that everyone with nothing to play for is super fucking done with this season.

yeah seems like it

aside from that one tweet from a legit espn guy no one is talking about brons coach saying he just didnt show up for work what is going on

Klutch pays all their salaries so they’re falling in line.

they should not have rushed into the season so fast after the bubble

i'm sure that whole experience was pretty taxing in all kinds of ways for these dudes and then here you go a couple weeks off, now back on the road.

feel like they knew it was going to be bad going in but they just did it to get the season over with to and be back on track next year, and yeah it was bad, also! its not just a short layoff but also a compressed season