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[Osman]

Lol, was dope by Philly. Embiid was in fuego. Couldn't miss a thing. You are usually an average shooting team, so the fact you shot like 20+ 3pt bombs just created massive head start.

Helps Simmons had such a good game, usually they let him drive and dont respect his attack, but now they did so it led to him kicking out plenty to open shooter.



Still think they will take you in playoff series, but great game.

 

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[ALC]

I think we can neutralize Giannis during an entire series but you’re entitled to your opinion.

And the other great game of the night just finished. Kawhi showing he’s still the best in the league when he wants to be.

Lebron in the 4th has a worse ft % than Simmons in the 4th, he sucks at free throws for some reason.

 

[Osman]

You shot a franchise record in 3 pointers and still won by just 12 pts. That's not sustainable over a whole series, that kind of high level shooting.


There is a difference between stopping Giannis, which you did, and him being an idiot for forcing isos nonstop, he is usually smarter then this. His ability to not shoot will keep haunting him in crunch time, but usually he is smart about playing within the flow of the game and finding the right moments to move the ball or to attack ( he is kind of player you can force to pass out nonstop tho, and make rest of the bucks do the scoring). Now he was just really bad executing combined with trying to play 1 vs 5 Bball for no reason, uncharacteristic for him to be this selfish.


Middleton did well keeping them in the game tho.

 

[.zero]

Kawhi lit up Staples

 

[Bianconero81]

You shot a franchise record in 3 pointers and still won by just 12 pts. That's not sustainable over a whole series, that kind of high level shooting.


There is a difference between stopping Giannis, which you did, and him being an idiot for forcing isos nonstop, he is usually smarter then this. His ability to not shoot will keep haunting him in crunch time, but usually he is smart about playing within the flow of the game and finding the right moments to move the ball or to attack ( he is kind of player you can force to pass out nonstop tho, and make rest of the bucks do the scoring). Now he was just really bad executing combined with trying to play 1 vs 5 Bball for no reason, uncharacteristic for him to be this selfish.


Middleton did well keeping them in the game tho.

Knowing Giannis, he's just going to use this setback to improve further.

Philly are too inconsistent, turn the ball over way too many times, and Simmon's inability to shoot the basketball will haunt them over 7 games.

I don't see them beating the Bucks over 7 games.

 

[Powis]

Well done clipps. Love that Beverley's block in the end. Lebum

 

[zizinho]

we arent deep enough for the Clippers yet

 

[Osman]

Kawhi lit up Staples

Santa's little helper for all the LA kids, being baptized into new Clippers fans instead of Lakers.



Seriously tho, hope they face in western conference finals. I wanna see the real showdown, so far in regular season Lebron has NO game to go toe to toe with Kawhi in the matchups. And AD is someone you feed, not someone that takes over, so it will be on Lebron to counter Kawhis takeover mode (since his grive is more drive/layup or kick out to shooters, it wont be as eay to take over). And that entails, that Lebron doesnt miss free throws when its 40 seconds left, and dont eat most of the clock waiting to shoot 3, just to be blocked by Pat Bev

 

[ALC]

Kawhi has historically owned Lebron plus Lebron tends to choke in the 4th. No way Lakers have a chance against the Clippers in the playoffs.

and fuck you to everyone saying the bucks are better than the Sixers

 

[.zero]

Santa's little helper for all the LA kids, being baptized into new Clippers fans instead of Lakers.



Seriously tho, hope they face in western conference finals. I wanna see the real showdown, so far in regular season Lebron has NO game to go toe to toe with Kawhi in the matchups. And AD is someone you feed, not someone that takes over, so it will be on Lebron to counter Kawhis takeover mode (since his grive is more drive/layup or kick out to shooters, it wont be as eay to take over). And that entails, that Lebron doesnt miss free throws when its 40 seconds left, and dont eat most of the clock waiting to shoot 3, just to be blocked by Pat Bev

Bev out here living a his best life lately

LAC-LAL playoff matchup would be incredible

Neither team would have to travel and all that home court nonsense would be thrown out the window. Overall, Kawhi PWNING LBJ over the years has been so under reported that it's finally surfacing to the top on its own. LBJ is the better player overall but he's met his soul assassin

 

[Osman]

Warriors depleted team said fuck it, we aint giving up, and they won 5 games straight! And Curry is going for the biggiest hypeman award What a teammate.

 

[Post Ironic]

Bev out here living a his best life lately

LAC-LAL playoff matchup would be incredible

Neither team would have to travel and all that home court nonsense would be thrown out the window. Overall, Kawhi PWNING LBJ over the years has been so under reported that it's finally surfacing to the top on its own. LBJ is the better player overall but he's met his soul assassin

Nah. Not in the past, with the Heat. LeBron destroyed Kawhi in 12-13 finals. And while Kawhi deserved his finals MVP, LeBron was the only Heat player who actually showed up in 13-14 finals. Dude averaged 28 ppg in 57% shooting and 51% from 3. The bigger problem was he only averaged 4 assists per game in that finals because his teammates didn’t hit shots. He also turned the ball over 4/game which didn’t help but that’s not actually much above his average over the years. Those Spurs teams just played far better fundamental basketball than the Heat and had insane depth. Bench outscored the Heat bench by 16 pts/game. 5 players over 10pts/game. Spurs out-assisting the Heat 127-76. Diaw and Parker being 1-2 in apg for the series. Duncan owning the offensive glass.

But Kawhi has definitely passed LeBron over the past few years imo. And is owning him hard this year. I don’t see us going toe-to-toe with them in a playoff series with Kawhi over LeBron, and Clippers having role players like Lou Williams and Beverly. They’ll struggle hard with our bigs, but their wing and guard play will be too much for us to handle.

 

[Post Ironic]

The 76ers beat the Bucks with a ridiculous 3pt shooting game than lose another 3 straight games against playoff teams. And getting absolutely crushed by the Oladipo-less Pacers missing Embiid. 1-6 in their last 7 against playoff teams. What a Jekyll and Hyde team. Just like the Lakers, really hard to tell how good they are.

 

[Bianconero81]

Fuck the 76ers. Worst team to bet on. I hope they get fucked by some shitty team in the playoffs for being such inconsistent fags.

 

[Post Ironic]

Fuck the 76ers. Worst team to bet on. I hope they get fucked by some shitty team in the playoffs for being such inconsistent fags.

Lose some money, bro?

 

[Osman]

You bet on regular season NBA? That's retarded, these current NBA chumps dont give a damn about winning or losing half the time, half assed defending and resting whenever.

 

[Bianconero81]

You bet on regular season NBA? That's retarded, these current NBA chumps dont give a damn about winning or losing half the time, half assed defending and resting whenever.

I bet over/under @HT or @FT or over/under total points scored between two players (Kawhi vs Lowry for example). I rarely, if ever, bet outright on a specific team winning.

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Lose some money, bro?

I lost a bit of money today, but I'm ok for the week

 

[ALC]

Fuck the 76ers. Worst team to bet on. I hope they get fucked by some shitty team in the playoffs for being such inconsistent fags.

boo hoo hoo, I gamble and cry when I lose money because I expect my predictions to be right all the time, boo hoo hoo

 

[Bianconero81]

boo hoo hoo, I gamble and cry when I lose money because I expect my predictions to be right all the time, boo hoo hoo

Haha. Fuck them. They're a streaky inconsistent bunch of cunts. I had them as the 2nd best team in the East, potentially the best, before the season tipped off but those turnovers and lack of effort is killing them.

 

[ALC]

Haha. Fuck them. They're a streaky inconsistent bunch of cunts. I had them as the 2nd best team in the East, potentially the best, before the season tipped off but those turnovers and lack of effort is killing them.

It’s more of a coaching problem. Once the playoffs start, I think we can beat anyone so there’s that.