After recording and watching enough playoff games to have a feel for the goings on:
1) Denver is great to watch. Feels like the GSW pre-Durant days.
2a) Hartenstein is living up to the (Arash?) hype. Love the gritty guys the Knicks put together.
2b) Embiid spends more time on the floor than any C I’ve ever seen (unless you call Brian Cardinal a C) and he should invest in elbow and knee pads if he’s going to keep playing that way.
3) Chet Holmgren scares me. SGA gets the hype, but it’s not an accident that they got the #1 seed this year. Something about the attitude the rookie plays with indicates he will happily rip your heart out and just consider it his due.
4) The Heat will always go toe to toe with the Celtics. Not sure this series will be like years past, but I’d be clenching if I were a Celtics fan. If only because Seeing Celtics fans crumble is soo satisfying.
5) Will Doc’s coaching magic lead to a first round exit?
6) The Warriors just need to get Wiggins and Klay going to make an extended playoff run, wait what? The Playoffs already started? Did anyone tell the Mavs and Clippers that? Never seen such low intensity playoff games in the West.
7) Not sure Durant is going to be able to carry team USA to another gold, good thing Ant’s on that team too. Someone should tell him to iso less and spot up more in his old age. Maybe it’s a lack of passing on the Suns, but they are a rough watch sometimes. Or is Minn just that good?
It really is amazing how influential New York is internationally as a cultural, financial, etc. hotspot and yet how irrelevant in sports. They've often had not one but two bad teams in the various major sports. Please please don't correct me with regard to outliers, a team over in hockey that won for a while, or some correction about what borough or adjacent city teams are located in.
Can we agree that historically, other than the Yankees, OVERALL, New York produces far fewer winning sports teams than one might expect?
I never ever ever will accept that Madison Square Garden is the Mecca of anything. If you gave me a free ticket to go see an exciting NBA game somewhere at the glorious hub of NBA fandom, I'd choose a lot of places before MSG. OKC, Sacto, GSW, Denver, hey transport me back to Seattle games. 90s Chicago. Or: I hate Boston and Lakers but ya gotta admit those have been core NBA franchises. But New York? They have sucked for fifty years and they really aren't that great right now, either. Jalen Brunson is not the MVP. He is very good. That's nice. A lot of players are very good. I'm not mad at him but he's getting overhyped. Josh Hart on the other hand is way underhyped.
I am with the lovers of underdog hustle here, but as a lover of beautiful basketball I am rooting for OKC to take it all. The game they played last night reminded me of the heyday of the Dubs: everyone on the floor moving with intention, passing with vision and accuracy, defending with heart. I know aesthetics only get you so far, and I wouldn't be sad to see the Nuggets repeat, but OKC's my new second-favorite team.
I think this might be my first comment on this site, though I subscribed pretty early. I hate to ever root for NY or LA because SF inferiority complex. My mom was born in Philly, Embiid seems like an okay human, and I do love that retro 76ers song, but I’m rooting for the Knicks because Donte. I love hustle and underdogs.
One more vote for Donte and also teams really shouldn't be rewarded for intentionally being bad. Then again, the end result of the process was the Ben Simmons/James Harden fiasco so maybe that was punishment enough.
New thread with Steph Clutch award news: https://dubnationhq.com/p/update-steph-curry-is-the-2023-24?r=3lm3s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Eric - I'm shocked about the omissions of Kelly Oubre as a former Dub and Kyle Lowry as a villain. Too early for Cancun?
What happened to the Cavs? They are being walloped by the Magic.
Boom. Congratulations Steph.
https://www.reddit.com/r/warriors/comments/1cd5loq/charania_golden_state_warriors_star_stephen_curry/
I'm actually surprised Lebron let Ham hang around for this long lol
After recording and watching enough playoff games to have a feel for the goings on:
1) Denver is great to watch. Feels like the GSW pre-Durant days.
2a) Hartenstein is living up to the (Arash?) hype. Love the gritty guys the Knicks put together.
2b) Embiid spends more time on the floor than any C I’ve ever seen (unless you call Brian Cardinal a C) and he should invest in elbow and knee pads if he’s going to keep playing that way.
3) Chet Holmgren scares me. SGA gets the hype, but it’s not an accident that they got the #1 seed this year. Something about the attitude the rookie plays with indicates he will happily rip your heart out and just consider it his due.
4) The Heat will always go toe to toe with the Celtics. Not sure this series will be like years past, but I’d be clenching if I were a Celtics fan. If only because Seeing Celtics fans crumble is soo satisfying.
5) Will Doc’s coaching magic lead to a first round exit?
6) The Warriors just need to get Wiggins and Klay going to make an extended playoff run, wait what? The Playoffs already started? Did anyone tell the Mavs and Clippers that? Never seen such low intensity playoff games in the West.
7) Not sure Durant is going to be able to carry team USA to another gold, good thing Ant’s on that team too. Someone should tell him to iso less and spot up more in his old age. Maybe it’s a lack of passing on the Suns, but they are a rough watch sometimes. Or is Minn just that good?
OT: I didn't know they were making a film about the Donald Sterling tapes lol
Gotta say Laurence Fishbourne looks the part as Doc Rivers lol
https://youtu.be/WPIcQNMQchQ?si=AmnDxmeFs3NZ6IXM
It really is amazing how influential New York is internationally as a cultural, financial, etc. hotspot and yet how irrelevant in sports. They've often had not one but two bad teams in the various major sports. Please please don't correct me with regard to outliers, a team over in hockey that won for a while, or some correction about what borough or adjacent city teams are located in.
Can we agree that historically, other than the Yankees, OVERALL, New York produces far fewer winning sports teams than one might expect?
I never ever ever will accept that Madison Square Garden is the Mecca of anything. If you gave me a free ticket to go see an exciting NBA game somewhere at the glorious hub of NBA fandom, I'd choose a lot of places before MSG. OKC, Sacto, GSW, Denver, hey transport me back to Seattle games. 90s Chicago. Or: I hate Boston and Lakers but ya gotta admit those have been core NBA franchises. But New York? They have sucked for fifty years and they really aren't that great right now, either. Jalen Brunson is not the MVP. He is very good. That's nice. A lot of players are very good. I'm not mad at him but he's getting overhyped. Josh Hart on the other hand is way underhyped.
I am with the lovers of underdog hustle here, but as a lover of beautiful basketball I am rooting for OKC to take it all. The game they played last night reminded me of the heyday of the Dubs: everyone on the floor moving with intention, passing with vision and accuracy, defending with heart. I know aesthetics only get you so far, and I wouldn't be sad to see the Nuggets repeat, but OKC's my new second-favorite team.
I'm here for the 4:30pm game and the 7:00pm shit show.
Let's go Donte!!
I think this might be my first comment on this site, though I subscribed pretty early. I hate to ever root for NY or LA because SF inferiority complex. My mom was born in Philly, Embiid seems like an okay human, and I do love that retro 76ers song, but I’m rooting for the Knicks because Donte. I love hustle and underdogs.
Lawyerball.
Gloriously done, sir.
One more vote for Donte and also teams really shouldn't be rewarded for intentionally being bad. Then again, the end result of the process was the Ben Simmons/James Harden fiasco so maybe that was punishment enough.
I root for Donte. Raises my interest slightly above coin toss.