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Hahahaha all I know is the one season Hamilton does not have the fastest car in the grid he's sunk down the standings like okuta. Even George Russell is outperforming him now

Where is that Liverpool noisemaker fan. You can see in another big game how Thiago disappears like Rent-a-ghost

Those two late missed free throws by Brown

Jayson Tatum dodging the smoke and letting Marcus Smart take more shots than him is what led to this kpenkelemes.

Jimmy Butler showing how to keep your team alive. Took 30 shots.

That's how you do it with the series on the line. You empty the clip

Can't even predict what happens next. Miami can still lose by 20 in Game 7

Superb ball movement on those last 2 3's by Boston

These refs should allow this game flow nau abeg. Which kin main character syndrome be this

Golden State go dey lick lips like LL. Them go beat any of these two teams like thief

Lol these Celtics are not even serious

Make that 12 straight

This is why Jaylen Brown is so dangerous. On his own from time to time he can go on those little 8-0 scoring runs within 2 minutes. Heat lead don evaporate

In the end that Game 2 loss was just insurmountable. We're having a completely different series if they don't blow that lead but ultimately the Warriors have too many horses.

Steph
Klay
Wiggins
Poole

It's almost impossible for all 4 to have a bad shooting night. And with Kevon Looney turning to prime Rodman the Mavs never had a prayer.

Mark Cuban needs to go all out and get a big. Maybe 2. Rebounds are the easiest of all stats to pad. There's no excuse to get as badly outrebounded as they did

birdman:
Body of work beats one game here and there. Lebron struggling and overcoming the Pistons, and the Celtics was defining imho, even before going to the Heat. I need to see Luka put in that body of work over time as well. In order to generate news, people like to anoint people to early - but you gotta put in the time first.

But in a 7 year span I showed you that Lebron did not beat any team as good as a 64 win Suns team in his first 7 years in the league. He only beat one team that won 50+ games before joining the Heat. I know you guys are quick to overhype that Finals run but as far as body of work. Lebron's only notable feat before joining the Heat was beating a 53 win Detroit team

birdman:
By the same tokem, Giannis has put in the time, and now has a ring. But other than Shaq, he never really gets the accolades. I think he is closer to best player in the league than Luka at this point.

Giannis is a made man. The only reason he's not getting his due accolades is because he's not American. The man brought a chip to goddamn Milwaukee at 26. Let that sink in

After winning a DPOY and two MVPs. Mentioning Luka alongside him is laughable

This place don quiet oh. Shey na because Lewis don dey cast? No fastest car for grid so no show

Don't give it up y'all season still young nau

There's also strong rumors about Mane. Are you keen on Mane? He's my favorite player in Liverpool but man's 30 and we don't even know if that's football age.

All I know is we need to make wholesale changes with that squad. There's a certain staleness to it or perhaps it's Nagelsmann's dodgy tactics but I don't want him to have any excuses this time so let him spend

Strus, Lowry, Robinson combined for 3 of 22 from 3

Ohh the evils of 3pt spamming. The way it abandons you when you need it most

Lol. The Heat don't even have enough defense to hang. The Celtics have just been playing with their food. This series should have been over in 5

Celtics are just the better team. Its evident. This should have been the closeout game if they were not faffing around earlier in the series

benji93:
Shut up and learn. The point is you said never achieved in 10 years what Luka has achieved in 4. He got to the finals in 2006 and lost 4-2. I can only beat what's in front of me. Luka is yet to get to the finals. Very very simple fact. You rate a guy just based on his individual performance? How much a guy has to work with is quite subjective, especially when the players in question are not stars. No player on Dirk's team was even an all-star in 2006, and yet he got to the finals.

Don't mind him. He always has a relentless need to be right.

Instead of just agreeing he phrased his words poorly due to exuberance and zealousness. He found himself in a hole and kept digging. Listing individual accomplishments as proof he had done more for the Mavs

Adebayo wants no part of the TimeLord

Lowry is just fouling and doing cardio on the court. My guy is washed

What a start by the Celtics

What were the Bucks thinking letting PJ Tucker go. Good grief

Jaylen Brown has terrible handles. The way he turns it over is criminal mehn

Khanben:
Brunson and Dinwiddie is better than Stackhouse, Josh Howard, Jason Terry?

Your poorly worded argument is tying you in tortuous knots. Oya tell me the series the Mavs led in Nowitzki's absence

What you should have said is that Luka has had more individual success and is on a higher trajectory but Dirk has an MVP which trumps everything Luka has done so far

Khanben:
I have not seen Luka play with a talent like Jerry Stackhouse or Jason Terry. Or are you going to say that any of his teammates so far are as good as any of those guys.
Dude just got him 3rd first team all-nba nod in 4years at the stacked guard position.

That one no concern me. Jerry Stackhouse was a 14-3-2 guy. Don't come here and cap like he was some star when he arrived Dallas.

Luka literally has to win a chip or force a Game 7 in the finals to have done more for the Mavs than Dirk in 10 years.

All NBA is not a team achievement

Khanben:
He has done more for the Mavs in his first 4yrs than Dirk did is his first 10yrs with the team

Lol. Are you serious at all? You do realize Dirk got to an NBA Finals and won 67 games as well as league MVP in that timespan right?

Welcome Nazraoui on a free. Pretty neat pickup

Neuer gets a 1 year extension

Roland17:
For you though... The spike in ratings from this season's playoff is attributed to the games in the Eastern conference.

I meant the Western Finals. I don't want to believe you're that much of a homer to believe the Eastern games have been better

Plus the Warriors and Grizzlies has the highest rating thus far in the playoffs

Khanben:
So just because they are getting paid, the team has the right to just derail their career because they want to tank.
Professional sports is just like any other profession, this archaic attitude that it is a privilege is laughable.
Just as no one expects any top Professional in any field to just down tools and not work for any reason and still expect to get paid, also no one expects a professional to accept becoming redundant because they are getting paid, but somehow when it comes to athletes, people have that inexcusable cop-out "they are getting paid ", so what?
You cannot make rules for them and not for me, if you don't want to play a guy, either trade him, or agree to a buyout.
If the league will insist on earn as you play as they should, then it has to be bilateral.

False equivalence. In the real world if your employer is paying you and you don't have to show up at work are they really derailing your career? I'm sure everyone here would gladly take $28m to not show up at work. Plus if you don't show up at that work doesn't that leave you time to do other stuff?

These guys are simply far too well compensated for you to bandy that line. Who is going to agree to a buyout for a John Wall or Al Horford? What was their market and who agrees on terms? Did you see any team hustling for John Wall?

birdman:
E better pass WCF, we go manage am like dat abeg.

Where are the dodos annointing Luka as the next Lebron, best player left in the playoffs, etc Lol

I have found the Western bracket far more entertaining

Luka beat a 64 win team. To put in perspective Lebron beat just 1 50+ win team from 2003-2010

Khanben:
Mark Jackson, just made a great point, when the next CBA happens and ownership brings up the case of Simmons and Kyrie (rightfully so), the issue of sitting guys who are willing and ready to play also has to be addressed. Horford, Wall and many others who were willing to play have been deprived of that opportunity because the team wanted to tank for picks

They're getting paid regardless. There's a difference

Lol. Which kin series be this

Golden State simply have too much depth. I knew this series was lost after that Game 2 chokejob by the Mavs. If you're the weaker team you absolutely cannot lose such a lead. I would be shocked if this doesn't end in a sweep.

People don't realize how deep this Warriors squad is.

Steph
Klay
Wiggins
Poole

That's 4 guys that can give you 15-40 points any given night. Teams like that are tough to beat especially for a Dallas that has no big that can go in the paint

Reggie Bullock shot 0/10. Maxi Kleber 0/5. The Mavs are a good 3pt shooting team and it's what they do best unfortunately they're facing a team better than them at this plus they cannot rebound