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Congrats. Any team but Inter Merdaaa

Interesting stat. Steph Curry is averaging 10 rebounds in this series.

23 turnovers. You're not beating anybody with that.

Lol this was a wasted effort by the Celtics. Poor ball movement, poor shot selection. Especially in the closing stretch.

Wahala. Jayson hurt

Victor Oladipo taking Jaylen Brown's lunch money

Man the Bucks were really stupid letting PJ Tucker walk. This is not who you pinch pennies with

Big Al Horford. If Celtics somehow recover he's the guy

Marcus Smart doing a Paul Pierce

Khanben:
Assinn, the level of swings no be small

Wow that Smart injury was much worse than advertised initially. I'd be shocked if that ankle didn't snap

Butler out. Be like Smart sef don break something. What a series man

Decent run by Boston to close the half. They just gave themselves a puncher's chance

All the 3s wey Tatum for make this series he don make am the last game

Adebayo. Barbecue chicken

Celtics missing too many free throws. You can't aid home cooking if you can't make free throws

This is disgraceful from Boston. I can't even see what they are playing. Just doing cardio on the court. All over the place

Khanben:
Ownership were trying to be cheap, no 2 ways about it

Classic case of pennywise pound foolish. Cos they signed Grayson for 2 year 20million

This thing Marcus Smart is playing I don't know what it is but it's not basketball

Bucks really missed PJ Tucker mehn. What was their idea behind letting him walk and replacing him with who? Fvxkin Grayson Allen

Celtics are getting the breaks beat off of them. What a terrible start

Roland17:
The ironic thing is that you guys parade at least 3 guys in Dorian Finney Smith, Bullock and Kleber who have good length, size and wing span that can force the issue inside the paint and draw fouls. This 3 point shooting contest against the Warriors is not going to cut it.

It's part of what I'm talking about. Guys with no ability to put the ball on the floor, cannot slash. Just spammin 3s. Even if you're not a star you mean all you can do is spam 3s.

Unfortunately this is just a matchup nightmare already in the sense that what the Mavs do well the Warriors do even better. Worse still they have guys like Wiggins and Poole who can slash to counter a bad shooting night. Then how do you now explain Kevon Looney scoring 21 points in the paint

Missed opportunity by the Mavs mehn. Don't know if they recover. They had to win that after such a start

Roland17:
Have the san Antonio Spurs missed a chance to replace Popovic by allowing Ime Udoka join my Celtics?

In retrospect, do you think they regret it?

Popovich is like an African dicator at this point

Ibime:
lol. I wouldn't even know where to start with this. To deconstruct this will take all day but I'll make a small attempt.

Let's start with what keeps the Ruble up. In the absence of real demand, currencies are supported by foreign exchange reserves and Russia Foreign Exchange spent $38.8bln just in the first month of the war to support the ruble. Like I said, we will see how far for Ruble when they run out of foreign exchange. I believe they had $300bln (unseized) at the start of the war. Na so Hugo Chavez start him gragra till his foreign exchange ran out and the Bolivar plummeted. Any big country can implement strict capital controls until they run out of Forex. This includes spending Forex, banning trading of foreign currencies internally, forcing Russian companies to change 80% of their earnings to Ruble, bribing people to save in Ruble at 17% interest rates etc. In the history of markets, no country has implemented these controls and still not suffer down the line. But as far as you are concerned, as long as you see that Ruble artificially propped up, you are satisfied. Nigerians economic understanding never went beyond value of Naira that's why Buhari could deceive Nigerians with $1 to N1 talks.

Russia 1 year and 10 year bond is trading over 10%, US is trading at 2%. Nigeria 1 year is trading at 5% and 10 year bond at 11%. That's the amount of confidence markets have in Russias economic prospects and the cost they put on lending them money - on a par with Nigeria.

Secondly, you are conflating issues with stockmarket. US stockmarkets have been hyperinflated since Covid when the central bank dropped interest rates to zero and started buying up balance sheets. That is a different economic lesson of its own and was always going to fall with interest rate hikes which it has been doing since November last year when the Fed signalled interest rate rises. Again, I won't start to explain how zero interest rates hypercharge stockmarket and return to normal interest rates cool them down again. US indices have only given back half of the gains they got from the low credit environment instituted by the Fed in 2020. S&P500 went from 3,200 before the pandemic to peak at 4,800. It is now at 3,900 (pic below). So in essence those markets have just been unwinding their bubble from the high of all the free money the Fed was injecting into the markets. Same reason I stated last year that I would be switching my pension to a fixed pension to get out of exposure to stock market. Those of us who follow markets have already made provision for what we expect to happen after interest rates start to increase, while laymen like you will be shouting "Up Russia".

As for inflation, like I said, US was already running at 8% before the invasion. This was due to the effect of the greatest fiscal expansion in history due to Covid and was expected to continue. Russia is just another straw ontop of already mounting inflation.

You are just a layman interpreting a confluence of events and ascribing it to Russia. In normal times, this war can't even shake the West beyond a minor inconvenience, but added to the after-effects of Covid, Russia is a useful tool to blame and for Putin bootlickers to hail. Oil price is the same now as it was in 2014 and Gas is nowhere near it was from 2005 to 2009.

Westerners are not stupid. They calculated that they may take a 2% contraction while Russia takes a 20% contraction if they go all out and ban Russia altogether. But you keep hailing oga Putin, the slayer of the West while he and his ministers are worried sick about the real implication for Russia.

You believe what you want to, and we'll come back in a couple of years to compare how this stupidity went for Russia. They actually banked on getting Ukraine to surrender in a few days by which point any economic sanctions will be a fait accompli as the deed would already be done. They never banked on getting trapped there and having sanctions enacted over a long period. Follow all their finance ministers statements and you will see their real concern.

Blueelf:
It's a lie. It is your ilk that question taytum

I once said taytum is a superstar and you and A40 lambasted me. That was 20 games into the season if I remember correctly. So don't act like you always supported the guy

Are you smoking meth. Or how do we explain this kind of hallucination. Even Roland wey be Celtics fan cannot claim he hypes Jayson Tatum on this thread more than me.

I spot them from day 1 goofy

raumdeuter:
They did not lose a single game

That their game vs Betis was the toughest for that first leg I was cursing Rafael Borre throughout for all the chances he missed, Claudio Bravo was just owning him al night even saved a penalty. Even in the return leg, they scored a very late goal

Rafael Borre now turned their hero in the final

They will probably get humiliated in the CL but I am sure no one in the city of Frankfurt cares about that right now

They eliminated the best of teams. Fully deserved. Leipzig shat the bed cos it really should have been an all Bundesliga Final.

All their ties they played fantastic football. They might make some noise if they get a good draw. Remember they lost in the semis to Chelsea just two seasons ago in this same competition so they have been knocking at the door.

And absolute scenes. I've seen their fan videos. Nobody supports their teams quite like BuLi fans

If not for a 3rd quarter collapse Celtics should be up 2-0 and halfway through a sweep. They have won 7 of 8 quarters.

Celtics are a significantly better team than this Heat. If they play to the best of their abilities Miami shouldn't win another game

Blueelf:
This comment didn't age well

Beer parlor , Mama Nkechi Bukka Analyst

Waagwan blaad. Sorosoke werey

Omo people were questioning Jayson Tatum on this thread. Odiegwu

Look at Steph dominating the boards

5 Bundesliga teams in the CL next season. Let's have it

Proud of Eintracht Frankfurt for doing the Bundesliga proud. What a run

Lol be like I've given Celtics the kiss of death

I'd be shocked if the Celtics don't wipe this Heat team in 5. People will appreciate more the work Giannis did once this series is done

See how TimeLord is feasting

birdman:
Of course, but that has little to do with who the best players are. When you say ring is all that matters when evaluating a player, I beg to differ. Derek Fisher has 5 rings, Robert Horry has 7 rings. Barkley has 0, TMac has 0. Gary Payton 0. So obviously just rings is not enough. That is why there are many good players on the nba 75 anniversary that didnt win a ring. You need a good front office, solid team, solid coach and fewer injuries than your opponent to win a ring. Some of this is outside the control of you individual skill. Go ask Durant how it went this season.

Gary Payton get ring oh