etidy:


Na ment now, the super max has been a death contract for most teams, I never liked it when it was initiated and I don't right now.

The only players that has successfully lived up to the contract has been steph and Giannis
Paying a single player 35% of your cap space is madness to me when you still need to squeeze in another supermax or one/two more max contracts to compete.

What you get is a consistent miserable team who is not competing neither is it bad enough to get good picks. Moreover if the player declines its become a horrible contract.

John wall, Westbrook, Gobert, Harden have be dud. Meanwhile the same contract has been impeding Lillard from getting any help.

The bar for getting the super max is too low, heck Klay narrowly missed out on it and was disappointed when he missed all nba before contracts negotiations.
Imagine paying steph and Klay 70% of your cap space,e don finish for the warriors be that they would have to cannibalize the team.

The way the Supermax is calculated makes the value different for each player. E.g Jokic Supermax value is higher than what Beal might get and also what Doncic got.
Still I truly believe it should only be for those who really push the needle. Personally, if I was the players instead of the Supermax they should have pushed for Ownership shares with the selling point that it would be harder for a player who has Ownership stake to ask for a trade after getting paid.

The Spurs are finally going full rebuild mode

felix00:
Harden is declining his Max player option and taking a lesser contract to give Philly space to improve the squad

Just hope his hamstring get fully right. If Maxey can become consistently good, the sixers might just have a chance.

PS: Can anyone explain the logic of the Wizards giving Beal a $250+mil deal?
Why give the supermax to a player who is arguably not a top 20. I can understand paying a premium if the team was ready to win now, but they are not even close. Right now with what they have, nobody can guarantee a playoffs series win. So again why not just rebuild and start allover?

The Clippers are fleshing out their roster, especially if Wall can be healthy. He is a quality PG to have especially with the 2nd unit

Kyrie staying . Probably after no team guaranteed him close to max money without performance clauses

Danielnino00:
So the "super team" is about to end just like that...Lol...
pundits swore that they would dominate the league...

Dominance only happens on the court, not in the press

Android22:
I said that Wiggins had one bad game as well but that as soon as Steph had that game 5 the media made it look like him and Wiggins were neck and neck in the Finals MVP - before game 6. I agree that Wiggins was the 2nd best player on the Warriors in the series, but not neck to neck with the number 1. And that some even GSW fans started saying the same thing with the media after game 5 but before game 6.

Okay now I get you. I just don't understand why most people can't appreciate greatness. Maybe it's because I don't support any team and just enjoy basketball, I have never understood the putting down one player, just to elevate the other. That game 5 that people were saying Steph played badly IMHO is an exaggeration, yes he did not score as much, but he had one of his highest assist output in that game and his gravity led to a lot of open looks for Klay and Wiggins.
Hate him or like him Steph now has a legitimate case for top 10 player of all time.

Android22:
Andrew Maple Jordan Wiggins was so instrumental to this ring. But you guys just followed the media to drink the kool-aid again. Wiggins had a sub-par game (game 2 for e.g) as well but Curry needed only 1 before it became like he [Wiggins] was neck and neck with Curry for this FMVP. Come on guys. Even on here some of you started re-echoing this sentiment.

Sorry ohh, but I thought Steph was unanimous FMVP. So I don't understand the kool-aid comment. What Wiggins did was show that he could be the 2nd best player on a championship team. IMHO he was never in the running for the FMVP.

What I just saw from Wiggins this post season just confirms what i have always thought. A lot of franchises waste years in trying to make a player what he is not. Wiggins just put up his best Pippen act, guard the oppositions best wing player, grab as many rebounds as you can, and average 15-18pts.
This guy who was ridiculed for years because he was been given a role that was more than be could handle, just became the 2nd best player on a championship team.

Very good series, the Celtics downfall was the excessive TOs. The 2 Js have to figure out how not to dribble the ball in traffic.
As for the Chef, the Slander will at least end

AD saying publicly he has not shot a basketball since April just reiterates what we have been saying about him. He might have all the talent in the world, but he just doesn't want it enough.

With the playoffs winding down, is there still anyone taking CJ mccollum over Jalen Brown.

Skrrrrrrr:


The story of that Finals was thoroughly rewritten in favour of LeBron completely sidelining Kyrie. LeBron averaged 29PPG in that series while Kyrie averaged 27. They got thoroughly walloped the first 2 games, won game 3, lost game 4. Then Draymond got suspended and the rest is history.
Kyrie averaged more PPG than Steph in that series but the media would have us believe LeBron carried a bunch of bums to the finals.
LeBron's team were arguably better on a player by player basis.

Sidelining Kyrie how? Kyrie has been living off of his performances during that finals series for the past 6 seasons. Since that series, he has done next to nothing in the playoffs, but somehow his name keeps coming up as a playoffs performer or clutch player.

The Danny Ainge rebuild has started. Snyder out

One thing about the Celtics through out this playoffs is that they have more guys who can on a day just go for 20+pts. 2 of the Bucks loss came from AL scoring 30 in one game, and Grant scoring 25 in another. If they continue that trend in this finals series, they can go all the way.

felix00:
JT needs to show up

His guys are pulling him along so far. If White and AL keep this up the Celtics might just steal one without Tatum even shooting well. Tatum played well on defense and as a playmaker though

Steph with 3 fouls

donlittle25:
someone can say this about lebron with those Miami championships. But you saw lebron attitude during those times, I won, deal with it. Why is it so hard for this nigga? like bro, stop arguing with niggas that earn $50 per hour on twitter.

IMHO, I think he enjoys the back and forth on Twitter, just like Embiid likes trolling.

birdman:


Only Tatum, maybe imo. I alluded to warriors being a good team, so obviously they make good adjustments as well. In short, unless Curry can go hot 3 or 4 games out of 7, celtics have a shot to play good team bball and at least win their 2 home games. From there, things happen. But make no mistake, celtics are the underdog. Outside of Lebron and Kawhi led teams, no one has really stopped these warriors.

Both teams IMHO have a good mixture of scoring. For teams that are a 1-2 punch combo like the Celtics and GSW, and who also play good to great defense, winning will boil down to how much scoring they have in the squad.
On offense, both teams need 3 of the others on their team to average double figures 4x in the same game.
For the Celtics, they need 3 out of AL, Smart, Robert, Grant, White and Pritchard to score in the double figures 4x in the series, and it can happenin any combination.
As for GSW, they also need 3 out of Poole, Draymond, Wiggins, Looney, Kuminga, GP2.

On the defensive end, how well the Celtics switch to limit open looks for the snipers in GSW and take advantage of their length in terms of getting rebounds especially offensive boards.
On the other hand, can the GSW zone continue to cause the same issues that it has done since the beginning of the playoffs and whenever they go man, ensure that the limit the switches to Steph and Poole.

PS : Both teams are prone to having huge TOs games, whichever reduces their bad TOs nights to just 1 or 2 will also matter for this series.

The Celtics this season not only got the coach that has made a lot of the correct big decisions, they also got a GM, who decided to stop hoarding picks and went for it.
If they end up winning it all, it would have been because of front office and head coaching changes, making Smart the PG, Robert Williams and Grant Williams playing great at the defensive end and offering a threat on the offensive end. The trades for Horford and White, which both costs 1st round picks, have helped make this team extremely good on the defensive end and at the same time increased their offensive flexibility.

PS: Great job by Butler, the knee contusion bothered him in games 4 & 5, but he came good in 6 and 7. But there has to be one winner.

benji93:
See I will give you one piece of advice. When someone counters your 'coins argument' with facts, first admit that you got it wrong, then introduce another argument. . Very simple. Stay on point.

I don't rate basketball players like you guys. I rate a guy based on his individual performances. I will never look at Bird, Kobe, Duncan and Magic to name a few and use them as the baseline for players. These guys walked into a situation, some with multiple top 50 guys of all time on their team already and people like you use them as a baseline to judge players.
I rate a players performance based on what he has to work with in terms of teammates,and will continue to do so.

A40:
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

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

A40:
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?

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.

donlittle25:
Having to bring Luka back in because lead is shrinking. I swear to God, Dinwiddle gives me HBP

After someone will come here and say the Mavs team is at the same level as the GSW

Android22:
lol

Curry took 2 games from The San Antonio Spurs. In game 1, he dropped 44 and Pop decided to box and one him. That same SAS team absolutely destroyed Lebron and the Heatles 4-1 in the NBA finals in one of if not the most 1-sided NBA finals in modern history.

You people's nonsense is not new here.

Another lie, that Spurs team lost to the Heat. Also, you know what, after trapping him he had 22pt, 16pt,22pt, 9pt and 22pt in the next 5 games to lose the series.
If any of Doncic or even Tatum posts any of these numbers in a series and loses, you will kill them. Tatum had a 10pt outing the other night and people were questioning whether he was a superstar or not.

Roland17:
There are too many false narratives I have lost count. On Doncic he is a heavy post up player because of his size against other guards and some wing players. He recognizes this advantage and utilizes quite often. More so, opponents are wary of doubling him when he posts under the paint because of his passing. I think, it’s one reason I get frustrated with him when he moves away from it in search of the 3 ball.

With that being said, Doncic still has a long way to go before I can entertain comparison against the Chef/ Jokic..I have been on record here saying Doncic needs help because he is playing with a bunch of scrubs/ nobodies but the Mavs tactics of having 2 PGs and shooting 3s is catered towards Doncic after they lost Porz. While this may be an unpopular opinion, I think Porz would have given the Warriors nightmares in this series and counter what they are doing with Looney. Not saying they would beat the Warriors with Porz but it would not be as easy as it has been.

Porz cannot stay healthy, that's the issue, in the bubble they were killing the Clippers with him on the court and you know what happened, he got hurt again. You can dream up all the match ups you want that Porz can help with, but the key is he will probably not be healthy enough to even suit up to play.

PS: With due respect to Steph, he has only ever made the playoffs 2x in his career in a season where no other player on his team was an all-star, and in both seasons he won only 1 series. So the fact is Steph, like any other winning player, has had a lot of help to facilitate his winning

https://www.nba.com/stats/players/playtype-post-up/
That is a list of the post up plays per game in the playoffs. It just shows people don't watch games and just start regurgitating narratives. Using Klay as an example of post up player is a blasphemy

donlittle25:
That man is 6’7 lol. with shoes probably 6’8. when his threes are not falling, i expect him to eat from the post against guards, I mean barbecue but he doesn’t.

Watch post up games of Klay then go back and watch doncic. For a guard with that height, i expect him to be taller

Magic Johnson himself does not post up more than Luka. He posts up more than any wing player in the nba today as a PG and you say he should still do more. If 2s, 3s and 4s are posting up less than him, that alone should tell you what is going on

donlittle25:
The discrepancies between the 1st and 6 is almost 10 lol. That should give you an idea.

1 to 5 are centers,

Skrrrrrrr:


If he moved better, quit ball hogging and iso ball, he could create better looks for them and maybe they'd shoot better. Spencer is averaging 20ppg.

How is he ball hogging when Spencer and Brunson are both averaging 20pts. Please try and make sense. Just say you're looking at boxscores instead of watching the game and let's end this farce

Android22:
Is he the first person to face a trap? Is that not Currys life?

When curry faced a trap, he lost