2024-25 NBA Season / Playoffs

[cliftonparksufan]

Could probably have retired if I had put a parlay on all 5 of those games lol

I was talking to someone today about betting on Indiana down seven with a minute to go. You could have bought a retirement home with those odds.

 

[MSOrange]

I’d be really pissed as a Boston fan. Inexcusable losses.

Mazzulla must not have enjoyed his job security after a championship. I know the players have to play, but when you have 2 4th quarter collapses like that in a row, the Celtics just didn't have any answers to stop the Knicks runs

 

[Melancer46]

Progress for Boston though as they showed they can miss three pointers AND two pointers tonight

 

[Newhouser]

Knicks need Game 3 - Boston is still way better. Can't give them room to breathe.

 

[Cusefan0307]

I’m a knicks fan, but I can’t remember a stranger two games to start a series from a defending champion.

What is Porzingis illness that he can barely play? It appears it’s been going on a while? Horford is too old at this point to be playing this much and was absolutely abused by Towns.

Pritchard probably should play more. They need guys who can score at the moment. Sam Hauser must really be hurt cause they could use his scoring too.

Tatum has been absolutely terrible. He looks tight. I’ll give Brown a pass cause he’s beat up.

Derrick White is about the only player that looks right and even he is struggling with his shot.

 

[Knicks411]

As a third party observer, I find it hilarious.

As a very biased observer I also find it hilarious!

 

[shandeezy7]

I’m a knicks fan, but I can’t remember a stranger two games to start a series from a defending champion.

What is Porzingis illness that he can barely play? It appears it’s been going on a while? Horford is too old at this point to be playing this much and was absolutely abused by Towns.

Pritchard probably should play more. They need guys who can score at the moment. Sam Hauser must really be hurt cause they could use his scoring too.

Tatum has been absolutely terrible. He looks tight. I’ll give Brown a pass cause he’s beat up.

Derrick White is about the only player that looks right and even he is struggling with his shot.

I gotta feel like Porzingis had covid or pneumonia or something and the effects are still prominently lingering. It seems like he can't go for more than 5-6 minutes at a time. You're right about Tatum. He's had a couple horrendous games. That possession after the Knicks cut it to 1 late where he was the only Celtic to touch the ball and dribbled into one of the worst shots you could possibly take was next level bad.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Knicks need Game 3 - Boston is still way better. Can't give them room to breathe.

The Garden is going to be batshit nuts for this next game.

 

[Eric15]

The Garden is going to be batshit nuts for this next game.

The cheapest tickets on Stutbhub right now are around $700 each.

 

[djcon57]

I gotta feel like Porzingis had covid or pneumonia or something and the effects are still prominently lingering. It seems like he can't go for more than 5-6 minutes at a time. You're right about Tatum. He's had a couple horrendous games. That possession after the Knicks cut it to 1 late where he was the only Celtic to touch the ball and dribbled into one of the worst shots you could possibly take was next level bad.

I wouldnt be shocked if it was long covid the way he says he "crashes" sometimes where it comes and goes

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Wolves are not taking it for granted that Curry being out gives them an opportunity.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Wolves are not taking it for granted that Curry being out gives them an opportunity.

I think it was a guaranteed win. I don't think Kerr really even tried to win the game. He was looking for who to play with Curry out. This series will be decided the next 2-3 games.

 

[STEVEHOLT]

Draymond playing the victim again. The common theme in all these altercations is his spastic extremity movements that he claims are inadvertent yet clearly there is intent. I’m supposed to believe an NBA caliber athlete can’t control his limbs to the degree required to not slap and kick people on a routine basis

 

[IthacaBarrel]

I think it was a guaranteed win. I don't think Kerr really even tried to win the game. He was looking for who to play with Curry out. This series will be decided the next 2-3 games.

I think the series was decided the second Steph went out

 

[MSOrange]

Knicks have the Celtics right where they want them at the end of 1

 

[Eric15]

The NBA has to do something about this intentional fouling of terrible free throw shooters. Boston just did it up 30 points. It’s terrible for the overall entertainment product.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

The NBA has to do something about this intentional fouling of terrible free throw shooters. Boston just did it up 30 points. It’s terrible for the overall entertainment product.

Haters can't accept that the Elam Ending is better.

 

[djcon57]

Same number of threes shot in Game 3 vs Game 2….just made 10 more. The mananalytics crew in shambles.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Haters can't accept that the Elam Ending is better.

Sorry, but if they are going to use a clock for the whole game, you use it to the end.

If you want to play to a certain number, that's playground ball, "first one to 11 wins" and keeps the court.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

Is it just me, or has the number of times players get hit in the face ramped up exponentially in the last five years? Flailing for fouls, swim moves, hooks, etc…. Kinda seems like a star has to have a jaw broken or lose teeth for anything to happen.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Sorry, but if they are going to use a clock for the whole game, you use it to the end.

If you want to play to a certain number, that's playground ball, "first one to 11 wins" and keeps the court.

So what's your solution?

 

[IthacaMatt]

So what's your solution?

fouling is part of the game. that's how teams have won (or lost) championships.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

fouling is part of the game. that's how teams have won (or lost) championships.

Then you're in favor of basketball having the dumbest ending in all of sports and don't have a solution.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Then you're in favor of basketball having the dumbest ending in all of sports and don't have a solution.

SU lost a national championship because we couldn't make our free throws.
NC State under Jim Valvano, used fouling to extend the game when they were behind as a strategy and won the national title.
Wilt Chamberlain would have won another half dozen championships if he could have been a decent free throw shooter.
It's part of the game.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

SU lost a national championship because we couldn't make our free throws.
NC State under Jim Valvano, used fouling to extend the game when they were behind as a strategy and won the national title.
Wilt Chamberlain would have won another half dozen championships if he could have been a decent free throw shooter.
It's part of the game.

Isn’t the question: what should be a part of the game? The game evolves. There was no dunking. There was no 24 second clock. There was no 3 point line. There was no restricted circle….

Even in terms of fouling, there have been changes. ‘Take’ fouls, clear path, flagrants….