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2024-25 NBA Season / Playoffs

Cusefan0307 said:
Indiana lost while getting every friggin 50/50 call from the officials go there way and Brunson was terrible.
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Well, the Knicks have to win again to make this a series.
 
Knicks have to win the 2 at home and find a way to win one of 2 at INDY.

Though the way its playing out maybe they win the 2 at INDY and hope to win 1 at home.
 
I'm not trying to be mean, but I don't understand how Kendrick Perkins got the TV gig that he did. He's not particularly insightful, or interesting, or funny. And he was a marginal NBA player, at best. And always looks quasi-disheveled. I can't figure it out.

I wish TNT could cover the NBA 100% of the time.
 
Eric15 said:
I'm not trying to be mean, but I don't understand how Kendrick Perkins got the TV gig that he did. He's not particularly insightful, or interesting, or funny. And he was a marginal NBA player, at best. And always looks quasi-disheveled. I can't figure it out.

I wish TNT could cover the NBA 100% of the time.
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He wasn’t a bad player for Boston, but he completely fell off a cliff when he went to OKC. I actually think he follows the game and knows it a bit better than some other analysts. He just doesn’t have the personality or cache as the others. Barkley doesn’t even pay attention at this point.
 
Eric15 said:
I'm not trying to be mean, but I don't understand how Kendrick Perkins got the TV gig that he did. He's not particularly insightful, or interesting, or funny. And he was a marginal NBA player, at best. And always looks quasi-disheveled. I can't figure it out.

I wish TNT could cover the NBA 100% of the time.
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Perk Is good on PTI, but yeah, ESPN studio is horrible. Really baffling how Legler has managed to survive all the purges.
 
so the end of the minn game the ball goes out with .6. the dont even review but they change the clock from ,1 to .3?
 
upperdeck said:
so the end of the minn game the ball goes out with .6. the dont even review but they change the clock from ,1 to .3?
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I'm guessing they maybe got a call from Secaucus or something to put 0.3 on? Idk, my best guess was that since the fan caught the ball with 0.6, they shaved a little more off as if the ball was going to hit the ground.
 
once the ball goes over the sideline there is no fan interference issue so touching is touching. Either way I doubt .3 goes off the clock those last 6 ft to the ground.
 
MikeSU02 said:
Took Thibs basically in a corner to finally adjust his lineup/play more guys.

KAT isinfuriating to have on your team, but when he’s engaged and committed, he’s great on O.

Need to get game 4.
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MikeSU02 said:
Took Thibs basically in a corner to finally adjust his lineup/play more guys.
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similar to late era JB. Did Thibs whine in the press conference and trash the guys he was forced to play.
 
Eric15 said:
I'm not trying to be mean, but I don't understand how Kendrick Perkins got the TV gig that he did. He's not particularly insightful, or interesting, or funny. And he was a marginal NBA player, at best. And always looks quasi-disheveled. I can't figure it out.

I wish TNT could cover the NBA 100% of the time.
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He's horrible but my guess is ESPN loves that he will say anything no matter how dumb and I would also guess he doesn't make a ton of money.
 
Eric15 said:
I'm not trying to be mean, but I don't understand how Kendrick Perkins got the TV gig that he did. He's not particularly insightful, or interesting, or funny. And he was a marginal NBA player, at best. And always looks quasi-disheveled. I can't figure it out.

I wish TNT could cover the NBA 100% of the time.
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I'm afraid I have some bad news about next season
Melancer46 said:
You got me. I don't watch the NBA. I really don't know what to tell you if you think Brunson isn't flopping a ton/the refs are out to get him. Like I said, it's certainly not exclusive to him, but he's a very big offender.

He's also drawing the most fouls per game of any player in the postseason. Aside from SGA, Brunson is drawing nearly double the fouls of any other player left in the playoffs.
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Fwiw, Brunson also has had by far the most time of possession on the ball, 140 minutes (!) so far in the playoffs. SGA is second with 114. (I also dont think the refs are out to get Brunson or the Knicks. Just providing some context)
 
Melancer46 said:
I think that's still maybe slightly too rich for me; it's really the same case as last season. There are such obvious areas of improvement for him that would put him in the top 5, but he still has to make those improvements to get there IMO. I don't think there's really any reasonable case that he's ahead of Jokic, Giannis, SGA, or Luka right now, so that alone puts him #5 at best. And granted we now have to see how he returns from injury, but I think before the injury Tatum was ahead of him. I wouldn't really fight the idea that he's #6 (or #5 if you're saying Tatum gets knocked down because of the injury), but you could probably make a decent case for guys like Steph, Mitchell, Brunson, etc.

We're really splitting hairs here though lol, but I think people subconsciously boost him a little bit because of the highlights and the personality and shrug off some of stupid tendencies he still has. He's still clearly going to be a 2nd Team All-NBA guy again and is obviously a fantastic player to build a team around.
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BTW, last night is one of those things I was referring to with Ant. He just has too many of these weird games where it seems like a defense tries to take him out of the game or remove an aspect of his game and he just kind of accepts his fate. Still really young so plenty of time for him to get over it, but this certainly isn't the first time he's seemingly just kinda been like "Alright I guess I just won't do anything tonight".
 
Melancer46 said:
BTW, last night is one of those things I was referring to with Ant. He just has too many of these weird games where it seems like a defense tries to take him out of the game or remove an aspect of his game and he just kind of accepts his fate. Still really young so plenty of time for him to get over it, but this certainly isn't the first time he's seemingly just kinda been like "Alright I guess I just won't do anything tonight".
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I think he’s below Steph and Brunson for sure at the moment. I’m a big believer that if Curry was healthy in the last series Minnesota wouldn’t even be playing right now.
 
Melancer46 said:
BTW, last night is one of those things I was referring to with Ant. He just has too many of these weird games where it seems like a defense tries to take him out of the game or remove an aspect of his game and he just kind of accepts his fate. Still really young so plenty of time for him to get over it, but this certainly isn't the first time he's seemingly just kinda been like "Alright I guess I just won't do anything tonight".
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As a Rockets fan, Ant has these performances that really remind me of some James Harden deciding playoff games where he doesn’t even show. It’s not so much that he plays bad.., he just doesn’t play at all, leaving the work to others. It’s always in games where his team needs a win to continue but it’s not EVERY game that fits that description.

SU fans will recall he pulled the same crap against us in the NCAA tourney leading to people wondering if he was sick or injured
 

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