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NBA Playoffs 2019-2020 |OT|

Cutty Flam

Banned
How good is Doncic? Did anyone see this kid taking over this quickly?
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Good enough to shut out a top seed team, down his 2nd best player, while injured. This dude was balling hard in regular season. Seeing this in his first playoff games and series ever in NBA, at age 21, versus the Clippers of all teams? I've seen enough, he is a legend in the making. Luka is that dude
 
How good is Doncic? Did anyone see this kid taking over this quickly?
To be completely honest, I did not see him making the big steps that he's made over his first year. I thought he was impressive last year but I thought it was going to be another 2-3 years before he would really come into his own. I was wrong.

IMO to really "get" most players you have to see them play in person. There's certain things that are harder to judge on TV than when you're in the arena - overall court awareness being the big one. I didn't see Lebron play in person until his second year with the Heat and I just remember thinking, "OK I get it now" just after a couple quarters.

I saw Luka play in person once last year and once again this season before the lockdown and I was very impressed with the progress made. He obviously has a lot of room to improve on the defensive side of the ball but it's that court awareness that jumped off the page.
 

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Luka:

+Gifted court awareness. He's playing chess were most play checkers. Think Magic or LeBron.
+Great passers thanks to the above. Wants to get his teammates involved.
+Has Rodman's nose for rebounds. He can predict the carom off the rim like the Worm.
+Great size.
+Plays at his own pace and get can to the rim at will.
+Touch as nails, not afraid of the moment.
+Plays with joy, seems like a leader and he loves his teammates as much as his teammates love him.
=Average free throw shooter.
=Average athlete that gets by on his size, craftiness and know-how. Can struggle against elite defenders (Morris and Leonard have had some success defending him)
-Below average three point shooter (regressed this year). Relies too much on the step back which makes his percentages worse.
-Bad defender (hopefully he rounds into less of a liability thanks to his court awareness)
-A little injury prone

Oh yeah, he's still a kid.



Beyond his athleticism, I think he can bump those ='s and -'s up a notch. He's a generational talent. I was worried about drafting him to be honest but I"m happy to be wrong. I thought the trying to fill Dirk's shoes was a little unfair to another European prospect and Dallas has had a weird stigma about only being loyal to white players and thus had trouble attracting big free agents. Going from Dirk to Luka is pretty amazing. I just hope we can keep him long term. You can't expect Dirk level loyalty these days.
 
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Cutty Flam

Banned
Blazers looking pathetic, Lakers playing very strong

2nd half Blazers need Lillard to spark something. This happened last year. He was shaken up due to injury (rib) and wasn’t even close to performing how you would expect a superstar to perform
 

Cutty Flam

Banned
I’ve seen this before. Idk if Lillard has too much trust in his squad but he should know better. You can’t let up if you’re the alpha of the pack, not even for a second in-game. Can’t let your teammates complain so often either. Shut the fuck up, stay alert and focused and make plays. Emotions might have been the true factor of this game. Blazers weren’t in it at all in the 1st half
 

Hinedorf

Banned
I’ve seen this before. Idk if Lillard has too much trust in his squad but he should know better. You can’t let up if you’re the alpha of the pack, not even for a second in-game. Can’t let your teammates complain so often either. Shut the fuck up, stay alert and focused and make plays. Emotions might have been the true factor of this game. Blazers weren’t in it at all in the 1st half

I have to guess he's pretty gassed from playing at an MVP level pre-playoffs. LeBron just decided to show he's still King fucking Kong in this game. Dame-time stopped either due to aggressive double teams or it's in his head. Some of those previous games he was shooting from anywhere on any defense and right on point, that confidence is gone.

Key Stat: TWO 3 POINT ATTEMPTS by Dame. He's the best 3 shooter on the court and All of these people Kyle Kuzma, Markief Morries, JR Smith, Anthony Caruso, KCP, Danny Green, Lebron, Melo, CJ McCollum, Gary Trent Jr ALL TOOK MORE THREE SHOT ATTEMPTS.

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I’ve seen this before. Idk if Lillard has too much trust in his squad but he should know better. You can’t let up if you’re the alpha of the pack, not even for a second in-game. Can’t let your teammates complain so often either. Shut the fuck up, stay alert and focused and make plays. Emotions might have been the true factor of this game. Blazers weren’t in it at all in the 1st half

Not trying to come up with excuses, just legit wondering if he's injured like really injured. He seems unable to get away from the double teams and the mighty Alex Caruso is shutting him down right now. Something's off.

The Blazers play some of the fugliest defenses I ever saw. A lot of options on offense, but the defense deserves a new word. It's COACHFIREDSOME.
 

ZZZZ

Member
LOL, the Clippers shooting numbers are out of this world, this must be a team record or something.



FG's and 3's
Holy shit.
 
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Horatius

Member
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/nba-2017-playoffs-ot-we-did-it.1360202/page-412#post-238113234

^^^ I could barely believe it, what was NeoGAF like in 2017? There are 20,800 posts in that thread, and it's only one series....although, the NBA Finals, but still, almost 21,000 posts in one thread? That is incredible
even that thread was well past nbaage's heyday. a few are around who remember.



ah man, looks like pg gonna try and blame his crapassery on "mental health" and "depression" and shit

trying to take the fun out of making fun of his baby ass
 

Cutty Flam

Banned
Horatius Horatius yeah that's why I'm confused. That series wasn't even that good, Cavs got rekt 4-1 and they weren't in it at all in game 5 so I'm just stunned that NeoGAF had that many posters, let alone that many posters that talked basketball. I've never seen a thread like that in my life, the NBA Finals last two weeks usually if both teams push it to game 7. That's a crazy amount of posts for just two weeks, never seen anything like that
 

Horatius

Member
entire season in jeopardy now
yeah feels like they're just done with the bubble period and angry enough to use this as a productive-seeming reason to get out of there

there is zero logic in boycotting the thing that gives you exposure if you actually want to achieve something unless you're trying to change the thing you're boycotting itself
 

UltimaKilo

Gold Member
I’m done with the NBA. I really am. Doc Rivers saying the country hates him, multi-millionaire Lebron claiming he’s afraid to be in the US...

Did anyone see Wade say that the hate for Lebron when he left Cleveland was because white people hated seeing a power black man?

Someone should educate that dumbass on what happened when Figo left Barça for Real Madrid... his life was literally in danger.
 
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