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Post by scully19 on Jul 7, 2021 9:52:44 GMT -5
Chris Paul found some sort of youth potion. Rest vs Rust debate continues to be shown to be stupid.
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Post by haisan on Jul 7, 2021 10:25:46 GMT -5
Love that we're having the discussion in the 2020 playoff thread. Funny board we have.
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Post by scully19 on Jul 7, 2021 12:08:08 GMT -5
Well that was my fault lol.
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Post by sandman on Jul 7, 2021 22:44:59 GMT -5
Love that we're having the discussion in the 2020 playoff thread. Funny board we have. Huh, I did not see that.
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Post by haisan on Jul 7, 2021 23:38:34 GMT -5
Love that we're having the discussion in the 2020 playoff thread. Funny board we have. Huh, I did not see that. No big deal. Just kind of funny.
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Post by sutureself on Jul 8, 2021 0:43:39 GMT -5
Chris Paul found some sort of youth potion. Chris Paul is current betting favourite for Finals MVP. If he does get it, that would make him the 2nd oldest player to be named Finals MVP (at 36), after Kareem (who was 38 the last time he won it). Just two years ago he was perceived as almost having negative trade value thanks to his age and contract, to the point that Rockets packaged two extra 1st rounders to trade him for Russell Westbrook. Does that show how badly the league misjudged his value? Or is Rockets front office just on a tear of epic incompetence? After all they took a team built around Chris Paul and James Harden, and turned those two guys into: John Wall Kelly Olynyk (pending UFA) Dante Exum (pending UFA) Avery Bradley Lost their own 2023, 2024, and 2026 first rounders and have to give up a potential pick swap with OKC in 2025. They also got lucky and barely missed out on losing their lottery pick this year to OKC in a pick swap since it was 1-4 protected. Gained Milwaukee's 2022 1st rounder, Brooklyn's 2022, 2024, and 2026 first rounders. Plus a bunch of pick swaps they'll probably never be able to cash with Brooklyn in '23, '25 and '27. I don't even understand how that works since they would potentially already have to do a pick swap with OKC. Confusing stuff. But basically they gave up their own higher draft picks, replaced them all with Brooklyn's likely lower draft picks, and got John Wall and some random throw-ins.
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Post by Pseudonym on Jul 8, 2021 22:52:23 GMT -5
Bucks are giving me strong LeBron-era Cavs vibes right now. Holiday and Middleton had have no consistency these entire playoffs. AND they both generally lay all those bricks at the same time-it would be fine, normal even, if just one of them shot horribly from the field.
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Post by scully19 on Jul 20, 2021 22:50:32 GMT -5
Really happy for Giannis to get this. If we weren't going to get him in happy it's because of the extreme loyalty he had for the Bucks, that character is something I really like in athletes so can't be mad here the type of person you want winning somewhere else. He almost bent his leg backwards and was a monster in the finals including this 50 spot in the clinching game shooting like 17 for 19 from the line.
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Post by freewheel on Jul 21, 2021 9:23:21 GMT -5
I had the Bucks winning it. Bigger, tougher, experienced team, Great performance by GA and well deserved. The Bucks lost it in previous seasons and that put them in the a better place to overcome setbacks. They also beat better teams along the way. Cinderella runs like the Suns had this year usually end in the finals.
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Post by scully19 on Jul 21, 2021 10:03:18 GMT -5
Before the series I didn't because I didn't expect Giannis to do what he did to get there and they needed it all to win. Going in healthy I would have agreed with you, Suns didn't have the experience yet and got bumped further than they were ready for due to competitors being injured along the way.
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