The official 2024 NBA Playoffs thread - no tankers allowed

[Chadwiko]

And there's the 40.

And the Celtics bench are coming in.

 

[Memphis]

Tatum yet again being carried

Bro is playing with someone that's on the biggest contract to date in the NBA, is he suppose to go for 30 plus every night?

Team game mate.

Is no one allowed bad stretches of games anymore?

 

[Borough Blood]

Jrue 15/10 85% shooting. Is this his traditional playoff slump? I’m ok with it.

 

[Magnum27]

Bro is playing with someone that's on the biggest contract to date in the NBA, is he suppose to go for 30 plus every night?

Team game mate.

Is no one allowed bad stretches of games anymore?

The Pacers should be more concerned than we are, JT playing poorly for a half and they could not take care of us, and we still take care of business, and the end of the day who cares who the leading scorer is, as long as we win, is all that matters.

 

[srobbo]

Tatum yet again being carried

Best starting 5 in the league means he’s not going to be the alpha every night & we couldn’t give 2 shits either when we win as easily as we did.

 

[Magnum27]

Best starting 5 in the league means he’s not going to be the alpha every night & we couldn’t give 2 shits either.

Yep winning is all that matters.

 

[Memphis]

The Pacers should be more concerned than we are, JT playing poorly for a half and they could not take care of us, and we still take care of business, and the end of the day who cares who the leading scorer is, as long as we win, is all that matters.

Say that louder for the teams sitting at home or at cancun.

 

[Slysh]

Bro is playing with someone that's on the biggest contract to date in the NBA, is he suppose to go for 30 plus every night?

Team game mate.

Is no one allowed bad stretches of games anymore?

He is, but his bad games get washed away by having an elite team around him. Then when he wins and goes deep he gets put alongside the other guys who are clearly a tier ahead of him.

Tatum is very good, but he benefits greatly from having a stacked team.

 

[stewie griffen]

As much as I don't like the guy.

Kyrie has become very mature and is leading the Mavs team very well his leadership has actually come into play for once.

Not like the diva he was at Boston.

This is set up for him to stomp on the leprechaun in the finals

 

[fidstar]

Here come the "cake walk Celtics" calls despite the fact we dominated this game even with Hali in.

It's a cake walk because you get to play a team as bad as the Pacers in the ECF.

 

[Chadwiko]

It's a cake walk because you get to play a team as bad as the Pacers in the ECF.

Other side of the ECF should have done their job better then

 

[fidstar]

Other side of the ECF should have done their job better then

You know Celtic fans can accept the fact you have a cake-walk to the Finals and be okay with it.

LeBron got to do it for years.

 

[Chadwiko]

You know Celtic fans can accept the fact you have a cake-walk to the Finals and be okay with it.

LeBron got to do it for years.

don't get me wrong I'm not suggesting this has been any sort of 'hardest road' gauntlet.

but some people (not you/specifically) act as if Boston are really lucky to be where they are, which kinda ignores the fact that they were so far and away the best team in the Eastern Conference anyway.

Even if they played fully healthy Indiana, or Miami, or Cleveland, or New York, etc etc... Boston still likely would have won comfortably.

 

[fidstar]

I think the challenge would be more from 76ers and Bucks. Not to say you don't win the series, but it would have at least been interesting.

 

[Son of Skeletor]

ITT - Celtics fans congregate and reach consensus that they're awesome.

And yes, I'm kidding. Sorta.

don't get me wrong I'm not suggesting this has been any sort of 'hardest road' gauntlet.

but some people (not you/specifically) act as if Boston are really lucky to be where they are, which kinda ignores the fact that they were so far and away the best team in the Eastern Conference anyway.

Even if they played fully healthy Indiana, or Miami, or Cleveland, or New York, etc etc... Boston still likely would have won comfortably.

I doubt you'd find anyone who posts here regularly who didn't think Boston were winning the East, at a minimum. Been that way since December, if not July.

You are lucky Billy King is an idiot though.

 

[Jack Richards]

Tatum yet again being carried

Good... means he will be cherry ripe come the final against the West

 

[peternorth]

Been saying it for a while, its Bostons to lose in the east.

 

[fidstar]

Been saying it for a while, its Bostons to lose in the east.

I still think the Bucks can make a run.

 

[Jack Richards]

Luke Kornet is doubtful for tomorrow. Boston to go smaller ball

 

[Slysh]

He is, but his bad games get washed away by having an elite team around him. Then when he wins and goes deep he gets put alongside the other guys who are clearly a tier ahead of him.

Tatum is very good, but he benefits greatly from having a stacked team.

To prove this point again, Bill Simmons later pod pushing the Tatum is too harshly treated. Sure he isn’t on the Jokic level but he is on the ‘KD in his last years at the Thunder level’

AKA the MVP of the league and at worst top 2 or 3 player on the league at that time.

Great player, but pushed in to tiers he does not belong by the media big time.

 

[peternorth]

Must win game for the Wolfies.

 

[stewie griffen]

I still think the Bucks can make a run.

Bucks in 6

 

[stewie griffen]

To prove this point again, Bill Simmons later pod pushing the Tatum is too harshly treated. Sure he isn’t on the Jokic level but he is on the ‘KD in his last years at the Thunder level’

AKA the MVP of the league and at worst top 2 or 3 player on the league at that time.

Great player, but pushed in to tiers he does not belong by the media big time.

I stopped reading at bill Simmons

 

[Chadwiko]

Do the commentators sound weird on Kayo to anyone else?

 

[stewie griffen]

Luka looking sore early