Jimmy freakin' Butler. Lets go Heat!
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People also forget they are exactly the same team that was the #1 seed in the East last year, and lost in the ECF in game 7
You also don't see any defensive schemes, work, how a player can deter others from scoring without blocking them. A big aspect of the game is just gone during the highlights
I watch the 10 minute condensed game on NBA Pass. I hide the score so it does keep me guessing.
I do agree. But I can’t commit to much more. Watched game 7 last week as it was at a normal time but otherwise I’m not watching a full game unless it is live.
I keep forgetting that.
Most of the time I watch the full game replay and use the 10sec and 1min fast forward buttons to skip timeouts, intervals, reviews etc. For someone who is fairly new to basketball I get so incredibly frustrated by the amount of timeouts, especially in the last 90sec of the game where it seems mandatory to take one after every single possession.
Jimmy Butler is so good. Great personality for the league. A Miami and Denver finals would be fun. Probably not for ESPN and national talking heads but for everyone else.
Never that I'm aware of. I think the lowest seed still is the 95 Rockets who went through a tough postseason slate - 3rd seed* Utah in their perennial playoff choke appearance, 2nd seed Phoenix who choked away both 2-0 and 3-1 series lead, and the 1st seed/top league record San Antonio who also pulled their annual choke job. They then got the East's top seed Orlando, stole game 1 after Nick Anderson missed four free throws in the final seconds and Kenny Smith hit a bomb to force OT, and went on to sweep the series.
*Utah had one more win than Phoenix but the league seeded the division winners first and Utah finished second to San Antonio in the Midwest.
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As others said before NBA app is the way to go. I just skip all the free throws, time-outs and all the other stoppages.
For regular season games, I quite often watch the "all possessions" cut on nba app, about 40mins per game. Yeah, highlights are the worst option for basketball.
If Wemby has a similar career to Hakeem, AD or KD, will it be a disappointment?
Kinda? I mean, no because that's fecking amazing, but also, he's supposed to be an MJ/LeBron caliber talent, so...
Anything less than Shaq/Duncan might be a disappointment?
Of course not. It is far more likely that he won't be as good as them rather than being as good as MJ/LeBron. People just exaggerating as usual (Zion was also supposed to become nearly as good as LeBron or so).
And this is exactly why I want this matchup. It'll be so funny seeing First Take devote 80% of it's coverage to the Lakers and Knicks, treating the finals as a secondary event
I doubt the reaches the level of Hakeen or KD, not because he is not uber talented, but because those dudes are legit top 25 players. The recent MJ discussion led me down a, grainy, YouTube rabbit hole of 90's basketball and I am 100% sure that MJ's dominance has made everyone devalue the greatness of the Dream. Man, he was so good.
My answer to this question that comes from various media outlets is no. It's not even realistic to compare a currently undrafted player with that level of players.
Watching the Nuggets @ Lakers right now and feck me the calls the Lakers are getting from the refs would make Liverpool fans blush they’re so ridiculous.
Why is Russell still playing? Lakers deserve to lose just for keeping him in the game.
So if he won a ring and maybe won MVP/DPOY, it’ll it a disappointing career?
NBA can't let some small market team just walk all over their golden boys.
Feck me, the refs not even hiding their intention to help lakers win. Ruining a good game this one.
Butler vs Jokic will be a great final. Nuggets look unbeatable right now.
They tried their best to stop it, unlucky!
Going to be a very intriguing finals. Jokic is 1 of 9 MVP's to never win a chip and 1 of 3 multiple MVP's to never win a chip. Whereas with the Heat, there has only been 3 teams to ever win the chip without a past, present or future MVP on the team.
I wouldn't count Boston out yet. The bookies certainly haven't. They still have them favored over the Heat to win it all.
Denver won with Jokic being not existent for first 3 quarters. This team is special!!!
And fighting some unbelievable calls from the officials. Murray was really good tonight.
NB: I’m a total novice at following this sport.
A chance to make history. Denver is the best team in the west and probably the nba right now and if murray plays well they will win it all.
I’m a newbie to basketball too, find it loads of fun….it’s an antidote to football where a lot of matches feel like a drudgefest.
I have been watching basketball actively since 1995 and been on few average/terrible teams. It is very fun sport. Gotta be tall, size really matters.
Beautiful month of May, from United clinching a CL spot, Arsenal capitulation, Liverpool missing out on the CL and now the Lakers on the verge of elimination 
add warriors losing to that list as well
God I hope the Lakers win a couple, or at least get a gentlemans sweep... this will be another totally out of context thing we'd never hear the end of if LeBron lost 4-0
The Nuggets are just one brilliant team. Pick and pops, using mismatches and screens, ball circling all around until it finds an open man... And on top of all that, come clutch time all players are coming with big plays.
edit: and yeah officiating was a bit shit first 3 quarters
edit: and yeah officiating was a bit shit first 3 quarters
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Good shout. I am hearing "best prospect since" and I'm like this is said every few years. I remember people talking big hype over Howard, Rose, Oden, Davis, Simmons, and Zion.
Have you seen any of Lebron's high school games? The words 'Magic' and 'Jordan' are sprinkled throughout them liberally by Vitale and those guys. A high school player.....
You think people would blame him? I mean sane people, not bile-filled haters (professional or amateur).God I hope the Lakers win a couple, or at least get a gentlemans sweep... this will be another totally out of context thing we'd never hear the end of if LeBron lost 4-0
This level or hype doesn't tend to flop.... but the sample size is utterly miniscule and theres a first for everything. I mean, I see Oden mentioned above, but he wasn't at this level, or even Duncan levels, I'd say Wemby is reasonably touching LeBron levels, but add in modern social media tax for that
I'm also coming as a non-American, but this seems Duncan, Crosby, McDavid, Manning, Luck give or take levels to me. Hysterical that this tiny sample size of ultra hyped players has been gifted to the same team twice in Colts and Spurs too.
I'm also coming as a non-American, but this seems Duncan, Crosby, McDavid, Manning, Luck give or take levels to me. Hysterical that this tiny sample size of ultra hyped players has been gifted to the same team twice in Colts and Spurs too.
Not necassarily, but yes, and a reason to pad their agenda and a pointless tidbit to the GOAT debate. Perfect clickbait. "Jordan would never!" (using very selective pro-Jordan arguments, because he did!)
Tbf, I don't remember this much hype since LeBron. Zion hype was kind of big, but more about his athletic ability. This guy has the potential to be an all around monster at 7ft3. That said, a Hakeem kind of career would be more than enough. And the kid should be ecstatic if he reaches such heights.
I think the hype over this guy is more extreme, from what I can remember. The worry for me is whether he can avoid injury.
I would agree that Lebron is the last guy I remember with this amount of fanfare. It's amazing that Lebron actually lived up to what people were saying about him when he was a literal child.