Manifest Destiny: Claiming the West Starts with Taming the Wolves! Official Mavs (#5) vs. Timberwolves (#3) WCF Thread

[Professor Emeritus]

The bulls weren’t a call away from the ecf they were a call away from being up 3-2

You said "that wasn't the ECF" as if I had called it the ECF. Admit it, you read it wrong.

And Pippen was a call away from being up 3-2 and was definitely going to win the next at home. Whereas Kyrie got slaughtered the only time he even saw the 2nd round as the leader. Hell, his only 1st-round win was against a low seed missing their #1 player.

The blazers blew a 18 point lead in the 4th quarter of game 7. Miss me with your coulda woulda bullshyt , pippen never did shyt without Jordan.

You lied and said he had never made it past the 2nd round, when he actually got to Game 7 of the WCF. And everyone who watched knows why the league had to make sure they lost that game.




Pippen as a team leader went 6-4 in the '94 playoffs, 10-6 in the 2000 playoffs, and 0-3 in the 2001 playoffs. 16 playoff wins and 3 series wins in 3 years, and as I pointed out, he was a call or two away from going further in both '94 and '00.

Kyrie as a team leader missed the playoffs in '12, missed the playoffs in '13, missed the playoffs in '14, got hurt and watched his team make it all the way to Game 7 of the ECF without him in '18, came back to the same team only to get destroyed 1-4 in the 2nd round in '19, then got hurt again in '20. Just 5 playoff wins and 1 series win in 6 years, and he never looked for a moment like he was ever going to do better than that.


Claiming that those are similar resumes is another example of basketball discussion being a joke here.

 

[GoldenGlove]

"Gotta just keep shooting them" - Karl Anthony Towns

 

[KidJSoul]

Regular season hero brehs

We got the Celtics when it counted

Well yall better get your team back up so we can get a rematch next year in the finals

Your team looking in shambles

 

[Geechiedan214]

Minnesota was able to basically ignore one guy at all times versus Denver and PHX and got bailed out by MPJ bricking everything. Minnesota also doesn’t hunt match ups the way Dallas and Boston do.

Boston on the other hand, will live with White and Jrue single coverage on Kyrie and will live with Tatum and Brown on Luka. They will also have a healthy Porzingis back to stretch the floor. I actually think they’re well equipped to beat the Mavs. I just don’t know if they will.

Yeah all that sounds good just better hope they supporting cast show up cuz Pj, Lively,DJJ, Gafford etc gone pull up

 

[Rasille]

Why not post up Kat more? And figure out how to guard against their penetration because clearly their drop defense doesn’t work. Pick and roll defense is awful too.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Well yall better get your team back up so we can get a rematch next year in the finals

Your team looking in shambles

Just make sure yall win this year or it’s going to be a long summer for yall

 

[93 til]

"KAT ain't mad enough. Nobody could talk to me if I'd miss 2 FTs "

Ernie "Sounds like a good night "

Ernie a fool

 

[lightskin jermaine]

 

[Big Boss]

Shaq, Chuck, Dray came with straight facts

What they say

 

[GoldenGlove]

Mr Draymond. fukk you for dismissing the Rose Era Bulls and an ECFs appearance

 

[Jplaya2023]

If both these series DO end up in sweeps the NBA needs to move the finals up to Sunday June 2nd. Thats 4 abd 5 days off for each team which is plenty. KP should be back as well

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

 

[Derek Lee]

smh

 

[GoldenGlove]

There was spite and shenanigans involved with that Nets/Mavs trade . Breh got lucky as hell.

I guess, but multiple teams could have beaten that trade if they weren't p*ssy

 

[im not you]

Tatum, Brown, White and Holiday

i feel like this was said about the wolves defense and yet ...