Nothing to Avenge Here! It’s Ant Man vs. Joker & The Suicide Squad: Official Timberwolves (#3) vs. Nuggets (#2) West Semifinals Thread

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

Snow Bunny Season tonight.

The colder it gets outside, the hotter it gets inside

 

[SchoolboyC]

a lot of that Tatum criticism is due to the track record of "failures" though. i don't even think i would go that hard on him celtics hate aside because I don't think most of those teams were really championship level.

but this Ant's first real rodeo so he getting a mulligan. hopefully we get to see it all play out in the finals. going 6-24 is kobe shyt. he has no fear and sometimes that's what you need because that 6-24 might be 16-24. you miss every bucket you don't attempt.

Ant is still playing with house money, he’s had no “failures” because he’s had no “expectations”. Heading into this season, nobody expected the Wolves to be a challenging for a title. Even if they lose in the WCF, it’ll still be considered a successful season.

We’ll see people’s real feelings about Ant when him carrying Minnesota to deep playoff runs every year becomes the expectation and not the cool surprise

 

[Walt]

I understand it being more difficult to repeat due to the cap or whatever, but no one's even making out of the second round???

 

[HabitualChiller]

WE ARE SO fukkING BACK

Congrats, breh. You must feel elated right now

 

[Deafheaven]

Minnesota shot 30 free throws to Denver's 16.

They shoulda shot 40 then cuz if you actually watched the game the Nuggets were getting some comically fukked up calls.

 

[The God Poster]

During his run to the Finals they were ready to call him the next Kobe, and he had several big games during that run.

That was shot to hell when Milwaukee got them out the way after spotting them a 2-0 lead.

Now Ant-Man is on the cusp of being considered the next Jordan and folks are all mainly because he has no fear and talks shyt no matter who wants it, as opposed to his CONSIDERABLE statistical/defensive excellence.

I'm not even a Denver fan like that. I just wish people would wait until somebody did something worth crowning before actually crowning them. Win a title or a MVP, or do something folks ain't never seen before, then go from there.

The media ready to force him into the convo is one thing

From Ant’s play, persona etc he is clearly on another trajectory than Book.

We can agree on the bolded. It seems like a large portion of fans are ready to move on from always comparing the old vs new players just to bring someone down. Unfortunately others would rather continue….

 

[darryl]

I am so excited to play a team where Rudy can be his normal effective self. Jokic is a fukking nightmare. An absolute nightmare. Anyone hating on him for losing to this Wolves team is a hater. Anyone who seen this Wolves team know they are a steady handed KAT away from contending year after year. Seems like KAT might have chilled the fukk out

Nikka couldn't wait to praise that white man. Ain't nobody hating on him fakkit. Just give minny they props and keep it fukking moving bytch ass

 

[BrehWyatt]

Blew a 20 point lead at home in a game 7…….

The Jokic slander is about to be crazy

He'll get a pass. He went for 34-19-7 in a Game 7. You can point to the missed threes but without Murray on the court, it became apparent that Denver was more than content to settle for Jokic pulling from long range because nobody else could get their own shot. Hell, Murray barely could once the second half rolled around.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Alec Burks gave The Knicks punch
Naz Reid gave Minny good interior defense & creation
Marcus Morris gave Cleveland punch
TJ McConnell gave Indy

Denver won a title, let their bench go and got cute

That Braun kid isn’t an NBA player
The young kid from Jokic’s commercials couldn’t even see the floor

Denver has no bench and that’s why they lost

 

[SadimirPutin]

I think Denver wins by 10 or more

UPDATE Them boys choked on their own floor in their own altitude

 

[levitate]

Snow Bunny Season tonight.

Raw.

 

[SuaveyBoi115]

@Don Homer Kyrie really has a good chance at not only making the finals but actually winning it

 

[TDUBB]

Congrats Timberwolves fan! After getting clowned for years and years, finally made it!

 

[Don Homer]

Ant is still playing with house money, he’s had no “failures” because he’s had no “expectations”. Heading into this season, nobody expected the Wolves to be a challenging for a title. Even if they lose in the WCF, it’ll still be considered a successful season.

We’ll see people’s real feelings about Ant when him carrying Minnesota to deep playoff runs every year becomes the expectation and not the cool surprise

tatum has done what Ant just did 6 times

it's crazy that Ant has lapped Tatum in terms of public reception in such a short time. Tatum being this gen's duncan is unexpected

 

[Born2BKing]

Jordan is 1 of 1. He was doing unprecedented shyt before he won his first. Game had never seen anything like him.

It's why the media and league is DYING to find somebody to put the crown on, and Ant is their next candidate because Booker fell through.

Its crazy how people are so eager to find another GOAT that isn't MJ. That man is the fukking best player ever, can't wait to that convo dies, but never will. We won't see anyone surpass him in our lifetimes.