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

[OGBobbyJohnson]

 

[dubsmith_nz]

Man hell of a series, great to see the Wolves being so competitive. Ant really is that dude.

I'm hoping the Wolves make lightwork of the Mavs so they can clean up the Celtics.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

This is why I hardly ever post midseries during the NBA playoffs, it's the #1 season for hot takes getting exposed in record time.

Honestly just lucky that I dared to start yapping at Chicago in Game 6 and they pulled through for me.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

How does a team up 20 not get rest for their star player? Because the star player doesn't want to sit Because he wants assist so he can have his triple double. The Denver offense stagnated because jokic was too busy hunting his triple dub.

Jokic took 12 shots compared to just 1 assist in the 2nd/3rd quarters combined. He finished the 3rd quarter with 5 assists, he was never anywhere close to a triple-double.

They didn't leave Jokic in because he wanted a triple-double. They left him in because it's Game 7 and his backup is the corpse of Deandre Jordan.

Y'all will just make up anything.

So now as the lead is evaporating Murray and jokic have to stay in and now they have no energy or legs down the stretch. He settling for long jumpers because he had no energy to bang down low. And then when he did he had no lift and got his shot rejected due to that.

Jokic had 14 points on 5-10 shooting in the 4th, scoring 8 points inside (3-4 fg plus 2 fts drawing a foul on KAT) and 2-5 from 3pt.

You made up your entire narrative from vapors.

 

[The God Poster]

Looking back at the game. The Minnesota fanbase presence was shocking

Talk about a takeover

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Because Steph seared the DPOY on high heat

Steph played great that Finals, but 31-6-5 on 63 TS% can't singlehandedly win a series against a balanced squad when you're not a great defender.

Compared to how they had looked before that point, Tatum and White massively underperformed to lose that series. Especially after the Celtics went up 2-1, Tatum was terrible in Games 4 and 6 and White was virtually useless in all three games 4-5-6.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

shyt is crazy lol. It's all based on personality

NBA fans are always this way.


Larry Bird developed an image as "one the clutchest players ever" because he talked a TON of trash and had a great outside shot that he could hit while guarded. But then you look and see that his shooting #'s dropped in an ugly way in the playoffs (he shot just 32% from 3pt in the postseason for his career), he only made 2 game-winning playoff shots ever, and he had an ugly history of repeatedly laying eggs in elimination games with almost 0 classic must-win games.


On the other hand, Bron had some of the most memorable clutch performances of the 2000s (hitting 2 game-winners in his first playoff series ever, scoring the last 25 points in a must-win Game 5 against Detroit including the shot to send it to overtime and the shot to win in double-overtime, scoring 45 in a Game 7 on the road against the stacked Celtics, hitting the crazy 3pt buzzer beater against the Magic, and clutch game after game where it seemed like he scored or assisted literally every bucket in the 4th), yet he was known as "not clutch" before he ever left Cleveland solely because he hadn't won a title yet and had cultivated an image as a "pass first" player.


Crazy stat: LeBron hit as many game-winners in his first playoff series ever as Larry Bird hit in his entire playoff career.

 

[RubioTheCruel]

No rooting interest at all but it would be absolutely hilarious if KAT and Wiggins get rings and Butler retires ringless

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

 

[Dillah810]

No rooting interest at all but it would be absolutely hilarious if KAT and Wiggins get rings and Butler retires ringless

It would be triple hilarious is somehow Tobias Harris wins one as well.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

 

[Brief Keef]

No rooting interest at all but it would be absolutely hilarious if KAT and Wiggins get rings and Butler retires ringless

Well Jimmy def retiring ringless...ain't no DR Strange outcomes can help this nikka (and I'm a Heat fan)

 

[MVike28]

Looking back at the game. The Minnesota fanbase presence was shocking

Talk about a takeover

DOG!

They took over! Never seen no shyt like this.

 

[TDUBB]

Wolves being the best defensive team in the league I thought it was gonna be like this when Thibs was head coach. Funny how things got infinitely better after he and Butler left.

 

[Serious]