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Illin Degenerate

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really pathetic display from the celitcs, but maybe this is their deal with the devil for a title. they had an embarrassing loss to the lakers without lebron and ad around this time last year. that said they started off the season 19-4, theyre now 12-10 since.
 

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If you mean the year embiid won it, Jokic was still a heavy favorite after that game. Embiid won it when the nuggets decided to shut it down with a month and a half left in the season because they had the 1 seed locked up.
denver had a bad stretch in march where they lost 5 or 6 leading up to the final straw poll that essentially had the mvp race a dead heat. then there was that bad stretch you mentioned to close out the regular season. i really think it was the voter fatigue/anti jokic/pro embiid pr campaign that is the biggest reason embiid won in a landslide. having said that all the votes have been landslides for a long time. since shaq got 45.6% of the 1st place votes for mvp the 1st year nash won it in 2004-05 no player who finished 2nd has even gotten 35% of the 1st place votes. even more staggering is every 2nd place finisher since 07-08 has gotten less than 30 1st place votes.

based on their seasons sga vs jokic should be really close, or based on recent history it will be a landslide.
 

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Mazzulla really is 2020s Doc Rivers. nikka inherited a superteam and really not a great coach at all.

Boston should lost to Clips team without Kawhi, Harden, Zu and a bunch of other nikkas yesterday too. Scalabrine on broadcast was sayin team wasn't ready for they double teams lol

This is the other reason i passed on the Ime slander. He dropped the ball in the '22 Finals but the very next year we saw Mazzulla have a worse playoff result w/ the same roster... it was after, that ownership just said cotdamn, here to the tune of a $500 million roster.

I do give credit to Joe for steering a luxury cruise ship to a 'ship as nothing is promised, and championship hangerovers are a thing, but if by march they haven't snapped out of this haze then he ain't doing what he's supposed to be doing or something else is amidst.
 

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About a month or so ago, I saw an NBA game where there were 3 seconds left in the 3rd qtr. The ball was inbounded, but the player didn't even try getting the ball up the court for a shot. He just dribbled the time out, scared of possibly lowering his fg %

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Meanwhile, Jokic out here attempting 80 footers at the end of qtr:wow:
 
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Spo makin Tyler fukking Herro look like 2004 Peja Stokajovic is fukking insane brehs. 16pts on 100% shootin in 1st quarter :picard:

20-18 wit Jimmy missin most season fukkin up chemistry and 6 seed is just wild. Best coach of his generation by far no one can do more wit less and he did it wit talented teams that was post to win and dominate too
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