Random NBA Observations 2024 - 2025

[QuintessentialBM]

You can put 12 coli users against Jazz and still expect a W

Naw, they aren't the Wizards or the Suns. I think they deserve a little (not much) more respect. I don't think they lay down.

 

[Theo Penn]

Naw, they aren't the Wizards or the Suns. I think they deserve a little (not much) more respect. I don't think they lay down.

They lay down.

Easy call considering the top pick is at stake and they are tied with the Wizards for the coin toss.

Jazz have ZERO chance of winning any more games

 

[ALonelyDad]

Naw, they aren't the Wizards or the Suns. I think they deserve a little (not much) more respect. I don't think they lay down.

I think they are talented but they do lay down and have been actively tanking hard, they have zero interest in competing or getting wins at this stage

 

[UpAndComing]

Jaylen Brown looked through my random posts on the Coli, and finally listened to me, and thought better of it to do what's right

 

[ALonelyDad]

They played the Soprano clip and went off lol.

 

[murksiderock]

@murksiderock where's your playoff predictions breh? I usually look forward to your write ups before playoff time

Man I appreciate that, dog! Mostly I'm still so undecided on The West. I've got The East coming down to Cleveland/Boston, and I think its gonna take a Cavs team I just don't think exists, to knock off the Celtics. I think the Cavs can make it watchable but I have them losing to Boston in 6...

I do think there's an outside chance for the Pacers or Bucks to upset Cleveland in Rd2, bit I think both of those teams would be even less competitive against Boston in the ECF...

In The West I think OKC makes the WCF but unlike Boston, I don't think they are a lock to do so. I gotta see where the final standings rest, because I can see LAC, LAL, GS, or Minnesota all making the WCF, and I can see any of those teams beating OKC whether they catch em in the WCF or Rd2...

That's 5 teams I think could win The West. I think OKC could beat Boston but they'd need to be at their absolute best. I dont know if any other West team could beat Boston, even though I think they could get to the WCF...

Since the All-Star break, here is everybody's record in both conferences:

EAST
Celtics 20-5 (.800; 66-win pace)
Cavs 19-7 (.731; 60-win pace)
Pacers 19-8 (.704; 58-win pace)
Bucks 17-10 (.630; 52-win pace)
Pistons 15-10 (.600; 49-win pace)
Bulls 15-10 (.600; 49-win pace)
........
Magic 13-11 (.542; 44-win pace)
Knicks 14-12 (.538; 44-win pace)
Hawks 12-13 (.480; 39-win pace)
Heat 11-16 (.407; 33-win pace)

WEST
Thunder 22-4 (.846; 69-win pace)
Dubs 19-6 (.760; 62-win pace)
Rockets 18-7 (.720; 59-win pace)
Wolves 16-8 (.667; 55-win pace)
Clippers 17-9 (.654; 54-win pace)
Lakers 17-11 (.607; 50-win pace)
.............
Nuggets 12-13 (.480; 39-win pace)
Kings 11-14 (.440; 36-win pace)
Grizzlies 11-15 (.423; 35-win pace)
Mavs 8-16 (.333; 27-win pace)

My big takeaways from this:

•the Lakers have played 2-4 more games than everybody else in The West, which obviously means they've had fewer days off. And yet they are still easily the #6 team out West since All-Star, which indicates they are better than that record suggests. No b2b's in the playoffs, no 3 games in 4 days stretches. They could be really potent coming up;

•the Pacers (~58-win pace) and the Bucks (~52-win pace) have been playing outstanding ball since All-Star. The Knicks and Cavs are gonna be in serious danger if they run into one of these two teams;

•Celtics have the easiest side of the bracket of anybody. Look at who they could potentially face. They are gonna cruise thru the first two rounds. They should get a challenge in the ECF, but can either of Cleveland, Indiana, or Milwaukee have any chance to beat them?

•imagine being the #1 seeds on both sides and having the toughest path to a championship OKC is on upset alert in every single round unless they draw the Grizz or Nuggets...

 

[SchoolboyC]

Ant being one of the best 3 point shooters with that athleticism and first step is so hard to defend. All he has to do is become a better playmaker to be complete.

All the folks that were complaining about him shooting more 3s to begin the season didn’t see the vision @Gil Scott-Heroin

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Yo Kendrick Perkins and Charles Barkley really get on my nerves

So we really gonna start this “The Clippers are dangerous we gotta watch out for them, don’t sleep on the Clippers”

bullshyt again????

These goofs are still on this Clippers fukk shyt in 2025???



When are these idiots gonna stop with this gaslighting Clippers shyt???

fukk outta here these guys are all clowns!

NBA media is GAHBAGE

 

[Joe Sixpack]

That bamma ass nikka Kendrick heard Barkley talk that Clippers shyt on TNT and he just had to bite

Goddam these nikkas are clowns it’s astonishing

 

[VegetasHairline]

 

[Conan]

Art

 

[UpAndComing]

Knicks are only 1 game ahead of the Pacers. Y'all think they tank to get the 4th seed?

 

[UpAndComing]

2011 Dirk was inspirational. The Mavs were literary projected to lose in every single playoff round lol. I remember one of my friends I grew up with was a die hard Dirk/Mavs fan. We used to watch all the playoff games together

My team won in 2008, his team won in 2011. shyt was awesome

 

[We Ready]

You can put 12 coli users against Jazz and still expect a W

They just beat Minnesota Feb 28


Hopefully they lay down for that coin toss though

 

[VegetasHairline]