Your Bubble 'Finals' teams were 2-8 in a real playoff setting. Both out in the 1st round.

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Nah.

We not letting Bron off this lightly. He pouted all throughout this series and failed to play up to his ability. He deserves all the criticism he gets.

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:dwillhuh: You really think Bron wouldn't have played better if he could? We're only 6 months removed from him dropping 40 in a closeout game in the finals. Three years ago, he had like ten 40 point playoff games. He clearly lacked that second gear.
 

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i think the shortened offseason is overstated. they basically had an offseason then a 8 game regular season and playoffs with no travel coming into this shortened offseason. negligible difference between that and an offseason with international basketball.
 

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I think the layoff from the time Rona first got to the start of the playoffs affected how things were gonna go more so than the actual arena
 

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Underrated part of the bubble:

AD benefitted SO MUCH from the 5 month rest time between the season stoppage and the bubble

If AD doesnt get that rest, more than likely he's hurt at some point in the playoffs


I say that to say, the bubble aint real :coffee:

lol nikkas using players not getting injured as talking points??????

"if he woulda got hurt they woulda lost"
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The Lakers and Heat had 70 days from The Finals to start of Training Camp.

That shid took its toll.

The Nuggets have withstood due to depth and The Joker being the MVP.
Let's not pretend like the Lakers didn't add:

Drummond
Trez
Schröder
Matthews
Gasol

They literally had the most stacked team in the league. Nobody can use the excuse of them not having enough personnel. Bron and AD also took ample rest during the season too. They choked, in embarrassing fashion. It's as simple as that.

What depth did the Nuggets have?

They lost two of their three best players from last season (Grant and Murray), adding G-League players and journeyman to their rotation:

Austin Rivers
Facundo Campazzo
JaMychal Green
Markus Howard
Aaron Gordon.

And they still had to carry Millsap, who has one foot in the grave.
 

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:dwillhuh: You really think Bron wouldn't have played better if he could? We're only 6 months removed from him dropping 40 in a closeout game in the finals. Three years ago, he had like ten 40 point playoff games. He clearly lacked that second gear.

He had the gear when he was clowning Crowder tho :ohhh:
 
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