NBA season 2019/20

[barbarian]

Nets are up four with three minutes to play in the first bubble game with actual stakes. The non-Lilliard Blazers are launching brick after brick. Would be a bit of a choke job if they can't win it.

[Bovidae]

1 pt. Ouch!

[barbarian]

I would have loved a Blazers/Suns play-in, but you have to credit Memphis for the overall season they had. Expect Portland will win the first game but hope the Grizz give them a run.

[voodoo]

@barbarian @mariner4life I've still got the Clips going all the way. I think Lebron still has the switch, and AD is one of the better 2nd bananas out there, but their back court is just a disaster. Unless Bradley comes back or they get the Rondo of 5yrs ago, I just can't see them having enough to stop teams scoring 120 on them. And i don't think they can rely on Green and Kuz for 20-40pg at the other end consistently.

Clips are just so deep, so many weapons at both ends.

Id like to see a Lakers v Celts final though. Expect a Clips v Bucks.

Or maybe Portland will beat LA in the 1st round...

[shark]

I think Portland WILL beat the Lakers in the first round after they dust up the Grizzlies. They'll be battle hardened and have a ton of weapons in Dame, CJ, Melo and Nurkic. I certainly hope so anyway.

[mariner4life]

@shark said in NBA season 2019/20:

I think Portland WILL beat the Lakers in the first round after they dust up the Grizzlies. They'll be battle hardened and have a ton of weapons in Dame, CJ, Melo and Nurkic. I certainly hope so anyway.

I personally $1,010 hope they win the whole comp

[shark]

They're the only team left I can really get behind.

[ACT Crusader]

Blazers present some matchup problems for the Lakers especially with no Danny Green to play Dame and the Blazers have shooters.

LBJ and AD will do their thing but it’s on the defensive side where the Blazers could exploit.

Lakers going big - Javale, AD, Lebron, Kuzma, White Mamba - would be one way to deal with them.

[voodoo]

@ACT-Crusader yep, its going to be quite a bizarre series if it happens. Lakers will be praying for Memphis for sure

[KiwiMurph]

Chicago Bulls finally fired their coach Jim Boylen.

They really have cleaned house.

Will be interesting to see who they hire.

[raznomore]

this okc vs clips game is trash

[canefan]

And finally Vlade Divac is fired as Kings GM. I'm not convinced Joe Dumars is better, although he was GM when he built that championship winning Pistons team in 2003

[Smudge]

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

@shark said in NBA season 2019/20:

I think Portland WILL beat the Lakers in the first round after they dust up the Grizzlies. They'll be battle hardened and have a ton of weapons in Dame, CJ, Melo and Nurkic. I certainly hope so anyway.

I personally $1,010 hope they win the whole comp

I'm passionate to the point of $808...

[raznomore]

Ball is not life in this LAC vs OKC game.

[ACT Crusader]

@raznomore said in NBA season 2019/20:

Ball is not life in this LAC vs OKC game.

Some guys who seemed to have met each other in the bubble get 25+ minutes together is going to that.

Mann was the man tonight. I had to...

[canefan]

Alvin Gentry is the latest to lose his job, the Pelicans let him go after 5 years in charge. I didn't realise he was there that long.

And in other news Dame, Mel and the Blazers will face the Lakers in the first round of the playoffs

[barbarian]

@shark said in NBA season 2019/20:

I think Portland WILL beat the Lakers in the first round after they dust up the Grizzlies. They'll be battle hardened and have a ton of weapons in Dame, CJ, Melo and Nurkic. I certainly hope so anyway.

Portland can't play any sort of defense. If the Lakers can get some half decent minutes from the non-Lebron/AD players then they win in 5 or 6 IMO.

And while 'battle hardened' is true, you could also argue a bit of fatigue might set in. Lakers have been cruising, but Portland have been playing pressure games for two weeks now.

[canefan]

@barbarian said in NBA season 2019/20:

@shark said in NBA season 2019/20:

I think Portland WILL beat the Lakers in the first round after they dust up the Grizzlies. They'll be battle hardened and have a ton of weapons in Dame, CJ, Melo and Nurkic. I certainly hope so anyway.

Portland can't play any sort of defense. If the Lakers can get some half decent minutes from the non-Lebron/AD players then they win in 5 or 6 IMO.

And while 'battle hardened' is true, you could also argue a bit of fatigue might set in. Lakers have been cruising, but Portland have been playing pressure games for two weeks now.

LBJ has been resting all this time. I csnt recall him not turning up in the playoffs

[ACT Crusader]

That was good playoff intensity ball. Ja will learn some lessons there as he made some costly turnovers in that 4th quarter, being a little careless with the ball.

Blazers in 6

[canefan]

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2019/20:

That was good playoff intensity ball. Ja will learn some lessons there as he made some costly turnovers in that 4th quarter, being a little careless with the ball.

Blazers in 6

It will be fascinating to watch (although I'm struggling to get into bubble ball right now). It is hard to bet against LBJ in the playoffs, even though LAL have looked poor in the bubble so far. I think that when the round starts, LBJ fires up and with AD they will be more than a match for the Blazers. But I son't think they will take them lightly