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2020-21 NBA *Playoffs* Thread: Bucks are the champs and you can take that to the bank bromigos (4 Viewers)

LeBron violated health and safety protocols by attending event.

So he’s:

a) likely not vaccinated and

b) violated league protocols by attending a marketing event for his tequila brand

Kinda sounds like the NBA should be forcing him to quarantine. Also sounds like the league probably gave the Lakers a stern talking to or light fine instead.

I know we’re coming out of this whole thing and restrictions are being lifted all over, but if the league has rules in place, letting LeBron off easy when guys last year were being forced to quarantine after breaking protocols is pretty pathetic.

 
GroveDiesel said:
LeBron violated health and safety protocols by attending event.

So he’s:

a) likely not vaccinated and

b) violated league protocols by attending a marketing event for his tequila brand

Kinda sounds like the NBA should be forcing him to quarantine. Also sounds like the league probably gave the Lakers a stern talking to or light fine instead.

I know we’re coming out of this whole thing and restrictions are being lifted all over, but if the league has rules in place, letting LeBron off easy when guys last year were being forced to quarantine after breaking protocols is pretty pathetic.
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Lavert just missed both play in games because of health and safety. 

 
msudaisy26 said:
Lavert just missed both play in games because of health and safety. 
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In fairness, Lavert likely tested positive which is a good bit different. But if I were LeBron’s teammate, I’d be super ticked off that the entire team was still on lockdown because he is one of 3 guys not vaccinated and preventing the team from hitting the 85% rate required to have less restrictions put on them, and then LeBron is out breaking the restrictions and partying it up with celebrities to go promote his tequila.

 
GroveDiesel said:
LeBron violated health and safety protocols by attending event.

So he’s:

a) likely not vaccinated and

b) violated league protocols by attending a marketing event for his tequila brand

Kinda sounds like the NBA should be forcing him to quarantine. Also sounds like the league probably gave the Lakers a stern talking to or light fine instead.

I know we’re coming out of this whole thing and restrictions are being lifted all over, but if the league has rules in place, letting LeBron off easy when guys last year were being forced to quarantine after breaking protocols is pretty pathetic.
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It's hard for me to believe a guy so smart can be so stupid, if true. 

 
Instinctive said:
Same with Dillon Brooks. I can't believe some of the guys who fall sometimes. Like - has NBA size, has NBA skill, works his ### off, and extremely competitive. Very high basketball IQ. I know a couple teams would have taken him sooner, but only a couple.
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But his arms are too short!

That was literally the narrative I was hearing before that draft. I think it was that there was only one player in the whole league with shorter arms relative to his height (Reddick, I think?). 
 

I was at both the UCLA and Cal games his last year at Oregon, he hit game winning threes in each and you knew they were going in. As you said dude is just a competitor and works his ### off, I had little doubt he’d be successful. 

 
GroveDiesel said:
LeBron violated health and safety protocols by attending event.

So he’s:

a) likely not vaccinated and

b) violated league protocols by attending a marketing event for his tequila brand

Kinda sounds like the NBA should be forcing him to quarantine. Also sounds like the league probably gave the Lakers a stern talking to or light fine instead.

I know we’re coming out of this whole thing and restrictions are being lifted all over, but if the league has rules in place, letting LeBron off easy when guys last year were being forced to quarantine after breaking protocols is pretty pathetic.
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Silver doesn't have the power to lay the hammer down on LeBron.  He has let the players run the show now for a while, and LeBron is in the driver's seat.  

 
GroveDiesel said:
LeBron violated health and safety protocols by attending event.

So he’s:

a) likely not vaccinated and

b) violated league protocols by attending a marketing event for his tequila brand

Kinda sounds like the NBA should be forcing him to quarantine. Also sounds like the league probably gave the Lakers a stern talking to or light fine instead.

I know we’re coming out of this whole thing and restrictions are being lifted all over, but if the league has rules in place, letting LeBron off easy when guys last year were being forced to quarantine after breaking protocols is pretty pathetic.
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Yeah, they made Miles Bridges miss a lot of crucial games.for protocol

 
Wow.  The refs called a 10 second violation on a Giannis free throw with a minute to go.  That's the first time I've seen it called.

 
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The Kansas Comet said:
Wow.  The refs called a 10 second violation on a Giannis free throw with a minute to go.  He probably would have bricked it anyway, but that's the first time I've seen it called.
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Hack-A-Greek in full force and effect.  Watching his pre-shot routine at the line is so painful. He's like a fish out of water standing there.

 
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Desert_Power said:
Heat wearing gold jerseys is literally the worst thing about the NBA.
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If it wasn’t for the scorebug  I’d never know what team that was. 
 

My very old man opinion is that each team having 15 jerseys really sucks. 

 
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CletiusMaximus said:
Hack-A-Greek in full force and effect.  Watching his pre-shot routine at the line is so painful. He's like a fish out of water standing there.
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Dude needs to spend 4 hours a day shooting in the offseason.  That FT routine is just horrible.  He is giving himself WAY too much time to think at the line.

 
CletiusMaximus said:
They used to give Giannis that 4th step. You know the shine is off the former MVP when they whistle him on that euro-step+1.
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They should have been calling him for it all along.  He's fallen in love with it, and it's actually hurt his overall development.

Papa Doc playing good D on Giannis all game.

 
identikit said:
Alex P Keaton said:
Bucks win despite shooting 5-for-31 on 3's.

Heat are in the game despite Butler shooting 18%.
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Equally ugly.
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It was an ugly/great game.  Maybe the best that can be said is the play-in games are over and the real NBA season has finally begun.  Once again, I've barely paid attention to any team other than my local all season, but will be watching every game I can watch over the next few weeks.

 
Jayrod said:
Man this Dallas/Clips game is good.

Dallas looks better than I thought they would.
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I haven't watched all of this game, but from what I've seen, Hardaway and Brunson are difference makers.  Also, the Mavs defense was better than I'd seen them play in 3 years.

 
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gosh darn I love this team. I have a decent little sum on it too if things turn out right. 

Here are your key bullets from someone who watched like 60-ish of their games this year:

  • Luka is a god and after the awful COVID-period for Dallas he's been lighting people up from three.
  • Brunson gets nowhere near enough respect as one of the best 6th men in the NBA. It's absolutely ridiculous that Jordan ####### Clarkson is a finalist and Brunson isn't. The guy lives for pressure. All he does is know how to win. Dude is one of the best closers in the league. Never makes mistakes, ice in his veins at the FT line, super calm at all times...dude is an incredible professional.
  • Hardaway was on fire to start the year. Then he was kind of cold for a while. And he's been on fire since the ASB. 
  • Clippers let Luka light them up the whole first half, then they doubled him hard the whole second half. The guy announcing with Richard Jefferson seemed astounded that the Mavs were hitting all their threes, and I gotta say he seemed like an idiot. If NBA players can't make open shots playing 4 against 3, they shouldn't be in the NBA. 
  • KP was pretty mediocre. He's been on or off most games this year, so idk what the Clips are going to do when he has an on game
  • PANDEMIC P BABY
 
Also hyped to bring up the 2010s all time draft over and over as Middleton and Holiday look fantastic the entire playoffs. God I love them both. They play exactly how I want to play all the time. 

 
Yo Mama said:
I love to clown on George as much as anyone, but he was much better down the stretch than Kawhi.  Leonard has disappeared at the end of the Clippers playoff games much more and doesn’t get quite the heat PG does. 
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Leonard never tried to nickname himself Playoff P and then throw it up off the side of the backboard while blowing a 3-1 lead.

 
Yo Mama said:
I love to clown on George as much as anyone, but he was much better down the stretch than Kawhi.  Leonard has disappeared at the end of the Clippers playoff games much more and doesn’t get quite the heat PG does. 
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I am doing this off memory so I might be off, and I am not going back to rewatch the games, but I recall Kawhi being really good vs Dallas last year and was good in the first 4 games against Denver before the meltdown. 

When was the last time George had a good playoff? I seriously can't remember. I do remember him being awesome against the Cavs one year when they had Lebron. That can't be it though can it?

Apologizes if I am mistaken. 

 
Instinctive said:
gosh darn I love this team. I have a decent little sum on it too if things turn out right. 

Here are your key bullets from someone who watched like 60-ish of their games this year:

  • Luka is a god and after the awful COVID-period for Dallas he's been lighting people up from three.
  • Brunson gets nowhere near enough respect as one of the best 6th men in the NBA. It's absolutely ridiculous that Jordan ####### Clarkson is a finalist and Brunson isn't. The guy lives for pressure. All he does is know how to win. Dude is one of the best closers in the league. Never makes mistakes, ice in his veins at the FT line, super calm at all times...dude is an incredible professional.
  • Hardaway was on fire to start the year. Then he was kind of cold for a while. And he's been on fire since the ASB. 
  • Clippers let Luka light them up the whole first half, then they doubled him hard the whole second half. The guy announcing with Richard Jefferson seemed astounded that the Mavs were hitting all their threes, and I gotta say he seemed like an idiot. If NBA players can't make open shots playing 4 against 3, they shouldn't be in the NBA. 
  • KP was pretty mediocre. He's been on or off most games this year, so idk what the Clips are going to do when he has an on game
  • PANDEMIC P BABY
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Clarkson was really good this year and should win it. 

I also thought the Clippers didn't play horrible defense today. I think the Mavs just made shots. 

Luka is awesome. I would trade the entire Pistons roster for him and throw in 2 players from each of the other Detroit teams to all the other Dallas teams to get it done. 

 
msudaisy26 said:
I am doing this off memory so I might be off, and I am not going back to rewatch the games, but I recall Kawhi being really good vs Dallas last year and was good in the first 4 games against Denver before the meltdown. 

When was the last time George had a good playoff? I seriously can't remember. I do remember him being awesome against the Cavs one year when they had Lebron. That can't be it though can it?

Apologizes if I am mistaken. 
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I guess I was thinking specifically about Kawhi in that collapse against the Nuggets. 

Game 7 - 6 for 22, a minus 21 in a game they lost by 15.

In the fourth quarter today he just settled for long jump shots without putting any pressure on the defense at all.  He shot 1 for 4 in the fourth today for 3 points.  George went 4 for 7 in the fourth for 10 points in the quarter.

PG gets a lot of the flak, but Kawhi should also get looked at too.

 
Instinctive said:
Leonard never tried to nickname himself Playoff P and then throw it up off the side of the backboard while blowing a 3-1 lead.
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Kawhi also had a whole marketing campaign about how he runs LA before he did anything with the Clippers. 
 

And pretty sure he hit one off the side of the backboard against the nuggets too. 

 
GroveDiesel said:
LeBron violated health and safety protocols by attending event.

So he’s:

a) likely not vaccinated and

b) violated league protocols by attending a marketing event for his tequila brand

Kinda sounds like the NBA should be forcing him to quarantine. Also sounds like the league probably gave the Lakers a stern talking to or light fine instead.

I know we’re coming out of this whole thing and restrictions are being lifted all over, but if the league has rules in place, letting LeBron off easy when guys last year were being forced to quarantine after breaking protocols is pretty pathetic.
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this is why the NBA is becoming quite a joke i mean almost every other player would have to follow the rules, but because it is Lebron the NBA hides in fear and says ok. Monty and the rest of the Suns better call out the NBA to every media source they run into before everyone conveniently decides to just forget about this

 
Yo Mama said:
I guess I was thinking specifically about Kawhi in that collapse against the Nuggets. 

Game 7 - 6 for 22, a minus 21 in a game they lost by 15.

In the fourth quarter today he just settled for long jump shots without putting any pressure on the defense at all.  He shot 1 for 4 in the fourth today for 3 points.  George went 4 for 7 in the fourth for 10 points in the quarter.

PG gets a lot of the flak, but Kawhi should also get looked at too.
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Kawhi is not doing well with pressure.  He never really had any in San Antonio since Duncan was always the man in their deep postseason runs, except 2017 and that one is hard to judge since he got hurt in Game 1 of the WCF.  He had no pressure in Toronto since no one expected them win the title (and let's face it, it took both Durant and Klay getting hurt for Toronto to eke it out). Last year was really the first time he had real pressure as "the man" and he crumbled.  The pressure is on him to come through this year, although on the pressure scale, Kevin Durant is probably number 1 on the list since he needs to prove he can win a title without having to jump to a 73-win team to do so. 

 
modogg said:
this is why the NBA is becoming quite a joke i mean almost every other player would have to follow the rules, but because it is Lebron the NBA hides in fear and says ok. Monty and the rest of the Suns better call out the NBA to every media source they run into before everyone conveniently decides to just forget about this
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Come on if this was 76ers and Ben and Embiid were hurt on and off all year and had to go through something similar to the Lakers and  had to win and get in scenario you wouldn't say one thing about one of them breaking protocol. Your track record even suggests you would defend them. 

 
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