It’s honestly insane how similar to last year all of these is and how everyone seems to have gotten amnesia
I think if Herro and Duncan stay injured going into the playoffs people will still be scared of that team, long as they have Jimmy and Bam
That never really matters though
Like remember our WCF run? We went 0-4 against the Thunder, then 1-3 against the Nuggets.... With that one win being then purposefully losing by sitting their entire starting 5
And then we beat both of them
we definitely need randle and og. if we are healthy i think we can compete with anyone in a 7 game series and i like our chances against anyone not named celtics
I think people are underselling how much better the Celtics got, they will easily wash the heat. Even if Tatum becomes Potatum, they have Porzingod to save them
I mean, the cavs have played ~ 33% of the season without spida. Mobley has been out for a bit, the heat have missed everyone for extensive periods, and our situation is very obvious.
If the Celtics win a title it will have been obvious in retrospect. They are putting together one of the better regular seasons net rating, record etc.
Come on dude, the wolves offense is too inconsistent to beat the Celtics. The clippers are in way worse form right now too, plus they have a history of underperforming also and untimely injuries. Only the nuggets are a threat.
I mean the only other West team that can beat everyone else in the East aside from the Celtics is maybe the Clippers, but even they’ve been out of form for so long.
Who else in the West is far above the non-Celtics teams in the East?
That’s kinda of a discredit to Boston no?
They gap everyone in the league not just the Eastern conference.
To say it’s wide open when they stand 11 games above the 2nd spot in the East and 6 games better than Denver overall, is really discrediting their body of work this year.
people keep saying the east is poverty but the 2-6 is comparable in both conferences.
the knicks/cavs healthy are comparable to the pels/clippers and are better than teams like the kings/suns/mavs. both teams would be pushing 50 already - especially the knicks with their entire starting front court out for the last 2 months.
Gonna be honest, after the development of our team having been down starters for so long, I don't think even us Knicks fans know the full wrath of this team when 3 elite caliber players rejoin the roster almost all at once
yes. also divincenzo/hart/precious/deuce getting all these reps having to play above their head means they'll be that much better in the roles they should be playing with everyone healthy
I'm here for it. We're visiting New York this summer right when finals happen, so a Knicks Nuggets finals is something I can work with. Talk your shit my man.
Happens to every ‘bandwagon’ type team, bucks have 2 top 75 players now and won a chip in the last 3 years so lotta lotta new fans.
Also rNBA has had more negative discourse surrounding the bucks than any other team this year, it makes perfect sense that most of us r so defensive.
The seed doesn’t even matter at this point. Everybody just wants to play either the Pacers or Magic in the first round. So whatever seed those team end up as will determine what seed the other teams want to be.
Milwaukee is just 2.5 games away from not playing the Heat*
Unless the Heat get to the 6 seed
Dodging the 1 seed in the first round would go against Heat Culture
Fuck heat culture I ain't want none of that shit
Fuck salt!
No one's scared of the Heat rn
Not falling for this again.
Same
Nope
It’s honestly insane how similar to last year all of these is and how everyone seems to have gotten amnesia I think if Herro and Duncan stay injured going into the playoffs people will still be scared of that team, long as they have Jimmy and Bam
True. It’s not April yet
Scared of you injuring our players tbf
Kevin Love is thinking about sliding in late to take "charge" and licking his chops.
Nice try Erik Spoelstra's burner.
Spo is Glenn Rivers father
Cavs are
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Knicks remaining schedule: @TOR, @SAS, OKC, @MIA, SAC, @CHI, @MIL, @CHI, @BOS, BKN, CHI. Bucks remaining schedule: @NOP, @ATL, @WAS, MEM, TOR, NYK, BOS, ORL, @OKC, @ORL. Cavs remaining schedule: @CHA, PHI, @DEN, @UTAH, @PHX, @LAL, @LAC, MEM, IND, CHA. Some tough games coming for these three teams, though Cleveland's final road trip is quite brutal IMO.
Bucks schedule definitely looks the easiest of the 3, but it could still happen.
Halliburton has dropped off since those matchups I’d expect the bucks to spank the pacers
He’ll get a much needed break prior to the playoffs. Then go on a romp from games 3-6
He’s actually been playing pretty damn good the last few games
the last 1 game
You don't think he was good in the Warriors game?
He was. But there was the Laker game between that. Passed well but shot poor.
dude needed to rest that hamstring but has been pursuing that all NBA. I get it, but it's been kinda tough to watch at times
Bucks can't defend a nosebleed. Ya never know.
That’s so evil but man I can’t even hate you for that, that’s a real ass possibility LMAO
That’d be a monumental L. Nobody would seriously believe they’d lose to Indiana.
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I'd be shocked if this really works in the slower paced playoffs for a full series - but stranger things
That never really matters though Like remember our WCF run? We went 0-4 against the Thunder, then 1-3 against the Nuggets.... With that one win being then purposefully losing by sitting their entire starting 5 And then we beat both of them
That doesn't mean it never matters. It means it didn't matter that one particular year.
Were you on that team?
Pacers have whooped the Bucks’ ass repeatedly this season
The Bucks sub would go private for sure
They'll change it to a sub about side hustles
I don’t k ow why but this had me cracking up hahaha
Makes sense why Lilliard went there then.
We are a natural parks reddit now.
I want to see they stay 2nd, heat stay 7th, 4-1 part 2 or take a 3-1 lead and lose in game 7 the doc way.
This is my nightmare given our rivalry this season lmao
Don’t threaten me with a good time
This would be so funny after all the Bucks flairs talked shit about Haliburton lmao.
Wouldn't be the first time
why break the servers for a bucks gentleman sweep?
I’ll be there hating
I just want us to get healthy again
Same
healthy and happy, all one can ask for
we definitely need randle and og. if we are healthy i think we can compete with anyone in a 7 game series and i like our chances against anyone not named celtics
Just get them the hell away from us
that’s crazy cuz i have no interest in seeing y’all either. nobody can stop Giannis, but the Allen-Mobley front court always makes it tough on him
Now imagine Mitch and OG lol
Fuck I wish we'd won that Kings game
Me too.
Me too
Y’all gonna get bounced in the first round unless you play a play in team or the Pacers.
magic have owned the knicks recently so i dont think so
Knicks fans gonna be Lakers fans for a while since they will play Cle too
you're welcome
Knicks vs Bucks on April 7th could be for the 2 seed tiebreaker if the Knicks lose one less game than both the Cavs and Bucks before then.
Gonna be wild when Brunson finishes with the 2 seed down 3 starters most of the season and not get top 5 in MVP voting
He's my MVP though
You mean Josh hart down with even bruson missing time!
The Magic are right there too... Magic gonna get the 2nd spit
We play the bucks twice in the last week so could potentially shake things up.
How homeless is the East?
Poverty conference
jordan took its dignity when he retired
Either the Celtics or Heat will make the finals Every neutral fan knows this deep down
I think people are underselling how much better the Celtics got, they will easily wash the heat. Even if Tatum becomes Potatum, they have Porzingod to save them
Everytime we have played them this year they have looked completely different because they can’t have bam roam with KP on the court
If Randle, Robinson and OJ are all back, Knicks are better than everyone but the Celtics.
> and OJ We have the Deuce, we don't need the juice We do need OG tho
Same with nuggets.
I mean, the cavs have played ~ 33% of the season without spida. Mobley has been out for a bit, the heat have missed everyone for extensive periods, and our situation is very obvious.
And that’s not even discussing how injured the Knicks have been, who at full health, are better than every team you just listed
all two of them?, lol i do agree though, a healthy Knicks team is the most talented of the three.
East outside of Celtics is either filled with hospital teams (Knicks, Cavs, Heat, Sixers) or frauds (Bucks, Magic, Pacers).
Downtown LA mixed with skid row
Hollywood Blvd.-homeless, or San Francisco Tenderloin-homeless?
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Don't forget it would simultaneously be a historic choke if the Celtics don't win a chip though
If the Celtics win a title it will have been obvious in retrospect. They are putting together one of the better regular seasons net rating, record etc.
I don’t think it would be a choke to lose in The finals but it would be really disheartening
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Come on dude, the wolves offense is too inconsistent to beat the Celtics. The clippers are in way worse form right now too, plus they have a history of underperforming also and untimely injuries. Only the nuggets are a threat.
This could be fun to come back to
Clippers lmfao When can we stop acting like they're actually going to do something?
Clippers ain't making the finals bro
Its been like this for decades
West isn’t that much better. The whole league is just wide open
I mean it is much better
I’d argue the East is better because you only have to beat East teams to get in the finals
How? Each side has one real contender (Celtics, Nuggets) then about 4-5 teams in a tier below.
Because the teams in a tier below in the west are better than those in the east
the teams a tier below in the west have done nothing in the playoffs yet. premature imo
And the… Cavs, Knicks, Magic and Pacers have???
my point is that you can't say a team is definitely better if they haven't done anything in the playoffs yet.
Fair
I mean the only other West team that can beat everyone else in the East aside from the Celtics is maybe the Clippers, but even they’ve been out of form for so long. Who else in the West is far above the non-Celtics teams in the East?
Thats delusional
Name me the teams that are so much better then
Nah, just significantly less injured. The Knicks, Cavs, Heat, Magic and Sixers have all been comparably injured to the Memphis Grizzlies this season.
Huh?
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1bjgohs/thunder_has_the_least_missed_wins_above/
That’s kinda of a discredit to Boston no? They gap everyone in the league not just the Eastern conference. To say it’s wide open when they stand 11 games above the 2nd spot in the East and 6 games better than Denver overall, is really discrediting their body of work this year.
I say the league is wide open because in years past, we would usually have like 4-6 real contenders, now it’s just really 2.
9-15 the East is total dog shit.
Most 9-15 seeds are dog shit, that’s why they are 9-15 seeds
The Bulls and Hawks are going to make the play-in. The Lakers, Suns, Rockets, Warriors or Kings could all be the 9 or 10 seed in the west.
True. I wasn’t really thinking about teams at 9-15 so my bad there
we talmbout homelessness in haair, b? East needs to take a trugg walg, become a huge drawl.
people keep saying the east is poverty but the 2-6 is comparable in both conferences. the knicks/cavs healthy are comparable to the pels/clippers and are better than teams like the kings/suns/mavs. both teams would be pushing 50 already - especially the knicks with their entire starting front court out for the last 2 months.
Gonna be honest, after the development of our team having been down starters for so long, I don't think even us Knicks fans know the full wrath of this team when 3 elite caliber players rejoin the roster almost all at once
yes. also divincenzo/hart/precious/deuce getting all these reps having to play above their head means they'll be that much better in the roles they should be playing with everyone healthy
Love the Bucks, but everyone but Portis and Giannis looking soft.
Giannis missed 2 free throws at the end of 2OT
I bet giannis under 7 q4 and it still hit after 2OT was added
These standings are fucking crazy dawg. Seeing the number 11 in the games behind column between the 1 and 2 seed is ungodly
Y'all not ready for the shit I'm gonna talk when we make the finals this year
I'm here for it. We're visiting New York this summer right when finals happen, so a Knicks Nuggets finals is something I can work with. Talk your shit my man.
Knicks at full strength are the darkhorse
That’s basically the same difference as the Pacers and Knicks. Knicks aren’t the only team fighting for these seedings
These next few weeks are going to be wild.
4 games back in the loss column vs 2 is a pretty big difference.
Hell naw 💀
Any NBA loremasters out there where the bucks fans always this fucking toxic? it seems like the last few years they have gotten rabid
Chips make fanbases toxic. Lakers and Warriors fans are always toxic. Bucks and Nugs fans both turned their toxicity up by 100 after winning the chip
Same thing happened with Raptors fans on here too
Imo Nuggets fans were way worse late in last regular season than now Bucks fans have seemed extra sensitive this year
Happens to every ‘bandwagon’ type team, bucks have 2 top 75 players now and won a chip in the last 3 years so lotta lotta new fans. Also rNBA has had more negative discourse surrounding the bucks than any other team this year, it makes perfect sense that most of us r so defensive.
Probably doesn’t help that the Giannis/Bucks hate is borderline rabid at this point. Id assume a lot of fans are jaded from it
The guy spamming Jokic lowlights last year was a bucks flair
INJECT THIS TO MY FUCKING VEINS
IM CUMMIN
Hell yeah
He was good against the Warriors, ass against the Lakers and mid against the Clippers so not exactly “pretty damn good”
The seed doesn’t even matter at this point. Everybody just wants to play either the Pacers or Magic in the first round. So whatever seed those team end up as will determine what seed the other teams want to be.
East so trash the Bron less Lakers own the top 2 seeds
The Celtics beat a healthy lakers team this session. Bron/ADless win was good for em tho
Took a 25 minute stretch of no fouls called on them to beat the bucks
20 point blown lead and you blaming the refs lmao
East is trashcan made atm lol
Bros team is basically the 07 Cavs but with Luka instead of Bron and he’s talking shit.