****Official 2017 NBA Playoffs Thread****

[KC_Connection]

The real season begins.

Round 1:

EAST:

#8 Bulls @ #1 Celtics
#7 Pacers @ #2 Cavs
#6 Bucks @ #3 Raptors
#5 Hawks @ #4 Wizards

WEST:
#8 Blazers @ #1 Warriors
#7 Grizzlies @ #2 Spurs
#6 Thunder @ #3 Rockets
#5 Jazz @ #4 Clippers

[dirk digler]

Bring on the Cavs and we can have a GS-Celtics Finals

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by dirk digler

Bring on the Cavs and we can have a GS-Celtics Finals

Remember at the beginning of the playoffs when King said Boston had a chance of doing just that?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by New World Order

The best players are players you can build around. No one is going to build around a 12 ppg/7rpg player.

He also struggles to guard good, big post up players and sometimes gets hammered on the offensive glass due to his size.

As Van Gundy put it the other day, 'Aldridge poses a matchup problem for GS; Durant is too small and Green is too short'

Did you not watch Green completely own Aldridge in the 4th quarter of that game when Aldridge (who fits the definition of a "good, big post up player") tried to post up on him repeatedly? It's been happening for years with those two.

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Remember at the beginning of the playoffs when King said Boston had a chance of doing just that?

Cavs just better hope they don't get swept

[New World Order]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Did you not watch Green completely own Aldridge in the 4th quarter of that game when Aldridge (who fits the definition of a "good, big post up player") tried to post up on him repeatedly? It's been happening for years with those two.

There's a lot more to it than that. Who in the hell was on the perimeter that could score for SA in the 4th?

Any time they fed the ball to Aldridge he was doubled immediately. Why? No perimeter threat.

Green was getting abused for much of that game.

[Hammock Parties]

Can't wait to see Olynyk get cucked by LeBron

[mcaj22]

I hate Olynyk with a passion.

#1 hated player in all sports for me

Knocks out my Wizards because Grunfield is the Scott Pioli of NBA GMs and can't build a roster after lucking into two stud players

[dirk digler]

You white player haters you lol

[-King-]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Remember at the beginning of the playoffs when King said Boston had a chance of doing just that?

I said that the Cavs and Celtics were the likeliest to come out of the east. Remember when you said the raptors were a good team and better than the wizards and Celtics? Shitty team got swept worse than the pacers.
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[scho63]

Originally Posted by mcaj22

I hate Olynyk with a passion.

#1 hated player in all sports for me

Knocks out my Wizards because Grunfield is the Scott Pioli of NBA GMs and can't build a roster after lucking into two stud players

You're a Wizards fan as well. I've been one since the Baltimore Bullets with Wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes, Earl Monroe and Phil Chenier.

It's been brutal being a fan these last 25 years. John Wall and Bradley Beal are wasted talent without a better big man.

Marcin Gortat played like a dumb Polack and not like the Polish Hammer. He was useless and so was Morris for the most part.

They need to secure a great center or power forward. I like Otto Porter for sure.

They seem real close to getting over the hump and Wall is getting better with age.

[Titty Meat]

Hmm wonder who's going to make it to the finals!? The NBA is the worst professional sports leagues by far.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by New World Order

There's a lot more to it than that. Who in the hell was on the perimeter that could score for SA in the 4th?

Any time they fed the ball to Aldridge he was doubled immediately. Why? No perimeter threat.

Green was getting abused for much of that game.

Huh? Patty Mills? Danny Green? Ginobli?

[mcaj22]

this Harden story is crazy. I might have to join team Westbrook if it all plays out true

[mcaj22]

Originally Posted by scho63

You're a Wizards fan as well. I've been one since the Baltimore Bullets with Wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes, Earl Monroe and Phil Chenier.

It's been brutal being a fan these last 25 years. John Wall and Bradley Beal are wasted talent without a better big man.

Marcin Gortat played like a dumb Polack and not like the Polish Hammer. He was useless and so was Morris for the most part.

They need to secure a great center or power forward. I like Otto Porter for sure.

They seem real close to getting over the hump and Wall is getting better with age.

You have been a fan a lot longer than me I started in the 90s when they were nailing pretty much every draft pick (Webber, Howard, Stackhouse) so I always imagined them being a powerhouse and then guys like Webber would take off immediatey into their first contract, thats when I knew I chose a loser franchise.

I had hope during that Arenas, Butler, Jamison, Haywood window, though a small window those guys played Lebron tough and the games were great to watch. None them were studs like Wall and Beal though. Currently the rest of the roster is like the Pioli Chiefs. Morris cried all summer about some guy on Bleacher Report not ranking him among top 30 PFs all season and in the most important game of his basketball career since his Jayhawks days he gets dominated by Kelly Olynyk the most unathletic looking NBA player currently in the game. The GM is so bad and the day he traded the 5th pick in the draft for what was Steph Curry for Mike Miller and Randy Foye is the daybhe should have been fired. Not to mention hes so desperate to overpay FA help that he will pay 64 million on Ian Mahimi and his bum knees.

Wall and Beal are the basketball version of Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Caps. Same owner and he has no idea how to get his franchises stud athletes over the hump.

[Al Bundy]

No Andre Iguadola tonight for the Warriors.