They paid all that money to Poole and he has been meh at best

You are conflating different arguments. Steph's titles are fraudulent due to Durant and the various injuries to his opponents. That has nothing to do with him being the primary driver of the success of the Warriors teams (except, of course, when Durant was there).

What the hell are you talking about? Curry is the star of the Warriors and one of the greatest offensive players in history. They wouldn't even be a playoff team without him.

He guards much worse than even Curry and seems to wilt on the road offensively.

Maybe we get a Klay domination game

Easy to dominate when the Kings aren't even properly guarding him on screens. What is Sabonis doing on these sets defensively?

Is Monk gonna get a flagrant for running through an illegal moving screen by Curry? LMAO

(except, of course, when Durant was there). -KC Connection

Clay Thompson doesn't look happy. He can be streaky good.

I haven't watched him much prior to this season and he is pretty weak defensively.

Anyway going to crash so hopefully GS doesn't though I know you want them too :)

Yeah, except the top 10 player in NBA history who won 2 Finals MVPs for the Warriors. Except that guy.

He's pretty weak at everything really. He needs foul calls on the offensive end that the refs just aren't giving him in the playoffs.

Haven't seen any reason to think the Kings will take this game so far. It will probably take a Fox takeover to do it.

Nah
Shooters
Keep
Shooting

And hes a good shooter

Sabonis won't even attack in the post when he has Curry on him. What a woeful player. He's even getting outworked by Looney/Green as well. Looney has 17 rebounds to his 5. LMAO

Appears to be a choker too.

He's pretty weak across the board. Of course, Len is much, much worse. :(

SAC's bench just kind of stinks. Mitchell may be a great defender, but he can't make a freaking basket. Trey Lyles may actually be reruned.

Butler is in a different plane of existence.

Dude. It's been awhile since Kevin Love fouling out has mattered. But dudes bombed in 5 3's

Payton undercuts Monk. Looks like Monk ****ed his knee up badly on the play.

Damn. That was a good look for Butler.

I think he just got a charlie horse from the knee to the hamstring.

Yeah, 38 points with a -14 +/- isn't easy to achieve.

Yep, fortunately he's all right.

What are the refs calling there on Lowry? Are you serious?

LOL Bucks trying hard to lose.

That's a shit call on Lowry. He's probably earned it, but still a shit call.

That call might have just saved the Bucks' season. Lowry had the ball there.

He did nothing there. Middleton fouled him if anything.

Monk is so tough. Sabonis is so not.

They call it a jump when Lowry would have had the ball. LMAO

If I'm the Kings, I'd just go small in that game for the rest of it. Sabonis is useless and actively hurting the team on both ends.

Giannis ROFL WTF you doing dude?

Refs save the Bucks' season.

Heat need to just take a 3 and go for it. Overtime is no good the way the refs are calling this game.

Heh. I didn't know Brendan Haywood was the color guy. Good for him. He's not great, but he's doing a decent enough job.

What the holy ****ing ****? That is god ****ing incredible.

Butler LMAO

He's right, why didn't the Bucks call timeout??

I've not been the biggest Butler fan ever, but Christ. The last 2 years he's gotta be a guy.

1. Jimmy Butler



2. Michael Jordan
3. LeBron James

They were trying to figure out HTF Butler made that one, just like you and me. ROFL

Officially in on the get Jimmy a ring train.

He is HIM

25 more free throws for the Bucks? Yikes.

Is Sabonis not allowed to rebound?

Jesus. Lowry, you moron. Not with 5.

Hopefully Miami can field 5 guys.

Refs keeping the Kings in it.

Who the **** is this Zeller guy? He from the YMCA? He's gotta be a 40 year old Chemistry teacher.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This was called a foul ... 🧐 <a href="https://t.co/Rszn86z7kZ">pic.twitter.com/Rszn86z7kZ</a></p>&mdash; Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCSWarriors/status/1651443666026905602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Wow what a horrible possession by the Bucks. Allen is a better player than that. How does he not pull up at the elbow?

This is madness.

Grayson Allen doesn't even look at the shot clock and time runs out on the Bucks' season. Hilarious. LMAO

That is one of the bigger series upsets in NBA history. Nobody gave the Heat a shot in that one at all.

Because Grayson is not HIMmy Butler. That's why.

And really he has always been scared to shoot in a big spot. Same shit in college.

Is he? Doesn't appear so. LMAO

Rightfully so. They can't score outside of Butler.

Well, he went to Puke. Academic standards and shit...ROFL

Wiggins with the dagger. That'll do it for this series. Warriors will take it in 6.

Fox needed to show up big in the 4th to give the Kings any chance and he hasn't at all.

Should probably note that Draymond was absolutely massive down the stretch of that game. Multiple steals and just generally great basketball on both ends. The guy shows up in the big moments.

Man, F the rest of these playoffs. My teams are dropping like flies.

Looney had 22. LMAO

Warriors/Lakers is coming.

Draymond hadn't scored over 20 in 3.5 years. Ridiculous performance from him.

I'll probably just watch the Nuggets, but, damn, that's not my first choice.

Thunder, Wolves, Bucks, Kings were my hopes for entertainment.

Celtics vs. Embiid isn't to your liking?

How about seeing if Jimmy Butler can somehow carry a mediocre basketball team to the Finals again?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sacramento, the highest scoring team in NBA history, shot 2-23 from 3 over the last 3 quarters at home to lose.<br><br>Steph&#39;s Luck knows no bounds.</p>&mdash; Barry (@BarryOnHere) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarryOnHere/status/1651447066625990656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Bucks entered the NBA playoffs as title favorites. Milwaukee is the third NBA team since the merger to lose in Round 1 after entering the playoffs as the title favorites. Others: 2007 Mavericks, 1994 SuperSonics. <a href="https://t.co/I63hMedW9i">pic.twitter.com/I63hMedW9i</a></p>&mdash; Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcJSpears/status/1651452946629136384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Those other two definitely stand out as two of the biggest upsets ever as well.

Draymond learned something coming off the bench. Better score if you want to be on the floor, win this game, and get a contract next year.


Obviously your boy Barry is stupid on this one. Curry, Thompson, and Green are the top scoring players for the Dubs tonight. That's 3 homegrown players.

Cavaliers got swept tonight. You ever been a Cavs fan KCconnection?

Draymond is not a scorer nor is he ever gonna be a scorer for the Warriors. Doesn't have to be to have a huge impact, though, and he knows it.

No idea what Curry, Thompson and Green being homegrown has to do with the Kings choking out with a 2/23 from three over the final 3 quarters of the game.

No, why would I give a shit about the Cavs?

Dribbling the ball is literally the most basic rule of basketball. Without dribbling, the game of basketball would have died before it left the YMCA.

Players and officials cannot just decide a rule isn't a rule because they want to break it, or use it to manipulate the score.

How do you not see that? It literally strips away the integrity of the sport. If it's a one possession game, and one team inbounds the ball, and the player picks up the ball and walks 4 steps before he starts to dribble, and it's not called, it's shady AF and it makes every call the official made during the game suspicious and shady AF by association, which means it's possible that the players didn't actually decide the outcome of the game.

At that point it becomes entertainment with predetermined outcomes like professional wrestling, and not an actual sporting event.

Again, I use the example of football. Semantics aside, we all know that to make a legal catch, the ball can't hit the ground first. It's one of the most basic rules of football, and the basis for the forward pass. The players and refs can't just decide to call passes caught on one hop a legal catch because they want to.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Giannis didn’t like this reporter&#39;s question on if he thinks this season was a failure. <a href="https://t.co/M3hJ9Bo4GJ">pic.twitter.com/M3hJ9Bo4GJ</a></p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1651462437114376192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Love this response from Giannis. Definitely a good way to put sports into perspective. He’s so hard not to root for. Respect to Jimmy Buckets too, though.

Grizz looked good last night. Hopefully Luke’s injury isn’t too serious and we can go take the game back in LA Friday.

When I went to bed last night the Bucks were only up a few in the 3rd and I thought man they could actually lose this game and series. I posted a couple pages back that I felt confidant that they could get to a Game 7 but I was wrong. Props to Jimmie and the Heat. This should finally get Coach Bud fired I would think.

In regards to GS, awesome team win and find it funny that KCC favorite person Barry is whining about missed 3's. I guess he doesn't really watch the NBA as this happens on a regular basis. The Kings set a team record in the 1st quarter with 9 then went cold. Shit happens all the time and vice versa. Seen Curry and Klay go for 2-15\20 individually several times. I remember that Game 7 vs Houston and the Rockets missed like 40 3's in the blowout loss. 3 point shooting is so streaky.

But the refs kept the Kings in the game even with Draymond getting blatantly hit in the head on a layup.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Prior to the late Steph and 1, the Kings had 0 fouls in the 4th quarter.<br><br>A team has recorded 0 fouls in a 4th quarter just THREE times in the last NINE YEARS in the postseason. <a href="https://t.co/yAwFz7lGA0">https://t.co/yAwFz7lGA0</a></p>&mdash; WarriorsMuse (@WarriorsMuse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WarriorsMuse/status/1651455762810671104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I ****ing love that answer by Giannis BUT for sports we seem to deem not winning a championship as a failure especially for the top teams. It is what is and I have been guilty of that as anyone.

Minneapolis-choke city

If anything is a failure, it's a championship favorite losing to an 8th seed in the first round in 5 games.

Giannis had little to do with that (he can't help the fact that he got hurt), but that's a failure for the Bucks.

Amazing answer by Giannis. For a guy who's first language is not English he can be very articulate with his words. I'll always be a fan just because of his behavior off the court.

But still... it's JIMMY SZN BITCHES

76ers are probably a dynasty by now if they choose Butler over Simmons.

They could have had both, if I'm recalling correctly. It was effectively a choice of signing Harris to a long term deal versus letting Butler go.

The 2019 76ers were Embiid, Butler, Simmons (when he was still good and gave a shit), Harris, and Redick.

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LMAO

Neither team interests me. I kind of liked the Sixers when they were rebuilding through "the process", but I've lost interest now. Butler is fun, but I really wanted to see the Bucks move on.

So, it's the Nuggests and Kings for me at this point.

Listened to Skip/Shannon this morning and didn’t realize how bad Lebron is shooting 3’s. 1-9 last night and I think they said 3-29 over the last 3 games. Dillion Brooks is slightly worse

Never understood why Lebron refuses to back down more like MJ did when he was getting older.

Refuses to back down? Are you not watching these games? LeBron barely has the energy to run the floor at all (especially last night). He certainly isn't going to be able to engage in posting up players right now.

He's probably playing hurt on that foot but he's legitimately fatigued playing in this series in a way he's really never been before.

IIRC He didn't like the intensity of Simmons. Maybe that was after he set fire to the place. I don't remember. But I remember him specifically calling out Simmons.

I think he's a bit of a pain in the ass, but no question the dude is a ****ing DUDE.