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Old 05-26-2025, 10:29 PM   #401
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SGA with 40 points, 10 assists, and 9 boards in a close win for OKC.
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Old 05-26-2025, 10:40 PM   #402
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That’s the type of ending that people hate. A free throw and timeout fest in the last 2 minutes felt it took an hour to complete.

Fouling the Wolves was the right call but it was ugly to watch.
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That was an entertaining game. Minny deserves a ton of credit for putting up a heck of a fight at home. But now they need to win twice on the road to advance - I think it's too much to overcome.

The league should take a look at a potential rule change. If you foul on the opposing team's half of the court in the final 30 seconds of the game, you're kicked for the rest of regulation, and the other team gets 3 free throws instead of 2. Maybe there's problems with this idea so don't get too worked up if it's a bad idea.
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Old 05-27-2025, 07:18 AM   #404
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Minny actually blew that sequence by not going straight up the court after the missed FT. Calling the timeout and letting OKC get set was dumb, your best chance to get a clean 3PT look was when OKC were scrambling. Forcing rule changes to manufacture endings is stupid. Maybe don't have 23 turnovers instead?
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Old 05-27-2025, 06:26 PM   #405
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I just don't like how it takes 30 minutes of real time to get the final minute of the game played.
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Old 05-27-2025, 09:31 PM   #406
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Halliburton has the ugliest shot. Can Payne says hold on.
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Old 05-27-2025, 09:50 PM   #407
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Pacers win. Triple H dapping up Halliburton after a triple double
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Old 05-28-2025, 07:52 AM   #408
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You gotta give it to Haliburton. Voted the most overrated player by his peers, took that #### personally and is currently hooping his ass off
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You gotta give it to Haliburton. Voted the most overrated player by his peers, took that #### personally and is currently hooping his ass off
Pacers have a shot at the title if he keeps playing like this.

Assuming it's Thunder/Pacers, I think it'll be a homer series with the Thunder taking it in 7. But I wouldn't count out the Pacers.
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Old 05-28-2025, 02:43 PM   #410
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It's honestly the same script we've had for the Finals three years in a row. The best regular season team, by far (Denver, Boston, OKC), against a team in the Finals who made it backed with varying degrees of Satanism (Miami, Dallas, Indy). Last two were duds, this one is on paper, but we'll see.
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Old 05-28-2025, 09:42 PM   #411
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Woof, the NBA needs to seriously reconsider it's playoff format (more than the NHL). The 2nd round should be reranked to prevent something like this from happening.

Then next round it'll be Thunder vs a team that debatably wouldn't make the top 8 in the West. I'll take a healthy Lakers, Warriors, or even Mavericks over Indy... and I like Indy. They should at least give OKC a better series than the Knicks would have.

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Old 05-28-2025, 09:59 PM   #412
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Congrats to OKC. They should win it all now
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My Thunder. Yes!
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really happy if it ends up being OKC-Indy. Sure, might be a quick series, but that's an extremely refreshing set of finalists. Teams from small markets that grew organically and are now rewarded for years of great work, I'll take that over those annoying buddy superteams and the same old big market teams any day.
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Old 05-29-2025, 09:37 PM   #415
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I hope the Knicks push this to 7
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Woof, the NBA needs to seriously reconsider it's playoff format (more than the NHL). The 2nd round should be reranked to prevent something like this from happening.

Then next round it'll be Thunder vs a team that debatably wouldn't make the top 8 in the West. I'll take a healthy Lakers, Warriors, or even Mavericks over Indy... and I like Indy. They should at least give OKC a better series than the Knicks would have.
You’d take the Mavs?

No sports is going to reseed across the entire league, whoever wins the East is doing so deservedly IMO. Every sport does this the same way, each conference or league(MLB) has their own winner.
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Old 05-30-2025, 08:18 AM   #417
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I guess if the Mavs had a healthy Kyrie and AD plus Cooper Flagg but what are the chances that'll ever happen.
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Those flying knee- nut shots are insane
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Old 05-31-2025, 09:37 PM   #420
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Well done Pacers. It's nice to see two teams not named Boston, Golden State and Lakers in the finals. I'll go OKC in 5 or 6
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