The Official Dwayne Wade <<<<<< you thread

Portland Vs Lakers on Sky Sports YouTube channel for those in UK(might be elsewhere too I haven't checked)

Lakers suck obviously but Dame is fun.

El Gunner wrote:even Blazers are better than the Lakers, jesus

Leakers should just tank and enter the Wembanyama sweepstakes.. or wait don't Pelicans own all their picks

This year we do, if they get no 1 it's ours lmao.

1) I'm SICK if I'm Austin Reeves and that pass gets wasted

2) look at LeCarlton over here pic.twitter.com/i5l8in6g1Q

— Nekias (Nuh-KY-us) Duncan (@NekiasNBA) October 23, 2022

I'm DYING at LeCarlton.

I’m done with sports lol. Everyone is fucking afraid to do obvious shit.

Just fucking cut that idiot. Westbrook after he’s lost a step is really the worst thing.

Really wild how he’s so toxic that everyone is so afraid to bench him because he’ll rage and moor around.

Done with this team really. Hate that LeBron legit wanted this shit trade and forced it through. Way to fuck up a good thing.

Freeza wrote:I’m done with sports lol. Everyone is fucking afraid to do obvious shit.

Just fucking cut that idiot. Westbrook after he’s lost a step is really the worst thing.

Really wild how he’s so toxic that everyone is so afraid to bench him because he’ll rage and moor around.

Done with this team really. Hate that LeBron legit wanted this shit trade and forced it through. Way to fuck up a good thing.

I don't get it. Just bench him. He starts sulking? Banish him from the team and tell him to practice on his own. He's a sunk cost. His value would actually go up if other teams stopped watching him because he stopped playing. This isn't hard, in fact it's on the coach and FO that they don't seem to care much about winning because he's getting in the way.

El Gunner wrote:yea but you know it's all about matchups in the playoffs...
They can certainly beat the Celtics, i don't disagree, but we (Steph) is/are a different animal.

Wiggins will lock up Middleton
Green will do enough to get inside Giannis' head here and there
So basically Jrue would have to play the series of his life if they were to beat us in a best of 7

Giannis doesn't really get in his own head from one player. It's team defense being played where he has to meet too many players on the way to the basket with a lot of contact, lots of doubling, and basically crowding his space. Giannis is, like many players, at his best when the game is simple. If you force him to make a lot of decisions, he can get flustered. Of course he's gotten way better meeting that challenge. Game 1 against Boston is a good example -- dude didn't even score much but got 12 assists. Good adjustments from Boston and (more to the point) continual bad shooting from the Bucks meant as the series went on he had to score more and assist less and that's when the game stopped being as simple.

In any case, I see the Warriors and Celtics as the two toughest teams for the Bucks, because they are the best defensive teams after the Bucks. Bucks still struggle in the half court grind, particularly without Middleton.

That being said, I'm more scared of Celtics than warriors. Warriors play good team defense but they just don't have the same personnel for handling Giannis. Draymond? Thats it? He's undersized. Looney isn't bad but as nimble as he is I think Giannis eats him alive. Meanwhile Jrue is probably the best Curry defender in the NBA (because I think he is the best perimeter defender in the NBA).

I could talk about the others but the series will come down to how Giannis and Curry are defended, so that's what I focused on. In short, I think Bucks can handle Curry better than Golden State can handle Giannis. I'm not sure that's a controversial opinion, even. Although I'm simplifying the series.

Just put 20€ on the Pelicans to win the chip at 34.00 odds

Mole, my brother in basketball, we can do this!

Of course we lose to Utah then beat Dallas without 3 starters.



This season is absolutely drunk.

Art Morte wrote:Just put 20€ on the Pelicans to win the chip at 34.00 odds

Mole, my brother in basketball, we can do this!

Good luck

I want this to become the norm in the NBA:



Looks amazing lol.

El Gunner wrote:yea you're oversimplifying way too much... we have Wiggins, Poole and Klay too on offense.

Giannis can average 45 in the series, and we could still beat you.

Klay isn't very good anymore. Wiggins is average. Poole is a good player.

It's my belief that the Bucks would have repeated last year with Middleton. Boston scraped by the Bucks in 7 despite no Middleton. They weren't and still aren't that great of a team. They're a top 5-6 team, but they aren't the best. GSW didn't face much of a challenge with Boston coming out of the east tbh

Yeah I'm about to get real irresponsible about Trey Murphy's ceiling rq.

I said irresponsible lmao

Is it possible golden State actually suck

They keep losing despite Curry playing great, that's a bad sign.

Steph is clearly still hungry and that should be enough to motivate the whole team, imo.

I agree that Klay looks irreversibly "dusted", tho.