Bruno Fernando suspended for the Hawks - hope Nate wasn't saving him for G7

If Lebron put up the same performance as Durant with the same result y'all would melt down.

Likewise Gianni's would get a ton of hate.

In other words:

Oh no ez win for 76ers losing such a star player and embiid lost a nice trip to Vegas guess he has to bet 35k on himself today to win it back

It's all good. Brooklyn was likely fuc.ked in the next round anyway.

So, you agree that Harris' under-performance, not random player X, was an issue in this series, not random series Y - which is my point.

Harris' averaged 7ppg after game 2. Once the need for him to contribute increased, he went backwards.

Bottom line: Harris hurt Brooklyn. That's all I'm saying and I don't see how it's arguable. It's not like I'm encouraging Brooklynites to burn his jersey.

Candybar:lebron::Jordan:trainwreckog

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Not sure. He usually has a dozen or so hellbent drives to the hoop, and hardly any last few games. I missed some of the 1Q last night and he was already 7-7 from FT when I tuned in so maybe those were drives, I don't know. But god how overrated he seems when he's not doing his primary value thing: the Pete Maravich Show.

What an embarrassingly awful take. Giannis is a bigger threat to Lebron's legacy than KD is. KD is near the end of his prime and has never been better than Lebron in the eyes of the public. He has zero chance to overtake Lebron and him being seen as the best player in the league for the first time as he nears 33, only as Lebron is about to turn 37, would only help Lebron's legacy. Giannis on the other hand has a legitimate shot at entering the GOAT debate. And I like Giannis a lot better than I like either Lebron anyway.

Meh, if KD had of chipped this year and won a couple more, people would have used hindsight to say he was actually better than LeBron since 2017.

Much like they did in 2016 with LeBron over Curry when Curry was winning MVPs and LeBron won when down 3-1.

Great series of posts on Ben Simmons btw - it's insane to me that people could think like this at all (i.e. Ben Simmons is a sub-40% FT shooter in high-leverage situations), but it's possible I spend far too much time looking at data and have too little empathy for people who don't.

Looked like he was very aware of the line and splayed out trying to get behind it as much as he could without going totally off balance and compromising the shot. Since they were down 2 that was the play. Amazing performance. I know better but did Jordan or James have a comparable to 49-32-48 last three games of a close series, or 7-gamer???

I'm rooting for Ayton to have a BIG series!

Let's go SUNS!

Who are you rooting for Michael Malone?

I'm not saying it's a game of luck and inches.

I'm saying guys like you make up a whole narrative about so and so is or is not the goat based on a game he might as well have won. It's other overreach of the analysis relative to the evidence that i'm getting at.

Durant was a man about it after the game too.

Durant replacing Bird on my first team all-time starting line-up. Now:

Magic, Curry, Jordan, Olajuwon, Durant. (Bird and James and KAJ photoed out.)


Pick a team to beat me.

(Bird, James, KAJ, Isaiah/Oscar, Reggie Miller ??)

Not sure this is even a meaningful debate anymore because five 3-point shooters beat a classic team it seems.

Sure people would say stuff like this, but those would be mostly from the same people who already believe this.

Again, most people who were saying this were the same people who already believed that Lebron was better than Curry. People who genuinely thought Curry had clearly overtaken Lebron as the best player were going on about injuries and stuff.

You should pay more attention because I'm doing the exact opposite. I'm saying there is no grand narrative to be had here and was just warning against hyperbolic assessments of the game. I already conceded that Kevin Durant was great, just not as impressive as his high scoring total would suggest. And the ridiculous narratives are almost entirely in the opposite direction - in a conference semifinals where KD and Giannis were roughly as good as each other and both performed not far from expectation, we saw no end of narratives around how you can't win with Giannis as the best player, while many people proclaimed KD as the best player and wondered if he should be ranked higher in the all-time ranking.

Also, didn't you go on about Westbrook and how KD should have a bunch more rings after KD's career game? Maybe try to follow your own advice about about not overreaching relative to the evidence.

I don't know if this specific multiverse can handle a Finals MVP Paul George.

Yeah, I guess Green reaggravated and also Middleton's gm 6 played a role.

Even if other guys played OK, obviously KD had to initiate the lions share of their offense with how limited Harden was. Green/Blake's offense just came off KD gravity/playmaking.

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This doesn't feel like the conference finals at all lol

u missing my message, he obv wasnt 100% healthy, im just saying hes a choke artist in high leverage games

Finals MVP Boogie!

Who do you think would be the best for the game? I have soft spots for CP3 (not because I like him that much but because I think he's the most deserving of a title and the narrative around him not being able to win is kind of annoying) and Giannis (I think he may be the most likable superstar in the game right now) among the remaining players, but I think Trae Young leading the underdog Hawks to their first championship in 60+ years is the best timeline for the game. It really sets up the narrative for the future and it's going to get haters really mad.

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