NBA 2022-23 Season Catch-All

Hey guys what's going on in the game?

Pretty much like all of the games in this series, Lakers are trying hard and making a game of it. Lots of back and forth and the Nuggets up 3 with 2 minutes to go and Jokic in foul trouble.

And Joker triple double again in 3rd Q

I have a lot of respect for the effort the Lakers put forth this series but I could not enjoy the result any more than I do

Should have been jump ball on final shot. Murray was all over it. Nice defense

Oh god, Finals don’t start til 6/1? Even if both sweep? Meh!

Damn.

I thought the Lakers + NBA would conspire at least to not get swept but the Nuggets keep rolling.

Don't know much about Mike Malone but he's doing the opposite of Mazzulla and Doc. Team goes in at the half down big and they just grind their way back to a lead.

Also I've never heard a crowd audibly groan in dismay like the Lakers fans did when Joker hit his fall back fade catapult shot.

Blind_Evil wrote:

Oh god, Finals don’t start til 6/1? Even if both sweep? Meh!

Yeah terrible. 9 days of nothing is stupid

Lisa Salters: “What does this trophy mean to you?”

Nikola Jokic: “Nothing.”

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That was really funny. The trophy has only been in existence for a couple of years.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

The ‘gentleman’s sweep’ is in effect.

Aged like Sushi

Edit: I may have just got the series wrong.

Nobody posted about the other game 4?

Game 5 tonight.

Stele wrote:

Nobody posted about the other game 4?

Game 5 tonight.

Were all waiting for Boston to pull it back to game 7 so we start believing in them and then the Heat do Heat things and make us look like idiots again.

I'm ready for another Playoff Jimmy 50 point game.

Well, this is definitely a "Heat in 6" game.

Joe Mazzulla says that since Game 4, he met three young girls under the age of 21 who have terminal cancer. He said speaking with them helped him, and he hopes it helped them as well. "Watching a girl dying, and smiling, and enjoying her life, that's what it's really all about."

..................phrasing?

If the Heat lose the series, it's all on Dan Le Batard for saying that "Boston fans don't want the Celtics to win Game 4."

Highly recommend Right Time pod today for a mature discussion of the Ja situation by Bomani and Dominique.

Seconded

I normally can't stand Bomani Jones, but I'll give it a try.

Heat Culture vs Front Runners.

Cmon MIA.

So tonight feels like game 7 for Miami.

The Celtic way would be to win tonight and choke game seven away.

What is going on with Miami this game? Just seems like not smart basketball.

Butler looks so off and Boston’s defense is really good.

Agreed but even from a coach’s perspective they are off. Brown with 4 fouls at the start of the third and they aren’t attacking him at all. Maybe they want to keep him in because he has been bad this series.

Not sure how that's a offensive foul.

Essentially any player who is willing to take one on the chin can just lean in on a drive and draw a foul.

The cojones to shoot from 27 as Duncan Robinson after sitting most of the season

I’m kind of unhappily assuming the Celtics are going to win this and G7 and I’m hoping playing one game shy of the maximum for a Finals run will allow the Nuggets to exploit the Celtics being tired.

jowner wrote:

Not sure how that's a offensive foul.

Essentially any player who is willing to take one on the chin can just lean in on a drive and draw a foul.

Especially since just a few minutes before on the other end Williamson elbowed a guy in the face and they called a foul on the guy who got elbowed.

OMG why are you shooting a three pointer down one with 25 seconds to go and 20 seconds on the shot clock? Even the best shooters are more likely to miss than make it, you don't need three points!