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It was an unbelievable performance by Durant. Regarding Harden, he played 45 minutes in this match, and I think it's too much for him, considering that it was his first game after injury. It definitely wasn't a good coaching decision, but it looks like Nash hadn't a choice.

Yeah, Harden was forced to play the crucial game 5. He might not be able to make enough points in his 45+ mins, but sure it was the Coach's strategy to divert the opponent's defense instead of focusing on Durant.
As you noticed Harden played as much as Durant's full mins even with the bad shooting percentage and a struggling recovery from a bad injury. All that just to avoid Durant as the focal point of the whole Bucks defense.

I applaud Durant for such amazing performance. Stepping up when everyone needs him in a crucial game, not to mention the risk Harden has been facing playing 45mins comes out fresh from the injury.

Bucks blew away their only golden opportunity in the series to beat the Nets, now they have to win 2 games in order to beat the Nets in the series and that would be tough because once Irving is fully recovered, they will have to face the big 3 of the Nets.

Their defense on Durant was not carefully planned, they should double him and put somebody on him as he was the only one who is consistently helping the team to win, yes Green was there but if they can stop Durant, Bucks would have won that game.

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Quote from: dwyane36 on June 16, 2021, 01:58:46 AM

It was an unbelievable performance by Durant. Regarding Harden, he played 45 minutes in this match, and I think it's too much for him, considering that it was his first game after injury. It definitely wasn't a good coaching decision, but it looks like Nash hadn't a choice.

Yeah, Harden was forced to play the crucial game 5. He might not be able to make enough points in his 45+ mins, but sure it was the Coach's strategy to divert the opponent's defense instead of focusing on Durant.
As you noticed Harden played as much as Durant's full mins even with the bad shooting percentage and a struggling recovery from a bad injury. All that just to avoid Durant as the focal point of the whole Bucks defense.

I applaud Durant for such amazing performance. Stepping up when everyone needs him in a crucial game, not to mention the risk Harden has been facing playing 45mins comes out fresh from the injury.

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Quote from: gagux123 on June 16, 2021, 05:33:33 AM

Woow, Durant was on fire!! I was impressed with his performance, he literally played really well!
Harden could have helped more, but unfortunately he didn't play good.

These semi finals in NBA are well balanced. Let's see what other games will happen.

If they will win in this series, Nets should thank Durant for being a GOAT in that game, I can't believe what he did, he doesn't look like he came from an injury, he is just shooting well and driving the ball, he is a complete player with a clutch mind, he deserve to win the Finals MVP if they'll be the champion in the NBA Finals.

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Woow, Durant was on fire!! I was impressed with his performance, he literally played really well!
Harden could have helped more, but unfortunately he didn't play good.

These semi finals in NBA are well balanced. Let's see what other games will happen.

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The game is close and the Brooklyn Nets finally take the lead here in the 4th quarter. the way they play is not right as if they were panicking in every possession. With James Harden in the court, he still adjusting without playing with them in the last games. now that Irving is out he needs to do his thing without overdoing it because they still have another game to win if they can get through this one.

Edit: Final score MIL 108 BKN 114.

Durant did almost everything 49 points with a big help from Jeff Green 7/8 in 3 point lane. Wow! I'm really amazed at how they came back from a 17 point lead of the Bucks.
It's their fault, they did not preserved it very well. A lot of their plays didn't make sense. Giannis shooting threes, foul troubles, and they just didn't take care of every possession. They will sure look into what errors they made and they will puke at how bad they are.
Giannis made a lot of turnovers by forcing it in the paint, Green made him pay by selling the offensive fouls.

And that costly error in the dying seconds, Just wow for Durant though, historic triple double, the Durant pre-injury, or shall we say that he is back in his old form and better.

I thought that Bucks had this, but they allow the Nets to comeback, and they missed easy shots. Just imagine if they won this game 3-2 and then going home to close the highly Nets.

Durant did a really good job but as the first option with regards to scoring, he really needs to step up if they want to win in this must-win Game 5 or else they will lose the whole series. 49 point triple double. What can you expect for the arguably the best scoring player.

What I want to highlight is the help coming from Jeff Green. He is a bench but scored 27 points on 7/8 from the 3 point line. I know how heroic Durant is but without a second scorer, the Nets will lose the game so lets give credit to him also not only Durant. And I forgot Harden who didn't help that much all throughout the game. Its obvious that he is still not 100% healthy.

In Game 6, I think that the Bucks will win and there will be a Game 7 at Brooklyn

. Still I will go in Nets in 7 like what I predicted at the start of this series.

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Quote from: dwyane36 on June 16, 2021, 01:58:46 AM

It was an unbelievable performance by Durant. Regarding Harden, he played 45 minutes in this match, and I think it's too much for him, considering that it was his first game after injury. It definitely wasn't a good coaching decision, but it looks like Nash hadn't a choice.

Durant definitely showed he was the best player in the world right now tonight. Even Giannis said as much after the game. I hope Harden brings more to the table soon, but you can’t forget that Durant is capable of single-handedly taking a team to the Finals. I think he might need a little more help to close out the Bucks though.

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It was an unbelievable performance by Durant. Regarding Harden, he played 45 minutes in this match, and I think it's too much for him, considering that it was his first game after injury. It definitely wasn't a good coaching decision, but it looks like Nash hadn't a choice.

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Quote from: yazher on June 15, 2021, 09:41:45 PM

The game is close and the Brooklyn Nets finally take the lead here in the 4th quarter. the way they play is not right as if they were panicking in every possession. With James Harden in the court, he still adjusting without playing with them in the last games. now that Irving is out he needs to do his thing without overdoing it because they still have another game to win if they can get through this one.

Edit: Final score MIL 108 BKN 114.

Durant did almost everything 49 points with a big help from Jeff Green 7/8 in 3 point lane. Wow! I'm really amazed at how they came back from a 17 point lead of the Bucks.
It's their fault, they did not preserved it very well. A lot of their plays didn't make sense. Giannis shooting threes, foul troubles, and they just didn't take care of every possession. They will sure look into what errors they made and they will puke at how bad they are.
Giannis made a lot of turnovers by forcing it in the paint, Green made him pay by selling the offensive fouls.

And that costly error in the dying seconds, Just wow for Durant though, historic triple double, the Durant pre-injury, or shall we say that he is back in his old form and better.

I thought that Bucks had this, but they allow the Nets to comeback, and they missed easy shots. Just imagine if they won this game 3-2 and then going home to close the highly Nets.

Giannis Choke in final quarter, trying to showcase his talents competing with KD.

In times like this you'll know who's the real superstar, KD with that monster stats dictates that he's back in business.
Not letting to upset their fans, the huge margin from the first half is just a memory that Bucks needs to review, they
need to make sure that it won't happened again playing at home.

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Quote from: danherbias07 on June 15, 2021, 10:17:54 PM

Quote from: yazher on June 15, 2021, 09:41:45 PM

The game is close and the Brooklyn Nets finally take the lead here in the 4th quarter. the way they play is not right as if they were panicking in every possession. With James Harden in the court, he still adjusting without playing with them in the last games. now that Irving is out he needs to do his thing without overdoing it because they still have another game to win if they can get through this one.

Edit: Final score MIL 108 BKN 114.

Durant did almost everything 49 points with a big help from Jeff Green 7/8 in 3 point lane. Wow! I'm really amazed at how they came back from a 17 point lead of the Bucks.
It's their fault, they did not preserved it very well. A lot of their plays didn't make sense. Giannis shooting threes, foul troubles, and they just didn't take care of every possession. They will sure look into what errors they made and they will puke at how bad they are.
Giannis made a lot of turnovers by forcing it in the paint, Green made him pay by selling the offensive fouls.

And that costly error in the dying seconds, Just wow for Durant though, historic triple double, the Durant pre-injury, or shall we say that he is back in his old form and better.

I thought that Bucks had this, but they allow the Nets to comeback, and they missed easy shots. Just imagine if they won this game 3-2 and then going home to close the highly Nets.

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Quote from: danherbias07 on June 15, 2021, 10:17:54 PM

Quote from: yazher on June 15, 2021, 09:41:45 PM

The game is close and the Brooklyn Nets finally take the lead here in the 4th quarter. the way they play is not right as if they were panicking in every possession. With James Harden in the court, he still adjusting without playing with them in the last games. now that Irving is out he needs to do his thing without overdoing it because they still have another game to win if they can get through this one.

Edit: Final score MIL 108 BKN 114.

Durant did almost everything 49 points with a big help from Jeff Green 7/8 in 3 point lane. Wow! I'm really amazed at how they came back from a 17 point lead of the Bucks.
It's their fault, they did not preserved it very well. A lot of their plays didn't make sense. Giannis shooting threes, foul troubles, and they just didn't take care of every possession. They will sure look into what errors they made and they will puke at how bad they are.
Giannis made a lot of turnovers by forcing it in the paint, Green made him pay by selling the offensive fouls.

The bucks let it slip away, especially Giannis his free-throw will be a very big factor in the series, and the nets with a very good coach like nash will try and take advantage of it, game 5 is already in the hands of the bucks but because of the free throws and turnover by Giannis the handed it to the nets with those errors in the dying seconds.

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Quote from: yazher on June 15, 2021, 09:41:45 PM

The game is close and the Brooklyn Nets finally take the lead here in the 4th quarter. the way they play is not right as if they were panicking in every possession. With James Harden in the court, he still adjusting without playing with them in the last games. now that Irving is out he needs to do his thing without overdoing it because they still have another game to win if they can get through this one.

Edit: Final score MIL 108 BKN 114.

Durant did almost everything 49 points with a big help from Jeff Green 7/8 in 3 point lane. Wow! I'm really amazed at how they came back from a 17 point lead of the Bucks.
It's their fault, they did not preserved it very well. A lot of their plays didn't make sense. Giannis shooting threes, foul troubles, and they just didn't take care of every possession. They will sure look into what errors they made and they will puke at how bad they are.
Giannis made a lot of turnovers by forcing it in the paint, Green made him pay by selling the offensive fouls.

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Quote from: OgNasty on June 15, 2021, 08:57:02 PM

Harden is looking pretty bad out there. If he’s in that poor of shape you’d think they’d be better off letting their other guys take his spot. The way he’s slowing the pace and not putting up points it’s pretty clear he’s a liability out there. Unless he comes with some second half heroics I don’t think Durant is gonna be able to lift them to a win alone.

The game is close and the Brooklyn Nets finally take the lead here in the 4th quarter. the way they play is not right as if they were panicking in every possession. With James Harden in the court, he still adjusting without playing with them in the last games. now that Irving is out he needs to do his thing without overdoing it because they still have another game to win if they can get through this one.

Edit: Final score MIL 108 BKN 114.

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Quote from: OgNasty on June 15, 2021, 08:57:02 PM

Harden is looking pretty bad out there. If he’s in that poor of shape you’d think they’d be better off letting their other guys take his spot. The way he’s slowing the pace and not putting up points it’s pretty clear he’s a liability out there. Unless he comes with some second half heroics I don’t think Durant is gonna be able to lift them to a win alone.

The nets are not looking good right now, they are not the same team in the first round, and yes harden seems just not the same old self, although right now they are trying to rally and only down seven, they need a facilitator like Irving, looks like they prepared for harden return only three points for harden way out of his normal scoring.

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Harden is looking pretty bad out there. If he’s in that poor of shape you’d think they’d be better off letting their other guys take his spot. The way he’s slowing the pace and not putting up points it’s pretty clear he’s a liability out there. Unless he comes with some second half heroics I don’t think Durant is gonna be able to lift them to a win alone.

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Quote from: akirasendo17 on June 15, 2021, 06:51:38 PM

Can the Bucks take this very important game 5 with the Brooklyn Nets? if kyrie and Harden can play this will favor the nets, and the decision for them is very hard, if they are going to play one of those two, what a tough decision to make for this game, for the bucks Middleton and tucker are the key players because once those two clicks, it will be easy for Giannis to score since nets have to guard also those players.

It's Middleton and Jrue Holiday. Tucker is only for defensive purposes even when he was with Houston Rockets. Lopez is also a factor because he makes outside shots 5-6 times per game, those could be helpful if they will have more accuracy.
Anyway, I am betting for the Bucks. I'll just follow the hunch that I have and hope it will hit. The line actually change, last night it was 1.57 moneyline for Bucks, now its 1.92 at moneyline. I think Kyrie or Harden will be playing.

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James Harden decision. He will play.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31640743/brooklyn-nets-james-harden-hamstring-back-action-game-5-vs-milwaukee-bucks

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Quote from: Kelvinid on June 15, 2021, 04:11:16 PM

Quote from: Yogee on June 15, 2021, 12:10:34 PM

Well...well..well Who would have tought the Hawks had it in them to fight back. It will be the biggest upset if they can eliminate the Sixers.

They were down by a huge margin in the first half but they came back in the 2nd half, what a spirit the Hawks have.
Embiid seems to be having some minor injury, he was not 100% that game so they take that opportunity.

nice series already 2-2 now.

The Hawks have the spirit?? Maybe but what made them came back in the second half is the probably worst shooting night of Embiid.
You are a candidate for a regular season MVP and you are shooting 0/12 in the 2nd half? Embiid is a big who can fight with other bigs in the paint and yet he is settling for some threes which is obviously have a lower percentage shot.

Embiid had this meniscus injury and yet he played more than 35 mins. There are times that he is having hard time to walk and seeing a bit hurt and yet he chose to play and this is the outcome. Didn't contribute to the team in the 2nd half and he might also be the reason why they lose the game with his airball layup at the final seconds of the game.

Quote from: akirasendo17 on June 15, 2021, 06:51:38 PM

Can the Bucks take this very important game 5 with the Brooklyn Nets? if kyrie and Harden can play this will favor the nets, and the decision for them is very hard, if they are going to play one of those two, what a tough decision to make for this game, for the bucks Middleton and tucker are the key players because once those two clicks, it will be easy for Giannis to score since nets have to guard also those players.

Kyrie will obviously not play in Game 5, Harden's availability turned into questionable.
Durant needs to step up if he wants to win because if they lose in this Game 5, they will lose the series because there is no chance that the Bucks will lose in their home. The chances of Bucks winning here is high since the Nets lose 2 of their superstars but I still believe that Durant will step up and he might end up scoring 40 or more. We know him as a scoring machine so its possible.

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Can the Bucks take this very important game 5 with the Brooklyn Nets? if kyrie and Harden can play this will favor the nets, and the decision for them is very hard, if they are going to play one of those two, what a tough decision to make for this game, for the bucks Middleton and tucker are the key players because once those two clicks, it will be easy for Giannis to score since nets have to guard also those players.

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Quote from: Yogee on June 15, 2021, 12:10:34 PM

Well...well..well Who would have tought the Hawks had it in them to fight back. It will be the biggest upset if they can eliminate the Sixers.

They were down by a huge margin in the first half but they came back in the 2nd half, what a spirit the Hawks have.
Embiid seems to be having some minor injury, he was not 100% that game so they take that opportunity.

nice series already 2-2 now.

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Clippers vs. Jazz developing into a battle of the home courts. I expect game 5 to be a close and heated game since it's pivotal.

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I loved Morris' performance also. He made 5/6 3-pointers.

I'm glad someone mentioned him. It's easy to miss his performance since the focus are always on PG and Kahwi.

Morris is the key to the Game 4 win, it's expected that the 2-star duo will score but getting points from his teammates, that should really be appreciated, the consistency of Morris was there, he ain't missing.

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Well...well..well Who would have tought the Hawks had it in them to fight back. It will be the biggest upset if they can eliminate the Sixers.

Clippers vs. Jazz developing into a battle of the home courts. I expect game 5 to be a close and heated game since it's pivotal.

Quote from: ILuckyGuyI on June 15, 2021, 06:50:08 AM

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I loved Morris' performance also. He made 5/6 3-pointers.

I'm glad someone mentioned him. It's easy to miss his performance since the focus are always on PG and Kahwi.

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Quote from: arwin100 on June 15, 2021, 03:56:37 AM

Its normal in basketball since if your soft you will be the hard target of physical players and you cannot last long in the league. Maybe the best thing Jazz to do is to do a good adjustment regarding on physicalities, they need to muscle up to get a good advantage to Clippers.

Now the pressure is in the side of Jazz and I'm seeing an intense game 5 on this series.

Well it used to be, nowadays it is not like that in NBA at all. Let's take a second and realize that we are talking about players like Harden and Trae getting fouls in any way possible, hell even NBA is looking into unnatural shooting motions so that they could remove all those extra side steps and all while shooting to make it look like they got hit, players are just throwing themselves in the ground these days. What we used to call flopping has become a tactic for these days superstars.

This is why I can't say that hard defense and physical playing is something we are used to these days, I am not saying it's bad, I think it is cool that we are seeing a bit of contact because it makes the league a bit more entertaining, but that is a bit unfair if they are allowed to be like that while other teams are all learning how to not touch stars too hard.

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