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Situation has changed a bit in that race for that 8th spot in the Western Conference since i wrote that small overview of the candidates. Grizzlies had their 3rd win a row last night, Blazers are on the 2 wins in a ow, and 2 games behind Grizzlies, while i jinxed Pelicans, they had 3rd loss in a row last night, against Mavericks in the OT and situation doesn't look great at the moment as they are 5 games behind Grizzlies now. It won't be an easy thing to do, to reach them with only 21 game left.
Grizzlies will have some tough games at the end of regular season, maybe that could be their chance to catch them..

Quote from: Vaculin on March 05, 2020, 02:44:37 AM

Stephen Curry injury update: Warriors star will make his return Thursday against the Raptors
What do you guys think? will it gives the warriors a chance to be in the playoffs, or its already late?
Curry would certainly give more excitement to us and hopefully as he comes back, we can still see him playing his old self.

Warriors are currently 17 games behind Grizzlies who are at at the 8th spot, while they only have 20 games left, so no way in hell they can catch that. Even Warriors from 2015/2016 would have issues with that, and on top of that, Grizzlies and other teams like Blazers, Spurs and Pelicans would have to loose huge majority of games.
I guess Curry will play just casually until end of the season, he won't force himself and risk another injury

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Stephen Curry injury update: Warriors star will make his return Thursday against the Raptors

What do you guys think? will it gives the warriors a chance to be in the playoffs, or its already late?
Curry would certainly give more excitement to us and hopefully as he comes back, we can still see him playing his old self.

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Quote from: danherbias07 on March 04, 2020, 09:05:16 AM

I still cannot stop thinking how the hell GSW can win against a strong Nuggets without their stars around.
It is not just a win, but a 16 point lead.

That's what we called a big upset, they usually do that, Warriors if their offense has a good flow, they scored pretty well and win big time against a big time team like Nuggets, they've done that this season many times I guess.

Quote from: danherbias07 on March 04, 2020, 09:05:16 AM

That was awesome. Somehow it hurt the Nuggets team which I think is aiming for the 2nd spot of the Western Conference ranking to avoid a stronger opponent on round 1 of the playoffs.
20+ games left and I think there will still be a lot changes that will happen in West.

That's for sure, Nuggets would stay in the playoff spot but we cannot be sure what spot it will hold by the end of the regular season, but one thing I could guarantee, whatever teams the Nuggets will face, it will be war as this team does not easily give up, they are up to a mission this playoffs.

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Quote from: danherbias07 on March 04, 2020, 09:05:16 AM

I still cannot stop thinking how the hell GSW can win against a strong Nuggets without their stars around.
It is not just a win, but a 16 point lead.

And I wonder what the odds for GSW Moneyline here. Whoever takes that risk is surely enjoying their profits now.

Anyways, that Warriors win improves Andrew Wiggins's record to 2 wins- 21 loses in his last 23 games lol.

Quote from: justdimin on March 04, 2020, 09:53:18 AM

... it has been a long time since I watched a team that actually entertained me so much as Lakers.

And you will be more entertained in the next 2 games of Lakers before the week ends;

..against Bucks on Sunday (1-0 against the Lakers this season)
..against Clippers on Sunday (2-0 against the Lakers this season)

I hope to see all teams are healthy on that day and expecting a wild close game.

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Now they have to face Clippers, another good game to watch.

They will do better at home but Clippers now are playing the best basketball and in terms of size, I guess Clippers will kill them.

Who would stop Leonard and PG here? they both are taller and athletic, and anyone of them could explode anytime, so I'll go for the Clippers even they are on the road. Hopefully this will be a high scoring game as fans would love it, it's more fun when the game turns out a high scoring affair.

They added Morris, they are a better team now and they are healthy so I guess they will soon replace Lakers in the number 1 spot although Lakers are also doing well. These good teams in the West like Lakers, Clippers and Rockets, even Nuggets, they are not exempted on losing against a bad team, just today, we witness how the Nuggets loss to the Warriors knowing Warriors got the worst record in the NBA now.

I think this is all about consistency and we've seen that on the big teams I've mentioned above but they are not perfect.

Regular season always have that kind of results, though it will be different once we are on the playoffs as all the teams will try pushing things harder in order to make sure to have the good spot.
PG, Williams and Leonard are all scorers and a good leaders they are not the types of players who always wanted to have the but instead they are
good in recognizing their teammates and letting them to play the game.

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Lakers have been on the form once again, every team looks great right now and I can honestly see many finalist contenders right now but Lakers have become my favorite easily and not just because their first seed in west but because they have been really playing a lot of fun and entertaining which we viewers are looking for when we watch a game, it has been a long time since I watched a team that actually entertained me so much as Lakers.

Clippers and rockets have a good chance if they play any decently as well, Denver would probably have a less chance but they are doing decent as well.

As long as Lakers stays healthy, other teams are going to have a big big task to beat them on a 7 game series and lets not forget Lebron is one of the all time best when it comes to playoffs, dude carried the Cavs team that is bottom team now to FINALS let alone playoffs so I assume the good level they are playing now will be even better in the playoffs too.

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I still cannot stop thinking how the hell GSW can win against a strong Nuggets without their stars around.
It is not just a win, but a 16 point lead.
That was awesome. Somehow it hurt the Nuggets team which I think is aiming for the 2nd spot of the Western Conference ranking to avoid a stronger opponent on round 1 of the playoffs.
20+ games left and I think there will still be a lot changes that will happen in West.

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Quote from: Maslate on March 04, 2020, 02:33:13 AM

Quote from: Jating on March 03, 2020, 07:50:57 PM

Now they have to face Clippers, another good game to watch.

They will do better at home but Clippers now are playing the best basketball and in terms of size, I guess Clippers will kill them.

Who would stop Leonard and PG here? they both are taller and athletic, and anyone of them could explode anytime, so I'll go for the Clippers even they are on the road. Hopefully this will be a high scoring game as fans would love it, it's more fun when the game turns out a high scoring affair.

They added Morris, they are a better team now and they are healthy so I guess they will soon replace Lakers in the number 1 spot although Lakers are also doing well. These good teams in the West like Lakers, Clippers and Rockets, even Nuggets, they are not exempted on losing against a bad team, just today, we witness how the Nuggets loss to the Warriors knowing Warriors got the worst record in the NBA now.

I think this is all about consistency and we've seen that on the big teams I've mentioned above but they are not perfect.

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Quote from: Jating on March 03, 2020, 07:50:57 PM

Now they have to face Clippers, another good game to watch.

They will do better at home but Clippers now are playing the best basketball and in terms of size, I guess Clippers will kill them.

Who would stop Leonard and PG here? they both are taller and athletic, and anyone of them could explode anytime, so I'll go for the Clippers even they are on the road. Hopefully this will be a high scoring game as fans would love it, it's more fun when the game turns out a high scoring affair.

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Quote from: Captain Corporate on March 03, 2020, 03:06:25 PM

Honestly I think there is not that much of a difference between bucks losing to heat and rockets losing to knicks in the sense that any team could lose to any team, it is after all ANY team can lose to ANY team. Bucks should be beating heat if they are such a great team at the first seed of the east conference and miami is an unexpected high ranked team compared to some other east teams that was expected to do better. On the other hand westbrook or harden doesn't matter because rockets should destroy knicks and beat them by 30+ points easily so if westbrook or harden takes the last shot to win that game, it is already bad for them.

Well that is if they have taken that huge lead, unfortunately, it was not the case, it was the other way around.

But it is also concerning though, they supposed to win that game, but what happened? I would only speculate that they just had a bad game and Harden should take the last shot.

Now they have to face Clippers, another good game to watch.

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Quote from: Finestream on March 03, 2020, 07:33:40 PM

The thing is they can't rely much on outside shooters because this team is designed on Giannis players.
Look at his stats, sometimes he could even make a triple double and most of the time he has the most points, they can't sacrifice that, I mean they should find a way for Giannis to still score, otherwise they'll lose against a good team.

Well, we cant really deny that isolating the main scorer would really be difficult but i dont agree that they dont have capable outside shooters and as i said earlier this would already depend on their alteration when it comes to ball rotation even Giannis is heavily guarded or isolate.Well, this is enough for this talk or matter and lets see on what would happen into their next game.As said if Heat will still manage to have
the same scenario and outcome then this one is a heavy finalist East contender.

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Miami Heat figure out how to beat the Bucks, this seems like very interesting as I usually bet on an underdog team and I hope Bucks would not be another disappointment again in the playoffs, I thought they have an easy journey in the East but there's Miami Heat who could stop their man Giannis.

They do, and I read somewhere that Miami is already 2-0 against the Bucks this season, and that's a good news for Heat backers that they can defeat the most overrated team in the NBA, no offense for the Bucks fans, but that's how I see it.

Well, they will have a match again on 17 so let's see if they actually figured it out. Bucks should figure this out and look to the whole point how Heat beat them like that.
But if Heat manages to beat them again, hands down to MH.

They would definitely analyze it out and would try out their best for it not to happen again.They know that they have been defeated with that kind of guarding by shutting down the main man.

Im expecting for some rotations which the ball wont be focused on Giannis yet there are capable scorers on outside which they can really be used on since they would target it out on guarding him again.

So ball rotations will be expected on next match up for some adjustments.

That will be one option that they can do to counter the style of Heat's defense. But from this moment, we can simply speculate and look for the possible solution that they will create.
It's just 2 weeks from now and let's see when they face again the solution and counter they've made.

The thing is they can't rely much on outside shooters because this team is designed on Giannis players.
Look at his stats, sometimes he could even make a triple double and most of the time he has the most points, they can't sacrifice that, I mean they should find a way for Giannis to still score, otherwise they'll lose against a good team.

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Miami Heat figure out how to beat the Bucks, this seems like very interesting as I usually bet on an underdog team and I hope Bucks would not be another disappointment again in the playoffs, I thought they have an easy journey in the East but there's Miami Heat who could stop their man Giannis.

They do, and I read somewhere that Miami is already 2-0 against the Bucks this season, and that's a good news for Heat backers that they can defeat the most overrated team in the NBA, no offense for the Bucks fans, but that's how I see it.

Well, they will have a match again on 17 so let's see if they actually figured it out. Bucks should figure this out and look to the whole point how Heat beat them like that.
But if Heat manages to beat them again, hands down to MH.

They would definitely analyze it out and would try out their best for it not to happen again.They know that they have been defeated with that kind of guarding by shutting down the main man.

Im expecting for some rotations which the ball wont be focused on Giannis yet there are capable scorers on outside which they can really be used on since they would target it out on guarding him again.

So ball rotations will be expected on next match up for some adjustments.

That will be one option that they can do to counter the style of Heat's defense. But from this moment, we can simply speculate and look for the possible solution that they will create.
It's just 2 weeks from now and let's see when they face again the solution and counter they've made.

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Quote from: batang_bitcoin on March 03, 2020, 05:58:46 PM

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Miami Heat figure out how to beat the Bucks, this seems like very interesting as I usually bet on an underdog team and I hope Bucks would not be another disappointment again in the playoffs, I thought they have an easy journey in the East but there's Miami Heat who could stop their man Giannis.

They do, and I read somewhere that Miami is already 2-0 against the Bucks this season, and that's a good news for Heat backers that they can defeat the most overrated team in the NBA, no offense for the Bucks fans, but that's how I see it.

Well, they will have a match again on 17 so let's see if they actually figured it out. Bucks should figure this out and look to the whole point how Heat beat them like that.
But if Heat manages to beat them again, hands down to MH.

They would definitely analyze it out and would try out their best for it not to happen again.They know that they have been defeated with that kind of guarding by shutting down the main man.

Im expecting for some rotations which the ball wont be focused on Giannis yet there are capable scorers on outside which they can really be used on since they would target it out on guarding him again.

So ball rotations will be expected on next match up for some adjustments.

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Quote from: Japinat on March 03, 2020, 09:00:08 AM

Quote from: Ziskinberg on March 03, 2020, 08:48:18 AM

Miami Heat figure out how to beat the Bucks, this seems like very interesting as I usually bet on an underdog team and I hope Bucks would not be another disappointment again in the playoffs, I thought they have an easy journey in the East but there's Miami Heat who could stop their man Giannis.

They do, and I read somewhere that Miami is already 2-0 against the Bucks this season, and that's a good news for Heat backers that they can defeat the most overrated team in the NBA, no offense for the Bucks fans, but that's how I see it.

Well, they will have a match again on 17 so let's see if they actually figured it out. Bucks should figure this out and look to the whole point how Heat beat them like that.
But if Heat manages to beat them again, hands down to MH.

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Quote from: SacriFries11 on March 03, 2020, 09:54:12 AM

After Kawhi left in the East I thought it's will be easier for Bucks to totally reign in the East seems that Miami will be a great match up from them. Miami have a great roster this season and Jimmy do a great job. They totally lockdown Giannis I think it's their #1 priority but will see it in the playoffs if Miami can still stop Giannis and the Bucks

In that game, not only Giannis is having a hard time but the other core players as well. We also have to take note that the majority of Bucks field goals attempt were not contested meaning they are literally having a bad night. A total lockdown to Giannis might be effective but not always the key to slow down the Bucks.

But kudos to Miami Heat for giving Bucks a hard time on that game. That bad night's performance by the Bucks is because of Heat's impressive performance on that game. They destroyed the rhythm of the Bucks offense. They are now 2-0 against the Bucks this season which is a good thing to see as we want to see a close competition in the Eastern Conference playoffs and not just the usual favorites Bucks, Celtics or Raptors.

After beating again the Bucks there's no question anymore that this team is really performing, forming a young solid cores and making it possible to deliver. This showed that there's always a good place for Miami coming into the next round, they just need to continue improving and create new set up plays for the entire team.

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Quote from: SacriFries11 on March 03, 2020, 09:54:12 AM

After Kawhi left in the East I thought it's will be easier for Bucks to totally reign in the East seems that Miami will be a great match up from them. Miami have a great roster this season and Jimmy do a great job. They totally lockdown Giannis I think it's their #1 priority but will see it in the playoffs if Miami can still stop Giannis and the Bucks

In that game, not only Giannis is having a hard time but the other core players as well. We also have to take note that the majority of Bucks field goals attempt were not contested meaning they are literally having a bad night. A total lockdown to Giannis might be effective but not always the key to slow down the Bucks.

But kudos to Miami Heat for giving Bucks a hard time on that game. That bad night's performance by the Bucks is because of Heat's impressive performance on that game. They destroyed the rhythm of the Bucks offense. They are now 2-0 against the Bucks this season which is a good thing to see as we want to see a close competition in the Eastern Conference playoffs and not just the usual favorites Bucks, Celtics or Raptors.

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Honestly I think there is not that much of a difference between bucks losing to heat and rockets losing to knicks in the sense that any team could lose to any team, it is after all ANY team can lose to ANY team. Bucks should be beating heat if they are such a great team at the first seed of the east conference and miami is an unexpected high ranked team compared to some other east teams that was expected to do better. On the other hand westbrook or harden doesn't matter because rockets should destroy knicks and beat them by 30+ points easily so if westbrook or harden takes the last shot to win that game, it is already bad for them.

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Quote from: joshy23 on March 03, 2020, 12:43:13 PM

Though he have that instinct and he can also deliver but Harden for me is much better in that kind of clutch.

I agree with you on this, however, we can't blame westbrook because he is now given the license to lead the team, if we look at his stats, there is a big improvement now compared when he was still starting with the Rockets and the management find it very effective so they stick with the game plan.

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Quote from: Natalim on March 03, 2020, 11:36:59 AM

Quote from: bitgolden on March 03, 2020, 11:32:24 AM

The rockets we are talking about just lost to Knicks and even tho we can say that any team could lose to any team, even Lakers or Bucks that are at the top has lost before (bucks lost to Miami yesterday) which means that loss to Knicks by rockets doesn't mean anything normally.

you can't compare the lost of the bucks to the heat against the lose of the Rockets as Heat and Bucks are playoff team while the Knicks is not, in fact Knicks is only rank number 13 with 19-42 win loss record while the heat ranks number 4 with 39-22 win loss record.

Which is right, Bucks and Heat can be a final contenders while Knicks is not, Rockets have the good chance to win the game if Westbrook passed the ball to Harden and let the guy to take the last shot. Though he have that instinct and he can also deliver but Harden for me is much better in that kind of clutch.

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