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Quote from: btc_angela on March 28, 2024, 04:18:47 AM

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The Houston Rockets have been playing incredibly well the last few weeks. They managed to go on a 10-game winning streak. I hope they continue to play like this and we can see them among the best teams at the end of the season.
It is great that they are playing with such a performance while Alperen Şengün is injured. After Şengün recovers, he will play very effectively in such a team. Then the Rockets could be among the best in their conference

They change the pace I guess... they aren't getting a lot of points from a big man but that has awaken the beast within Jalen Green. Their starting 5 is really effective, even Brooks did a great job on that win starting with a back to back 3 point shots in the OT, this guy looks clown but in reality he is clutch.

And it seems the Dillon Brooks has settled with the Rockets, I mean we don't see him getting angry or trying to be in the limelight. He had a good game and good passes as well for easy points for his team.

And then Green has like 7 three point shoot in this game and again, putting MVP caliber numbers to put them for a play-in spot against the Warriors. So this two teams are going for sure to battle in their last remaining games. They will be facing each other on April 5 and that will be a huge game for both of them.

Yeah, seems like Brooks is bringing everything to help, they all doing whatever they can bring to keep this winning streaks, I like how everyone is sharing and how they try doing all the best to keep their position alive, with that chance of making into the play-in putting pressure for the Warriors.

Another outstanding performance by Green this young superstar really making his way with consistency and with the support of his teammates he really got that big chance to keep improving his game.

Playoffs is nearly approaching and all the teams especially in the west side are doing their best to keep their position and to secure spot for the next round, everything is now going to depends from the system and execution.

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Quote from: btc_angela on March 27, 2024, 10:11:21 AM

I think the Dallas team gain momentum with that Kyrie winning shots against the Nuggets. Yeah, it seems that they have found the guy to man their middle. As we have seen in the last couple of season they are looking for a big guys like CWood but it was a failed experiment. Gafford though is very difficult, as he is good to block shots and that alley oop as well.

They sure did. Confidence is high, and it boosts their energy. They know they have two of the best basketball players on their roster Luka and Kyrie and also the most talented ones.

The Denver Nuggets playing badly today without Jamal Murray. You can see the frustration on Jokic's face whenever his passes are not completed. He badly need that receiver who have a great chemistry with him and we all know that's Jamal and Gordon. But when those two are defended well, who else will be there to receive his assists? None. Their bench is weak and the stats could tell that.
The first five played until the end of the game as if it's a playoff game. Maybe Coach Michael Malone is already testing how far his players would go at this postseason. Nuggets may be the top seed in the West but when it's playoffs time, it will be different. He will need every player and the bench need to step up their game.
Great win for the Phoenix Suns today.

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Quote from: Questat on March 28, 2024, 04:12:48 AM

Quote from: xzone on March 28, 2024, 03:59:08 AM

The Houston Rockets have been playing incredibly well the last few weeks. They managed to go on a 10-game winning streak. I hope they continue to play like this and we can see them among the best teams at the end of the season.
It is great that they are playing with such a performance while Alperen Şengün is injured. After Şengün recovers, he will play very effectively in such a team. Then the Rockets could be among the best in their conference

They change the pace I guess... they aren't getting a lot of points from a big man but that has awaken the beast within Jalen Green. Their starting 5 is really effective, even Brooks did a great job on that win starting with a back to back 3 point shots in the OT, this guy looks clown but in reality he is clutch.

And it seems the Dillon Brooks has settled with the Rockets, I mean we don't see him getting angry or trying to be in the limelight. He had a good game and good passes as well for easy points for his team.

And then Green has like 7 three point shoot in this game and again, putting MVP caliber numbers to put them for a play-in spot against the Warriors. So this two teams are going for sure to battle in their last remaining games. They will be facing each other on April 5 and that will be a huge game for both of them.

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Quote from: xzone on March 28, 2024, 03:59:08 AM

The Houston Rockets have been playing incredibly well the last few weeks. They managed to go on a 10-game winning streak. I hope they continue to play like this and we can see them among the best teams at the end of the season.
It is great that they are playing with such a performance while Alperen Şengün is injured. After Şengün recovers, he will play very effectively in such a team. Then the Rockets could be among the best in their conference

I think it's refreshing to see a team that started really bad and now trying to get at least in the play-in and fighting it out against the Warriors dynasty. They force OT against one of the best team in OKC ad their own homecourt. And even if SGA didn't play, still this is a great win for the Rockets as they are a huge underdog in this game. One of the longest streak for this season and at a point wherein regular season is about to end. The Warriors also won though, so it will set up wherein this two are going to fight for every game they had, either home or away.

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Quote from: xzone on March 28, 2024, 03:59:08 AM

The Houston Rockets have been playing incredibly well the last few weeks. They managed to go on a 10-game winning streak. I hope they continue to play like this and we can see them among the best teams at the end of the season.
It is great that they are playing with such a performance while Alperen Şengün is injured. After Şengün recovers, he will play very effectively in such a team. Then the Rockets could be among the best in their conference

They change the pace I guess... they aren't getting a lot of points from a big man but that has awaken the beast within Jalen Green. Their starting 5 is really effective, even Brooks did a great job on that win starting with a back to back 3 point shots in the OT, this guy looks clown but in reality he is clutch.

Thompson and Green, these two really played well, they share the ball very well and they don't forget to play some good defense. overall, this team is a threat and once they are in the play-in, things would be interesting then.

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The Houston Rockets have been playing incredibly well the last few weeks. They managed to go on a 10-game winning streak. I hope they continue to play like this and we can see them among the best teams at the end of the season.
It is great that they are playing with such a performance while Alperen Şengün is injured. After Şengün recovers, he will play very effectively in such a team. Then the Rockets could be among the best in their conference

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GSW escaped with another victory on the road. It's 2 straight road games now for GSW. Draymond Green ejected again. It seems like Draymond is becoming a liability of the team. I wonder what's on Curry's mind during the ejection but he seem annoyed. Kerr after the game said Draymond deserved it but still positive on him.

The Houston Rockets also escaped with a victory against a more formidable opponent, the Thunder. And Jalen Green once again with a monster performance. Too bad, they're still in the 11th spot after GSW's earlier win over Orlando.

I wouldn't call it a escape win by the Warriors, yes they are not known to be a good road team, but when their backs is against the wall, they will really need to dig dip from their arsenal and find a way to win. They've build a solid lead from the 1st quarter, and even if Draymond is out playing only 4 minutes because of technical fouls, Curry carried the team and probably the first we've seen him doing the night-night gesture when he hit that dagger 3. As opposed to the Houston Rockets who really need to make a comeback and force OT to win against a SGA less OKC team. Still though, their winning streak continues and them and the Warriors are fighting it out for the 10th spot in the West.

They are a better road team than a home team based on their current record, overall they are not a good team because they are just hanging around at number 10 spot. Well, that was the experience of the Warriors that came into play, and Wiggins has activated his playoff mode in this game but I'm not sure if he'll be able to continue that kind of contribution.

Curry is not the same Curry that could score 30+ but it doesn't matter anyway since they got this win and still able to keep their slot.

Rockets and Warriors win, both are happy but the thrill still continues as there's more games left to play.

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Quote from: inthelongrun on March 28, 2024, 01:36:00 AM

GSW escaped with another victory on the road. It's 2 straight road games now for GSW. Draymond Green ejected again. It seems like Draymond is becoming a liability of the team. I wonder what's on Curry's mind during the ejection but he seem annoyed. Kerr after the game said Draymond deserved it but still positive on him.

The Houston Rockets also escaped with a victory against a more formidable opponent, the Thunder. And Jalen Green once again with a monster performance. Too bad, they're still in the 11th spot after GSW's earlier win over Orlando.

I wouldn't call it a escape win by the Warriors, yes they are not known to be a good road team, but when their backs is against the wall, they will really need to dig dip from their arsenal and find a way to win. They've build a solid lead from the 1st quarter, and even if Draymond is out playing only 4 minutes because of technical fouls, Curry carried the team and probably the first we've seen him doing the night-night gesture when he hit that dagger 3. As opposed to the Houston Rockets who really need to make a comeback and force OT to win against a SGA less OKC team. Still though, their winning streak continues and them and the Warriors are fighting it out for the 10th spot in the West.

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I'm looking at this scam here and it mentioned about Jontay Porter. And from my research this guy is being investigated by the NBA,

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On Monday, ESPN reported that the NBA is investigating Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter due to irregularities surrounding prop bets based on his statistics. The brewing scandal is the latest in a series of sports gambling controversies that have arisen of late. In the last month alone, Major League Baseball has dealt with betting issues involving Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter, while gambling watchdog company U.S. Integrity is investigating the Temple University men's basketball team due to "suspicious betting activity."

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/jontay-porter-gambling-investigation-explained-what-we-know-as-nba-looks-into-prop-bet-irregularities/

He is the brother of Michael Porter Jr of the Nuggets, it's just bad that his name is now drag into this kind of controversial player props bets.

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Quote from: EFS on March 27, 2024, 08:03:20 PM

This may be the last time we will see a game like this before the playoffs. The teams that have already secured their spots wouldn't have to work too hard in the remaining games. It's important for the teams to stay healthy before playoffs.

In the East, the most secured team is the Boston Celtics. The top 2 down who will likely make it to the playoffs will still have to play hard if they want to gain the home court advantage. There are still plenty of remaining games, if Bucks will not play hard, they might fall to top 5 or 6 and that will still give them a ranking to qualify in the playoffs but they don't want to be playing not gaining the home court advantage, so I think they'll still take every game seriously.

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Quote from: inthelongrun on March 28, 2024, 01:36:00 AM

GSW escaped with another victory on the road. It's 2 straight road games now for GSW. Draymond Green ejected again. It seems like Draymond is becoming a liability of the team. I wonder what's on Curry's mind during the ejection but he seem annoyed. Kerr after the game said Draymond deserved it but still positive on him.

Draymond need that kind of act in the action playoffs as that gives some energy to the team. Sometimes it's too much that results to ejection like that. Anyway, what matters is they won the game and their playoff hopes are still alive. Curry had struggled but he carried the team during the clutch, so I still like him in this game. Wiggins.. wow this guy needs to play like this, his defense and aggressiveness is impressive.

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The Houston Rockets also escaped with a victory against a more formidable opponent, the Thunder. And Jalen Green once again with a monster performance. Too bad, they're still in the 11th spot after GSW's earlier win over Orlando.

The fight is not yet over bro. The Rockets is an exciting team to watch, as long as that streak is alive, they are a very dangerous team to match with.

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GSW escaped with another victory on the road. It's 2 straight road games now for GSW. Draymond Green ejected again. It seems like Draymond is becoming a liability of the team. I wonder what's on Curry's mind during the ejection but he seem annoyed. Kerr after the game said Draymond deserved it but still positive on him.

The Houston Rockets also escaped with a victory against a more formidable opponent, the Thunder. And Jalen Green once again with a monster performance. Too bad, they're still in the 11th spot after GSW's earlier win over Orlando.

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Quote from: blockman on March 27, 2024, 04:46:20 PM

It's funny when I've read the news about Jrue Holiday when he's being traded by Bucks to Celtics. He said that if he's getting traded, he should be informed in 24 hours. But with his experience, he received the notice 5 minutes before his last match with his former was about to happen. That's actually funny and sad at the same time that these players can get traded anytime the team wants to or when the deal's done even without them knowing that they'd be traded.

It's not good to see that kind of action from the management because it looks quite disrespectful, after Holiday were able to help the team getting a championship and that's what he did to them. Good thing he is a great team now and he has a change to make a revenge in a legal way also by beating the Bucks in the playoffs.

Holiday has been one of the important players for the Celtics now, so it's a blessing that he makes the Celtics a more improve team, hopefully they'll be back in the championship again but I'm not hoping they'll win as I have a team in the West that I'm backing which is Luka and his friends.

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It was one of the best games I've seen in a while. The game that went to double overtime seemed like it would never end. The Bucks led by 10-15 points the whole time, but in last minutes Lakers tied the game for the first time. In overtime, Lakers took the lead for the first time and won in the second overtime. It was really impressive to perform like that without LeBron. Austin Reaves had the 2nd triple double of his career and scored in key moments. Anthony Davis was on the court for 52 minutes, which is another record. He was very tired and it looks like he won't play today because of a knee injury.
Antetokounmpo also had a triple double and Lillard played very well, but it wasn't enough to win the game. This may be the last time we will see a game like this before the playoffs. The teams that have already secured their spots wouldn't have to work too hard in the remaining games. It's important for the teams to stay healthy before playoffs.

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Quote from: Yogee on March 27, 2024, 05:53:22 PM

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It's funny when I've read the news about Jrue Holiday when he's being traded by Bucks to Celtics. He said that if he's getting traded, he should be informed in 24 hours. But with his experience, he received the notice 5 minutes before his last match with his former was about to happen.

He is not really in a position to demand that kind of thing. The team could not really care less but I can agree that it could have been done out of respect to his previous contributions.

Nope as player who part of their key rotation and contribute a lot on the team he should at least know that there's something like this discussion and its about to complete so that he preferred emotionally and will not feel bad on his past team. What they did is totally disappointing on his side since he expect to stay a little bit while but immediate trade has been done that's why the guy didn't feel something good and think bad on what recently happen on his past team. But that's how business work on NBA so players should expect that to happen since for them its all pure business loyalty doesn't mean anything those people.

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Quote from: blockman on March 27, 2024, 04:46:20 PM

It's funny when I've read the news about Jrue Holiday when he's being traded by Bucks to Celtics. He said that if he's getting traded, he should be informed in 24 hours. But with his experience, he received the notice 5 minutes before his last match with his former was about to happen.

He is not really in a position to demand that kind of thing. The team could not really care less but I can agree that it could have been done out of respect to his previous contributions.

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That's actually funny and sad at the same time that these players can get traded anytime the team wants to or when the deal's done even without them knowing that they'd be traded.

They already understand the business of transfer markets but some of them could still be emotional about it since they like the team. It is what it is.

He is in a better place now so he's one lucky player.

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It's funny when I've read the news about Jrue Holiday when he's being traded by Bucks to Celtics. He said that if he's getting traded, he should be informed in 24 hours. But with his experience, he received the notice 5 minutes before his last match with his former was about to happen. That's actually funny and sad at the same time that these players can get traded anytime the team wants to or when the deal's done even without them knowing that they'd be traded.

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Quote from: goinmerry on March 27, 2024, 02:13:13 PM

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The Mavs are not weak on the inside anymore with Gafford and Lively defending the rim. Mavs is strong.

To complete the list of those guys who made the Mavericks' defense tough, I'm also gonna give credit to P.J. Washington for showing impressive defense. He's the one who contained both Sacramento Kings key scorers Domantos Sabonis, mostly on low post, and De’Aaron Fox on the perimeter. The same performance was also shown by him in the previous game against the Utah Jazz.

I like what he said a few days ago that the Mavericks already have 2 of the best scorers in the league and what they need to do is to accompany these guys with their good defense. Impressive chemistry even though he's just played only 5 games with the team.

That's how teamwork is supposed to be. Hope they will maintain that good phase for a long.

I've always thought that with kyrie and Luka it's just making it blend and work. Both ball dominant guards is what makes it semi clunky to watch at times. Agree the defense is better. Watched lively at Duke and was hoping the Knicks scooped him up as future at center. He is gonna have a good nba career. Not overly great but is needed on almost every team what he brings.

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Quote from: Twentyonepaylots on March 27, 2024, 11:35:46 AM

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Big win for the Lakers in double overtime. Milwaukee Bucks made a lot of mistakes, they are too leaning on three-point shots while they have the best attacker in Giannis. Beasley was not shy to keep on shooting threes even if they didn't really need it. This is where the Lakers took advantage of the opportunity to make it to the front and win the 2nd overtime.
That was a big upset considering the spread was -10.5. And without a doubt, Lebron was happy that his team won despite his resting from an injury.

Looking back, I thought this game would be a blowout win for the Bucks, as they led the Lakers 6–23 in the first quarter. Without Lebron and the Bucks is healthy, and with that kind of lead early in the game? Everyone thought it would be a win for the Bucks, but the Lakers climbed up late in the game. With a couple of clutch shots from Reaves and good defensive play from Davis, the Bucks had their chances to seal the game but couldn't get it done. The turning point of this game was when Giannis missed his free throws, and after that, the Lakers never looked back and won the game.

That's only the first quarter, we all know that teams can get back from 20+ points deficit and win the games, we have seen that already. What's important is that the team who lead should maintain it obviously, but not in this game. The Bucks allowed the Lakers to have the momentum and then force the game into OT.

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It is a good team effort; everyone has their own contributions to make to win this game, and with the next 5 games of the Lakers are the Grizzlies, Pacers, Nets, Raptors, and Nets. I can see them winning this all; that's five more wins to add to their current record.

It's the final stretch of the season, and it's time that the teams are reaching their peaked already like the Mavs and Lakers and the Houston Rockets. Good win for the Lakers as they have a good percentage on their next following games and win.

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Ime Udoka definitely plays a good role, however not sharing the spotlight is also a big deal for him too. Remember, they are missing the highest scoring player on that team, normally Alperen was their biggest scorer, when he left due to injury, that meant a lot more balls for someone to shoot, combine that with playing against the weakest teams in the league, that meant Jlane had the chance to score a lot of points.

This isn't an indicator of what kind of player he is, that doesn't mean anything yet, we should be considering the situation as normal and nothing big. I get that it may feel like it's important but the reality is that it is not and it won't be all that much of a thing for them to handle any of this in the end.

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