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I see that point and there are always critics we can't remove that fact, even KD is a good player, but with how he jumps from one team to another
that is something that the fans are not liking him.

With the expectation that he will add good chance for the Suns in winning the title might be spoiled since Nuggets
is really giving them a tough time leading 2-0 in their best of 7 series.

We will expect more critics as some of them are just riding with the issue to gain attentions especially those so-called sports analysts.

It’s because many of the GSW fan hated this guy to the core. Many said he is the one who carry GSW to championship but he is struggling so much on any team that he goes after GSW even though the team that he join has a very good roster even on Thunders, Nets and Suns. KD is really good but he lacks the skills to carry the team in the end without relying to other player that can score when he is not in good shape like Curry and Klay.

KD is getting older so I’m sure that he will request another trade again since he is now close to GSW. Fans of GSW will surely celebrate when KD lose to Nuggets while the team continuously climb to the championship round. KD will have a better run if he is not too full of his self expecting that he can carry any team to championship.

To funny to see how people react when KD is on losing team since we can't blame people to think that this will gonna happen again since most of the time Durant always go on the team which is already built. To bad if they failed to defeat Denver this round for sure he will be mocked by many people who doesn't like he's jumping stints on strong teams. But its still so early there are many games left maybe we can see them became more aggressive and they can outscore Nuggets on their next game.

Is KD gonna request a trade again if they bust out vs Denver? 

Jokes aside, what a defensive battle that was. From a team that has Booker and KD you would expect more than just 87 points.
Especially the last quarter with just 14 was tough to watch.

Jokic with yet another big game, no surprise. I expect Denver to win 1 on the road hopefully and then close the series at home.

Trash talking book and KD the ring chaser off to Cancun soon. 

Boston vs Philly surprised me, just as anybody else. Without Embiid they were a huge dog, I think the spread was around 10-12 points. Even with Embiid back for game 2 (maybe) I don't see Boston losing again, this was just a fluke.

Lakers need to find ways to adjust to how the Warriors play the game,

We all know how deadly all the players of GSW when given a chance to make the clean shot, it will be a big challenge to Lakers
if how they will adjust tailing all the shooters and make those shots a tough one to release.

I think LeBron as the main alpha here will help not only playing the game but also designing their offense and defense to make
sure that they will be in this series no matter what will happen.

That's why Draymond Green wanted them the Kings to be their first opponent in the playoffs. They might be the 3rd seed, but their experience in the playoffs is close to none. Who're the players who played in the playoffs in the Kings' roster? I guess only Barnes with the Warriors.

Overall, it's a good learning experience for the Kings, and to know that they battled the Warriors for 7 games is already a big achievement for them already. With this, I don't expect them to exit early again next season if the roster will still remain intact. As for the Warriors, it will be an easier opponent IMO. I think that the Lakers are an easier opponent than the Kings. Lakers might've been better after the trade deadline, but their coach is inexperienced. They might have 2 all-star players, but the Warriors have 4. Warriors IMO have better role players than the Lakers. Nevertheless, it would be an interesting match-up to watch with, but like I said the Warriors find this one easier than the Kings.

If only Mike Breen is the one commentating that game, I would've heard the word "BANG!!! BANG!!!" when Harden hit that three in the final seconds of the game to regain the lead by 2.

Harden might've played his best playoff career game in years, but still without Embiid, they will not win against the Celtics. There are instances where Robert Williams is just bullying people inside the paint, and getting easy shots, and if Embiid will not play in Game 2 again, they might abuse this one. On the other hand, this road win by the Sixers might've be a big advantage for them. Just look at the Heat, and the Lakers when they won in Game 1. Heat won in 5, and Lakers won in 6. This one road win for the Sixers might be a reason for them to win in this series in 6.

TBH, I would love to see the Celtics going into the NBA Finals again, but they're facing an MVP this season in Embiid (hopefully), and a former MVP in Harden. 2 MVP's in the same team, and if only Coach Doc Rivers will not choke on this one, I pick the Sixers to win in 6 games.

Yes, his performance tonight could be one of the best this playoff, together with Jimmy Butler against the Bucks and then Curry dropping 50 versus the Kings in a game 7 elimination game. That dagger 3 though, to give them that lead was very ice cold.

And there are basketball analyst that is writing off Harden and saying that he is old, but he shows that he still has the bounce and could really explode just like when he was still with the Rockets.

This is just one game though, so many things can still happen in this series, for sure Celtics will have to adjust in game 2. But what's scary is when Joel Embiid is going to play.

Good attention to details right there, that's what I've been slightly noticing how the Lakers are allowing these numbers. However, LeBron knew very well what the Warriors are capable of so it would be up to them how are the whole LAL team are going to adjust with the current opponent who's offensive fire power are greater than the previous one. 
The reason why I brought the Lakers' defensive rating is that, MAYBE they are capable of pulling up another defensive strategy that works for teams like the Warriors.

Yeah classic match up man! We never know, this is going to be the last match up we see Curry and LeBron going against each other and everything else will be a history.

I believe the winner of Celtics - Sixers series will be the champion. Sixers got a huge advantage by winning the first game. Harden played one of his best games in play-offs and they won without Embiid.

I respect your opinion, but also take note that regular season is different from playoffs.
Who would've expect that they will win against the heavily favored Grizzlies? Who would've expected that the Heat will win against the Bucks who picked by most that will be the champion? Who would've expect that the Sixers sweep the Nets?

The Lakers might've been a better team post-trade deadline, but we are talking about the Warriors here. One of the best three point shooting teams currently, and to back it up, the Lakers are very wide open to their opponents when it comes to shooting threes. They're allowing their opponents to shoot 36.5 attempts on average (25th), and their opponents are making 12.5 threes on average (20th). For sure the Warriors will exploit this problem of the Lakers. Expect them to shoot more on threes than in twos.

Anyway, like you said, it will be a good series, and it's a classic one because we will see Steph and Lebron matching up again after that 4 consecutive Finals match-up. It would be a good series, and I hope that the fans of both teams will be enjoying watching this one. Curry Vs. James Round 5.

It's really the pressure on the shoulder of Fox and the whole team itself, and if a team as young as Sacramento faces a DNA championship caliber like the Warriors, it will be the experience of the team that will prevail. And when the Kings is having pressure to close this series after leading 2-0, the Warriors on the other hand, remain calm as Curry said. And no excuses, Fox to be fair with him has injured his finger in game 5. And obviously, the Kings failed to stop Curry, those bodies that they throw on him wasn't enough to disrupt his shots, Fox, Murray, Monk, Barnes Davis, Mitchell is not effective. And on the contrary, we've seen Curry took 38 field goal attempts in game 7 and that is a lot. And then we have Looney outrebounding Sabonis, and the numbers doesn't line, Warriors won the game when Looney was dominating the boards with 20+ rebounds.

Looney's numbers - game 3- 20, game 5 - 22 and game 7 - 21.

Like what every NBA analyst already said before Game 7 even started, this is the test of who the star player is or will be. I didn't see that with Fox. True, he is inexperienced, and this is his first playoff run, but I really like to see the same energy as he did in the last 6 games of the series. This is the first and the last that he didn't score above 20 points in the whole series against the Golden State Warriors which made me think that Shaq was right, the pressure was on them.

It's difficult to suppress the comparison that happened.
Steph Curry's last 7 games points: 30,28,36,32,31,29,50
DeAaron Fox's last 7 games points: 38,24,26,38,24,26,16

Fox was supposed to lead the Kings on their way to the 2nd round but it seems the pressure got the better of him. I hope he learned a good lesson here.
Steph was right, they ain't ready for this yet.

Both have interesting stories this season, Lakers started 2-10 if I'm not mistaken, and there are a lot of drama last last year being carried over, specially the case of Russell Westbrook. But before the trade line, they overhaul their roster, get rid of Westbrook, in exchange of a lot of role players and they started to make a run post season. Then AD becoming healthy, then eliminated the young Memphis the second seed.

For the Warriors the same, ended up 6th seed and many analyst are writing them off. Bad road team, drama between Poole and Green at the start and even prior to the last game, we can see some frustrations, there were reports that Poole and Kuminga are not happy with the minutes they are getting this playoff. But Steph wouldn't let this one slip away, not from the young Kings. Now another storied match up between him and Lebron are going to be written again this playoff series.

That's the reality now that we won't be seeing them in the finals because they'll have to face each other and one is going to be eliminated. Either Steph's crew or Lebron's team. Just after we saw Warriors won against the Kings, everyone would have thought that it's gonna be the head of their journey and Kings dominance will be proclaimed but then, they're still the defending champs and have been through a lot. Now, both teams have been through a lot and one of them have to move to the next stage closer to the finals. The predictions are now in and this is gonna be like up to game 7.

The funny thing is, it's once again Lebron vs Warriors. This is a different conference, and yet the story continues. I am not sure if it's going to be simple or not, maybe Lebron will get a win, maybe Warriors will do fine, I really can't say much about it and I will have to watch and see what happens. I know that Heat looks better than Knicks, I know Nuggets looked better than Suns, and I can say that Celtics probably will do alright, but when it comes to Lakers vs Warriors, it's a series I am not entirely sure about.

Let the oddmakers decide it on our own behalf and that's fine but I am not trusting the results as much as they do. This is looking like typical "home team wins" series if nothing unexpected happens but something unexpected may happen obviously.

One of the advantage of the Warriors as they allow Curry to keep doing his usual attacks and support him both in defense and
screening, giving him space to take his shots.

Leadership from Monk or Fox, but both are being covered and their shots are mostly forced shots, though they also did try everything but
it's the experienced and the good communication between the core players of GSW that dominated the game.

For sure, there are good adjustments that will happen coming next season if they still have the same squad from coaches to players.

Or he can be both, right now Chris Paul is kind of old right now but in terms of getting the play done you can surely don't on him at the same time if he can put the ball inside the ring then he can, I think he can do both that I really think just like I am saying back then that Chris Paul should just let the young guns do their work and including Kevin Durant to that guns, to make great plays, but at the same time getting some score so their opponent won't notice about their game,


Game 7 is truly amazing for the Golden State Warriors and more for Stephen Curry it was a wild game I was like watching Stephen Curry's highlight shoots, that a highlights game, that was insane, and on the news it was all Stephen Curry and how he get that 50 points for the team, and right now there are many reporters that is against Curry but after this performance, they could think that Stephen Curry deserves a GOAT status,


And now Let's see how well they can do against Lebron James and the new Los Angeles Lakers, now that the Lakers have received that upgrade I think the Warriors and the Lakers didn't see much in the game, but right now because of Curry's unreal performance the Warriors odds is for them,

Sacramento played well the first half, but then they got stuck. They had the disadvantage of being a young and inexperienced team. There was no player who stood out when they had difficulty in scoring on offense. The lack of leadership was felt in the team. The Warriors, on the other hand, played a very comfortable second half and won the match with their stars. It's been a good experience for the Kings, they can fight better if they make the playoffs next year.

Well, my boy, Stephen Curry dropped a 50 bomb. This was certainly one of the best performances I have ever seen from anyone. In the first two quarters, it was actually tough to choose a team which will be able to win. But in the last two quarters, it was an absolutely unbelievable performance from the Golden State Warriors.

It is true that the Golden State Warriors are actually a better team compared to the kings. And it will also take time for the kings to actually reach the level of the Golden State Warriors.

No doubt! Especially Kevon Looney who hauled many rebounds for the team, even if it's an offensive ones. He may not contribute that much in-terms of points but his role is effective enough to make somebody struggle if they will force and drive through the paint. Another talent unlocked by coach Steve Kerr.

So, we now have Lakers vs Warriors in the West Semis. Man! This is like an early present to us fans because after all these years, they meet again and will be having another tough moments together. The Warriors may have an upper hand in this series but I can't really say that the Lakers will not survive this because their roster can also keep-up with what the Warriors can do. This should be fun!