2024 NBA Playoffs - East 1st Round: #3 Milwaukee Bucks vs. #6 Indiana Pacers (IND WINS 4-2)

Coach Carter · Post #1701 » by **Coach Carter** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:50 am

slickrickstyles wrote:Time to put some respect on Myles name for once! You all can FINALLY take him off your trade rumors EVERY year haha

Did well on a 36yr old Brook

SFour · Post #1702 » by **SFour** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:52 am

JJ_PR wrote:Myles Turner is one of the most underrated players in the entire league. Indy could be poised for a deep playoff run.

they wont even get past the knicks

slickrickstyles · Post #1703 » by **slickrickstyles** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:56 am

Coach Carter wrote:
slickrickstyles wrote:Time to put some respect on Myles name for once! You all can FINALLY take him off your trade rumors EVERY year haha

Did well on a 36yr old Brook

That 36-year-old proved to be your one-shot my friend.

theFireBlanket · Post #1704 » by **theFireBlanket** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:58 am

slickrickstyles wrote:
Coach Carter wrote:
slickrickstyles wrote:Time to put some respect on Myles name for once! You all can FINALLY take him off your trade rumors EVERY year haha

Did well on a 36yr old Brook

That 36-year-old proved to be your one-shot my friend.

On offense. AJJ was the best overall player, re: impact on winning.

The4thHorseman · Post #1705 » by **The4thHorseman** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:59 am

wrong thread

Wolfgang630 · Post #1706 » by **Wolfgang630** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:05 am

What kind of injury does Giannis have that he can’t comeback?

JustBuzzin · Post #1707 » by **JustBuzzin** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:05 am

SFour wrote:
JJ_PR wrote:Myles Turner is one of the most underrated players in the entire league. Indy could be poised for a deep playoff run.

they wont even get past the knicks

Brunson will cook Halibutton.

Coach Carter · Post #1708 » by **Coach Carter** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:13 am

slickrickstyles wrote:
Coach Carter wrote:
slickrickstyles wrote:Time to put some respect on Myles name for once! You all can FINALLY take him off your trade rumors EVERY year haha

Did well on a 36yr old Brook

That 36-year-old proved to be your one-shot my friend.

Our best shot would've been Halli continuing to chuck

dafan590 · Post #1709 » by **dafan590** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:13 am

Rivers coaching career is saved by all the bucks injuries lol

Hoop Hunter · Post #1710 » by **Hoop Hunter** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:23 am

Coach Carter wrote:
nzahir wrote:I havent watched a minute of this series live yet.....how are the Pacers barely up rn with no Giannis, Dame, Portis out, and now Middtleton to the locker room apparently??

Terrible defense, they'll get exposed next round

You already conceding. It ain't over till it's over.

If we make it to the second round. We had a winning record against both teams. We won twice against Embiid, we lost the one when Maxey went for 50. Beat the Knicks 2 out of 3. We just really suck against bad teams.

Hoop Hunter · Post #1711 » by **Hoop Hunter** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:28 am

Zeno wrote:
slickrickstyles wrote:
Zeno wrote:Is that James Johnson on the bench?

He has been going on and off contract with us since 2022

Is the hair a new thing?

He's been goldilocks for most of this season. Looks weird, but nobody's making fun of him. :lol:

I guess he's been very good at mentoring the young guys. They respect him alot. He's been on the team for most of the last 2 seasons.

Iwasawitness · Post #1712 » by **Iwasawitness** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:10 am

Hoop Hunter wrote:
Coach Carter wrote:
nzahir wrote:I havent watched a minute of this series live yet.....how are the Pacers barely up rn with no Giannis, Dame, Portis out, and now Middtleton to the locker room apparently??

Terrible defense, they'll get exposed next round

You already conceding. It ain't over till it's over.

If we make it to the second round. We had a winning record against both teams. We won twice against Embiid, we lost the one when Maxey went for 50. Beat the Knicks 2 out of 3. We just really suck against bad teams.

You’re not beating NY lol

Case2012 · Post #1713 » by **Case2012** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:34 am

jimmybones wrote:
Case2012 wrote:I've been more of a Dame fan than a blazer fan the last 10 years because the organization is/was ran by literally the worst people in the NBA, and while it makes me happy to see Dame crushing it with an actual roster around him, it pisses me off that olshey, cronin and Jody Allen never got him help. Like, this is what we could've seen for years had Portland hired a gm that knew what they were doing.

As sweet as it is to see playoff Dame in a Bucks uniform it’s almost equally as depressing to not see it paired with Giannis. This is why he was brought here

Tell me about it, the blazers drafted CJ over Giannis...

jtan08 · Post #1714 » by **jtan08** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:43 am

GSP wrote:
Mamba Mentality wrote:Turner has been amazing this series. Goes without saying Bucks are exposed on defense without Giannis.

They couldnt guard them w/ Giannis either. Their defense is obviously better w/ him but he isnt a transformative anchor like Ad, Bam, Rudy or anything.

Pacers had 126, 128, 126, 122, 142 in 5 games against them, went 4-1 and Giannis played all 5 games. Only game they won was when Giannis had a career high 64 Bucks werent stopping **** even w/ Giannis

Pacers had brights too light syndrome 1st half of game 1 where they couldnt hit ****. After that half the rest of the series has been the same story as the Rs matchups

Totally agree on this.

jkvonny · Post #1715 » by **jkvonny** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:59 am

The young Pacers seems to have the older Bucks number this season.

Bucks are old and injured in this series as well. Portis ejection hurt them as well.

Chuck Everett · Post #1716 » by **Chuck Everett** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:07 am

Wolfgang630 wrote:What kind of injury does Giannis have that he can’t comeback?

Calf, but it is tied to his Achilles. Too risky now that they're down 3-1. Season is over. Dame also has the same concern. If they go down at this stage in the season, basically they would be gone for all of 2024-25.

yoadknux · Post #1717 » by **yoadknux** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:18 am

jkvonny wrote:The young Pacers seems to have the older Bucks number this season.

Bucks are old and injured in this series as well. Portis ejection hurt them as well.

Their two best players tonight were Brook Lopez and Danilo Gallinari, two players who were in their prime like 10 years ago

kaansunman · Post #1718 » by **kaansunman** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:57 am

Probably the result wouldn't change but what Bobby Portis did was unforgivable. Down 2-1, down 2 superstars and you don't have the luxury to loose your temper there.

Post #1719 » by **Nuntius** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 12:31 pm

Iwasawitness wrote:
Hoop Hunter wrote:
Coach Carter wrote:
Terrible defense, they'll get exposed next round

You already conceding. It ain't over till it's over.

If we make it to the second round. We had a winning record against both teams. We won twice against Embiid, we lost the one when Maxey went for 50. Beat the Knicks 2 out of 3. We just really suck against bad teams.

You’re not beating NY lol

We probably aren't and I don't think that Hoop Hunter is making that claim either. He made 3 claims in his posts:

1) This current series isn't over yet, Bucks fans shouldn't be conceding.

2) The Pacers had a winning record against Philly and New York in the RS.

3) The Pacers sucked against teams below .500 throughout the RS.

All of the claims above are factual.

Pointing out that we had a winning record against Philly and New York doesn't mean that we'd beat either in case we met them in the post-season and I don't think that Hoop was trying to say that it means anything either.

Post #1720 » by **Nuntius** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 12:38 pm

kaansunman wrote:Probably the result wouldn't change but what Bobby Portis did was unforgivable. Down 2-1, down 2 superstars and you don't have the luxury to loose your temper there.

To be fair, he warned us all. This is what he said after game 2:

Read on Twitter

He made it pretty clear that when the going gets tough he, a non-frontrunner, wouldn't stick to "not saying nothing". So, his reaction shouldn't come as a shock.

Who ya got?