2025 NBA postseason thread

[HanSenSE]

Here we go.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Clippers-Nuggets is going to be a great series.

 

[Webster]

That was the entire Russ experience.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

That was the entire Russ experience.

It really was.

I love Russ. I’m not sure I’m giving Russ the ball late in OT.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

One good thing about the Pistons playing the Knicks is people will find out how good Cade Cunningham is. But does the Pistons in the playoffs prove how good a coach JB Bickerstaff is or how bad a coach Monty Williams was. I lean toward the latter because single-handedly, Williams almost ruined Jaden Ivey's career

 

[PCLoadLetter]

One good thing about the Pistons playing the Knicks is people will find out how good Cade Cunningham is. But does the Pistons in the playoffs prove how good a coach JB Bickerstaff is or how bad a coach Monty Williams was. I lean toward the latter because single-handedly, Williams almost ruined Jaden Ivey's career

I think it is probably a combo. JB is pretty good. The roster is improved over last year. And Monty Williams is an absolutely terrible basketball coach. He is now coaching high school basketball in San Antonio, I believe, and I would bet that’s the highest level he’ll even coach in again.

 

[Webster]

Is this the first time that Marv is back at the Garden as a guest of Dolan?

 

[DanOregon]

For all the crud the Mavs have been getting for trading Doncic, if the Lakers don't make the conference finals does it really matter how "great" the trade was for them?

 

[PCLoadLetter]

For all the crud the Mavs have been getting for trading Doncic, if the Lakers don't make the conference finals does it really matter how "great" the trade was for them?

Depends. Do you expect Doncic to retire after this season?

 

[DanOregon]

No. I don't expect LeBron to get any younger next year either.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

No. I don't expect LeBron to get any younger next year either.

And Doncic just turned 26. They didn't get him to be Robin to Lebron's Batman for a year. They got him to lead the team for the next decade.

 

[User 149557]

To all OKC challengers:

 

[HanSenSE]

Curry hasn't made this many absolutely ridiculous shots since the Paris Olympics.

 

[bigpern23]

Boy, good thing we have all of these extra teams making the playoffs or we’d be deprived of all the thrilling playoff games we had today.

 

[qtlaw]

That was the entire Russ experience.

Finished watching DEN-Clips just now and it really was, 5-17, but that huge 3 at the end and then creating the TO to seal it. What's amazing is that Westbrook, at his age, is likely still the quickest player in the NBA, he looks as quick and explosive as when I saw him at Pauley Pavilion at UCLA (20 yrs (?) ago).

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

So my understanding is that since the Mavs and other similar teams fell short of the round of 8, they get a lottery ball anyway? Is that correct?

 

[PCLoadLetter]

So my understanding is that since the Mavs and other similar teams fell short of the round of 8, they get a lottery ball anyway? Is that correct?

Yes. If you don't make the playoffs, you are in the lottery.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

So I guess the question becomes, who's the No. 1 in this age where a college redshirt freshman's NIL can beat an NBA rookie deal?

 

[PCLoadLetter]

So I guess the question becomes, who's the No. 1 in this age where a college redshirt freshman's NIL can beat an NBA rookie deal?

1) Cooper Flagg is going to be the number one pick, without question.

2) Zaccharie Risacher's rookie contract is 4 years, $57 million dollars. The 30th pick overall gets a deal at more than $2 million a year. No one is bypassing the draft because they'll earn more with NIL. NIL isn't going to come close.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Cooper Flagg sounds like either a general in a special forces movie from the 1980s, or the newest member of WWE’s American Made.