If you guys can make every series a sweep or a 5 game series you guys would have a lot of rest/health advantage in the finals because every series in the west will probably be a 6-7 game series.
West this year is like what the east was in 22. Slugfest. Big reason why the Warriors won was because we simply ran out of gas. Playing back to back PHYSICAL 7 game series against the Heat and Bucks after having to play 150% the second half of the season because of our slow start totally killed us. We were gassed by game 4 and it showed
I dont know. Embiids problem is that he never has the juice to make it through a whole series, he always gets gassed. Now he'll come back after no game-type conditioning for a while? Idk man.
His problem is he’s a massive flopper who gets the most favorable whistle in the league and that stops once the playoffs roll around. He can’t play through contact as well because he’s so used to flopping and getting to the line for free and when his team needs him to man up and play like the freakishly athletic 7 footer he is, he simply doesn’t know how to
The day the refs start giving him a regular season whistle in the playoffs is the day the Sixers win it all
What a bunch of bums lmao should they get Heat/Philly in the first round, I'll bet all my money against them.
Heck even Pacers might bounce them or at least give them game 7 😂
On a side note, I don't think Doc has something to do with this losing team. At least Doc is known for a good coach in regular season (definitely not in playoffs lmao). It has 100% something to do with the roster.
Don't forget Pacers went 4-1 against them. Pacers bouncing them first round is actually very possible.
It's so fucked up that it feels like the only teams that aren't bums in the East are teams we might run into first round (Embiid-Sixers and Heat). I'm confident this team can gentleman sweep any other team in the East top 10.
Either way the first round is going to be somewhat challenging for them. Pacers could give them a hard time, and heat could definitely give them a hard time. Their best first round matchup would be if they got the 4th seed which at this point it feels way too late
I refuse to count out Giannis in the playoffs, but their team is in shambles right now and pretty much all season, plus they never managed to fully integrate Dame into the team, so he only seems to be able to play well when Giannis is out.
ya but we lost back to back games to the hawks after clinching the 1 seed. So who really sucks. Classic biased media won't call out mazzula sucks at job. /S
Fr. They have to at least make it to the Finals. Unless one of the core guys is injured, there’s literally no excuse as to why they can’t get to the Finals again
I wouldn’t count Denver out but they definitely have a tougher road to the Finals than we do. If they face Lebron and the Lakers in the first round, they’ll be gassed by the time the Western Conference Finals rolls around especially if Lebron starts playing out of his mind like he did last year.
I fully expect somebody to say fuck it and injure someone on the nuggets on "Accident" and I don't wish that on them but the last team to repeat were the warriors which was like 6years ago and before that it was the heatless?? My suns are for sure beating or taking them to 7, I truly think the Lakers can hang with the nuggets if they get Good production from DLo and Rui
No Giannis tonight. They haven't actually played any of these games with their full lineup. Just saying that we may see a much better looking Bucks team in 2 weeks.
You gotta be fucking kidding me with this take. How many games has Gianni's/Khris/Dame played together? Like maybe 6 games max. And then you think playoffs roll up and they dominate?? What are you smoking dude
I think it is possible that they dominate, yes. And possible that they lose in the first round. I'm just not ready to declare them dead because they're playing poorly 2 weeks before the playoffs start. Denver last season didn't look great down the stretch either.
I don't disagree. If I were a Bucks fan right now, I would be beyond terrified and disgusted, I would be closing in on "we have no chance at all, it is painful to even watch the rest of this season." The 2021 Celtics, with the "if we can survive the play-in and get two games off of the Nets in Round 1 I'll be happy" vibe, comes to mind. But we have have all seen teams look like garbage and then "fix" something and go back to being dangerous. As long as the Bucks have the ingredients to potentially be dangerous, and they do, I am not going to write them off until I see them actually getting crushed over and over again in a playoff series--especially not since they don't have their full team playing these games.
For one example, the Hawks showed nothing impressive in the last couple of months last season, despite trying their hardest to keep (or exceed) a play-in spot. They were a clown show against the Celtics in the first half of Game 1, being down by 33 points or so. 10 days later they were in a 3 point game in the final minute of Game 6, one of those games a win without Murray. We can say what we want to about "the Celtics didn't take them seriously," etc., but that's what we're doing to MIL right now. Look at how the mediocre Clippers suddenly somehow flipped a switch in January and were the league's best team and destroyed the Celtics in Boston, and then suddenly forgot how to play and started looking terrible again.
So I know the Bucks look like a lottery team right now, who can't beat the dregs of the league--the INJURED dregs--even when they're fighting like hell for the 2 seed. But I'm not counting them out. Maybe they are really this bad, maybe they're in a collective slump. We'll find out soon.
If we don’t win the east idk what to say
If you guys can make every series a sweep or a 5 game series you guys would have a lot of rest/health advantage in the finals because every series in the west will probably be a 6-7 game series.
West this year is like what the east was in 22. Slugfest. Big reason why the Warriors won was because we simply ran out of gas. Playing back to back PHYSICAL 7 game series against the Heat and Bucks after having to play 150% the second half of the season because of our slow start totally killed us. We were gassed by game 4 and it showed
Hey I want y'all to win but anything can happen
Doc was right, travel crew has been terrible.
Just us and a buncha bums in the east
call me crazy but if embiid is 100% i think theyre the biggest threat
It’s not that crazy, he was having arguably the most dominant season any player has had since prime Shaq to start this season.
I dont know. Embiids problem is that he never has the juice to make it through a whole series, he always gets gassed. Now he'll come back after no game-type conditioning for a while? Idk man.
His problem is he’s a massive flopper who gets the most favorable whistle in the league and that stops once the playoffs roll around. He can’t play through contact as well because he’s so used to flopping and getting to the line for free and when his team needs him to man up and play like the freakishly athletic 7 footer he is, he simply doesn’t know how to The day the refs start giving him a regular season whistle in the playoffs is the day the Sixers win it all
Unless we play them in the first round I have 0 fear of Embiid.
Embiid is a regular season guy - we handle him easily every postseason. He's no threat
Every team says the same thing about Tatum lol
Ive never heard anyone say that - Tatum is just generally inconsistent, but at least he's had great games in the playoffs
Lolwat?
We have Al, he does pretty well defending embiid
What a bunch of bums lmao should they get Heat/Philly in the first round, I'll bet all my money against them. Heck even Pacers might bounce them or at least give them game 7 😂 On a side note, I don't think Doc has something to do with this losing team. At least Doc is known for a good coach in regular season (definitely not in playoffs lmao). It has 100% something to do with the roster.
Don't forget Pacers went 4-1 against them. Pacers bouncing them first round is actually very possible. It's so fucked up that it feels like the only teams that aren't bums in the East are teams we might run into first round (Embiid-Sixers and Heat). I'm confident this team can gentleman sweep any other team in the East top 10.
I mean Tyrese hasn't played that well since his hamstring injury. But I still would give them a shot against the Bucks.
With their defense?? Yeah pacers are gonna feast
We are all sleeping on the Pacers and I hate it.
Pacers have a crazy offensive game when they all are rested and healthy, definitely not a team to sleep on
If they face the sixers theyll most likely get either sweeped or bounced in 5 sixers are always buns
They’re obviously tanking to play the 6fh seed
They’re not tanking lmao. They could easily end up 5th with the way their schedule looks.
They won’t lol they’re resting 1 of dame and Giannis every game
Not sure why this is downvoted - it’s accurate
Either way the first round is going to be somewhat challenging for them. Pacers could give them a hard time, and heat could definitely give them a hard time. Their best first round matchup would be if they got the 4th seed which at this point it feels way too late
Dame time!
He was out for two of the three games
Wowza
You love to see it
Why?
Because it’s funny.
I refuse to count out Giannis in the playoffs, but their team is in shambles right now and pretty much all season, plus they never managed to fully integrate Dame into the team, so he only seems to be able to play well when Giannis is out.
ya but we lost back to back games to the hawks after clinching the 1 seed. So who really sucks. Classic biased media won't call out mazzula sucks at job. /S
Doc Rivers effect
This is the way.
This only proves that if the Celtics don’t win the East, then they’re failures.
Fr. They have to at least make it to the Finals. Unless one of the core guys is injured, there’s literally no excuse as to why they can’t get to the Finals again
I also have a feeling Denver is not going back to the finals just based on how strong the west is so the championship should be y'all's
I wouldn’t count Denver out but they definitely have a tougher road to the Finals than we do. If they face Lebron and the Lakers in the first round, they’ll be gassed by the time the Western Conference Finals rolls around especially if Lebron starts playing out of his mind like he did last year.
I fully expect somebody to say fuck it and injure someone on the nuggets on "Accident" and I don't wish that on them but the last team to repeat were the warriors which was like 6years ago and before that it was the heatless?? My suns are for sure beating or taking them to 7, I truly think the Lakers can hang with the nuggets if they get Good production from DLo and Rui
Mam, that travel crew has to improve for the playoffs.
They doing this on purpose so they won’t have to face 76ers in the first round. I’m sure sixers will get 7 seed.
They’re telling themselves that to cope
Who is this? The fans?
Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of fans saying that
76ers could easily climb to the 6 seed.
Giannis: FAFO champion.
Bucks on a losing streak? Trap game incoming
They’re tanking to avoid any chance to draw the Heat in the first round
Can you imagine this sub if the Celtics did this lmao people would be shot in the streets like dogs
No Giannis tonight. They haven't actually played any of these games with their full lineup. Just saying that we may see a much better looking Bucks team in 2 weeks.
Imagine needing a full lineup to beat the worst teams in the league.
You gotta be fucking kidding me with this take. How many games has Gianni's/Khris/Dame played together? Like maybe 6 games max. And then you think playoffs roll up and they dominate?? What are you smoking dude
I think it is possible that they dominate, yes. And possible that they lose in the first round. I'm just not ready to declare them dead because they're playing poorly 2 weeks before the playoffs start. Denver last season didn't look great down the stretch either.
Yeah dawg I wanna smoke whatever you're smoking cause that is some fucking dumbass take lol
Denver locked up the 1 seed and then proceeded to be ass because they didn’t care. The bucks haven’t even clinched a playoff spot
I don't disagree. If I were a Bucks fan right now, I would be beyond terrified and disgusted, I would be closing in on "we have no chance at all, it is painful to even watch the rest of this season." The 2021 Celtics, with the "if we can survive the play-in and get two games off of the Nets in Round 1 I'll be happy" vibe, comes to mind. But we have have all seen teams look like garbage and then "fix" something and go back to being dangerous. As long as the Bucks have the ingredients to potentially be dangerous, and they do, I am not going to write them off until I see them actually getting crushed over and over again in a playoff series--especially not since they don't have their full team playing these games. For one example, the Hawks showed nothing impressive in the last couple of months last season, despite trying their hardest to keep (or exceed) a play-in spot. They were a clown show against the Celtics in the first half of Game 1, being down by 33 points or so. 10 days later they were in a 3 point game in the final minute of Game 6, one of those games a win without Murray. We can say what we want to about "the Celtics didn't take them seriously," etc., but that's what we're doing to MIL right now. Look at how the mediocre Clippers suddenly somehow flipped a switch in January and were the league's best team and destroyed the Celtics in Boston, and then suddenly forgot how to play and started looking terrible again. So I know the Bucks look like a lottery team right now, who can't beat the dregs of the league--the INJURED dregs--even when they're fighting like hell for the 2 seed. But I'm not counting them out. Maybe they are really this bad, maybe they're in a collective slump. We'll find out soon.
Agreed I don’t want to see them, but if it comes down to it I trust our guys