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0fficial 2017-2018 NBA Postseason Thread....NBA Finals Cavs vs Warriors 0-4(dubs back 2 back champs)
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Shit.....I think Spurs think Murray is their point guard of the future.
Nobody wants Fultz until he proves himself. And while his shooting has improved, he still has a hitch.
Murray can't shoot right now. I think he's going to be George Hill/Corey Joseph. They don't have a better option right now.
I guess they thought he could play off the ball and also back up Simmons.
I mean all they really gave up was a pick in the 20's next year
Tatum was the more natural pick I agree, but maybe Fultz workout was Derrick Rose with two good knees like
Some things have to happen to understand where that pick will be but that pick isn't looking like the Sixers pick its looking like they may get the 2019 Kings draft pick which is bound to be a top 5 pick.
Tony Parker couldn't shoot either. These same coaches in place turned him into a solid mid range shooter and a 39% 3 point shooter. Murray gonna develop a shot. I think his potential is higher than George Hill's. He can score more than one way. Just not consistent long range shooter.
Oh ok, I thought it was Philly's first round pick in 2019
if it's Sacramento's
Yeah man there's some protections in there.....I think if Kings get the 1st overall pick they don't get the pick.
The future first-round pick that Boston will receive will be the Los Angeles Lakers' first-round pick in the 2018 NBA Draft, provided that such pick is No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, or No. 5 in the 2018 NBA Draft. If the Lakers' 2018 first-round pick is No. 1 or is No. 6 or later, the Sixers will instead convey to the Celtics the rights to the more favorable of the Sixers' own 2019 first-round pick or the Sacramento Kings' 2019 first-round pick, provided that the more favorable pick is not the No. 1 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft. If the more favorable of the Sixers' and Kings' 2019 first-round picks is the No. 1 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, the Sixers will instead convey the rights to the less favorable of those two picks.
Now unless some crazy shit happens shit happens and the ping pong balls drop in their favor that pick is looking more like the Kings pick next year. They gotta pray the Kings get the #1 pick in the draft next season.
A tiny oral history: Inside the shot that gave Cleveland a 3-0 lead
10:04 AM ET
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...-cavaliers-lebron-james-buzzer-beater-toronto
CLEVELAND -- OG Anunoby had just made the biggest shot of his rookie season, a rattling 3-pointer with eight seconds left that completed a 17-point Toronto Raptors comeback to tie Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Cavaliers.
Cavs coach Tyronn Lue called his final timeout and stepped into the huddle.
What happened Saturday night in Cleveland will be remembered for quite some time -- in quite different ways.
Cavs fans will never forget yet another mind-boggling addition to the long list of late-game LeBron James heroics, drawing specific memories of a similar jaw-dropper he hit against the Chicago Bulls in 2015. Raptors faithful will be talking about it ... very, very differently, and probably not with language we can include.
Here's what followed on Saturday night, from the perspective of those who lived it:
LeBron James, Cavs forward: "It should never have come down to that point. We had a really good lead to start the fourth, and we came out and didn't execute and didn't play the way we should have."
Dwane Casey, Raptors coach: "Well, our goal in the timeout was to trap him and make someone else beat us."
James: "T. Lue was the one who told us, 'Let's take it full court,' knowing I had more than enough time to get the ball up the court, and by us doing that it doesn't allow the defense to kind of sit and see what you're going to do."
Ty Lue, Cavs coach: "The play is called '3 Open.'"
LeBron owns the Raptors
LeBron James hits a game-winning shot and adds to his list of memorable and tormenting moments against the Raptors.
The Cavs ran the same play in Washington in February 2017, when James ended up hitting a memorable banked-in 3-pointer at the buzzer to send the game to overtime. That last-second prayer might not have been necessary if James had made a layup the previous possession after "3 Open" got him a great look at the rim.
George Hill, Cavs guard: "When they came out of the huddle, they didn't expect us to inbound full court. They were confused a little bit."
CJ Miles, Raptors forward: "The reason they took it out from full court was so we can't [double-team]. If you run at him 40 feet from the basket, he can see the whole floor and somebody is getting an open shot."
Fred VanVleet, Raptors guard: "Obviously in that position, best-case scenario you get the ball out of his hands."
OG Anunoby, Raptors forward: "We didn't really think about trapping him. Maybe in hindsight."
Casey: "It was probably my fault that I didn't make it clear that we wanted to trap him and get the ball out of his hands."
James: "I think a coach would sleep a little bit better if they lost the game without me making it."
LeBron has a flair for the dramatic
Buzzer-beaters are nothing new to LeBron James, as the Cavaliers' star hits his fifth career playoff winner.
The Cavs struggled a bit to get the ball in bounds, and both Hill and James came for the ball. When it was inbounded, James was briefly in the corner with Anunoby and Pascal Siakam in position to double-team. But the trap didn't materialize, and James turned the corner. Cavs forward Kevin Lovecame and set a slip screen to give James some separation from Anunoby.
Casey: "He split the trap and went 100 miles an hour down the floor and lost them. We just didn't execute."
James: "I had more than enough time to get the ball from one baseline to the other; that's way more time than I needed. They did a good job of putting pressure on me in the backcourt, and they put two on me first, and I was able to get open."
VanVleet: "The way the play broke down, it was a tough, weird play. And there was really no way for OG to slow him down."
Kyle Korver, Cavs guard: "We're spacing [the floor]. Bron is going to put his head down, he's going to get to the basket. It's just, he's hardest to guard when he's got a full head of steam. So, the more space he has, the larger his head of steam."
Kyle Lowry, Raptors guard: "You know he's going left."
Kevin Love, Cavs forward: "He saw that lane, and I know, to me, it looked like he could've got a little closer, but that rhythm was there for him."
LeBron's heroics take down Toronto once again
LeBron James is king again, draining a buzzer-beater to sink the Raptors for his second game-winning shot this postseason.
With 1.9 seconds left on the clock and just below the foul line extended, James picked up his dribble and started his move. Anunoby was on him, but Miles stayed in the corner near Korver, instead of helping.
Miles: "LeBron's shot is way tougher than Kyle shooting the ball in the corner at that moment. He's shooting a one-foot floater from 15 feet with his body facing the crowd. There's no need for me to help off Korver in that situation. I felt that was smart thing to do at that moment."
Korver: "I've seen him shoot that shot countless times at shootaround when he's just like messing around. He'll shoot all these crazy shots all the time. And you're like, 'Man, when would he shoot that shot?' Maybe to win a playoff game, apparently."
Hill: "Today was, I guess, the day he pulled that out of the toolbox."
James: "When do I decide which shot I'm going to take? To be honest, sometimes I really don't know, but I trust every shot that I'm going to take because I work on every shot."
Lowry: "He got to his spot. There's not much going through your mind. At that point, you're just like, 'OG, get a contest.'"
Miles: "It's the shot you'd want him to take in that situation."
Love: "He knocked it down going to his left, almost fading away a little bit and shooting with one hand."
Anunoby: "I feel like he made a tough shot."
James: "The level of difficulty of that is very difficult. Don't try it at home."
Korver: "It looked good the whole way."
Lue: "I just knew it went in, I didn't know how it was going [in]."
Lowry: "I didn't want it to be real."
Jeff Green, Cavs forward: "I think everybody this time was just in awe. It's amazing to continue to watch, watch what he does."
James: "I live for those moments."
Korver: "I think we're expecting him to win the game in the end when it's close. We feel like he's going to make the plays."
Green: "I'm glad he's on our team."
Hill: "It's satisfying, because he put me out every year [with the Indiana Pacers]. I'm happy to be on the other side."
James: "I've been doing that since I was like 6, 7, 8 years old. Maybe even before that. There's a picture floating around of me beside a Little Tikes hoop with a saggy Pamper on and I was doing it back then and all the way up until now, at 33. Things that you dream about, that you get those opportunities, and I've been fortunate enough to get a handful of those in some of the biggest moments in my career."
10:04 AM ET
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...-cavaliers-lebron-james-buzzer-beater-toronto
CLEVELAND -- OG Anunoby had just made the biggest shot of his rookie season, a rattling 3-pointer with eight seconds left that completed a 17-point Toronto Raptors comeback to tie Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Cavaliers.
Cavs coach Tyronn Lue called his final timeout and stepped into the huddle.
What happened Saturday night in Cleveland will be remembered for quite some time -- in quite different ways.
Cavs fans will never forget yet another mind-boggling addition to the long list of late-game LeBron James heroics, drawing specific memories of a similar jaw-dropper he hit against the Chicago Bulls in 2015. Raptors faithful will be talking about it ... very, very differently, and probably not with language we can include.
Here's what followed on Saturday night, from the perspective of those who lived it:
LeBron James, Cavs forward: "It should never have come down to that point. We had a really good lead to start the fourth, and we came out and didn't execute and didn't play the way we should have."
Dwane Casey, Raptors coach: "Well, our goal in the timeout was to trap him and make someone else beat us."
James: "T. Lue was the one who told us, 'Let's take it full court,' knowing I had more than enough time to get the ball up the court, and by us doing that it doesn't allow the defense to kind of sit and see what you're going to do."
Ty Lue, Cavs coach: "The play is called '3 Open.'"
LeBron owns the Raptors
LeBron James hits a game-winning shot and adds to his list of memorable and tormenting moments against the Raptors.
The Cavs ran the same play in Washington in February 2017, when James ended up hitting a memorable banked-in 3-pointer at the buzzer to send the game to overtime. That last-second prayer might not have been necessary if James had made a layup the previous possession after "3 Open" got him a great look at the rim.
George Hill, Cavs guard: "When they came out of the huddle, they didn't expect us to inbound full court. They were confused a little bit."
CJ Miles, Raptors forward: "The reason they took it out from full court was so we can't [double-team]. If you run at him 40 feet from the basket, he can see the whole floor and somebody is getting an open shot."
Fred VanVleet, Raptors guard: "Obviously in that position, best-case scenario you get the ball out of his hands."
OG Anunoby, Raptors forward: "We didn't really think about trapping him. Maybe in hindsight."
Casey: "It was probably my fault that I didn't make it clear that we wanted to trap him and get the ball out of his hands."
James: "I think a coach would sleep a little bit better if they lost the game without me making it."
LeBron has a flair for the dramatic
Buzzer-beaters are nothing new to LeBron James, as the Cavaliers' star hits his fifth career playoff winner.
The Cavs struggled a bit to get the ball in bounds, and both Hill and James came for the ball. When it was inbounded, James was briefly in the corner with Anunoby and Pascal Siakam in position to double-team. But the trap didn't materialize, and James turned the corner. Cavs forward Kevin Lovecame and set a slip screen to give James some separation from Anunoby.
Casey: "He split the trap and went 100 miles an hour down the floor and lost them. We just didn't execute."
James: "I had more than enough time to get the ball from one baseline to the other; that's way more time than I needed. They did a good job of putting pressure on me in the backcourt, and they put two on me first, and I was able to get open."
VanVleet: "The way the play broke down, it was a tough, weird play. And there was really no way for OG to slow him down."
Kyle Korver, Cavs guard: "We're spacing [the floor]. Bron is going to put his head down, he's going to get to the basket. It's just, he's hardest to guard when he's got a full head of steam. So, the more space he has, the larger his head of steam."
Kyle Lowry, Raptors guard: "You know he's going left."
Kevin Love, Cavs forward: "He saw that lane, and I know, to me, it looked like he could've got a little closer, but that rhythm was there for him."
LeBron's heroics take down Toronto once again
LeBron James is king again, draining a buzzer-beater to sink the Raptors for his second game-winning shot this postseason.
With 1.9 seconds left on the clock and just below the foul line extended, James picked up his dribble and started his move. Anunoby was on him, but Miles stayed in the corner near Korver, instead of helping.
Miles: "LeBron's shot is way tougher than Kyle shooting the ball in the corner at that moment. He's shooting a one-foot floater from 15 feet with his body facing the crowd. There's no need for me to help off Korver in that situation. I felt that was smart thing to do at that moment."
Korver: "I've seen him shoot that shot countless times at shootaround when he's just like messing around. He'll shoot all these crazy shots all the time. And you're like, 'Man, when would he shoot that shot?' Maybe to win a playoff game, apparently."
Hill: "Today was, I guess, the day he pulled that out of the toolbox."
James: "When do I decide which shot I'm going to take? To be honest, sometimes I really don't know, but I trust every shot that I'm going to take because I work on every shot."
Lowry: "He got to his spot. There's not much going through your mind. At that point, you're just like, 'OG, get a contest.'"
Miles: "It's the shot you'd want him to take in that situation."
Love: "He knocked it down going to his left, almost fading away a little bit and shooting with one hand."
Anunoby: "I feel like he made a tough shot."
James: "The level of difficulty of that is very difficult. Don't try it at home."
Korver: "It looked good the whole way."
Lue: "I just knew it went in, I didn't know how it was going [in]."
Lowry: "I didn't want it to be real."
Jeff Green, Cavs forward: "I think everybody this time was just in awe. It's amazing to continue to watch, watch what he does."
James: "I live for those moments."
Korver: "I think we're expecting him to win the game in the end when it's close. We feel like he's going to make the plays."
Green: "I'm glad he's on our team."
Hill: "It's satisfying, because he put me out every year [with the Indiana Pacers]. I'm happy to be on the other side."
James: "I've been doing that since I was like 6, 7, 8 years old. Maybe even before that. There's a picture floating around of me beside a Little Tikes hoop with a saggy Pamper on and I was doing it back then and all the way up until now, at 33. Things that you dream about, that you get those opportunities, and I've been fortunate enough to get a handful of those in some of the biggest moments in my career."
Oh u mean when we swept Miami and had bosh crying in locker room?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/Bulls-Make-Heat-Cry-117516728.html
You a clown fam
LolI guess they thought he could play off the ball and also back up Simmons.
I mean all they really gave up was a pick in the 20's next year
Tatum was the more natural pick I agree, but maybe Fultz workout was Derrick Rose with two good knees like
How dare u compare this high school girl jumper to the MVP
you on one today
Wait
How do u trade picks and not get them?
BOSTON GAT ALL 5 OF THE NETS PICKS
how the fuck do u trade a pick, and if it gets number 1 that said team can keep it
So like the lakers coulda traded for like Fultz and trade a protected pick to get him, and then that pick becomes number 1 and it goes BACK to the lakers not the team that traded for the pick?
Lakers get Fultz and Ayton?????
How the fuck
If I’m a owner
My GM isn’t trading for ‘protected picks’
He will be fired
Same if the lakers get the number 1 pick
My GM isn’t trading for ‘protected picks’
He will be fired
Same if the lakers get the number 1 pick
How about a month later in conference finals when Bron hit you with a gentlemens sweep?
Next time you shining pooh shoes snatch Bron MVP trophy and mail it to him. Faggit.
I didn’t even fucking read
Go away u fucking scrub.
4-0 season swept check
number 1 seed check
MVP check
A major still salty check
LMAO @ a nigga getting MVP when Bosh and Hot Lips are on your fucking team
U a clown fam for real
U a clown fam for real
LMAO @ catching a gentlemen sweep from Bron the year you steal his MVP.
If im a clown, you Ronald Mcdonald.
Nigga couldn’t take the crown in the reg season and post season
A fucking euro cracka defeated you
Nigga couldn’t take the crown in the reg season and post season
A fucking euro cracka defeated you
RONDO....
DAMN!!!!!!
DAMN!!!!!!
And Bron ended pooh life. The bitch is a barely employable journeyman at 27.
#GiveBronHisTrophy
Steph with the flop.
Here goes Draymond. 
Dray...CHILL
Gentry like get Mirotic outta there! 
If the refs would continue to not call these flops and then T up the player if they start talking shit then players would stop all that flopping every game. The ref is standing right there, he knows if someone charges or if the mufuca is flopping
Dude gotta find away to get some bench productionGentry like get Mirotic outta there!
Pelicans are doing a piss poor job of running the offense thru Davis. This is criminal.
No this light skinned nigga didn't just do that!!?
What is her name?
Durant just so good offensively. It makes it hard to defend the Warriors
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