NBA Official 2026 NBA Playoffs Thread

[Amuseddaysleeper]

OKC dominating with their bench playing lots of minutes in that first half. Annoying how deep this team is tbh. Their starters are going to be so well-rested by the Conference Finals.

All the more reason that final day of the season loss stings but maybe nuggets Ger exhausted by wolves going into round 2

 

[wEmBoY]

Again, the whistle he gets is insane; almost as bad as SGA. Unfortunately I don't see that changing anytime soon. Best they can do is tire him out over the course of the series so he won't have his legs under him to hit his threes tbh.

4-6 from the freethrow line definitely not an SGA level of whistle.

 

[Robz4000]

4-6 from the freethrow line definitely not an SGA kind of whistle.

He didnt get the FTs but got a lot of touch foul calls tbh. Helped get Portland into the bonus early in the second quarter.

 

[Robz4000]

I thought he did a decent job at staying in front of him for the most part, but got scored on every time deni attempted to do so, and even on the shot he missed, castle wasn't near contesting the shot.. Keldon on the other side, couldn't keep up with his drives.. They both bodied him on the rebounds though, but that's not all that valuable tbh. In general i prefer champ and vassell on pure sfs, by a lot actually.

Vassell definitely seemed to have the most success against him tbh.

 

[BatManu20]

All the more reason that final day of the season loss stings but maybe nuggets Ger exhausted by wolves going into round 2

Yup. And with Ant clearly being hobbled by that knee injury, I can't see Minnesota making a series out of it. They just don't have enough offense without him being 100% imo.

 

[wEmBoY]

He didnt get the FTs but got a lot of touch foul calls tbh. Helped get Portland into the bonus early in the second quarter.

Nah. Castle even had more freethrows than advija.

 

[Robz4000]

Yup. And with Ant clearly being hobbled by that knee injury, I can't see Minnesota making a series out of it. They just don't have enough offense without him being 100% imo.

If the Wolves don't win tomorrow the series goes 5 max tbh. Makes it paramount the Spurs take care of Portland as fast as possible too.

 

[Robz4000]

Nah.

Yah.

 

[Robz4000]

Gonna be interesting to see if JDub is fully back tbh. With him 100% on top of their addition of McCain they match up better with the Spurs than they did back in December.

 

[Mugen]

Gonna be interesting to see if JDub is fully back tbh. With him 100% on top of their addition of McCain they match up better with the Spurs than they did back in December.

JWill emerging and Ajay being back healthy are the bigger contributors IMO.

 

[spurraider21]

I remember when the first round was 5 games you had more upsets the last big upset of the bottom team of a top team since they switched to seven games that I can think off was Golden State vs Mavericks 2007 that team had former Spur Stephen Jackson on that team

memphis over spurs

 

[Robz4000]

JWill emerging and Ajay being back healthy are the bigger contributors IMO.

Ajay was there for the first three games and the Spurs got a taste of what JWill can do in the last game so the Spurs have some idea of what to expect from those two tbh. Spurs legit haven't played against McCain before iirc. At least JDub seemed pretty close to 100% in their first four matchups.

 

[Raven_]

JWill emerging and Ajay being back healthy are the bigger contributors IMO.

i don't really see it, i think whoever okc throws at us, it wont matter, we just have to make our shots

 

[tearsofmorningdew]

Saw that bust POS scoot say they gotta keep “hitting” Wemby. Hope one of our guys steps up to the enforcer role

 

[Mugen]

Ajay was there for the first three games and the Spurs got a taste of what JWill can do in the last game so the Spurs have some idea of what to expect from those two tbh. Spurs legit haven't played against McCain before iirc. At least JDub seemed pretty close to 100% in their first four matchups.

Mitchell missed two of our wins tbh.

 

[Fabbs]

Does OKC have the potential to join your most hated rigged teams ever list?
FTA SGA has that potential for me.

 

[tearsofmorningdew]

Does OKC have the potential to join your most hated rigged teams ever list?
FTA SGA has that potential for me.

They’re easily top 3 for me. Bron heatles right up there with them

 

[spurs2112]

Does OKC have the potential to join your most hated rigged teams ever list?
FTA SGA has that potential for me.

Yup. My top 2 are Lakers (will always be number 1 on my hated teams list) and GSW. So theyre probably number 3 for me already.

 

[BatManu20]

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