I thought Lakers/Wolves was going to have a fight in game 2 because of Vando but I was wrong. Warriors/Rockets is 100% going to explode soon, that series is way too violent right now.

With draymond its always going to happen

It’s every series. It’s a fucking problem. These refs are doing such shit job controlling things

This is how last year went v the Cavs - fuckin insanely physical 7 game series that led us to not have JA and Donovan against the Celtics

I mean in all fairness isn’t turning the game into a slug fest the best chance for the Magic?

Not advocating for playing dirty. But I understand why they are playing physical as fuck. They’d have no chance against you guys otherwise.

And it’s not like the Celtics are being handsy to piss them off, mazzulla preaches defending without fouling all the time. Jamal Mosely is just telling his guys to go out and hurt people

Isn’t this what everyone said they wanted. Because it was so great in the late 90s. Fuck skill let’s beat the hell out of the better teams. 

That’s real basketball

The Magic have more flagrant fouls through 3 games in this series than they have playoff series wins in 17 years.

I hear shedeur sanders is available 

You joke but I genuinely wonder why teams haven’t started giving one roster slot away to an enforcer lol. The 15th man ain’t gonna play anyways, so you might as well give it to a big guy who can eat a tech to send a message to the other team when needed.

If one of your top 2 guys goes down, that’s usually the end of it for most teams. You might as well do your best to protect them.

Rockets and magic proofing this is a legit strategy. One or two offensive stars surrounded by a bunch of goons that will rough up or straight up injure opposing star players.

Imagine if basketball implemented/brought back (?) the goon/enforcer.

Joe is going to bust out Waffle House worldstar videos in preparation for game 4

Gonna use one of his coins for sure

He’s gonna find that video Spoelstra showed the Heat that one time

Fully edged

It’s game seven of the 1st round, there’s 30 seconds left on the clock and the score is tied at 86. All 10 starters have fouled out. An all-out-brawl has broken out at center court and Derrick White is knocked out cold on the Celtics logo, Joe Mazzulla is on the sidelines holding back the medical staff telling them not to go out there and screaming “get up! Get your ass up off the floor!” as Derrick White’s lifeless eyes stare up at the rafters.

He still got the Celtics watching UFC fights and training bjj at the Celtics facility? If so, fuck it, I hope Cole knows how to escape a triangle choke

Hope game 4 is just a fight night between those two tbh

Nah the only way those two have a confrontation is when the sedative wears off and Jamahl wakes up in Joe’s kill room

If they can do it in hockey, then let them fucking fight at the tip-off.

If you told me a coach got involved in a fight I would ask who did Mazzulla fight.

Coach Mosley rocking the turtle neck every night, might be hard to lock-in that choke

“Yeah he dislocated my finger. But I have 9 more.” is a crazy hard quote by Jaylen Brown damn 😮‍💨🔥

I’m not saying you were one of these people but it’s just hilarious to see the nostalgia goggles come flying off when the same people clamoring for 80s/90s physicality start crying about how unsafe it is when the league brings it back. Why do y’all think they got rid of it in the first place??? Again just calling out certain people

I think Cleveland and OKC are close to being as young. I think it’s less young talent, and more teams with less talent using physicality to try to create an edge/even the playing field.

It’s because they’re less talented and your best bet is to muck it up and bring the game down to your speed

Not really, would expect the younger guys to be less in control of their emotions and physicality.

Except Draymond, he’ll be the same no matter what.

Honestly I’d pay to see that. Mazulla is crazy, but people forget Mosley is a really big dude and has stayed in decent shape as he’s gotten older.

So first people want more physical games in the nba then when said physical games happen, people complain about it.

People are complaining about dirty plays that have led to injuries, not physical basketball.

Difference between physicality and dirty, if you body someone every time they go through the paint is different from straight trying to hurt someone.

People just want to complain, seems just about everyone is a WLB anymore.

He thought he was gonna face Harry Potter, instead he got Dirty Harry

Yeah. It’s easy to just repeat the same thing everyone else is saying. I bet if Tatum has diarrhea, they’d blame it on a dirty Magic player. How about Cole Anthony!? That’s seems easy! It’s a microcosm of what is wrong with our current society and it shows how even the definition of a dirty play is being lost. Can’t even try to block an easy layup without being called dirty now!?

It sure would be nice to have Jaden Ivey playing right now. I can’t remember how he broke his leg though…

brother, you have a violent donkey and one of the dirtiest players in the league on your team

“they shouldn’t worry about our players trying to break their bones, if they don’t play a perfect game, everything is all their fault.”

-clinically insane r/nba teen

u are a thunder fan …

Jaylen Brown is always whining about something lmao

Celtics played super physical and fouled every possession in 2022 when they were on the come up too

I mean he dislocated his finger with a BS play

Let’s hope so. They need some just to prevent career ending injuries against your “team”.

These soft as charmin casuals should just stick to watching the WNBA. I bet these same people never watched a single Magic game this season until the playoffs lmao.