There is no greater curse in the league than stomping on Lucky

Still hear people calling that a “Mickey mouse” run tho even tho they had a historically great regular season. Also remember seeing a lot of “Mavs in 6”

It’s disgusting, frankly. There are starving children in Sacramento and the Celtics are hoarding an elite front office.

I feel like Celts, Thunder and Spurs are all in Tier 1

The Celtics and Spurs really are a step above

It really feels like where the league “zigs”, Mazulla “zags”.

Oh, pace is getting faster than ever and more and more teams are speeding it up? Let’s slow it down and be one of the slowest teams in the league.

Teams are experimenting with moving away from traditional pick and rolls? Let’s just develop our minimum salary bigs into elite screeners and strangle teams with Spain PNRs.

Mid range shots are continuing to be pushed out of the game? Fuck it, let JB and PP cook people in the paint off the back of our elite spacing.

He and the development staff have just found a way to squeeze every ounce of impact and production out of the talent they have, it’s super impressive.

Kyrie was a (predictable) collapse, but everything else was a perfectly executed game plan from the Cs combined with an awful matchup.

Uh what? Tatum is a 27 point 6 assist average dude, Luka averages ³⁴⁄₉ lmao, what are you saying?

Yeah.. Luka and Tatum is not close bro, lets not get ahead of ourselves as Luka offensively is as gifted as you can get.

This is like when Max Kellerman said He would take IGUODALA over STEPH for the last shot lol

Straight blasphemy

Luka is a better individual scorer, and 10x the playmaker. This subreddit sucks, Luka has one bad game and you hear the dumbest takes of all time, then he he 5 good games in a row and you barely hear shit. It’s pathetic.

You see how you say TEAM. It’s a team game.

Yup, he carried his shitty team all the way to the finals just to lose the super powered Celtics, hats off to him tbh. In the end, it’s a team game.

That was a bad defensive possession for sure. It’s also one possession, with many more where he played good defense. Are you going to pretend you don’t understand that distinction? I’m not saying he was amazing defensively, just that he was fine on that end by any objective measure. And that calling him “an embarrassment out there” on defense last night is ridiculous.

That isn’t a real argument. Show me the possessions where Luka played poor defense. I’ll show you many more where he played good defense. This is all on tape, this isn’t a hypothetical discussion. Go on, prove your point. I’ll wait. Show me the bad possessions outnumbering the good.

Volume requires efficiency for scoring to be effective, not sure what you think is “dumb” here. 53% true shooting in that time isn’t good. Those assist numbers would be his lowest averages since his rookie year. If Boston can make him shoot like that–while also knowing he’s a complete negative on defense–they’re gonna keep doing what they are doing.

Not sure why you’re not getting it

Luka is a very talented pure scorer

He’s like #1 in shot attempts the last 5 years and #3 in free throws

I’m not saying any scrub can get 30 if they shoot a lot to diminish his stats, but he’s Luka Doncic, an amazing scorer so it’s not surprising with that volume + free throws

we’re laughing at you going heh Luka’s unstoppable by the Celtics when he’s 1-10 on them, ackshually about it all you want

Does it matter? If your strategy results in a win that’s what you have to do.

Basketball isn’t about scoring points. It’s about winning the game. If the way to stop luka is to let him tire himself out…then that’s what you do. If the way is to attack him relentlessly on defense, that’s what you do.

It worked, and continues to work. He will keep getting cooked.

I forgot they only had the finals that year and Denver picked who from the east they’d play

If the Cs made it we were mostly likely losing anyways. For most of the ‘24 season really the only team that made us nervous was the Nuggets. Jokic is also a much better defender than Luka.

Maybe so! Would be rare to have no injuries two playoffs in a row, but anything is possible.

Their best player was Siakam, who still played

You TRULY believe that, when the pacers are 15-40 without Hali? All time cope lol