This is a fucking crazy game. Harden with an all time bad performance and Houston is still gonna win

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Still think the Rockets are kinda frauds but cannot wait for them vs GS.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Fell asleep before the game finished. How frustrating for Utah. Houston played about as poorly as they can and still won.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Donovan Mitchell has performed terribly in 2 consecutive playoff series.

His inefficient scoring combined with below avg defense and playmaking ability is going to make it tough for Utah to ever be a player in the West. He is more suited as a 3rd banana on a very good team.

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Mitchell is another guy FavreFan prematurely anointed to the Hall of Fame.

Denver hadn't won a game in San Antonio before last night til 2012.. yikes

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Nah I had him over Tatum and that still looks right. He’s in his 2nd season. Relax.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

You had him as a future MVP candidate. You also claimed that he is awesome. He isn't either and whether he plays 2 or 20 years it doesn't matter.

As far as Tatum goes I'm comfortable with him being the better player going forward. When he is allowed to Jack up 25 + shots a game then you will really know for sure.

As it stands now he has looked decidedly better in the playoffs both years. Mitchell isn't as good as you've been pumping him to be. Good player. Not a great player by any stretch. Suggesting he will be in the future is simply kicking the can down the road.

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Mitchell is very good. It is not his fault that Houston is a terrible matchup for his team.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I don't fault him for being down 0-3. I'm faulting him for having a terrible shooting%. He is shooting about 33% over his last 8 playoff games. He also isn't the best player on their team. Gobert is.

He is a guy that needs a ton of shots to get his numbers. Nothing else besides scoring. Unless that changes I'm not placing him in the very good category.

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Good game between Celtics/Pacers. Kyrie pretty quiet so far, Horford needs to stop shooting.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Durant hits a trey from half court and was fouled! Try to convince yourself that these guys ain't winning it all. KD is the best player in the league case closed

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

This just proves Korver is as stupid as stupid as you are ….nothing more nothing less

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

It's nice to see an NBA home team wear white again.

I never get tired of seeing Westbrook get punked in the playoffs. Last year by Mitchell. This year by Lillard. 2 years ago by Harden.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

In Mitchell's case that will have to be a lasting memory.

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Doubtful. He’s only getting better. Can’t say the same about Russ

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Hopefully he can only get better in these playoffs. Right now he stinks. As he did last year after the OKC series.

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Russell Westbrick way to handle post game presser U;m starting to think that Jazz fan ought to get his seat up graded! Whatever he called your actions warrant it

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Lillard is better than Westbrook and I think Westbrook knows it. I never would have thought that before this series. Westbrook had a good run but he isn't that guy anymore. Looks like he is losing his athleticism. That was always the strength of his game.

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Hard miles and a knee that has seen the knife 3 times. Westbrook is an alpha amongst alphas and I've personally enjoyed it for many a year..

Me too. With him you have to take the good with the bad. Once he really starts to decline there is going to be a bit of a void. That guy made himself into a superstar. Wasn't predicted of him when he was at UCLA. Not at all.

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Westbrook is in that club where you buy a ticket to just see him. My #1(other than the obvious Michael Jordan) was Iverson. That dude was one of a kind and always will be.

Wasn't as big a fan of Iverson because he didn't compete on defense. He definitely was always in attack mode on offense but he was a bit of a bullfighter on defense. McKie and Snow saved him quite a bit. He ducked a lot of matchups in his day.

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Well, I couldn't catch you being inconsistent. I was working my way to Trae if you had said you loved him. He's a guy I'm planning to go see next year.

Good catch on Iverson. Never cared for guys that duck covers all the time. Says something about their competitive spirit.

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I respect that but I disagree. I give the little guys some rope on the other end. It's the idea that your back is to the basket and dangerous shit can occur out of nowhere.

shaping up to be another shitty playoffs so far. Only one series in the first round is competitive, Denver vs SAS. Looking to be the opposite of last year where the first round had some good series and the 2nd round was hot garbage with 3 sweeps and one that went to 5 games. This year, the 2nd round looks like it should be great, at least on paper. GSW/HOU, MIL/BOS, TOR/PHI should all be great and then POR/DEN/SAS should be very competitive. Key word in all this is should.

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